Sighted: Ah There You Are!

[Dave W]

Much obliged to philly for saving me having to watch another Norman Wisdom film!

And doubly brave for sitting through the Russian dubbed version! (If you've never experienced these, the Russian idea of dubbing is to have one man read the dialogue in a monotone over the original soundtrack )

I tired watching Dry Rot a few years ago, but the decay got me at the halfway mark . . .

[Gerald Lovell]

The long arm of the law stretches out:

Peggy Mount is the blurry Sergeant Fire and Jim Morris one of her underlings, who does not appear in the location shots

Underling tar man is Ernie Rice, with chief tar man not in this shot played by Wilfrid Brambell

Look, it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Paddy Smith and the promised Joe Wadham as police drivers

Doing his best to avoid a sticky end is P.C. Frank Maher.

[philly]

Gerald i know you covered 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' recently but it seems to have disappeared between the two sites, i'll just summarise the veterans and add some notes plus UM/F's and recent discoveries.

Classics - Maurice Bush, Joe Phelps, Fred Machon, Otto Friese, Lola Morice, Robert Vossler, John Wilder, Bunny Seaman, Gertrude Kaye, Harry Van Engel, Eddie Boyce, Del Watson.

Doug Robinson sounds like he is dubbed by Albert Finney.
A triumvirate of Greenslade's here all sat to together, Muriel and her two lookalikes UF1 and UF22.
During the commentary Tom Courteney mentions that director Tony Richardson steps into view to tell him not too smile, although when he viewed the rushes he kept the smile and his own cameo in, it is so obvious when you know but i don't think i would have spotted it otherwise.
Peter Kriss plays a borstal boy, IMDb and BFI name him as Scott although i don't think he is named during the film, Mr Scott is Ranley Schools sports master played by Roy Everson.

Cafe Proprietor - UM82
Police Sergeant - Philip Webb
Police Constable - Dennis Carnell
Man in Race Meeting Crowd - John Preston
Woman in Race Meeting Crowd - Pat Symons

Gerald did you spot Hubert Hill in the crowd in the same set up
as John Preston? i nearly missed him, his profile just creeps into frame on the left, the extras in this shot don't
re-appear again in the film.

[Gerald Lovell]

Great stuff, philly. Although I sighted quite a lot of uncredited cast in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, I didn't see Hubert Hill, nor for that matter Maurice Bush, Otto Friese, Muriel Greenslade, Philip Webb, Dennis Carnell or John Preston. I think it was you who pointed out Pat Symons to me. Needless to say, I didn't know about Tony Richardson's Hitchcock appearance!

Another Hubert Hill appearance coming up soon.

[philly]

Maurice Bush was a cafe customer just in front of Jim Brady, Otto was a pub customer just in front of Lola Morice, i had to double check and freeze frame to confirm Hubert, Maurice and Otto they are easy to miss. John Preston is wearing a hat which hides his identifiable hairline.

[Gerald Lovell]

Persons in the mix, if not in the credits, of Mix Me a Person (1962):

John Lynn is sweeping up as Adam Faith sweeps into prison

Jack Silk is at the wheel of the police squad car when he comes upon an unhappy scene

Jack May you can read all about

Joe Beckett the journalist writes what you can read all about

And Eddie Boyce is heading out as Nigel Davenport and Adam's mum Julie Milton go all about it.

[Gerald Lovell]

In the bowels of the court:

Pat Halpin is one of the officers who accompanies short house to the big house

Nose and chin tell me it's Joe Wadham who's driving Adam there

On arrival, as Prison Officer Johnson (Meredith Edwards) looks on, prison doctor Peter Ellis contemplates Adam's shortcomings

They may be described as the relief for Prison Officer Lumley (Alfred Burke) and Meredith, but I doubt Adam will be relieved to discover John Tatum has arrived to cheer him up. But perhaps Emil Stemmler is going to theatrically pour some wine for him . . . I don't think

At Scotland Yard, Fosters may be consumed however as the Super is Ed(ward) Devereaux, looking particularly plump and dishevelled after a session with Anne Baxter whom P.C. Robert Vossler has just shown out.

[Gerald Lovell]

A couple more screws:

And Colin McKenzie should be careful not to slam the cell door with his nose so close

Hubert Hill has decided to stand well back as prison governor Donald Morley shows Anne the door

At Frostfoods, have-a-go gatekeeper is the unstoppable Edwin Brown

Stopped in his tracks is army truck driver Peter Diamond

And helping to tie things up is Irish rebel Pat Ryan.

