George Beban

George Beban

Born: December 13, 1873
Died: October 5, 1928
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for George Beban...

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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Hearts of Men
Title: Hearts of Men
Character: Nicolo Rosetti
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Silent Italy immigrant family relationship romantic melodrama about a poor Italian flower seller whose mother gets sick. The doctor tells him to take his mother to Arizona, which he does with his wife and child. The railroad men in Arizona think he is the start of a wave of Italian immigrants coming to take away their jobs, but they meet his darling son, Beppo, who wins them over. But then, his wife dies, and he gets involved with an immigrant Italian woman who takes Beppo back to Italy, but the railroad men help him get Beppo back. It turns out his land has oil on it, so he's fabulously rich, and he shares the fortune with the railroad men!
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One More American
Title: One More American
Character: Luigi Riccardo
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.
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The Marcellini Millions
Title: The Marcellini Millions
Character: Guido Bartelli
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Guido and his wife Antoinetta wind up with the estate of Leo Marcellini, a wealthy oil and wine merchant who has died intestate. They move into the mansion but are at a loss when it comes to dealing with servants and other trappings of the rich.
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The Bond Between
Title: The Bond Between
Character: Pierre Duvl
Released: April 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One evening at the museum, Pierre finds a highly valuable painting missing, and since Jacques had just left, he believes his son stole it.
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The Italian
Title: The Italian
Character: Pietro "Beppo" Donnetti
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.