Albert Gran

Albert Gran

Born: August 3, 1862
Died: December 16, 1932
in Bergen, Norway

Movies for Albert Gran...

Employees' Entrance
Title: Employees' Entrance
Character: Denton Ross
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
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Fast Life
Title: Fast Life
Character: Van Vrinken
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
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Beauty Parlor
Title: Beauty Parlor
Character: Burke
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: Bishop
Released: August 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
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My Past
Title: My Past
Character: Lionel Reich
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: King Nicholas
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: General de Villafranche
Released: January 7, 1931
Type: Movie
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Mr. Overbeck
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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Sweethearts and Wives
Title: Sweethearts and Wives
Character: Police Inspector
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
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The Man from Blankley's
Title: The Man from Blankley's
Character: Uncle Gabriel Gilwattle
Released: March 28, 1930
Type: Movie
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
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The Kibitzer
Title: The Kibitzer
Character: James Livingston
Released: January 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
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Tanned Legs
Title: Tanned Legs
Character: Mr. Reynolds
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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Our Modern Maidens
Title: Our Modern Maidens
Character: B. Bickering Brown
Released: September 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
Title: Gold Diggers of Broadway
Character: James Blake
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
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Glad Rag Doll
Title: Glad Rag Doll
Character: Nathan Fairchild
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
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Geraldine
Title: Geraldine
Released: January 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten with the aloof lawyer Bell Cameron, initially embraces Eddie's lessons. However, Eddie falls for her genuine spirit and clashes with Mr. Wygate's aspirations.
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Dry Martini
Title: Dry Martini
Character: Willoughby Quimby
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
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The Whip
Title: The Whip
Character: Sam Kelley
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Mr. Schmidt
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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The Blue Danube
Title: The Blue Danube
Character: Herr Boursch
Released: March 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
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Four Sons
Title: Four Sons
Character: The Postman
Released: February 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Title: Breakfast at Sunrise
Character: Champignol
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
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7th Heaven
Title: 7th Heaven
Character: Boul
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
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Hula
Title: Hula
Character: Old Bill Calhoun
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
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Soft Cushions
Title: Soft Cushions
Character: The Sultan
Released: August 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: Mr. Seymour
Released: April 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
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More Pay - Less Work
Title: More Pay - Less Work
Character: Cappy Ricks
Released: July 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
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Beverly of Graustark
Title: Beverly of Graustark
Character: Duke Travina
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Count Halfont
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.
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Her Night of Romance
Title: Her Night of Romance
Character: Samuel C. Adams (Dorothy's father)
Released: November 24, 1924
Type: Movie
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
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Tarnish
Title: Tarnish
Character: Adolph Tevis
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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Civilian Clothes
Title: Civilian Clothes
Character: Dodson
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
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American Buds
Title: American Buds
Character: Col. Harding
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers.