Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 17, 1883
Died
Nov 27, 1949
Place of Birth
Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Credits
38 titles
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
Filmography
The Interrupted Journey
Mr. Clayton
Maytime in Mayfair
Inspector
Spring in Park Lane
Uncle Joshua Howard
While I Live
Nehemiah
The Master of Bankdam
Simeon Crowther Sr.
This Man Is Mine
Philip Ferguson
Johnny Frenchman
Net Pomeroy
Love Story
Tom Tanner
The Halfway House
Capt. Meadows
They Met in the Dark
Christopher Child
Undercover
Kossan Petrovitch
Old Iron
Sir Henry Woodstock
Crackerjack
Jack Drake
Second Best Bed
Victor Garnett
Strange Boarders
Tommy Blythe
For Valour
Doubleday
Dishonour Bright
Stephen Champion
Pot Luck
Foreign Affaires
Capt. the Hon. Archibald Gore
Stormy Weather
Sir Duncan Craggs
Me and Marlborough
John Churchill - Duke of Marlborough
Fighting Stock
Brig. Gen. Sir Donald Rowley
Dirty Work
Director
Lady in Danger
Richard Dexter
A Cup of Kindness
Fred Tutt
Turkey Time
Max Wheeler
A Cuckoo in the Nest
Maj. George Bone
Leave It to Smith
Smith
The Blarney Stone
Tim Fitzgerald
Thark
Sir Hector Benbow
Leap Year
Sir Peter Trallion
A Night Like This
Michael Mahoney
Tons of Money
Director
Plunder
Freddie Malone
Canaries Sometimes Sing
Geoffrey Lymes
On Approval
Duke of Bristol
Rookery Nook
Clive Popkiss
Tons of Money
Producer