Bernard Joseph Archard was an English actor who made many film and television appearances.
James Michael Hyde Villiers was an English character actor. He was particularly known for his plummy voice and ripe articulation.
Paul Frederick Daneman was an English film, television, and theatre actor. He was successful for more than 40 years on stage, film and television.
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre on television in the United States.
The Floating Dutchman is a 1954 British second feature crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler and Mary Germaine. It is based on a 1950 novel of the same title by Nicholas Bentley. A Scotland Yard detective goes undercover amongst jewel thieves after a dead Dutchman is found floating in the river.
The Crimson Circle is a 1936 British crime film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Hugh Wakefield, Alfred Drayton, and Niall MacGinnis. It is based on the 1922 novel The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace. It was made by the independent producer Richard Wainwright at Shepperton and Welwyn Studios.
White Face is a 1932 British crime film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Hugh Williams, Gordon Harker and Renee Gadd. The film is based on a play by Edgar Wallace.
The Clue of the New Pin is a 1929 all-talking sound British crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Benita Hume, Kim Peacock, and Donald Calthrop. The soundtrack was recorded using the British Phototone sound-on-disc system. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. This film is important historically as being Britain's first all-talking feature film produced entirely in Britain. The first all-talking British feature production, a film entitled Black Waters, had been produced in the United States due to a lack of sound recording equipment in Britain.
The Clue of the New Pin is a 1923 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. it was first published by Hodder & Stoughton in London, 1923.
The Crimson Circle is a 1929 British-German sound part-talkie crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The sound was recorded via the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film is an adaptation of the 1922 Edgar Wallace novel The Crimson Circle in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers. A previous UK version was filmed in 1922.
The Sinister Man is a 1961 British crime drama film directed by Clive Donner and starring Patrick Allen and John Bentley. It was one of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.
Locker Sixty-Nine is a 1962 British film based on a story by Edgar Wallace, and an episode of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries.
The White Trap is a 1959 British second feature thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Lee Patterson. The screenplay is by playwright Peter Barnes, who went on to write the cult stage and film comedy The Ruling Class (1972); and the Oscar nominated screenplay for Enchanted April (1991).
Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1960 British second feature crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Bernard Lee, David Knight and Francis De Wolff. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1918 novel The Clue of the Twisted Candle.
Man Detained is a 1961 British crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale and Paul Stassino. Part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is loosely based on the 1916 novel A Debt Discharged by Edgar Wallace.
The Fourth Square is a 1961 British second feature crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry and Delphi Lawrence. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is loosely based on the 1929 novel Four Square Jane by Edgar Wallace.
Attempt to Kill is a 1961 British film. It was a rare feature directed by Royston Morley, and based on a story by Edgar Wallace, The Lone House Mystery. It was one of a series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.
Clue of the Silver Key is a 1961 British crime film directed by Gerard Glaister and starring Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook and Finlay Currie. It is based on the novel The Clue of the Silver Key by Edgar Wallace. Part of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series it was made at Merton Park Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Mullins.
The Clue of the Silver Key is a 1930 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.
Flat Two is a 1962 British second feature film directed by Alan Cooke and starring John Le Mesurier and Jack Watling. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1924 Wallace story of the same name.
