--- name: "John Longden" canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-longden" fi1m_id: "john-longden" imdb_id: "nm0519274" tmdb_id: 7383 wikidata_id: "Q2748881" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 November 1900" died: "26 May 1971" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T00:23:11.340463+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # John Longden ## Identity John Longden - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-longden - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** john-longden - **IMDb ID:** nm0519274 - **TMDB ID:** 7383 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2748881 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Longden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748881, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7383 Actor. Born 11 November 1900 in West Indies. Died 26 May 1971. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 November 1900, West Indies - **Died:** 26 May 1971 - **Also known as:** John Longdon - **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 other - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 74 (1), 1930s 82 (1), 1940s 92 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Longden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748881, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7383 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Blackmail*](https://film.one/film/blackmail.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography John Longden (also credited as John Longdon) was an English actor. He was born on 11 November 1900 in the West Indies and died on 26 May 1971 in London. Longden appeared in more than 80 films between 1926 and 1964. He played Detective Frank Webber in Alfred Hitchcock's *Blackmail* (1929) and had roles in four other Hitchcock films: *Juno and the Paycock* (1930), *The Skin Game* (1931), *Young and Innocent* (1937) and *Jamaica Inn* (1939). Earlier he had worked as a mining engineer before entering repertory theatre and silent films. He was married to the actress Jean Jay. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, the.hitchcock.zone.* ## On Fi1m (3) ### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these - *Blackmail* (1929), Fi1m 74, as Detective Frank Webber — [page](https://film.one/film/blackmail.md) ### Also credited (2) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *A Matter of Life and Death* (1946), Fi1m 92, as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/a-matter-of-life-and-death.md) - *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), Fi1m 82, as Raven (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md) ## Complete filmography (85) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Frozen Alive* (1964), as Prof. Hubbard - *The Man Who Finally Died* (1963), as Munch - *Espionage* (1963), series, as American Ambassador - *Richard the Lionheart* (1962), series, as Sir Thomas - *So Evil, So Young* (1961), as Mr. Turner - *An Honourable Murder* (1960), as Julian Caesar - *Man from Interpol* (1960), series, as Mercer, Superintendent Mercer - *A Woman's Temptation* (1959), as Inspector Syms - *Interpol Calling* (1959), series, as Lord Ruskington - *Broad Waterways* (1959), Actor - *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1958), as Egeus - *The Adventures of William Tell* (1958), series, Actor - *Innocent Sinners* (1958), as Admiral - *Ordeal by Fire* (1957), as De La Fayette - *Three Sundays to Live* (1957), as Warder - *Quatermass 2* (1957), as Chief Inspector Lomax - *The Count of Monte Cristo* (1956), series, Actor - *Alias John Preston* (1955), as Richard Sandford - *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1955), series, as The Abbot, Archbishop, Ned, Count Leger, Sir Gyles of Wren, Lord Blackstone, Chambertin, Walter Fitzurse, Wulfric, Tailor, Sir Walter De Lys, Hodges - *The Ship That Died of Shame* (1955), as Detective - *Final Column* (1955), Actor - *Mark Saber* (1954), series, as Simon Graves, Albert Lake - *Meet Mr. Callaghan* (1954), as Jeremy Meraulton - *Dangerous Cargo* (1954), as Worthington - *The Wallet* (1952), as Man With Pipe - *The Magic Box* (1952), as Speaker in Connaught Rooms - *Black Widow* (1951), as Mr. Kemp - *The Dark Light* (1951), as Stephen - *Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared* (1951), as Sherlock Holmes - *Pool of London* (1951), as DI Williams - *The Elusive Pimpernel* (1950), as The Abbot - *The Lady Craved Excitement* (1950), as Inspector James - *Bonnie Prince Charlie* (1948), as Colonel O'Sullivan - *Anna Karenina* (1948), as Gen. Serpuhousky - *The Last Load* (1948), Actor - *The Ghosts of Berkeley Square* (1947), as Mortimer Digby - *The Adventures of Dusty Bates* (1947), as Tod Jenkins - *A Matter of Life and Death* (1946), as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/a-matter-of-life-and-death.md) - *The Silver Fleet* (1943), as Jost Meertens - *Death by Design* (1943), as Inspector Slade - *Unpublished Story* (1942), as Metcalf - *One of Our Aircraft Is Missing* (1942), as Ground Officer (uncredited) - *Rose of Tralee* (1942), as Paddy O'Brien - *Tower of Terror* (1941), as Commander - *Old Mother Riley's Circus* (1941), as Bill - *The Common Touch* (1941), as Stuart Gordon - *Barging Along* (1941), as Narrator - *Contraband* (1940), as Passport officer - *The Lion Has Wings* (1939), as Unnamed Character - *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), as Raven (uncredited) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md) - *Jamaica Inn* (1939), as Captain Johnson (uncredited) - *Q Planes* (1939), as John Peters · a Pilot - *The Gaunt Stranger* (1938), as Inspector Bliss - *Bad Boy* (1938), as Inspector Thompson - *For Dealers Only* (1937), Actor - *Jennifer Hale* (1937), as Police Inspector Merton - *It Isn't Done* (1937), as Peter Ashton - *Young and Innocent* (1937), as Det. Insp. Kent - *Thoroughbred* (1936), as Bill Peel - *The Silence of Dean Maitland* (1934), as Dean Maitland - *Born Lucky* (1933), as Frank Dale - *Murder on the Second Floor* (1932), as Hugh Bromilow - *Come Into My Parlour* (1932), Director, Writer - *Rynox* (1931), as Anthony Xavier 'Tony' Benedik - *The Wickham Mystery* (1931), as Harry Crawford - *Hindle Wakes* (1931), as Boyfriend - *Two Crowded Hours* (1931), as Harry Fielding - *The Ringer* (1931), as Inspector Wembury - *The Skin Game* (1931), as Charles Hornblower - *Children of Chance* (1930), as Jeffrey - *Two Worlds* (1930), as Lt. Stanislaus von Zaminsky - *Juno and the Paycock* (1930), as Charles Bentham - *The Flame of Love* (1930), as Lieutenant Boris Boriskoff - *Atlantic* (1929), as Lanchester - *Blackmail* (1929), as Detective Frank Webber — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/blackmail.md) - *Piccadilly* (1929), as Man from China (uncredited) - *The Last Post* (1929), as David / Martin - *You Know What Sailors Are* (1928), Actor - *Palais De Danse* (1928), as No. 1 · Writer - *Mademoiselle Parley Voo* (1928), as Le Beau - Illusionist · Writer - *The Flight Commander* (1928), as Ivan - *Quinneys* (1927), as Joseph Quinney · Scenario Writer - *The Arcadians* (1927), as Jack Meadows - *The Glad Eye* (1927), as Floquet - *The House of Marney* (1927), Actor ## Gallery - ![Portrait of John Longden (1931)](https://film.one/media/person/386302/gallery-b199b6f3fa5a.jpg) Portrait of John Longden (1931) — Uncredited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/John_Longden_-_The_Picture_Show_Annual%2C_1931.jpg/1280px-John_Longden_-_The_Picture_Show_Annual%2C_1931.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![John Longden](https://film.one/media/person/386302/gallery-5b380452f781.jpg) John Longden — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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