Movies by Actor - Will Hay (21 [Missing: 2]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Those Were the DaysA farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play ""The Magistrate"", in which the son of a stern magistrate visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and be... | 1934 | Thomas Bentley | Comedy | 6.6 (114 votes) | 80 | 20240727 |
Radio Parade Of 1935The Director General of the NBG is struggling with his staff as the complaints pile up on his programming.The staff put on a show that could turn the tide, if the DG can thwart a villainous agent and deal with his troublesome daughte | 1934 | Arthur B. Woods | Comedy,Musical | 6.5 (100 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Boys Will Be BoysWill Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character creat | 1935 | William Beaudine | Comedy | 6.6 (424 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Dandy DickA church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running | 1935 | William Beaudine | Comedy | 6.0 (124 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Where There's a WillAn incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery. | 1936 | William Beaudine | Comedy | 6.5 (318 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Windbag the SailorA bragging sea captain's maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is coerced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who | 1936 | William Beaudine | Comedy | 6.7 (394 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Good Morning BoysA schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks. | 1937 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 6.6 (471 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Oh, Mr. Porter!With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of g | 1937 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 7.5 (1.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Hey, Hey, USA!Dr Twist has to pose on a liner as a famous professor and is asked to tutor Bernie, the son of a millionaire. To avoid awkward US immigration questions, Twist enlists the help of a gangster to smuggle him into the country. But two ri | 1938 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 5.9 (227 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Old Bones of the RiverIn this British comedy, a professor travels up river in Africa to open schools. But his new pupils are not receptive and when the commander of the local base succumbs to malaria, he takes on his duties too. Aided by the crew of the b | 1938 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 6.4 (252 votes) | 90 | 20220423 |
Ask a PolicemanThe mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---then find themselves involved in the real thing. | 1939 | Marcel Varnel | Adventure,Comedy,Crime | 7.5 (905 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Convict 99A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates ac | 1938 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 6.9 (500 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Where's That FireA hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. | 1939 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 7.1 (387 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Black Sheep of Whitehall, TheProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade | 1942 | Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Comedy | 6.8 (333 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Ghost Of St. Michael's, TheA hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Lamb has to unravel the mystery before | 1941 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 6.9 (499 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Big Blockade, TheWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. | 1942 | Charles Frend | Drama,War | 5.5 (211 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Goose Steps Out, TheA bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college. | 1942 | Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Comedy | 6.6 (469 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Goose Steps Out, TheA bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college. | 1942 | Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Comedy | 6.6 (469 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
My Learned FriendAn insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end. | 1943 | Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Comedy,Thriller | 7.1 (397 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Go to BlazesNA | 1942 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
Know Your ApplesNA | 1933 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |