Tom Walls

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1883-02-17

Deathday 1949-11-27 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Also Known As Thomas Kirby Walls

Tom Walls

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

Actor

1949
1949
Maytime in Mayfair

as Inspector

1948
Spring in Park Lane

as Uncle Joshua Howard

1947
While I Live

as Nehemiah

1947
The Master of Bankdam

as Simeon Crowther Sr.

1946
This Man Is Mine

as Philip Ferguson

1945
Johnny Frenchman

as Net Pomeroy

1944
Love Story

as Tom Tanner

1944
The Halfway House

as Capt. Meadows

1943
They Met in the Dark

as Christopher Child

1943
Undercover

as Kossan Petrovitch

1938
Crackerjack

as Jack Drake

1938
Second Best Bed

as Victor Garnett

1938
Strange Boarders

as Tommy Blythe

1937
For Valour

as Doubleday

1936
Dishonour Bright

as Stephen Champion

1935
Foreign Affaires

as Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore

1935
Me and Marlborough

as John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough

1935
Fighting Stock

as Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley

1934
Lady in Danger

as Richard Dexter

1934
A Cup of Kindness

as Fred Tutt

1933
Turkey Time

as Max Wheeler

1933
A Cuckoo in the Nest

as Maj. George Bone

1933
1933
The Blarney Stone

as Tim Fitzgerald

1932
Thark

as Sir Hector Benbow

1932
Leap Year

as Sir Peter Trallion

1932
A Night Like This

as Michael Mahoney

1930
Plunder

as Freddie Malone

1930
Canaries Sometimes Sing

as Geoffrey Lymes

1930
On Approval

as Duke of Bristol

1930
Rookery Nook

as Clive Popkiss

Director

1938
Second Best Bed

as Director

1937
For Valour

as Director

1936
Dishonour Bright

as Director

1936
Pot Luck

as Director

1935
Fighting Stock

as Director

1935
Foreign Affaires

as Director

1935
Stormy Weather

as Director

1934
Dirty Work

as Director

1934
Lady in Danger

as Director

1934
A Cup of Kindness

as Director

1933
1933
Turkey Time

as Director

1933
Leave It to Smith

as Director

1933
The Blarney Stone

as Director

1932
Leap Year

as Director

1932
A Night Like This

as Director

1932
Thark

as Director

1930
Rookery Nook

as Director

1930
1930
Tons of Money

as Director

1930
Plunder

as Director

1930
On Approval

as Director

Writer

1932
A Night Like This

as Screenplay

Producer

1924
Tons of Money

as Producer