John Picorri

John Picorri

Born: August 4, 1895
Died: July 1, 1976
in London, England, UK

Movies for John Picorri...

Madero of Mexico
Title: Madero of Mexico
Character: Vice President Piño Suarez (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
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Bombay Clipper
Title: Bombay Clipper
Character: Waiter
Released: January 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Comrade X
Title: Comrade X
Character: World Press Attendee Standing Next to Von Hofer
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Title: Drums of Fu Manchu
Character: Prof. Krantz
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Colonel in Demo
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: Professor Gould
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Train Conductor (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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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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SOS Coast Guard
Title: SOS Coast Guard
Character: G.A. Rackerby [Chs. 2-12]
Released: August 28, 1937
Type: Movie
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Ernest - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
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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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Italian Ambassador (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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Dick Tracy
Title: Dick Tracy
Character: Moloch
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Title: Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Character: Porotu
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
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Dodsworth
Title: Dodsworth
Character: Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Down to the Sea
Title: Down to the Sea
Character: Greek Proprietor
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Defense Attorney (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Fisherman
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Mexican Officer
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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False Pretenses
Title: False Pretenses
Character: Soutar
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.