Colin Tapley

Colin Tapley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Colin Tapley (7 May 1907 – 1 December 1995) was a British actor. Born in New Zealand, he served in the Royal Air Force and an expedition to Antarctica before winning a Paramount Pictures talent contest and moving to Hollywood. He acted in several films before returning to Britain during the Second World War as a flight controller with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned briefly to New Zealand before returning once again to Britain to renew his acting career. His most famous role is as William Glanville in The Dam Busters but he spent much of his later career typecast as a police inspector, a role he played in several films and TV series before retiring to Gloucestershire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Tapley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.                    ​

  • Title: Colin Tapley
  • Popularity: 1.671
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-05-07
  • Place of Birth: Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
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Colin Tapley Movies

  • 1935
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    The Black Room

    The Black Room

    6.4 1935 HD

    In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the...

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  • 1955
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    The Dam Busters

    The Dam Busters

    6.8 1955 HD

    The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617...

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  • 1951
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    Cloudburst

    Cloudburst

    6.3 1951 HD

    Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over...

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  • 1935
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    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    6.7 1935 HD

    In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader...

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  • 1955
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    Barbados Quest

    Barbados Quest

    4.5 1955 HD

    Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is...

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  • 1937
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    Bulldog Drummond Escapes

    Bulldog Drummond Escapes

    5.9 1937 HD

    Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a...

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  • 1935
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    Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson

    7 1935 HD

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter...

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  • 1935
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    Becky Sharp

    Becky Sharp

    5.6 1935 HD

    The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...

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  • 1954
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    The Diamond Wizard

    The Diamond Wizard

    5.9 1954 HD

    While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vault, American federal agent Dennison (Dennis...

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  • 1952
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    Wings of Danger

    Wings of Danger

    5.214 1952 HD

    A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for...

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  • 1938
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    6.7 1938 HD

    King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the...

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  • 1952
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    Wide Boy

    Wide Boy

    6.6 1952 HD

    Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.

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  • 1953
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    Strange Stories

    Strange Stories

    1 1953 HD

    'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...

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  • 1937
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    The Crime Nobody Saw

    The Crime Nobody Saw

    5 1937 HD

    Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

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  • 1936
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    Too Many Parents

    Too Many Parents

    5 1936 HD

    Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart...

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  • 1961
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    So Evil, So Young

    So Evil, So Young

    4 1961 HD

    A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

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  • 1936
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    The Preview Murder Mystery

    The Preview Murder Mystery

    6 1936 HD

    The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist...

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  • 1960
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    Compelled

    Compelled

    5 1960 HD

    An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old...

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  • 1937
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    Night of Mystery

    Night of Mystery

    1 1937 HD

    One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance

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  • 1936
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    The Return of Sophie Lang

    The Return of Sophie Lang

    6 1936 HD

    In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a...

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  • 1937
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    Souls at Sea

    Souls at Sea

    5.875 1937 HD

    Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

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  • 1936
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    My Marriage

    My Marriage

    5 1936 HD

    When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society,...

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  • 1960
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    The Sundowners

    The Sundowners

    6.6 1960 HD

    In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to...

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  • 1939
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    The Light That Failed

    The Light That Failed

    6 1939 HD

    A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

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  • 1962
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    Emergency

    Emergency

    5.5 1962 HD

    When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation....

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  • 1940
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    Arizona

    Arizona

    6.1 1940 HD

    Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But...

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  • 1959
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    Man Accused

    Man Accused

    1 1959 HD

    Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an...

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  • 1936
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    Thank You, Jeeves!

    Thank You, Jeeves!

    6 1936 HD

    Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.

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  • 1938
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    Booloo

    Booloo

    6.5 1938 HD

    White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the...

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  • 1953
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    3 Steps to the Gallows

    3 Steps to the Gallows

    6.3 1953 HD

    A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

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  • 1940
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    North West Mounted Police

    North West Mounted Police

    6.3 1940 HD

    Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

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  • 1937
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    King of Gamblers

    King of Gamblers

    7 1937 HD

    Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her...

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  • 1935
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    The Last Outpost

    The Last Outpost

    6 1935 HD

    During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal...

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  • 1934
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    Murder at the Vanities

    Murder at the Vanities

    5.4 1934 HD

    Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

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  • 1938
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    Storm Over Bengal

    Storm Over Bengal

    5.2 1938 HD

    This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its...

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  • 1936
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    Early to Bed

    Early to Bed

    7 1936 HD

    Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...

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  • 1934
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    Double Door

    Double Door

    6.8 1934 HD

    A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy...

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  • 1949
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    Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

    6.523 1949 HD

    When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

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  • 1937
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    Maid of Salem

    Maid of Salem

    5.9 1937 HD

    When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...

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  • 1953
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    Noose for a Lady

    Noose for a Lady

    5.7 1953 HD

    An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering...

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  • 1962
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    Strongroom

    Strongroom

    6.654 1962 HD

    During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan...

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  • 1953
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    The Steel Key

    The Steel Key

    5.5 1953 HD

    An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

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  • 1958
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    The Safecracker

    The Safecracker

    5.8 1958 HD

    Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.

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  • 1952
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    Angels One Five

    Angels One Five

    6 1952 HD

    The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of...

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  • 1957
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    Stranger in Town

    Stranger in Town

    6.5 1957 HD

    A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

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  • 1962
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    Gang War

    Gang War

    1 1962 HD

    During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.

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  • 1956
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    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    6.5 1956 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

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  • 1956
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    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    6.5 1956 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

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