Ernest Thesiger
Film
1916
“The Real Thing at Last” (short, lost)
British Actors
Director: L.C. MacBean
Writer: J.M. Barrie
Witch
1918
Master-International Exclusives/Apex Film Company Limited
Director: Maurice Elvey
William Pitt
“The Life Story of David Lloyd George” filmed but not released
Ideal Film Company
Director: Maurice Elvey
Joseph Chamberlain
1919
Q Film Productions
Director: Kenelm Foss, Geoffrey H. Malins
Bertram Tully
1921
“The Bachelor’s Club”
Ideal Film Company
Director: A. V. Bramble
Israfel Mondego
“The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick” aka “Pickwick Papers” (silent, lost)
Ideal Film Company
Director: Thomas Bentley
Mr. Jingle
1922
“Number 13” aka “Mrs. Peabody” (unfinished)
Gainsborough Pictures
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Mr. Peabody
1928
“Week-End Wives”
British International Pictures
Director: Harry Lachman
Bertram
1929
British International Pictures
Director: Geza von Bolvary
Lidoff
1930
“Ashes” (talkie short)
Gainsborough Pictures
Director: Frank Birch
Announcer
1932
Universal Pictures
Director: James Whale
Horace Femm
1933
Gaumont British
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Laing
Fox Film/UFA
Director: Friedrich Hollaender
The Chamberlain
1935
“Mon Couer t’appelle/My Heart is Calling”
Gaumont-Franco Film Aubert/Cine-Allianz Tonfilmproduktions/Gaumont British
Director: Carmine Gallone, Serge Veber
Fevrier
Universal Pictures
Director: James Whale
Dr Pretorius
“The Murder Party” aka “The Night of the Party”
Gaumont British
Director: Michael Powell
Adrian Chiddiatt
1936
London Film Productions
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Theotocopulos (scenes replaced by Cedric Hardwicke)
“The Man Who Could Work Miracles”
London Film Productions
Director: Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda
Silas Maydig
1938
CAPAD/Ealing Studios
Director: Robert Stevenson
Carter
“Lightning Conductor”
Pinebrook Studios
Director: Maurice Elvey
Professor
1939
“They Drive By Night” aka “Murder On The Run”
Warner Brothers First National Productions
Director: Arthur B. Woods
Walter Hoover
1943
Ealing Studios
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Ferris
Two Cities Films
Director: Maurice Elvey
Chairman
1944
Two Cities Films
Director: Jeffrey Dell
Justice’s Clerk
Two Cities Films
Director: Laurence Olivier
Duke of Berri
1945
Gainsborough Pictures
Director: Bernard Knowles
Dr. Marsham
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Gabriel Pascal Productions/Independent Producers
Theodotus
1946
Two Cities Films
Director: Maurice Elvey
Baron Emil de Kekesfalva
1947
“The Man Within” aka “The Smugglers”
Production Film Service
Director: Bernard Knowles
Farne
Gainsborough Pictures
Director: Bernard Knowles
Sir Edward Follesmark
“The Ghosts of Berkeley Square”
British National Films
Director: Vernon Sewell
Dr. Cruikshank
1948
De Grunwald Productions/Eagle Lion
Director: Anthony Asquith
Mr. Ridgeley Pierce
“Quartet” (segment “The Colonel’s Lady”)
Gainsborough Pictures
Director: Ken Annakin
Henry Dashwood
Diadem Films/Ingram Films
Director: Thornton Freeland
Ryder-Harris
“Lost Daughter” aka “Portrait from Life”
Gainsborough Pictures
Director: Terence Fisher
Bloomfield (scenes deleted)
1949
Sydney Box Productions
Director: David MacDonald
Count Guiccioli
1950
Associated British Picture Corporation/Watergate Films
Director: Henry Cass
Sir Trevor Lampington
1951
Associated British Picture Corporation/Mario Zampi Productions
Director: Mario Zampi
Endicott
Arthur Rank Organization/Ealing Studios
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Sir John Kierlaw
“Scrooge” aka “A Christmas Carol”
George Minter Productions/Renown Pictures Corporation
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
The Undertaker
1952
“The Magic Box”
Festival Film Productions
Director: John Boulting
Earl (cameo)
“The Woman’s Angle”
Walter C. Mycroft Productions
Director: Leslie Arliss
Judge
1953
Director: Henry Koster
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Emperor Tiberius
Michael Balcon Productions/Ealing Studios
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Mr. MacDonald
1954
“The Million Pound Note” aka “Man With a Million”
Group Film Productions Limited
Director: Ronald Neame
Mr. Garrett the Bank Director (uncredited)
“The Detective” aka “Father Brown”
Facet Productions
Director: Robert Hamer
Vicomte de Verdigris
Group 3
Director: Cyril Frankel
Sir John
“Thought to Kill”
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Company
Director: Leslie Arliss
Burden Senior
Compilation of 3 episodes from the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ..."aka Rheingold Theatre
1955
Group Film Productions Limited
Director: Ken Annakin
Lord Dewsbury
The Rank Organization
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Notcher
“The Red Carpet: Diary of a Journey”
Documentary
Peter Brook
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director: Richard Thorpe
Lord Crawford
1956
“Who Done It?”
Michael Balcon Productions/Ealing Studios
Director: Basil Dearden
Sir Walter
Romulus Films
Director: Ken Annakin
3rd Old Gentleman/Umpire
1957
“Doctor at Large”
The Rank Organization/Group Film Productions Limited
Director: Ralph Thomas
First Examiner
Beaconsfield Productions
Director: Muriel Box
Judge
1958
Director: John Barnes
Encyclopedia Britannica Films
Death
Knightsbridge Films
Director: Ronald Neame
Mr. Hickson
1960
“The Battle of the Sexes”
Prometheus Film Productions Ltd.
Director: Charles Crichton
Old Macpherson
20th Century Fox Productions/The Company of Artists
Director: Jack Cardiff
Mr. Hadlock
“The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”
Seven Arts Productions
Director: Jose Quintero
Stefano