6 Best Barlowe Borland Movies

By Vlad Zakh · September 4, 2026

Drama intense

Barlowe Borland was a dependable Scottish-born Hollywood character actor of the 1930s and 40s, often cast as a stern authority figure or courtroom official. Tom Brown’s School Days has a new boy surviving a tyrannical older student, The Earl of Chicago makes a gangster a British earl, We Are Not Alone leads a gentle doctor to a devastating accusation, and A Man to Remember celebrates a selfless small-town doctor. The Road to Glory and The Witness Chair round out the list.

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The Earl of Chicago (1940)

TMDB ★ 6.2

Barlowe Borland appears in this comedy about an American gangster who unexpectedly inherits a British earldom and struggles to adapt to aristocratic life.

Directed by Richard Thorpe & Victor Saville · 1h 27m

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Tom Brown's School Days (1940)

TMDB ★ 6.1

Barlowe Borland appears in this adaptation about a new student at an English boarding school who must survive the bullying of an older, tyrannical classmate.

Directed by Robert Stevenson · 1h 26m

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus, Pure Flix · Rent or buy: Amazon Video

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We Are Not Alone (1939)

TMDB ★ 6.7

Barlowe Borland is in this drama about a gentle English doctor whose quiet affair during the First World War leads to a devastating accusation of murder.

Directed by Edmund Goulding · 1h 52m

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A Man to Remember (1938)

TMDB ★ 6.7

Barlowe Borland features in this drama about a small-town doctor whose selfless devotion to his patients is fondly remembered by the community.

Directed by Garson Kanin · 1h 19m · Rated NR

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The Road to Glory (1936)

TMDB ★ 6.5

Barlowe Borland appears in this Howard Hawks war drama about a French army captain and his ageing father, both soldiers, who face the brutal realities of trench warfare together.

Directed by Howard Hawks · 1h 43m · Rated NR

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The Witness Chair (1936)

TMDB ★ 6.1

Barlowe Borland features in this courtroom drama where a woman's testimony on the witness stand threatens to unravel a carefully constructed murder cover-up.

Directed by George Nichols Jr. · 1h 04m · Rated NR

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Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

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