Richard L'Estrange

Richard L'Estrange

Born: December 28, 1889
Died: November 19, 1963
in Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Richard L'Estrange (born Gunther Van Strensch) was an American actor, associate producer / producer, assistant director / director, and production manager. His screen acting career took place during the years 1913 to 1929.

Movies for Richard L'Estrange...

The Devil Bear
Title: The Devil Bear
Character: Ole Swanson
Released: February 19, 1929
Type: Movie
An early Canadian horror/drama film.
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Thunder Riders
Title: Thunder Riders
Character: Lazy (as Dick L'Estrange)
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
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Desert Dust
Title: Desert Dust
Character: Slim Donovan
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Frank Fortune, a young rancher, is jailed along with two of his men for fighting with rival ranchers. Helen Marsden, daughter of a wealthy senator who is interested in prison reform, prevails on the judge to parole them into her custody and work at her ranch. Frank falls in love and, so as to stay on at the ranch, convinces her he is a notorious criminal. When the senator visits her with a large sum of money belonging to the state, three "reformed" crooks on the premises plan to steal it. Fortune's friends learn of the plot and decide to take the money for safekeeping, but Fortune intervenes; the real crooks do steal the funds, however, and depart with Helen in an automobile. Fortune overtakes the speeding car and rescues Helen.
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A Made-To-Order Hero
Title: A Made-To-Order Hero
Character: Lazy (as Dick L'Strange)
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Bert Lane and Margery Murray are in love, but her aunt insists she marry either a society man or a hero, so his hands decide that he will be a made-to-order hero - but society man Fred Van Ralt keeps getting the credit.
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The Border Cavalier
Title: The Border Cavalier
Character: Lazy (as Dick L'Estrange)
Released: September 18, 1927
Type: Movie
American Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford.
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Blazing Days
Title: Blazing Days
Character: Turtle-Neck-Pete (as Dick L'Estrange)
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
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The Silent Rider
Title: The Silent Rider
Character: Blondy (as Dick L'Estrange)
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.
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The Hidden Code
Title: The Hidden Code
Character: Richard Leslie
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Quirky chemist Eben Lamont has discovered a powerful new explosive and plans to turn it over to the government. Richard Leslie, the head of an explosives manufacturing company, offers to buy his new discovery, but Lamont turns him down. Afraid that his formula will be stolen by Leslie, Lamont uses invisible ink to tattoo part of the formula on his daughter Grace's shoulder. A spy for a foreign government finds out about it, kills Lamont and kidnaps Grace, hypnotizing her so she'll tell him where the formula is. She is rescued by Leslie in the nick of time, but her troubles, as it turns out, are not yet over.
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The Right to Be Happy
Title: The Right to Be Happy
Character: The Ghost of the Present (as Dick Le Strange)
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Considered to be lost.
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Madame la Presidente
Title: Madame la Presidente
Character: Lerous (as Dick La Strange)
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
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The Call of the Cumberlands
Title: The Call of the Cumberlands
Character: Tamarack Spicer (as Dick Le Strange)
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
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How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell
Title: How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell
Character: Tom Gourley
Released: June 3, 1915
Type: Movie
When Jimmie Collins, a pickpocket, is arrested and brought before Captain Callahan of the Tenth, he is surprised because he is lodged in a cell. Jimmie claims acquaintanceship with Bill McFarlin, a corrupt political boss, and he sneers at Captain Callahan when he is ordered to be placed behind the cell bars.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Señor Slim (as Dick Le Strange)
Released: January 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Maximo the Ghost
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
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What's His Name
Title: What's His Name
Character: Best Man
Released: October 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie. After a musical comedy troupe comes through, Nellie becomes an actress. When she then falls for a millionaire and goes to Reno for a divorce, Harvey takes their child Phoebe home where her later illness brings her parents back together.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Grouchy
Released: February 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.