
Sydney Fairbrother
Acting
Known For

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
Dreaming Lips

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
King Solomon's Mines
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Excess Baggage
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Brewster's Millions

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
Chu Chin Chow

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
The Private Secretary

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Gay Love

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Insult
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Dora
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
All In!

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
The Last Journey

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
Nell Gwyn
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Heartstrings
Two women win £130,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes. They use their winnings to establish an oyster bar, but soon become the target of a phony count who attempts to swindle them.
Lucky Ladies

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.
The Temperance Fête

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Murder on the Second Floor

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
Paradise for Two
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
The Return of Raffles
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Other Mrs. Phipps
A clerk's service as subaltern spoils him for menial work.