Barlowe Borland

Barlowe Borland

Born: August 6, 1877
Died: August 31, 1948
in Greenock, Scotland, UK

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Pride and Prejudice
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Dr. MacIntosh
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
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Tom Brown's School Days
Title: Tom Brown's School Days
Character: Grimsby aka Old Grimey
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Fingal (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Dubois (uncredited)
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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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Tom Briggs
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Magistrate
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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The Witness Vanishes
Title: The Witness Vanishes
Character: Lucus Marplay
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Chambers - Brand's Butler
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Frankland
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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Gun Packer
Title: Gun Packer
Character: Professor Angel
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang. Now posing as an outlaw, he learns what the Professor does with the bullion, but he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Doctor with News of Polio Outbreak (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Freshman Year
Title: Freshman Year
Character: Professor Harrison
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.
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Tip-Off Girls
Title: Tip-Off Girls
Character: Blacky
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Uncle Fernandel (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1938
Type: Movie
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Dangerous to Know
Title: Dangerous to Know
Character: Butler
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Scottish Passenger
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Night Club Scandal
Title: Night Club Scandal
Character: Dr. Sully
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Title: Sophie Lang Goes West
Character: Archie Banks
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Mr. Gurney
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: 'Dad', the Bank Cashier
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine, much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide. "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge.
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Night of Mystery
Title: Night of Mystery
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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King of Gamblers
Title: King of Gamblers
Character: Mr. Parker
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Murder Goes to College
Title: Murder Goes to College
Character: Dean Wilfred Everett Olney
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Sour Puss
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Joshua Lamb
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: Information clerk (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
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The Witness Chair
Title: The Witness Chair
Character: Mr. O'Neil
Released: April 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
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China Seas
Title: China Seas
Character: Willett, Royal Canada Bank (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
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Born to Gamble
Title: Born to Gamble
Character: Jim - Poker Player (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Man at Wake
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Eric (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Title: Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character: Man Calling Benjie a Liar
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Snecky Hobart
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Barrister (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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The Man Who Fights Alone
Title: The Man Who Fights Alone
Character: Mike O'Hara
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, Bob Alten. Bent on suicide, however, the shock of seeing his wife and child endangered on a broken bridge shakes him to recover from his illness and discover that his suspicions were all imaginary.