Lowell Sherman

Lowell Sherman

Born: October 11, 1888
Died: December 28, 1934
in San Francisco, California, USA
Lowell Sherman was an American stage and screen actor, as well as a film director.

Movies for Lowell Sherman...

False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Dr. Silas Brenton
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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What Price Hollywood?
Title: What Price Hollywood?
Character: Maximilian 'Max' Carey
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Boris Feldman
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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High Stakes
Title: High Stakes
Character: Joe Lennon
Released: August 18, 1931
Type: Movie
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
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Bachelor Apartment
Title: Bachelor Apartment
Character: Wayne Carter
Released: April 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Movie Director
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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The Royal Bed
Title: The Royal Bed
Character: King Eric VIII
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
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The Pay-Off
Title: The Pay-Off
Character: Gene Fenmore
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Lawful Larceny
Title: Lawful Larceny
Character: Guy Tarlow
Released: August 17, 1930
Type: Movie
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
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Oh, Sailor Behave!
Title: Oh, Sailor Behave!
Character: Prince Kosloff
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
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Midnight Mystery
Title: Midnight Mystery
Character: Tom Austen
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
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He Knew Women
Title: He Knew Women
Character: Geoffrey Clarke
Released: April 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A novelist has to chose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.
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Ladies of Leisure
Title: Ladies of Leisure
Character: Bill Standish
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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Mammy
Title: Mammy
Character: Billy West
Released: March 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several plot convolutions that Jolson is guilty of the deed.
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General Crack
Title: General Crack
Character: Leopold II
Released: December 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.
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Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Norman Pollock
Released: December 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
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A Lady of Chance
Title: A Lady of Chance
Character: Bradley
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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The Whip
Title: The Whip
Character: Greville Sartoris
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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Mad Hour
Title: Mad Hour
Character: Joe Mack
Released: March 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
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The Whip Woman
Title: The Whip Woman
Character: Baron
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget about love!
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Henri D'Avril
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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The Divine Woman
Title: The Divine Woman
Character: Henry Legrand
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Ernest Drake
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent
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You Never Know Women
Title: You Never Know Women
Character: Eugene Foster
Released: September 20, 1926
Type: Movie
On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
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The Love Toy
Title: The Love Toy
Character: Peter Remsen
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The Love Toy is a lost 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Lowell Sherman, Jane Winton, and Willard Louis. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
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The Reckless Lady
Title: The Reckless Lady
Character: Feodor
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
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Satan in Sables
Title: Satan in Sables
Character: Michael Lyev Yervedoff
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: King Louis XV of France
Released: August 11, 1924
Type: Movie
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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Bright Lights of Broadway
Title: Bright Lights of Broadway
Character: Randall Sherrill
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
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The Face in the Fog
Title: The Face in the Fog
Character: Count Alexis Orloff
Released: October 7, 1922
Type: Movie
Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.
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Grand Larceny
Title: Grand Larceny
Character: Barry Clive
Released: February 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Molly O'
Title: Molly O'
Character: Fred Manchester
Released: November 19, 1921
Type: Movie
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay of the girl's parents -- and the young doctor's newly acquired fiancée! Events come to a head at the charity masked ball, which the two girls happen to attend in very similar costumes, thanks to the largesse of Molly's benevolent "fairy godfather"...
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The Gilded Lily
Title: The Gilded Lily
Character: Creighton Howard
Released: March 27, 1921
Type: Movie
A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone to drinking heavily.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Lennox Sanderson
Released: September 3, 1920
Type: Movie
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
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Yes or No
Title: Yes or No
Character: Paul Derreck
Released: June 28, 1920
Type: Movie
Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces the dilemma of remaining true to the husband who neglects her or of falling into the arms of another.
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Vera, the Medium
Title: Vera, the Medium
Character: Robert Sterling
Released: January 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Vera, the Medium is a 1917 film
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Sold
Title: Sold
Character: Johnson
Released: August 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Lost 1915 film
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Behind the Scenes
Title: Behind the Scenes
Character: Teddy Harrington
Released: October 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Young Dolly Lane has committed herself to becoming a star on the stage, but when she meets handsome and wealthy farmer Steve Hunter, she falls in love and marries him. Unfortunately, Steve soon loses his fortune and the couple is forced to move in with a friend, Teddy Harrington. Not long afterwards Steve's rich uncle dies, leaving him wealthy, but on that same day Dolly is asked to take the place of a stage star who has taken ill. She does and becomes the toast of Broadway, but now Steve wants her to return with him to the West and become a farmer's wife. She relents, but soon becomes bored with that role and longs to return to the stage.