[Gerald Lovell]

There may be No Trees in the Street in 1958, but there are certainly quite a few uncredited folk:

Despite the slummy nature of the neighbourhood, Arnold Schulkes still has time to brylcreem his quiff, but look mean with it

Marianne Stone is of course a leading light of the area, but Lola Morice is close behind

Stratford Johns has to do a bit of quiet betting on the side with Stanley Holloway

The belle of Kennedy Street Sylvia Syms wrings outsome friendly words with Arthur Lovegrove as George. But there are no friendly looks at the top window from Herbert Lom (or is it Emil Stemmler? See later . . .)

At Lom's, Jack McNaughton is one of his clerks who disgracefully refers to Sylvia as a judy. Well, there is a bit of punching later on in the film.

[Gerald Lovell]

As Melvyn Hayes tumbles into a life of crime:

Lorry driver Anthony Sagar does his best Popeye impression

Ronald Howard cautions Sylv about her brother's activities as Herbert's stand-in Emil Stemmler heads for employment at the nearest restaurant

Jack May entertains the urchins with his street organ.

[Gerald Lovell]

The coppers congregate:

Lana Morris directs P.C. Victor Platt to blow his whistle as assembled residents Jimmy Charters, Alf Casha, Hilda Green and Gertrude Kaye (too poor to wear a hat, it seems) get ready to pick a pocket or two

More pocket-picking likely as Joan Miller has to be restrained by Ronald, who needs backup from P.C. Robert Vossler

Although the children find the tragic drama all amusing, P.C. Jeff Silk has adopted his stone face

Joan looks like she needs to get stoned as P.C. John Adams arrives to help P.C. Vossler, with Robin Burns a head over everyone else and gentle George Spence trying to comfort her. Little does Joan suspect that the returning Jack May is hidden behind her.

[Gerald Lovell]

Among those able to equal Courageous Mr. Penn (1942), albeit without a credit:

It looks like it's soldier Pat Hagan who's going to find out if the town crier who's been waking him up likes it up him

The King's notorious mistress Lady Castlemaine appears in fact to be character actress Mary Hinton

Wigs and big hats tend to confound identification in historical films and here we have to get round a missing set of falsers too, but I think it's Gordon Begg as a toothless ancient retainer with Maire O'Neill as the cook

Clifford Evans is so courageous as Mr. Penn that he doesn't take his hat off in the presence of ladies, much to the chagrin of deaf old hook nosed Drusilla Wills. Deborah Kerr looks pretty shocked too as well as being just pretty

Another hook nose is under the hat of the London beggar centre picture, but this one is attached to Jack May, who's just done one of those "two places at once" tricks, as in the previous shot he is well behind John Stuart on the horse who has just appeared picture right.

[Gerald Lovell]

Clifford's orations get him in hot water as well as court:

Where the clerk (David Keir) is also concerned about Mr. Penn's headgear

One of the monstrous magistrates of London is Laurence Hanray

With one of his bewigged benchers being W. E. Holloway

Poor old Debs really shouldn't have had that extra portion of steamed pudding and custard. Amy Dalby as Hannah prepares to stand back for blasting

It suits the King's purpose to send the Quakers to find their oats in the New World. The whole idea amuses G. H. Mulcaster as Lord Halifax.

[Gerald Lovell]

So we sail off across the briny:

Where the puny include seaman Dennis, played by Hugh Pryse

When Cliff gets to the promised land, he finds himself in the company of Percy Marmont, Manning Whiley, J. H. Roberts (lots of initials in this one, what with W. E. Holloway and G. H. Mulcaster and also D. J. Williams and O. B. Clarence in the film), David Farrar and Herbert Lomas

The long-haired gentleman from Pontypool is Ben Williams, playing Pearson

When J. H. and Cliff return to England, I think it's small Johnnie Schofield in big hat, big wig and big cloak who has an unpleasant message to pass on that will require Mr. Penn to be very courageous indeed.

[Gerald Lovell]

In The Solitary Child (1957), almost solitary are the uncredited cast:

As the photographer and reporter at the wedding of Philip Friend and Barbara Shelley, it looks like Edwin Fowles, who gets an opportunity to deliver some lines, and Graham Stewart. Edward Judd can be glimpsed in this scene too as another reporter, but he gets a screen credit even though he has far less to say and do than Edwin or Graham. Rubberneck Helen Goss is behind them.
And if Philip Friend ever needed a stand-in or double, Victor Harrington would have suited the bill perfectly.