A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Thomas Kirby Walls
Birthplace:
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Born:
February 17, 1883
Died:
November 27, 1949
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.
Director:
1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930 On Approval
1930 Plunder
1930 Rookery Nook
1930 Tons of Money
1932 A Night Like This
1932 Leap Year
1932 Thark
1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 Leave It to Smith
1933 The Blarney Stone
1933 Turkey Time
1934 A Cup of Kindness
1934 Dirty Work
1934 Lady in Danger
1935 Fighting Stock
1935 Foreign Affaires
1935 Stormy Weather
1936 Dishonour Bright
1936 Pot Luck
1937 For Valour
1938 Second Best Bed
Producer:
1924 Tons of Money
1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930 On Approval
1930 Plunder
1930 Rookery Nook
1930 Tons of Money
1932 A Night Like This
1932 Leap Year
1932 Thark
1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 Leave It to Smith
1933 The Blarney Stone
1933 Turkey Time
1934 A Cup of Kindness
1934 Dirty Work
1934 Lady in Danger
1935 Fighting Stock
1935 Foreign Affaires
1935 Stormy Weather
1936 Dishonour Bright
1936 Pot Luck
1937 For Valour
1938 Second Best Bed
Screenplay:
1924 Tons of Money
1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930 On Approval
1930 Plunder
1930 Rookery Nook
1930 Tons of Money
1932 A Night Like This
1932 Leap Year
1932 Thark
1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 Leave It to Smith
1933 The Blarney Stone
1933 Turkey Time
1934 A Cup of Kindness
1934 Dirty Work
1934 Lady in Danger
1935 Fighting Stock
1935 Foreign Affaires
1935 Stormy Weather
1936 Dishonour Bright
1936 Pot Luck
1937 For Valour
1938 Second Best Bed
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