After working as a constable, busker (street entertainer) and jockey, English actor Tom Walls settled on a stage career in 1905. In the '20s, Walls inaugurated his long association with London's Aldwych Theatre, where he produced, directed and starred in a string of popular farces, written by Ben Travers. Non-fans of the Aldwych school may perceive that all of Travers' plays were identical, concerned as they were with upper-class twits becoming entangled with inconvenient young ladies just as all the suspicious wives and jealous husbands show up at once; but to devotees of Aldwych, Tom Walls' appearances were dearly treasured. Walls set the standard for most of his subsequent movie appearances with the 1929 filmization of the Aldwych-produced Rookery Nook, in which Walls functioned as both costar and director. He played the quintessential wealthy philanderer, while perennial costars Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare contributed their usual well-honed bits of comic business. In his last decade, Tom Walls was cast in other directors' films in character roles, essaying a variety of twinkle-eyed old scoundrels.
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Maytime in Mayfair
Actor |
1949 | |||
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Spring in Park Lane
Actor |
1949 | |||
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The Interrupted Journey
Actor |
1949 | |||
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The Master of Bankdam
Actor |
1947 | |||
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While I Love
Actor |
1947 | |||
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This Man Is Mine
Actor |
1946 | |||
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Johnny Frenchman
Actor |
1945 | |||
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They Met in the Dark
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Love Story
Actor |
1944 | |||
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The Halfway House
Actor |
1944 | |||
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Undercover
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Old Iron
Actor, Director, Producer |
1938 | |||
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Strange Boarders
Actor |
1938 | |||
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The Man with 100 Faces
Actor |
1938 | |||
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For Valor
Actor, Director |
1937 | |||
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Second Best Bed
Actor, Director |
1937 | |||
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Dishonor Bright
Actor, Director |
1936 | |||
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Dishonour Bright
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Pot Luck
Actor, Director |
1936 | |||
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Fighting Stock
Actor, Director |
1935 | |||
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Foreign Affairs
Actor, Director |
1935 | |||
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Me and Marlborough
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Stormy Weather
Actor, Director |
1935 | |||
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A Cup of Kindness
Actor, Director |
1934 | |||
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Dirty Work
Director |
1934 | |||
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Lady in Danger
Actor, Director |
1934 | |||
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Blarney Kiss
Actor, Director |
1933 | |||
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Leave It to Smith
Actor, Director |
1933 | |||
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The Cuckoo in the Nest
Actor, Director |
1933 | |||
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Turkey Time
Actor, Director |
1933 | |||
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A Night Like This
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Leap Year
Actor, Director |
1932 | |||
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Thark
Actor, Director |
1932 | |||
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Plunder
Actor, Director |
1931 | |||
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Tons of Money
Director |
1931 | |||
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Canaries Sometimes Sing
Actor, Director |
1930 | |||
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On Approval
Actor, Director |
1930 | |||
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One Embarrassing Night
Actor, Director |
1930 | |||
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Rookery Nook
Actor, Director |
1930 |