James Harcourt - Turner Classic Movies

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James Harcourt made his mark in the world of entertainment when he worked on the Margaret Lockwood dramatic adaptation "The Stars Look Down" (1939). In 1903, he made his stage debut. In 1931, he made his screen debut as Hobson in Thomas Bentley's "Hobson's Choice."...

Filmography

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Obsession (1949)

Meet Me at Dawn (1947)

Night Train (1940)

The Stars Look Down (1939)

You're The Doctor (1938)

Men Are Not Gods (1937)

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Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) He Played For The Gentlemen

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Only Love Can Lead The Way

Biography

James Harcourt made his mark in the world of entertainment when he worked on the Margaret Lockwood dramatic adaptation "The Stars Look Down" (1939). In 1903, he made his stage debut. In 1931, he made his screen debut as Hobson in Thomas Bentley's "Hobson's Choice."

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Obsession (1949)

Meet Me at Dawn (1947)

Night Train (1940)

The Stars Look Down (1939)

You're The Doctor (1938)

Men Are Not Gods (1937)

Life Events

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Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) He Played For The Gentlemen Two new characters, about an hour into the picture, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as Brits Charters and Caldicott are catching the Berlin to Munich train when they’re surprised to see Rex Harrison, as undercover agent Randall, posing as a Nazi, sneaking Margaret Lockwood and her father out of Germany, watched by suspicious Paul Henreid, with a not-too obscure cricket reference, in Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Only Love Can Lead The Way In his first scene, Rex Harrison poses as singer Gus, practicing tradecraft as he initially rebuffs Czech refugee Anna (Margaret Lockwood), who got mysterious instructions to come to coastal Brightbourne (modeled on Brighton), in search of her exiled scientist father, not aware the Nazis are watching her (!), in Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) We Shall Be Invaded After a prologue on various Nazi invasions of 1939, with Hitler in newsreels, then indirectly portrayed, we meet James Harcourt as Czech scientist Bomasch, with chiefs of his military industry employer, who winds up calling his daughter, top-billed Margaret Lockwood, in Alexander Korda and Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

Night Train To Munich (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Nature Endowed Me With A Gift Rex Harrison, whom we now know to be a British intelligence man posing as a seaside singer, intercepts a letter sent by Anna (Margaret Lockwood), testy daughter of the Czech fugitive scientist he’s minding, which we also know was addressed to a Nazi agent who’s got people watching her Carol Reed’s Night Train To Munich, 1940.

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