Etienne Girardot

Etienne Girardot

Born: February 22, 1856
Died: November 10, 1939
in London, England, UK
Etienne Girardot was a diminutive character actor in Hollywood films through the 1930s, often portraying pestering types. He was born in London, England, UK and died in Hollywood, California, USA.

Movies for Etienne Girardot...

Isle Of Destiny
Title: Isle Of Destiny
Character: Doc Spriggs
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Doctor
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Professor Artemus Glenwater
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
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Hawaiian Nights
Title: Hawaiian Nights
Character: Alonzo Dilman
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Caretaker
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Poindexter
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Papa Aubel
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Christopher Oates
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Hinkley - Secretary
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Judge Henry
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Port of Seven Seas
Title: Port of Seven Seas
Character: Bruneau
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
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The Great Garrick
Title: The Great Garrick
Character: Jean Cabot
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Mr. Meggs
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Albert Pemberton
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: Waldo Peebles
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Mayor
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Hercules Dove
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Go West Young Man
Title: Go West Young Man
Character: Prof. Herbert Rigby
Released: November 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
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The Longest Night
Title: The Longest Night
Character: Kendrick Kinney
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Principal
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Hearts Divided
Title: Hearts Divided
Character: Du Fresne
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Half Angel
Title: Half Angel
Character: Dr. Alexander Cotton
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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The Music Goes 'Round
Title: The Music Goes 'Round
Character: Brewster
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that unintentionally-funny act will bring the house down.
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The Garden Murder Case
Title: The Garden Murder Case
Character: Dr. Doremus
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: Pluvius J. Aspinwall, the Rainmaker
Released: November 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a horse race between the favorites of each family. Unfortunately, the Martingale's horse, Greyboy, only runs well in mud. And it hasn't rained in a long time.
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Metropolitan
Title: Metropolitan
Character: Nello
Released: October 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Professor
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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The Bishop Misbehaves
Title: The Bishop Misbehaves
Character: Brooke
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
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Curly Top
Title: Curly Top
Character: Mr. Wyckoff
Released: July 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
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Hooray for Love
Title: Hooray for Love
Character: Judge Peterby
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
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Chasing Yesterday
Title: Chasing Yesterday
Character: Mouche
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school.
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The Whole Town's Talking
Title: The Whole Town's Talking
Character: Seaver
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Clive of India
Title: Clive of India
Character: Mr. Warburton
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
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Grand Old Girl
Title: Grand Old Girl
Character: Mellis
Released: January 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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The Firebird
Title: The Firebird
Character: Professor Peterson
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
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The Dragon Murder Case
Title: The Dragon Murder Case
Character: Dr. Doremus - Coroner
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Mr. Tuttle
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Twentieth Century
Title: Twentieth Century
Character: Matthew J. Clark
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Glass
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Mandalay
Title: Mandalay
Character: Mr. Abernathie
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Bail Bond Clerk
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Dr. Doremus
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Hungarian Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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The Belle of New York
Title: The Belle of New York
Released: March 26, 1919
Type: Movie
An old inventor is robbed of his inventions by an unscrupulous rich man. When the inventor dies, his daughter Violet goes to New York and joins the "Follies," where she is advertised as "The Belle of New York." The rich man's son is infatuated with Violet, and is introduced to her anonymously as Jack. When Violet learns of Jack's identity, she casts him off. He takes to drinking and she joins the Salvation Army. Jack is attacked in an underworld saloon just as Violet enters in Salvation Army attire. She nurses him at his home. When Jack's father discovers with whom Jack is in love, he begs forgiveness for the wrong he did Violet's father.
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Underneath the Paint
Title: Underneath the Paint
Character: William Marsh
Released: December 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sister, Salome, from starvation. He falls in love with, and proposes marriage to Tryphena, but she tells him she must first make her success on the stage.
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The Violin of M'sieur
Title: The Violin of M'sieur
Character: Pere Gerome
Released: August 11, 1914
Type: Movie
During the Franco-Prussian War, a violin teacher gets separated from his daughter. He spends years wandering across Europe looking for her.
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A Good Little Devil
Title: A Good Little Devil
Character: Old Nick Jr.
Released: March 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
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Up in a Balloon
Title: Up in a Balloon
Character: The Minister
Released: December 16, 1913
Type: Movie
The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Betty, their beautiful daughter, strolls away, picking flowers. When near a hillside, Betty sees a snake and screams. She starts to run away, but bumps into Billy Gilwater. He kills the snake and Betty calls him a hero.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Isadore - Brummel's Valet
Released: February 19, 1913
Type: Movie
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Title: Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Gryde
Released: March 18, 1912
Type: Movie
With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film.