Esme Percy
Know for: Acting
Born: 1887-08-08
Place of birth: Londres, Reino Unido
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Murder! (1930)
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is...
Pygmalion (1939)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...
Dead of Night (1945)
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare....
The Invader (1936)
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through...
Song of Freedom (1936)
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English...
Land Without Music (1936)
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing,...
Abdul the Damned (1935)
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the...
It Happened in Paris (1935)
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
Summer Lightning (1933)
Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to...
Disclosure (2020)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...
The Frog (1937)
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious...
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English...
When Thief Meets Thief (1937)
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Death in the Hand (1948)
A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.
Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
21 Days Together (1940)
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...
Bitter Sweet (1933)
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale...
Invitation To The Waltz (1935)
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
Accused (1936)
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later...
Our Fighting Navy (1937)
Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De...
Unfinished Symphony (1934)
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in...
Hi Gang! (1941)
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the...
Nell Gwyn (1934)
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent...
The Lucky Number (1933)
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
Crime Over London (1936)
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Lisbon Story (1946)
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
On Secret Service (1933)
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk....
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
A Woman Alone (1936)
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
Full Circle (1953)
Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands...
Bernard Shaw (1957)
George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.