Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas

From Wikipedia Evan Thomas, also known as Peter Evan Thomas was a Canadian-born British character actor, whose career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. He began his career in England, in Lady Windermere's Fan, written by Oscar Wilde. Born Elystan Owen Evan Thomas in Vancouver, he appeared in silent films in Great Britain. Starting in 1930, he worked in both Hollywood and England beginning in 1930, before returning permanently to the British film industry after 1946. Over his fifty-year career, he would appear in dozens of films, usually in small roles, although he did have several featured performances, as in 1928's Warned Off, and 1935's Lend Me Your Husband.

  • Title: Evan Thomas
  • Popularity: 0.3784
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1891-02-17
  • Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Evan Thomas Movies

  • 1933
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    Mrs. Dane's Defence

    Mrs. Dane's Defence

    1 1933 HD

    A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.

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  • 1938
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    Arrest Bulldog Drummond

    Arrest Bulldog Drummond

    6.6 1938 HD

    The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

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  • 1933
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    The Girl from Maxim's

    The Girl from Maxim's

    1 1933 HD

    A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.

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  • 1935
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    Lend Me Your Husband

    Lend Me Your Husband

    5 1935 HD

    A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.

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  • 1938
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    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    Bulldog Drummond in Africa

    5.5 1938 HD

    Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.

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  • 1937
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    O.H.M.S.

    O.H.M.S.

    3.5 1937 HD

    American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.

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  • 1941
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    The Blonde from Singapore

    The Blonde from Singapore

    5 1941 HD

    Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.

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  • 1937
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    For Valour

    For Valour

    5 1937 HD

    In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.

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  • 1939
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    The Little Princess

    The Little Princess

    6.676 1939 HD

    A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

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  • 1940
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    Drums of Fu Manchu

    Drums of Fu Manchu

    6.1 1940 HD

    The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.

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  • 1938
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    4.7 1938 HD

    Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

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  • 1919
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    Wisp o' the Woods

    Wisp o' the Woods

    1 1919 HD

    A rich man's son loves a nature girl loved by a gypsy who is really her half brother.

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  • 1939
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    British Intelligence

    British Intelligence

    5.72 1939 HD

    During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

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  • 1940
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    North West Mounted Police

    North West Mounted Police

    6.354 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 Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

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  • 1930
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    Inside the Lines

    Inside the Lines

    5.1 1930 HD

    During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

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  • 1937
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    The High Command

    The High Command

    5.6 1937 HD

    A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

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  • 1933
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    Ask Beccles

    Ask Beccles

    1 1933 HD

    A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.

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  • 1945
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    My Name Is Julia Ross

    My Name Is Julia Ross

    6.692 1945 HD

    Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.

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  • 1944
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    Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

    Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

    7.3 1944 HD

    In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.

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  • 1941
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    Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

    Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

    5.7 1941 HD

    Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

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  • 1916
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    Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    5 1916 HD

    Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.

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  • 1941
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    The Royal Mounted Patrol

    The Royal Mounted Patrol

    1 1941 HD

    Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle refuses to limit his wood-chopping activities, he inadvertently touches off a forest fire. Trapped in the middle of the conflagration, Frenchy's only hope for rescue is mountie Tom Jeffries, presently scouring the countryside in his scout plane. Jeffries' reasons for bringing Frenchy out safely are twofold: he must deliver the renegade lumberjack to the authorities, and he happens to be in love with Frenchy's sister Betty.

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  • 1930
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    Warned Off

    Warned Off

    1 1930 HD

    An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.

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  • 1932
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    Women Who Play

    Women Who Play

    1 1932 HD

    In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.

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  • 1932
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    Tin Gods

    Tin Gods

    1 1932 HD

    A concert pianist loses his hearing but finds a new sense of purpose by helping others. A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer.

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  • 1938
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    The Buccaneer

    The Buccaneer

    6.4 1938 HD

    French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

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  • 1938
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    Lord Jeff

    Lord Jeff

    6.9 1938 HD

    Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.

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  • 1946
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    Tomorrow Is Forever

    Tomorrow Is Forever

    6.128 1946 HD

    In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

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  • 1938
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    6.923 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 brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

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  • 1938
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    Bulldog Drummond's Peril

    Bulldog Drummond's Peril

    5.7 1938 HD

    Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.

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  • 1944
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    Frenchman's Creek

    Frenchman's Creek

    5.3 1944 HD

    An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

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  • 1945
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    5.5 1945 HD

    Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

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  • 1955
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    Children Galore

    Children Galore

    4 1955 HD

    As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.357 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

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  • 2022
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    The Jennifer Hudson Show

    The Jennifer Hudson Show

    5.6 2022 HD

    Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.

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  • 1964
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    Theatre 625

    Theatre 625

    7.2 1964 HD

    Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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  • 1962
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    Out of This World

    Out of This World

    4.3 1962 HD

    Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.

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