Tom Walls
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 17, 1883
- Died
- Nov 27, 1949 (aged 66)
- Place of birth
- Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 35
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.
Known for
The Halfway House
1944Movie
Capt. Meadows
The Interrupted Journey
1949Movie
Mr. Clayton
They Met in the Dark
1943Movie
Christopher Child
Undercover
1943Movie
Kossan Petrovitch
Spring in Park Lane
1948Movie
Uncle Joshua Howard
While I Live
1947Movie
Nehemiah
Filmography
The Interrupted Journey
1949Movie
Mr. Clayton
Maytime in Mayfair
1949Movie
Inspector
Spring in Park Lane
1948Movie
Uncle Joshua Howard
While I Live
1947Movie
Nehemiah
The Master of Bankdam
1947Movie
Simeon Crowther Sr.
This Man Is Mine
1946Movie
Philip Ferguson
Johnny Frenchman
1945Movie
Net Pomeroy
Love Story
1944Movie
Tom Tanner
The Halfway House
1944Movie
Capt. Meadows
They Met in the Dark
1943Movie
Christopher Child
Undercover
1943Movie
Kossan Petrovitch
Old Iron
1938Movie
Sir Henry Woodstock
Crackerjack
1938Movie
Jack Drake
Second Best Bed
1938Movie
Victor Garnett
Strange Boarders
1938Movie
Tommy Blythe
For Valour
1937Movie
Doubleday
Dishonour Bright
1936Movie
Stephen Champion
Pot Luck
1936Movie
Foreign Affaires
1935Movie
Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
Stormy Weather
1935Movie
Sir Duncan Craggs
Me and Marlborough
1935Movie
John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
Fighting Stock
1935Movie
Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley
Lady in Danger
1934Movie
Richard Dexter
A Cup of Kindness
1934Movie
Fred Tutt
Turkey Time
1933Movie
Max Wheeler
A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933Movie
Maj. George Bone
Leave It to Smith
1933Movie
Smith
The Blarney Stone
1933Movie
Tim Fitzgerald
Thark
1932Movie
Sir Hector Benbow
Leap Year
1932Movie
Sir Peter Trallion
A Night Like This
1932Movie
Michael Mahoney
Plunder
1930Movie
Freddie Malone
Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930Movie
Geoffrey Lymes
On Approval
1930Movie
Duke of Bristol
Rookery Nook
1930Movie
Clive Popkiss