A.J. Cronin

A.J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin, MB, ChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr. Finlay character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the popular BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook.

  • Title: A.J. Cronin
  • Popularity: 2.241
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1896-07-19
  • Place of Birth: Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
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A.J. Cronin Movies

  • 1940
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    The Stars Look Down

    The Stars Look Down

    6.432 1940 HD

    Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

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  • 1940
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    The Stars Look Down

    The Stars Look Down

    6.432 1940 HD

    Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

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  • 1944
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    The Keys of the Kingdom

    The Keys of the Kingdom

    7 1944 HD

    A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a...

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  • 1942
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    Hatter's Castle

    Hatter's Castle

    6.3 1942 HD

    The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle,...

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  • 1946
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    The Green Years

    The Green Years

    6.385 1946 HD

    An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather...

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  • 1940
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    Vigil in the Night

    Vigil in the Night

    6 1940 HD

    A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

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  • 1941
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    Shining Victory

    Shining Victory

    5.9 1941 HD

    In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab...

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  • 1956
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    The Spanish Gardener

    The Spanish Gardener

    6.2 1956 HD

    Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas....

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  • 1938
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    The Citadel

    The Citadel

    6.3 1938 HD

    Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...

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  • 1934
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    Once to Every Woman

    Once to Every Woman

    5.833 1934 HD

    An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

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  • 1934
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    Grand Canary

    Grand Canary

    4.1 1934 HD

    Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.

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  • 1960
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    The Citadel

    The Citadel

    1 1960 HD

    The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine....

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  • 1956
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    Ich suche Dich

    Ich suche Dich

    1 1956 HD

    Dr. Paul Venner, a headstrong young doctor, is working on the development of a serum to renew destroyed brain cells. He is watched with skepticism by...

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  • 1979
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    Faraway Tomorrow

    Faraway Tomorrow

    2 1979 HD

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  • 1955
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    Sabar Uparey

    Sabar Uparey

    1 1955 HD

    Shankar was a young lawyer in pursuit of making it big in the professional world. However, his world is turned upside down when he comes to know that...

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  • 1959
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    Web of Evidence

    Web of Evidence

    4.8 1959 HD

    A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Mini series about a Northumberland mining village - the daily lives of the inhabitants and the tragedies and disasters that befell them.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Following his service in World War II, Doctor Finlay returns to the practice at Arden House. This is at a time when the National Health Service is...

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