
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.
Acting (26 movies)

Johnny Frenchman
1945

They Met in the Dark
1943

Undercover
1943

Spring in Park Lane
1948

Me and Marlborough
1935

Love Story
1944

Crackerjack
1938

A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933

Turkey Time
1933

The Interrupted Journey
1949

While I Live
1947

Dishonour Bright
1936

Lady in Danger
1934

This Man Is Mine
1946

Strange Boarders
1938

The Master of Bankdam
1947

Pot Luck
1936

A Cup of Kindness
1934

The Halfway House
1944

Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930

Rookery Nook
1930

A Night Like This
1932

Plunder
1930

Thark
1932

Maytime in Mayfair
1949

Stormy Weather
1935
Directing (22 movies)

Dirty Work
1934

A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933

Turkey Time
1933
Leap Year
1932
Fighting Stock
1935

Dishonour Bright
1936
For Valour
1937

Lady in Danger
1934
Leave It to Smith
1933

Pot Luck
1936

A Cup of Kindness
1934
Foreign Affaires
1935
The Blarney Stone
1933

Rookery Nook
1930

Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930

Tons of Money
1930

Plunder
1930

A Night Like This
1932

Thark
1932
On Approval
1930

Stormy Weather
1935
Second Best Bed
1938
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Tons of Money | 1924 | Producer | 
| A Night Like This | 1932 | Screenplay |