Norman MacOwan

Norman MacOwan

Norman MacOwan was a British actor and writer. He started his career in the theater in 1903, and both wrote and performed a number of plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Plays Norman MacOwan wrote included: The Blue Lagoon (1921), The Infinite Shoeblack (1930), and Glorious Morning (1938). MacOwan appeared in a number of movies including: BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Tread Softly Stranger (1958), Kidnapped (1960), and The City of the Dead (1960). He was married to Violet [Ellen] Stephenson (actress). He died on December 31, 1961 in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

  • Title: Norman MacOwan
  • Popularity: 1.608
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1877-01-02
  • Place of Birth: St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  • Also Known As: Norman Macowan
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Norman MacOwan Movies

  • 1958
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    Tread Softly Stranger
    Tread Softly Stranger

    7.5 1958 HD

    Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

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  • 1960
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    Kidnapped
    Kidnapped

    6.5 1960 HD

    Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder,...

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  • 1951
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    Valley of the Eagles
    Valley of the Eagles

    6 1951 HD

    A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and...

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  • 1951
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    The Dark Light
    The Dark Light

    3.5 1951 HD

    The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run...

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  • 1957
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    Action of the Tiger
    Action of the Tiger

    4.8 1957 HD

    A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.

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  • 1950
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    Help Yourself
    Help Yourself

    1 1950 HD

    Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

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  • 1952
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    Castle in the Air
    Castle in the Air

    6.2 1952 HD

    The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction...

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  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days
    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.6 1956 HD

    Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

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  • 1956
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    X the Unknown
    X the Unknown

    6.1 1956 HD

    Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An...

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  • 1949
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    Whisky Galore!
    Whisky Galore!

    6.8 1949 HD

    Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier,...

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  • 1955
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    Where There's a Will
    Where There's a Will

    6.4 1955 HD

    A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face...

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  • 1955
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    Footsteps in the Fog
    Footsteps in the Fog

    7 1955 HD

    A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

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  • 1958
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    Heart of a Child
    Heart of a Child

    6.5 1958 HD

    A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

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  • 1960
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    The City of the Dead
    The City of the Dead

    6.4 1960 HD

    A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling...

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  • 1953
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    Laxdale Hall
    Laxdale Hall

    6 1953 HD

    A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their...

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  • 1960
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    The Battle of the Sexes
    The Battle of the Sexes

    6.8 1960 HD

    Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she...

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  • 1959
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    The Boy and the Bridge
    The Boy and the Bridge

    5 1959 HD

    A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on...

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  • 1958
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    The Adventures of William Tell
    The Adventures of William Tell

    6.3 1958 HD

    The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC...

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