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Jimmy Hanley

Jimmy Hanley

Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918 – 13 January 1970) was a British actor.

Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Hanley began his career as a child actor before becoming popular in juvenile roles. He was groomed by the Rank Studio system during his teenage years and earned film stardom as a "boy-next-door" type.

The young star-struck actor attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and whilst he was studying there, made his stage debut at the London Palladium, as John Darling in Peter Pan.

He later worked on TV, hosting the ITV series Jim's Inn, which combined advertising messages with the plot of a soap opera.

Hanley was married twice:

    * Dinah Sheridan (1942–1952, three children, including Jenny Hanley and the Conservative politician Sir Jeremy Hanley)

    * Margaret Avery (1955–1970, three daughters: Jane, Sarah and Katy)

Hanley died from cancer in Leatherhead, Surrey, aged 51.

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Movies Starring Jimmy Hanley (43)

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1968)

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice. ...

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The Lost Continent (1968)

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen's leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island popu ...

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Way Off Beat (1966)

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club. ...

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The Smiths in Scotland (1966)

A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland. ...

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Satellite in the Sky (1956)

A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit). ...

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The Deep Blue Sea (1955)

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. ...

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The Black Rider (1954)

When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds... ...

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Radio Cab Murder (1954)

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the croo ...

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Views on Trial (1954)

The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives. ...

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The Galloping Major (1951)

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper. ...

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Room to Let (1950)

In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper. ...

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The Blue Lamp (1950)

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to a ...

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Boys in Brown (1949)

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside. ...

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Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up. ...

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The Huggetts Abroad (1949)

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across th ...

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Here Come the Huggetts (1948)

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory. ...

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It's Hard to be Good (1948)

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters. ...

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It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance. ...

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The Master of Bankdam (1947)

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam. ...

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Holiday Camp (1947)

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home. ...

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The Captive Heart (1946)

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and ...

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Murder in Reverse? (1945)

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer. ...

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For You Alone (1945)

Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer. ...

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29 Acacia Avenue (1945)

The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their t ...

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home ...

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Henry V (1944)

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. ...

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The Way Ahead (1944)

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk. ...

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The Gentle Sex (1943)

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries. ...

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Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives (1943)

Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front. ...

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Salute John Citizen (1942)

A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country. ...

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Gaslight (1940)

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and ...

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There Ain't No Justice (1939)

A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter. ...

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Housemaster (1938)

Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils. ...

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Night Ride (1937)

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having ...

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Landslide (1937)

A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next? ...

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Cotton Queen (1937)

The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics. ...

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The Tunnel (1935)

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States. ...

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Boys Will Be Boys (1935)

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor ...

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Brown on Resolution (1935)

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a Brit ...

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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 the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individua ...

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Little Friend (1934)

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case. ...

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Wild Boy (1934)

This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby. ...

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Red Wagon (1933)

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith's novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus. ...

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