List of the best Fay Compton movies: The Battle of Gallipoli(1931), Laughter in Paradise(1951), The Prime Minister(1941), Aunt Clara(1954), The Mill on the Floss(1937), Waltzes From Vienna(1934), London Belongs to Me(1948), The Forbidden Street(1949), The Story of Esther Costello(1957), Odd Man Out(1947), Othello(1952) ... ...
Drama, War
UK
1931
80 Minutes
Fay Compton Tony Bruce Carl Harbord Dennis Hoey C.M. Hallard Gerald Rawlinson Frederick Lloyd Sam Wilkinson Wally Patch Hubert Harben
Two friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.
Comedy
UK
1951
93 Minutes
Agnes Russell
Alastair Sim Fay Compton Beatrice Campbell Veronica Hurst Guy Middleton George Cole A.E. Matthews Joyce Grenfell Anthony Steel John Laurie Eleanor Summerfield
writer snob bachelor bank teller millionaire housekeeper offbeat cheeky mansion bank prison england inheritance practical jokes life lessons money family quest transformation 1960s
When a millionaire practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.
Drama
UK
1941
94 Minutes
Queen Victoria
John Gielgud Diana Wynyard Fay Compton Will Fyffe Owen Nares Pamela Standish Stephen Murray Frederick Leister
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
Comedy
UK
1954
84 Minutes
Gladys Smith
Margaret Rutherford Ronald Shiner A.E. Matthews Fay Compton Nigel Stock Jill Bennett
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings - including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar - to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). ... See full summary »
Drama
1937
94 Minutes
Mrs. Tulliver
Geraldine Fitzgerald Frank Lawton Victoria Hopper Fay Compton James Mason Griffith Jones Sam Livesey Pauline de Chalus Mary Clare Athene Seyler Martita Hunt
owner solicitor daughter son mother melodramatic emotional tense england household river feud family scandal romance flooding forbidden love rivalry 19th century
A lawyer's crippled son (Frank Lawton) loves the daughter (Geraldine Fitzgerald) of a millowner ruined by his father in 19th-century England.
Romance, Biography
1934
81 Minutes
Countess Helga von Stahl
Esmond Knight Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn Fay Compton Frank Vosper Robert Hale Charles Heslop Betty Huntley-Wright Hindle Edgar Sybil Grove Bill Shine
Comedy, Drama
1948
112 Minutes
Mrs. Josser
Richard Attenborough Alastair Sim Stephen Murray Fay Compton Wylie Watson Susan Shaw Ivy St. Helier Joyce Carey Andrew Crawford Eleanor Summerfield Gladys Henson
The residents of a South London boarding house rally to the defense of a young neighbor accused of murder.
Drama
UK
1949
91 Minutes
Mrs. Culver
Dana Andrews Maureen O'Hara Sybil Thorndike Wilfrid Hyde-White Fay Compton A.E. Matthews Diane Hart Anne Butchart
wife artist lawyer neighbor mother father melodramatic touching mushy london theater apartment staircase england class distinctions unlikely romance accidental death poverty blackmail alcoholism
A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.
Drama
UK
1957
103 Minutes
Mother Superior
Joan Crawford Rossano Brazzi Heather Sears Lee Patterson Fay Compton Bessie Love Ron Randell
orphan socialite priest disabled person husband intense emotional powerful melodramatic ireland boston accident disability charity scams rape rescue sacrifice discovery 1950s
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
115 Minutes
Rosie
James Mason Robert Newton Kathleen Ryan Robert Beatty William Hartnell F.J. McCormick Fay Compton Beryl Measor Cyril Cusack Dan O'Herlihy Roy Irving
fugitive daughter mother soldier dark gritty belfast, northern ireland hideout family home robbery crime irish republican army injury pursuit 1940s
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Drama
1952
92 Minutes
Emilia
Orson Welles Micheál MacLiammóir Suzanne Cloutier Robert Coote Hilton Edwards Michael Lawrence Fay Compton Nicholas Bruce Jean Davis Joan Fontaine Joseph Cotten
othello senator iago desdemona servant wastrel chilling intense powerful brooding venice, italy street castle cyprus bedroom race relations jealousy schemes doomed romance interracial relationship
Shakespeare's Iago (Micheál MacLiammóir) tells the jealous Moor of Venice (Orson Welles) that his wife, Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier), has been unfaithful.