John Harold Singer was an English actor. He began as a child actor, popular in the 1930s, and known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In later years he continued to act in numerous films, including In Which We Serve and The Cruel Sea. He died on 7 July 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. His son, Steven Singer, became a TV scriptwriter.
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John Singer Biography / Wiki
Name | John Singer |
Also Know | Johnny Singer |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK |
Date of Birth | 1923-12-04 |
Age(as in 2022) | 63 |
Deathday | 1987-07-07 |
John Singer Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tobias Rag | 1936-03-01 | It is England in the 1830s. London’s dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet St… |
Something Always Happens | Billy | 1934-12-10 | Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol station… |
Street Song | Billy | 1935-09-16 | Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer…. |
Four Men in Prison | Edward Hope | 1950-01-02 | Part of BFI collection “Police and Thieves.”… |
Front Line Kids | Ginger Smith | 1942-06-29 | Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating…. |
Somewhere in Camp | Pvt. Jack Trevor | 1942-02-01 | Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer. All efforts fail – until a hero is revealed and the sergeant masquera… |
Fly Away Peter | Ted Hapgood | 1948-10-07 | Director Charles Saunders’ low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley’s play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different w… |
Darts Are Trumps | Jimmy | 1938-03-01 | Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristoc… |
Emil and the Detectives | Thesday | 1935-02-05 | Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the fi… |
It’s Never Too Late to Mend | Matthew Josephs | 1937-03-01 | An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned…. |
Don’t Get Me Wrong | Boy | 1937-03-01 | Don’t Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It w… |
Dandy Dick | Freddie | 1935-03-01 | The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-… |
My Heart Is Calling | Page Boy | 1935-01-01 | Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo… |
King of the Ritz | Pageboy | 1933-03-01 | While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest…. |
Against the Tide | 1937-09-20 | A Cornish fishing village is struck by tragedy…. | |
The Black Hand Gang | Boy | 1930-01-01 | Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain…. |
Love on the Spot | Pageboy | 1932-07-06 | Two criminals are reformed when they meet and fall in love…. |
Come Back Peter | Ted Hapgood | 1952-10-31 | There’s pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay…. |
Looking on the Bright Side | Boy (uncredited) | 1932-03-14 | Gracie Fields’ second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period…. |
My Old Dutch | Jim as a child | 1934-10-01 | Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama – wi… |
Jack’s the Boy | Boy | 1932-06-11 | With a title like Jack’s the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star … |
The Pride of the Force | Boy | 1933-01-01 | This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once tou… |
Sleeping Car | Page Boy | 1933-06-06 | A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn’t know is that she marrie… |
Facing The Music | Boy | 1933-01-01 | A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece la… |
Waltzes from Vienna | Boy (uncredited) | 1934-03-15 | The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger…. |
The Amateur Gentleman | Boy (uncredited) | 1936-04-26 | A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English roya… |
High Treason | Boy | 1929-03-25 | The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high… |
The Cruel Sea | Gray | 1953-02-24 | At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th… |
Tudor Rose | Boy | 1936-09-01 | The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed…. |
In Which We Serve | Moran | 1942-09-17 | The story of the HMS Torrin, from it’s construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only comma… |
Q Planes | Newspaper Boy | 1939-02-21 | An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes…. |
Forbidden Cargo | Seaman | 1954-05-04 | Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team…. |
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