Tom Walls
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 17, 1883
- Died
- November 27, 1949
- Birthplace
- Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
Filmography
High Risk 1981
Editor
The Interrupted Journey 1949
as Mr. Clayton
Maytime in Mayfair 1949
as Inspector
Spring in Park Lane 1948
as Uncle Joshua Howard
While I Live 1947
as Nehemiah
The Master of Bankdam 1947
as Simeon Crowther Sr.
This Man Is Mine 1946
as Philip Ferguson
Johnny Frenchman 1945
as Net Pomeroy
Love Story 1944
as Tom Tanner
The Halfway House 1944
as Capt. Meadows
They Met in the Dark 1943
as Christopher Child
Undercover 1943
as Kossan Petrovitch
- Old Iron
Old Iron 1938
as Sir Henry Woodstock, Director, Producer
Crackerjack 1938
as Jack Drake
- Second Best Bed
Second Best Bed 1938
as Victor Garnett, Director
Strange Boarders 1938
as Tommy Blythe
- For Valour
For Valour 1937
as Doubleday, Director
Dishonour Bright 1936
as Stephen Champion, Director
Pot Luck 1936
Actor, Director
- Foreign Affaires
Foreign Affaires 1935
as Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore, Director
Stormy Weather 1935
as Sir Duncan Craggs, Director
Me and Marlborough 1935
as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
- Fighting Stock
Fighting Stock 1935
as Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley, Director
Dirty Work 1934
Director
Lady in Danger 1934
as Richard Dexter, Director
A Cup of Kindness 1934
as Fred Tutt, Director
Turkey Time 1933
as Max Wheeler, Director
A Cuckoo in the Nest 1933
as Maj. George Bone, Director
- Leave It to Smith
Leave It to Smith 1933
as Smith, Director
- The Blarney Stone
The Blarney Stone 1933
as Tim Fitzgerald, Director
Thark 1932
as Sir Hector Benbow, Director
- Leap Year
Leap Year 1932
as Sir Peter Trallion, Director
A Night Like This 1932
as Michael Mahoney, Director, Screenplay
Tons of Money 1930
Director
Plunder 1930
as Freddie Malone, Director
Canaries Sometimes Sing 1930
as Geoffrey Lymes, Director
- On Approval
On Approval 1930
as Duke of Bristol, Director
Rookery Nook 1930
as Clive Popkiss, Director
Tons of Money 1924
Producer
Credits from TMDB.