Roy Emerton (9 October 1892 – 30 November 1944) was a British film actor. Earlier in his life, he was a sailor, stoker, docker, railway worker, and miner and served in the First World War. He played in a great number of popular London stage plays and shows, including Shakespeare, as well as film work. Partial filmography Shadows (1931) - Captain The Sign of Four (1932) - The Tattooed Man That Night in London (1932) - Captain Paulson The Lash (1934) - Steve Java Head (1934) - Broadrick Lorna Doone (1934) - Carver Doone The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) - Boss McGinty It Happened in Paris (1935) - Gendarme Tudor Rose (1936) - Squire (uncredited) Pot Luck (1936) - Berkeley Everything Is Thunder (1936) - Kostner The Great Barrier (1937) - Moody Big Fella (1937) - Spike Doctor Syn (1937) - Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. The Last Adventurers (1937) - John Arkell I, Claudius (1937) - Octavius The Drum (1938) - Wafadar Convict 99 (1938) - Colonial The Gang Show (1938) - Pearson, Theatre Royal Proprietor Everything Happens to Me (1938) Q Planes (1939) - Viking First Mate (uncredited) Home from Home (1939) - Bill Burton The Good Old Days (1940) - Grimes Busman's Honeymoon (1940) - Noakes The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) - Gilder The Thief of Bagdad (1940) - Jailer Old Mother Riley's Circus (1941) - Santley, circus owner The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) - Dan Mendoza The Man in Grey (1943) - Gamekeeper (uncredited) The Adventures of Tartu (1943) - Plant Guard / Member of Underground (uncredited) Time Flies (1944) - Capt. John Smith Welcome, Mr. Washington (1944) - Selby Love Story (1944) - Cornish Fisherman Henry V (1944) - Lieutenant Bardolph (final film role) References External links 1892 births 1944 deaths English male film actors English male stage actors People from Burford 20th-century English male actors British military personnel of World War I Military personnel from Oxfordshire