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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 17, 1883
Died
November 27, 1949
Place of Birth
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Thomas Kirby Walls
Tom Walls
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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
5.7
Mr. Clayton
The Interrupted Journey
1949
5.3
Inspector
Maytime in Mayfair
1949
6.8
Uncle Joshua Howard
Spring in Park Lane
1948
6.7
Nehemiah
While I Live
1947
6.0
Simeon Crowther Sr.
The Master of Bankdam
1947
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Philip Ferguson
This Man Is Mine
1946
6.0
Net Pomeroy
Johnny Frenchman
1945
6.4
Tom Tanner
Love Story
1944
6.5
Capt. Meadows
The Halfway House
1944
6.3
Christopher Child
They Met in the Dark
1943
Credits
The Interrupted Journey
as Mr. Clayton
1949
5.7
Maytime in Mayfair
as Inspector
1949
5.3
Spring in Park Lane
as Uncle Joshua Howard
1948
6.8
While I Live
as Nehemiah
1947
6.7
The Master of Bankdam
as Simeon Crowther Sr.
1947
6.0
This Man Is Mine
as Philip Ferguson
1946
0.0
Johnny Frenchman
as Net Pomeroy
1945
6.0
Love Story
as Tom Tanner
1944
6.4
The Halfway House
as Capt. Meadows
1944
6.5
They Met in the Dark
as Christopher Child
1943
6.3
Undercover
as Kossan Petrovitch
1943
5.8
Crackerjack
as Jack Drake
1938
5.9
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Second Best Bed
as Victor Garnett
1938
7.5
Strange Boarders
as Tommy Blythe
1938
0.0
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For Valour
as Doubleday
1937
5.0
Dishonour Bright
as Stephen Champion
1936
5.0
Pot Luck
1936
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🎬
Foreign Affaires
as Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
1935
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Stormy Weather
as Sir Duncan Craggs
1935
4.0
Me and Marlborough
as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
1935
5.0
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Fighting Stock
as Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley
1935
5.0
Lady in Danger
as Richard Dexter
1934
5.6
A Cup of Kindness
as Fred Tutt
1934
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Turkey Time
as Max Wheeler
1933
0.0
A Cuckoo in the Nest
as Maj. George Bone
1933
5.3
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Leave It to Smith
as Smith
1933
0.0
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The Blarney Stone
as Tim Fitzgerald
1933
0.0
Thark
as Sir Hector Benbow
1932
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Leap Year
as Sir Peter Trallion
1932
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A Night Like This
as Michael Mahoney
1932
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Plunder
as Freddie Malone
1930
0.0
Canaries Sometimes Sing
as Geoffrey Lymes
1930
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On Approval
as Duke of Bristol
1930
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Rookery Nook
as Clive Popkiss
1930
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