John Vosper

John Vosper

Born: July 3, 1894
Died: April 6, 1954
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for John Vosper...

Edge of Hell
Title: Edge of Hell
Character: Charles Hawkins
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In this heart-warming drama, a beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle to eke out a living upon the cruel streets. He is hired to perform at a rich kid's birthday party. There, the beggar is offered $500 for his beloved dog. He refuses and again hits the streets. Soon he becomes so impoverished that he can no longer provide food for his four-legged friend; he sells him for $20. The beggar is then beaten and robbed. Later he learns that Flip died. The man soon follows the dog to heaven where they begin performing for God.
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The Magnetic Monster
Title: The Magnetic Monster
Character: Capt. Dyer
Released: February 18, 1953
Type: Movie
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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Breakdown
Title: Breakdown
Character: Judge Sam Hannum
Released: July 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
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Black Hills Ambush
Title: Black Hills Ambush
Character: Gaines
Released: May 20, 1952
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed. Learning the gang only goes for incoming shipments, he figures they are repacking the loot and having Nugget ship it out. So he hijacks the next outgoing shipment finding a box labeled tools contains gold bars. Then posing as an outlaw he makes a deal with the gang hoping to round them up. But the boss learns he is a Marshal and he is made a prisoner.
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Tales of Robin Hood
Title: Tales of Robin Hood
Character: The Earl of Chester
Released: December 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Title: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Character: Maj. Walker
Released: October 16, 1951
Type: Movie
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Man in Montage
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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High Conquest
Title: High Conquest
Character: Mr. Stefani
Released: June 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Captain
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Character: Mr. Hamilton
Released: July 1, 1946
Type: Movie
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
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Dark Shadows
Title: Dark Shadows
Character: Dr. Elton Parkson (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Artist (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Flight for Freedom
Title: Flight for Freedom
Character: Staff Operator (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
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Dead Man's Gulch
Title: Dead Man's Gulch
Character: Hobart Patterson
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
When the Pony Express disbands, riders Tennessee and Johnny head for Adobe Wells. Tennessee becomes the Deputy Marshal while Johnny joins an outlaw gang. It's not long before Tennessee catches Johny attempting murder. As Johhnny is his best friend, he gives him another chance. But to no avail as Johnny murders a man and this time Tennessee must do his duty.
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Miss V from Moscow
Title: Miss V from Moscow
Character: Colonel Wolfgang Heinrich (as John Wosper)
Released: November 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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Undercover Man
Title: Undercover Man
Character: Ranger Ed Carson
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: German Sergeant
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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Taking the Count
Title: Taking the Count
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
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Red Haired Alibi
Title: Red Haired Alibi
Character: Morgan
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Hearts of Humanity
Title: Hearts of Humanity
Character: Dave Haller
Released: August 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
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Western Limited
Title: Western Limited
Character: Bracy
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Ship's Officer Weldon (as John Vosburgh)
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
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Princess Virtue
Title: Princess Virtue
Character: Undetermined Role (as Jack Vosburgh)
Released: November 12, 1917
Type: Movie
The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society.
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The Lady in the Library
Title: The Lady in the Library
Character: T. Huntington Forbes
Released: October 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Mildred Vandeburg, an heiress who devotes her time to a hospital that she has built in the slums, breaks her engagement to her fiancé, T. Huntington Forbes, because Forbes is only interested in horses and sports. Meeda Jones, a nurse employed in Mildred's hospital, is married to a criminal named Spike, who steals some jewels and convinces his brother Dan to fence them for him. When Dan is killed as the police try to arrest him, his wife dies of shock, leaving their baby girl homeless. To help the baby, Mildred decides to take her to Forbes's home, where she informs her former fiancé that there is a "lady in the library" waiting for him.
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A Gamble in Souls
Title: A Gamble in Souls
Released: December 9, 1916
Type: Movie
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Honor Thy Name
Title: Honor Thy Name
Released: August 6, 1916
Type: Movie
The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.