John Slater
John Slater (22 August 1916 – 9 January 1975) was an English character actor who usually portrayed lugubrious, amiable cockney types. He was a familiar face in British films of the 1940s and appeared in many classic films of the period, including The Day Will Dawn (1942, US title The Avengers), Went the Day Well? (1942), We Dive at Dawn (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), The Seventh Veil (1945), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). In later years, Slater moved into television, most notably he starred as Det. Sgt. Stone in Z-Cars from 1967 to 1974 where his episode count was beaten only by that of James Ellis. He died on 9 January 1975 from a heart attack, aged 58.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9374 |
| Birthday | 1916-08-22 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1949
Passport to Pimlico
6.9/102
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part o...
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Passport to Pimlico
1953
The Flanagan Boy
6.05/20
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fight...
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The Flanagan Boy
1942
Went the Day Well?
7.146/79
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in prepara...
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Went the Day Well?
1949
Mining Review 2nd Year No. 10
0/0
The 22nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, unusually featuring a single article: 'Replanning a Coalfield'.
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Mining Review 2nd Year No. 10
1954
Mining Review 7th Year No. 8
0/0
The 80th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'Anthracite Field', 'Time Out', 'Bowhill On Top' and 'Ideas Man'.
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Mining Review 7th Year No. 8
1957
Mining Review 10th Year No. 8
0/0
The 118th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the article 'Hungarians in Britain', 'Double Dutch', 'Pulsed Infusion' and 'Songs...
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Mining Review 10th Year No. 8
1948
Against the Wind
6.4/15
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to res...
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Against the Wind
1953
Operation Malaya
0/0
Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency
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Operation Malaya
1954
The Million Pound Note
7/84
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...
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The Million Pound Note
1947
It Always Rains on Sunday
6.615/74
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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It Always Rains on Sunday
1948
Escape
5.676/17
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
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Escape
1948
Noose
5.265/17
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion...
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Noose
1953
The Long Memory
6.7/20
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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The Long Memory
1958
Violent Playground
7.174/23
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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Violent Playground
1942
Uncensored
9/1
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
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Uncensored
1944
For Those in Peril
6.111/9
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking the...
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For Those in Peril
1952
The Promise
3.7/3
A much loved Prison Missioner has died. His replacement struggles to live up to his predecessor's saintly reputation until he receives inspiration fro...
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The Promise
1953
Strange Stories
0/0
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on telev...
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Strange Stories
1963
A Place to Go
6.4/9
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-cl...
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A Place to Go
1950
Prelude to Fame
6.8/3
While holidaying in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician, becomes friendly with young Guido, and...
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Prelude to Fame
1944
A Canterbury Tale
6.924/132
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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A Canterbury Tale
1943
Undercover
6.063/8
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...
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Undercover
1952
The Ringer
6.1/8
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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The Ringer
1945
Murder in Reverse
6.7/6
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an ol...
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Murder in Reverse
1952
The Faithful City
10/1
The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphan...
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The Faithful City
1954
John Wesley
4.5/2
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film fol...
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John Wesley
1956
Johnny, You're Wanted
7/2
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, b...
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Johnny, You're Wanted
1963
Mining Review 16th Year No. 6
0/0
The 186th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Features the article 'A story from South Wales', about the closure of unproductive pits and...
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Mining Review 16th Year No. 6
1961
Nothing Barred
7/3
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and...
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Nothing Barred
1955
Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?
0/0
The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."
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Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?
1950
Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5
0/0
Another edition of the industry cinemagazine, featuring three film articles. Pipeline to Pimlico: water heating from Battersea Power Station to local...
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Mining Review 3rd Year No. 5
1961
Three on a Spree
6.4/5
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...
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Three on a Spree
1957
Thark
0/0
As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush r...
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Thark
1951
The Third Visitor
6.2/8
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corp...
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The Third Visitor
1941
Shunter Black's Night Off
7/1
Short war time film about the daily activities of Shunter Trains in British Railway Yards and their importance and contribution to the war effort.
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Shunter Black's Night Off
1942
They Flew Alone
6.75/4
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights aro...
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They Flew Alone
1954
Star of India
4.375/8
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back t...
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Star of India
1941
The Common Touch
6.75/4
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want...
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The Common Touch
1941
Love on the Dole
5.9/16
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally c...
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Love on the Dole
1941
"Pimpernel" Smith
7.109/32
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...
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"Pimpernel" Smith
1943
Deadlock
5.5/4
A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.
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Deadlock
1942
Unpublished Story
6.5/7
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Unpublished Story
1959
Hot Summer Night
9/1
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfrie...
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Hot Summer Night
1943
Millions Like Us
5.6/15
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a fa...
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Millions Like Us
1945
I Live in Grosvenor Square
7.333/9
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean J...
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
1943
The New Lot
8/1
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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The New Lot
1945
The Seventh Veil
6.617/47
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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The Seventh Veil
1945
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
0/0
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to ass...
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Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
1945
Read All About It
4.6/9
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of news...
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Read All About It
1960
The Night We Got the Bird
6.3/3
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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The Night We Got the Bird
1942
Our Film
0/0
A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value of...
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Our Film
1942
The Young Mr. Pitt
6.2/9
In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls fo...
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The Young Mr. Pitt
1966
The Yellow Hat
8/1
When an exclusive designer hat blows off the head of the milliner's assistant who borrowed it, the quest to recover it leads her to find love.
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The Yellow Hat
1957
The Devil's Pass
6/2
Bill Buckle has had a dream--he wants to buy back the family fishing boat, the Cascade, which the family had to sell years ago to pay for his father's...
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The Devil's Pass
1963
Giants of Steam
0/0
The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson an...
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Giants of Steam
1942
Those Kids from Town
10/1
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Those Kids from Town
1943
We Dive at Dawn
6.317/30
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tige...
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We Dive at Dawn
1952
Night Call
5/1
Demonstrating the work of the British police force, based on actual incidents from the files of Brighton Borough Police, and illustrated through a cas...
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Night Call
1953
Dollars for Sale
3/2
Account of how Anglo-American police co-operation succeeds in tracking down forgers of $100 bills.
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Dollars for Sale
1953
Puzzle Corner Number Twelve
0/0
Ronnie Waldman's quiz for British cinema audiences.
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Puzzle Corner Number Twelve
1943
Meeting the U-Boat Menace
0/0
Instructional film to encourage seamen to join the Submarine Detection Service, using actors in main roles, but genuine training situations.
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