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Acting

Godfrey Tearle

Career: Active from 1915 to 1953, busiest in 1919 and 1943 with 3 main titles each.

Leading roles: 18
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: The 39 Steps
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 8 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Godfrey Tearle Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7
Violence
3.0, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

British Cinema 4
Historical Setting 4
Early Cinema 2
Historical Drama 2
Social Commentary 2
Satirical 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

26

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1950s

5 titles · average score 67

The Titfield Thunderbolt

72

as Ollie Matthews (The Bishop)

Decameron Nights

51

as Ricciardo / Bernabo

Mandy

77

as Mr Garland senior

I Believe in You

68

as Judge Pyke

White Corridors

69

as Mr. Groom Sr.

1940s

8 titles · average score 64

Private Angelo

as Count Piccologrando

The Beginning or the End

64

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Rake's Progress

67

as Colonel Robert Kenway

Medal for the General

as General Church

The Lamp Still Burns

59

as Sir Marshall Freyne

Undercover

60

as General von Staengel

Tomorrow We Live

64

as Mayor Pierre DuSchen

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

70

as Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie

1930s

8 titles · average score 77

Tomorrow We Live

as Sir Charles Hendra

East Meets West

as Sir Henry Mallory

The 39 Steps

86

as Professor Jordan

The Last Journey

69

as Sir Wilfred Rhodes

Puppets of Fate

as Richard Sabine

These Charming People

as James Berridge

The Shadow Between

as Paul Haddon

Infatuation

as Gerald Norton

1920s

1 title

Salome of the Tenements

as John Manning

1910s

4 titles

as Tony Broke

A Sinless Sinner

as Tom Harvey

as Guy

as Lochinvar