Hillary Brooke
Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson) was an American screen and television actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1565 |
| Birthday | 1914-09-08 |
| Place of Birth | Astoria, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Hillary Brook, Hilary Brooke, Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson, Beatrice Schute, Μπεατρίς Σοφία Ματίλντα Πέτερσον, Беатрис София Матильда Петерсон, |
1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much
7.428/1601
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of internati...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1949
Africa Screams
5.765/68
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead D...
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Africa Screams
1953
Invaders from Mars
5.925/212
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
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Invaders from Mars
1946
Strange Impersonation
6.071/21
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her a...
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Strange Impersonation
1944
Ministry of Fear
6.9/205
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rej...
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Ministry of Fear
1943
Jane Eyre
6.9/157
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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Jane Eyre
1946
Big Town
5.5/6
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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Big Town
1954
The House Across the Lake
5.534/29
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older ma...
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The House Across the Lake
1946
The Strange Woman
6.198/43
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
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The Strange Woman
1945
The Woman in Green
6.525/159
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes...
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The Woman in Green
1946
Road to Utopia
6.735/49
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her fath...
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Road to Utopia
1950
Unmasked
4.958/12
The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her wh...
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Unmasked
1945
The Enchanted Cottage
7.4/31
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a...
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The Enchanted Cottage
1950
The Admiral Was a Lady
6.357/7
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
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The Admiral Was a Lady
1951
Lost Continent
3.65/40
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down...
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Lost Continent
1952
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
6.047/32
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpk...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1941
Willie and the Mouse
10/1
John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" purports to show how the behavior of mice can be studied in relation to the interaction of school children.
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Willie and the Mouse
1943
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
6.884/99
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master dete...
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1945
The Crime Doctor's Courage
6/5
A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
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The Crime Doctor's Courage
1953
The Maze
5.6/41
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Ger...
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The Maze
1952
Confidence Girl
5.95/10
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her gr...
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Confidence Girl
1942
Counter-Espionage
6.688/8
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
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Counter-Espionage
1953
Never Wave at a WAC
5/15
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army in an effort to see more of her colonel boyfriend. She soon encounters many difficulties with the lifest...
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Never Wave at a WAC
1949
Bodyhold
4.333/3
A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter.
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Bodyhold
1950
Vendetta
6.5/1
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
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Vendetta
1951
Insurance Investigator
5.667/3
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to...
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Insurance Investigator
1947
I Cover Big Town
8/2
One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned...
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I Cover Big Town
1947
Big Town After Dark
5.5/10
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Big Town After Dark
1948
Big Town Scandal
5.286/7
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Big Town Scandal
1946
Up Goes Maisie
6.75/4
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Up Goes Maisie
1949
Alimony
5.8/10
A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.
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Alimony
1944
Standing Room Only
5.667/3
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms....
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Standing Room Only
1941
Married Bachelor
6.4/4
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentri...
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Married Bachelor
1955
Bengazi
4.2/6
An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situatio...
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Bengazi
1953
The Lady Wants Mink
8/2
A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.
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The Lady Wants Mink
1941
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
6.5/2
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
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The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
1950
Lucky Losers
6.583/6
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss'...
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Lucky Losers
1941
Two-Faced Woman
6.4/28
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Two-Faced Woman
1937
New Faces of 1937
5.333/3
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
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New Faces of 1937
1942
Wake Island
5.929/28
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island b...
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Wake Island
1957
Spoilers of the Forest
6/2
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's p...
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Spoilers of the Forest
1939
Eternally Yours
5.9/22
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengt...
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Eternally Yours
1946
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
8/2
An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
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Earl Carroll Sketchbook
1953
Mexican Manhunt
6.167/3
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexic...
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Mexican Manhunt
1948
The Fuller Brush Man
6.429/7
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward...
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The Fuller Brush Man
1940
The Philadelphia Story
7.5/1022
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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The Philadelphia Story
1940
New Moon
6.9/8
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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New Moon
1940
Florian
4.5/2
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Florian
1940
Two Girls on Broadway
7/6
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...
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Two Girls on Broadway
1941
Maisie Was a Lady
7/5
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...
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Maisie Was a Lady
1941
The Lone Rider Rides On
9/0
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he was only a child...
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The Lone Rider Rides On
1951
Skipalong Rosenbloom
7/1
Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy B...
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Skipalong Rosenbloom
1950
Beauty on Parade
9/1
Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to...
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Beauty on Parade
1946
Strange Journey
8/2
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patt...
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Strange Journey
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
6.522/115
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terr...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.5/195
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2011
The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
8/1
Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” co...
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The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
1946
The Gentleman Misbehaves
8/1
After his first attempt to obtain cash fails, a Broadway producer turns to a gambler to raise money for his show.
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The Gentleman Misbehaves
1954
Dragon's Gold
8/1
Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is dispatched to China to investigate the disappearance of 7...
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Dragon's Gold
1942
Ship Ahoy
6.3/10
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that...
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Ship Ahoy
1948
Let's Live Again
5.5/4
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
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Let's Live Again
1946
Monsieur Beaucaire
5.727/11
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princes...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
1994
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
8.5/2
Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips from their movies and TV shows, plus home movies, n...
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