Charles Richman

Charles Richman

Born: January 11, 1865
Died: December 1, 1940
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Charles Richman...

Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Judge
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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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Mayor John Saunders
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Colonel Mantle
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Governor Beaufort
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Dillon
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Thayer (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Character: Judge Thatcher
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: Judge Wilson
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Lady Behave!
Title: Lady Behave!
Character: Howells
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: M. Delagorgue
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Make a Wish
Title: Make a Wish
Character: Wagner
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Uncle Bob
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Paul - the Governor
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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I'd Give My Life
Title: I'd Give My Life
Character: Attorney Bill Chase
Released: August 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
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Parole!
Title: Parole!
Character: John 'Jack' Driscoll
Released: June 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Louis Friedlander-directed film
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Avory
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Mr. Curtis (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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My Marriage
Title: My Marriage
Character: H.J. Barton
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Professor (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: Pole Shattuck
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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Becky Sharp
Title: Becky Sharp
Character: Gen. Tufto
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Senator John T. Henry
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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The Case of the Curious Bride
Title: The Case of the Curious Bride
Character: C. Phillip Montaine
Released: April 13, 1935
Type: Movie
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
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After Office Hours
Title: After Office Hours
Character: Jordan
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Title: Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Character: Mr. Orrin Kinnicott
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Corcoran
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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His Double Life
Title: His Double Life
Character: Witt
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the identity of his former servant, but finds himself faced with constant dilemmas as a result.
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Take a Chance
Title: Take a Chance
Character: Andrew Raleigh
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
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The Struggle
Title: The Struggle
Character: Mr. Craig
Released: December 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
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The College Hero
Title: The College Hero
Character: The Dean
Released: November 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game.
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My Friend the Devil
Title: My Friend the Devil
Character: George Dryden
Released: November 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent romantic drama...
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The Sign on the Door
Title: The Sign on the Door
Character: 'Lafe' Regan
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
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Harriet and the Piper
Title: Harriet and the Piper
Released: September 13, 1920
Type: Movie
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Curtain
Title: Curtain
Character: Dick Cunningham
Released: September 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Nancy Bradshaw (Katherine MacDonald) is a popular stage star who quits her career to marry millionaire clubman Dick Cunningham (Charles Richman). But after a few years of marriage, he starts seeing other women. Figuring that her public was more faithful to her than her husband, Nancy returns to the stage.
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The Hidden Truth
Title: The Hidden Truth
Character: Charles Taylor
Released: January 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.
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The Secret Kingdom
Title: The Secret Kingdom
Character: Prince Philip / Phil Barr
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial.
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The Dawn of Freedom
Title: The Dawn of Freedom
Character: Richard Cartwright
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders of the United States.
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The Hero of Submarine D-2
Title: The Hero of Submarine D-2
Character: Lt. Commander Colton
Released: March 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Commander Colton, U.S.N., is in love with Caroline Austen, daughter of a prominent political power in Washington. Colton has a rival in James Archer, a journalist of prominence, unscrupulous and secretly in league with the Ruanian Ambassador, who is endeavoring to obtain for his country inside information as to the United States naval resources.
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The Battle Cry of Peace
Title: The Battle Cry of Peace
Character: John Harrison
Released: August 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: Daniel Voorhees Pike
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie