Alan Napier

Alan Napier

January 7, 1903 · 123 years old

Alan Napier (born Alan William Napier-Clavering) was an English actor. After a decade in London West End theatres, he had a long film career first in Britain and then in Hollywood. He eventually became widely known for portraying Alfred the butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.

Known For

30 titles
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The Sword in the Stone

The Sword in the Stone

1963 · 1h 19m · Movie

A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.

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Marnie

Marnie

1964 · 2h 10m · Movie

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

7.1
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Batman: The Movie

Batman: The Movie

1966 · 1h 45m · Movie

The Dynamic Duo face four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

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Batman

Batman

1966 · 25m · TV Show

Follows the adventures of wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne, also known as the Caped Crusade Batman and his young ward Dick Grayson also known as Batman's sidekick Robin the boy wonder as they battle evildoers in Gotham City.

7.5
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1959 · 2h 9m · Movie

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

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The Court Jester

The Court Jester

1955 · 1h 41m · Movie

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

1953 · 2h 0m · Movie

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

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The Uninvited

The Uninvited

1944 · 1h 39m · Movie

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

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Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear

1944 · 1h 26m · Movie

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.

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Random Harvest

Random Harvest

1942 · 2h 6m · Movie

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

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Macbeth

Macbeth

1948 · 1h 47m · Movie

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

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Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home

1943 · 1h 29m · Movie

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

7.1
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The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

1940 · 1h 21m · Movie

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

6.5
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Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda

1948 · 1h 42m · Movie

A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.

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Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead

1945 · 1h 11m · Movie

A Greek general in the 1912 Balkans finds his Wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.

6.5
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36 Hours

36 Hours

1964 · 1h 55m · Movie

Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

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Lured

Lured

1947 · 1h 42m · Movie

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

7.0
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Désirée

Désirée

1954 · 1h 50m · Movie

Desiree Clary falls for Napoleon but marries Bernadotte, while Josephine weds Napoleon to become Empress before being dismissed for not producing an heir.

6.4
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949 · 1h 46m · Movie

A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.

6.5
20
Sinbad, the Sailor

Sinbad, the Sailor

1947 · 1h 56m · Movie

In medieval Persia, during the rule of Caliph Harun-Al-Rashid, Sinbad the Sailor boasts about his latest adventures to his friends.

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The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables

1940 · 1h 29m · Movie

Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.

7.0
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House of Horrors

House of Horrors

1946 · 1h 5m · Movie

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

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A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris

1946 · 1h 40m · Movie

Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.

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Ivy

Ivy

1947 · 1h 39m · Movie

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

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Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night

1962 · 2h 22m · Movie

A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.

6.0
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Fiesta

Fiesta

1947 · 1h 44m · Movie

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

5.9
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Driftwood

Driftwood

1947 · 1h 28m · Movie

6-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog slated for animal experiments. Dr. Webster adopts them both, to his fiancee's chagrin. An outbreak of spotted fever sends the town into panic and Jenny is infected and about to die.

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Master Minds

Master Minds

1949 · 1h 4m · Movie

Candy on a toothache turns Sach into a prognosticator, which attracts the attention of an exploitative Slip and a personality-switching doctor hoping to create an obedient super race.

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Double Crossbones

Double Crossbones

1951 · 1h 16m · Movie

After being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate.

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Loyalties

Loyalties

1933 · 1h 7m · Movie

While he's a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jewish man Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy.

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