Douglas Gerrard

Douglas Gerrard

Born: August 12, 1891
Died: June 5, 1950
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Douglas Gerrard...

You're My Everything
Title: You're My Everything
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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The Undying Monster
Title: The Undying Monster
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: British Tommy
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Clansman
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Ants in the Pantry
Title: Ants in the Pantry
Character: Lord Stoke Pogis
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
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The Ghost Walks
Title: The Ghost Walks
Character: Carroway (as Douglas Gerard)
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Parker, Drummond's Valet
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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Bombay Mail
Title: Bombay Mail
Character: Anderson
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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One Way Passage
Title: One Way Passage
Character: Sir Harold (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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The Tenderfoot
Title: The Tenderfoot
Character: Stage Director
Released: May 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
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Man Wanted
Title: Man Wanted
Character: Mr. Orca (Uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Toreador with No Pants
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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The Road to Singapore
Title: The Road to Singapore
Character: Simpson
Released: September 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Assistant Tailor (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Title: Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Character: Tom Stafford
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Headwaiter
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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Madonna of Avenue A
Title: Madonna of Avenue A
Character: Arch Duke
Released: June 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually a dance-hall "hostess" at a low-class nightclub. Wanting revenge on her mother, she marries a brutal bootlegger, which causes her mother to do something that turns out to have dire consequences for everybody. This is reportedly a lost film.
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Glad Rag Doll
Title: Glad Rag Doll
Character: Butler
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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The College Widow
Title: The College Widow
Character: Professor Jelicoe
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, the professor's beautiful daughter, uses her personal charm to draw noted football stars from neighboring schools by a series of ruses at a vacationing spot. Billy Bolton, son of a financial magnate, falls for Jane and to prove himself registers under another name and works his way through school, attaining scholastic and athletic honors. Through the jealousy of another girl, Billy learns of Jane's trickery and persuades the athletes not to play;
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The Desired Woman
Title: The Desired Woman
Character: Fitzroy
Released: August 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote post becomes one trial after another for Diana. Then Larry Trent, a young lieutenant, arrives to provide a pleasant reminder of days past, but Maxwell, in a jealous rage over their innocent companionship, sends Trent to a distant village.
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The First Auto
Title: The First Auto
Character: Squire Stebbins
Released: June 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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A Million Bid
Title: A Million Bid
Character: Lord Bobby Vane
Released: May 27, 1927
Type: Movie
To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."
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Private Izzy Murphy
Title: Private Izzy Murphy
Character: Robert O'Malley
Released: October 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he writes Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.
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Footloose Widows
Title: Footloose Widows
Character: Sir Grover Dunn
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
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The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
Title: The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
Character: Steve Hemingway
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
An over the top parody film
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
Title: The Lighthouse by the Sea
Character: Edward Cavanna
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
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In Fast Company
Title: In Fast Company
Character: Reginald Chichester
Released: July 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangsters. There's always something.
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On Time
Title: On Time
Character: Mr. Black
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
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Omar the Tentmaker
Title: Omar the Tentmaker
Character: Hassan
Released: December 22, 1922
Type: Movie
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Gustavus Sonntag
Released: August 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
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Eternal Love
Title: Eternal Love
Character: Paul Dachette
Released: May 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Traveling from the Latin Quarter of Paris to Brittany to seek inspiration for his painting, artist Paul Dachette finds it in the person of Mignon, an orphan who consents to pose for him.
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: Cecil Brooke
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth's history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, and then kneels and repents.
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Polly Put the Kettle On
Title: Polly Put the Kettle On
Character: Chester Creigg
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
To support her younger sisters, Polly Vance finds work as a live-in companion to the aging Johanna Webb. Johanna's nephew, Chester Creigg, quarrels with his aunt and severs relations with her, because of her cruel treatment of her new employee, after which Polly returns to her old home. Then, when a fire breaks out at Polly's house, Chester rushes over to save her sisters, but loses his eyesight during the rescue. Convalescing from his burns, Chester learns that Johanna has died and marvels at the similarity between her and the old housemaid who is now taking care of him.
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The Evil Women Do
Title: The Evil Women Do
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
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Bettina Loved a Soldier
Title: Bettina Loved a Soldier
Character: Paul de Lacardens
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the poverty-stricken religious leader of the small French village of Longueval.
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Naked Hearts
Title: Naked Hearts
Character: Lord Lovelace
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud's domineering brother, disapproves of a marriage between them. Instead, he has chosen English nobleman Lord Lovelace as the ideal fiancé for Maud. On the night that the engagement is to be announced, however, she elopes with Cecil. The runaways are caught, though, after which, because of her loyalty to her brother, Maud sends Cecil away. When the Civil War begins, Howard, Lovelace and Cecil all volunteer, and are all soon reported killed in action. Heartbroken, Maud decides to become a nun, and takes her vows just moments before Cecil, whose death was mistakenly reported, returns from the battlefield and comes to the convent to ask her to marry him.
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Title: The Dumb Girl of Portici
Character: Alphonso
Released: January 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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A Soul Enslaved
Title: A Soul Enslaved
Character: Paul Kent
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Tired of poverty, Jane finally accepts the advances of Ambrose, the wealthy owner of the factory in which she works, and becomes his mistress. Years later, long after she has left Ambrose, Jane falls in love with Richard Newton, whose own past, like hers, hardly stands out as scrupulous. They get married and have a child, but then Richard finds out that Jane had been a kept woman, and insists on a separation.
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The Chief of Police
Title: The Chief of Police
Character: Jack Keenan
Released: August 4, 1914
Type: Movie
How a man, imprisoned for another's crime, finds justice at last.
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The Quicksands
Title: The Quicksands
Character: Lt. Osborn - Gladys' Sweetheart
Released: June 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
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The Quicksands
Title: The Quicksands
Released: May 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Released: February 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Suspense.
Title: Suspense.
Character: The Taken Car's Owner
Released: July 6, 1913
Type: Movie
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.