George Regas

George Regas

Born: November 9, 1890
Died: December 13, 1940
in Goranoi, Greece

Movies for George Regas...

The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Sergeant Gonzales
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Freddie
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Torrid Zone
Title: Torrid Zone
Character: Sergeant of Police
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Mexican Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Murrell's Halfbreed Henchman (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: Cassavetti
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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The Mad Empress
Title: The Mad Empress
Character: Mariano Escobedo
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
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The Cat and the Canary
Title: The Cat and the Canary
Character: Indian Guide
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Rajput (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Henchman Mateo
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Arab Scout (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: Mexican Police Officer
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Indian Hearing Mollie's Telegraphy (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Pedro (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Gunga Din
Title: Gunga Din
Character: Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1939
Type: Movie
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Scouts to the Rescue
Title: Scouts to the Rescue
Character: Lokola -Indian Tribe High Priest
Released: January 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Title: Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Character: Soongh
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Character: Bokor
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Title: Torchy Blane in Panama
Character: Gomez
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Four Men and a Prayer
Title: Four Men and a Prayer
Character: Egyptian Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Hawaiian Buckaroo
Title: Hawaiian Buckaroo
Character: Regas
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Cowboys live amidst Hawaiian scenery and song.
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Clipped Wings
Title: Clipped Wings
Character: Fernando, Moran's Henchman
Released: December 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.
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The Legion of Missing Men
Title: The Legion of Missing Men
Character: Sergeant Garcia
Released: July 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
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The Californian
Title: The Californian
Character: Ruiz
Released: July 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
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Left-Handed Law
Title: Left-Handed Law
Character: Sam Logan
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
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Waikiki Wedding
Title: Waikiki Wedding
Character: Muamua
Released: March 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
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Rebellion
Title: Rebellion
Character: Gang Member (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1936
Type: Movie
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Wazir
Released: October 20, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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Daniel Boone
Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Black Eagle
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Isle of Fury
Title: Isle of Fury
Character: Otar
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Greek, a Gangster (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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The Girl from Mandalay
Title: The Girl from Mandalay
Character: Headman
Released: April 19, 1936
Type: Movie
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Tomás
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Hell-Ship Morgan
Title: Hell-Ship Morgan
Character: Covanci
Released: February 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.
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Rose Marie
Title: Rose Marie
Character: Boniface
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Opera singer, Marie de Flor, seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. During her trek, she meets a Canadian mountie, Sgt. Bruce, who is also searching for her brother. Romance ensues, resulting in several love duets between the two.
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Night Cargo
Title: Night Cargo
Character: Gus Noble
Released: January 7, 1936
Type: Movie
While in Singapore, a man and a pretty young girl find themselves mixed up in blackmail and murder.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Greek Husband
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Pursuit
Title: Pursuit
Character: Mexican Border Patrolman
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
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The Red Blood of Courage
Title: The Red Blood of Courage
Character: Henchman Frenchy
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan arives posing as a wanted man and is soon caught up in the plot when Slager, wanting everything for himself, kills his boss and makes Jim a prisoner.
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The Fighting Trooper
Title: The Fighting Trooper
Character: Henri
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves LaFarge's life and this gets him into LaFarge's gang. He then arrests LaFarge and brings him in only to learn that LaFarge is not only innocent but is now a prisoner of the real killer.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Singh
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Title: Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Character: Theo Savanis
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Charley
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 Way to Love
Title: The Way to Love
Character: Pedro
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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The Mummy
Title: The Mummy
Character: Egyptian at Princess Deathbed (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1932
Type: Movie
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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Battling with Buffalo Bill
Title: Battling with Buffalo Bill
Character: 'Breed' Johns
Released: November 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.
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Newly Rich
Title: Newly Rich
Character: Lippo (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Jim Moore
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
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Riders of the North
Title: Riders of the North
Character: Leclerc
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: The Emir
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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Gaucho soul
Title: Gaucho soul
Released: June 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Elsa, a young girl from Buenos Aires, visits her aunt and uncle, Don Alfredo and Doña Cristina, at their ranch. While playing golf, Elsa meets a gaucho, Antonio, and is enchanted by his exquisite singing voice.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: Tony
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
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Redskin
Title: Redskin
Character: Chief Notani
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".
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Wolf Song
Title: Wolf Song
Character: Black Wolf
Released: March 29, 1929
Type: Movie
In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for traveling.
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Maris
Released: August 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
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That Royle Girl
Title: That Royle Girl
Character: Baretta's Henchman
Released: December 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and convicted of the crime. Joan believes that the real murderer is Baretta, a gangster who was keeping Adele as his mistress
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The Wanderer
Title: The Wanderer
Character: Gaal
Released: August 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.
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Omar the Tentmaker
Title: Omar the Tentmaker
Character: Emissary to the Shah (as George Rigas)
Released: December 22, 1922
Type: Movie
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.
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The Love Light
Title: The Love Light
Character: Tony
Released: January 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family.