• The Young Mr. Pitt is a 1942 British biographical film of the life of William Pitt the Younger and in particular his struggle against revolutionary France...
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    William Pitt is depicted in several films and television programs. Robert Donat portrays Pitt in the 1942 biopic The Young Mr. Pitt, which chronicles the historical...
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  • Carol Reed (category Military personnel from the London Borough of Wandsworth)
    (1941), again with Michael Redgrave; and The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), with Robert Donat in the title role, set during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...
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    Kathleen Byron (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Theatre School. She had her first speaking film role in Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), in which she had two lines as a maid opposite Robert Donat...
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  • John Mills (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    another good support role in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) playing William Wilberforce opposite Robert Donat. He was invalided out of the army in 1942. Mills's climb...
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  • Frederick Valk (category Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom)
    include The Young Mr. Pitt and Thunder Rock (both 1942); Dead of Night (1945); A Matter of Life and Death (1946); Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947); The Magic Box...
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  • Herbert Lom (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    range of casting, including as Napoleon Bonaparte in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), and again in the King Vidor version of War and Peace (1956). He secured...
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    Robert Donat (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Buxton Festival, including a part in The Good-Natur’d Man. He had the title role in the film The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) for 20th Century Fox and played...
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    Phyllis Calvert (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    To It (1941) she had the co-lead in Uncensored (1942), a war movie with Eric Portman. Reed used her again in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), playing Eleanor...
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    William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy...
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    Michael Pitt (born April 10, 1981) is an American actor, model, and musician. In film, he has appeared in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Bully (2001)...
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    Edith Cavell (1939) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Busman's Honeymoon (1940) Contraband (1940) 49th Parallel (1941) The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Caesar and Cleopatra...
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  • Jack Watling (category Actors from the London Borough of Waltham Forest)
    (1938) (uncredited) The Day Will Dawn (1942) – Lieutenant (uncredited) Flying Fortress (1942) – Rear Gunner (uncredited) The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) – Atkinson...
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  • Kokoda Front Line! (Australia) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 21 September The Young Mr. Pitt (GB) 25 September Desperate Journey October 1942...
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    marry the eldest (unmarried) daughter of the King of Prussia, while his second (unmarried) daughter would marry the eldest son of the Prussian king, the King...
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    Stubbs Hi Gang! (1941) as Man The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) as Gentleman Jackson I'll Walk Beside You (1943) as Tom Booth The Dummy Talks (1943) (uncredited)...
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  • (uncredited) Asking for Trouble (1942) – Ada The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) – Servant at Lord Auckland's (uncredited) It's in the Bag (1944) – Commandant W.T.C. (uncredited)...
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    and pretty girl. The young princess was christened on 6 December 1768, by Frederick Cornwallis, The Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Great Council Chamber...
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    1793; in response to the crisis, George allowed Pitt to increase taxes, raise armies, and suspend the right of habeas corpus. Pitt prosecuted British radicals...
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  • Théophile The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) - Minor Role (uncredited) Went the Day Well? (1942) - Sergeant Those Kids from Town (1942) - Minor Role (uncredited) The Harvest...
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  • Henry Mowbray in The Pursuit of Happiness (1934) Olaf Hytten in The Bill of Rights (1939, Short) Raymond Lovell in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Frederick...
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  • Parliament under the Tory Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the reform-minded Leader of the Opposition Charles James Fox. At first, the King's behaviour...
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  • productions such as The Stars Look Down (1940), The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), For You Alone (1945), The Wicked Lady (1945), Frieda (1947) and The Winslow Boy (1948)...
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    She was examined in the chamber of the Board of Green Cloth by Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer William Pitt the Younger, Home Secretary...
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  • such films as The Iron Duke (1934), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), Love on the Dole (1941), and The Young Mr. Pitt (1942). Behind...
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  • The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 American historical drama film directed by Carol Reed and starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison...
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    Robert Morley (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Coutare of Bivary The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) as Charles James Fox I Live in Grosvenor Square (aka A Yank in London) (1945), as Duke of Exmoor The Ghosts of Berkeley...
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  • the Carol Reed film The Young Mr. Pitt (1942). At the outbreak of the Second World War Haggard joined the British Army, serving as a captain in the Intelligence...
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    (1942), The Big Blockade (1942), The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1941) with Will Hay, Unpublished Story (1942), Sabotage at Sea (1942), The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)...
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  • Confidential Lady (1940) - Amy Boswell Quiet Wedding (1941) - Aunt Florence The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) - Mrs. Sparry Dear Octopus (1943) - Vicar's Wife Two Girls...
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