George Sorel

George Sorel

Born: March 24, 1901
Died: January 19, 1948
in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Movies for George Sorel...

To the Victor
Title: To the Victor
Character: Man on Phone (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
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All My Sons
Title: All My Sons
Released: May 1, 1948
Type: Movie
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
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The Cobra Strikes
Title: The Cobra Strikes
Character: Victor Devereaux
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
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Singapore
Title: Singapore
Character: Maitre d' (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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Northwest Outpost
Title: Northwest Outpost
Character: Baron Kruposny
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin (Hugo Haas), who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova (Ilona Massey), the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut).
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: Assistant Croupier (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Character: Paul (Captain of Waiters) (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Dangerous Intruder
Title: Dangerous Intruder
Character: Holt
Released: August 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
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To Have and Have Not
Title: To Have and Have Not
Character: French Officer (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Nightclub M.C. (Uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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Voice in the Wind
Title: Voice in the Wind
Character: Detective
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Bored Sentry Reading Newspaper
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: German Bombardier (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: German Sergeant
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: German Bund Member (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Captain of waiters at party (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Casablanca
Title: Casablanca
Character: Native Officer (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: German Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Title: Dark Streets of Cairo
Character: Announcer
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Caballero (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Title: Brother Rat and a Baby
Character: El Mecca Club Headwaiter
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Swana's Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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City in Darkness
Title: City in Darkness
Character: Plainclothesman
Released: November 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
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Mendelssohn's Wedding March
Title: Mendelssohn's Wedding March
Character: Felix Mendelssohn (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Renard
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Capt. Cortez - Mexican Police
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Footman
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Navy Secrets
Title: Navy Secrets
Character: Slavins
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Major
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: Assistant (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Maitre D' (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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Swiss Miss
Title: Swiss Miss
Character: Joseph
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Bar Companion (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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The Face Behind the Mask
Title: The Face Behind the Mask
Character: Count Mattioli (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1938
Type: Movie
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Title: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Character: Gendarme
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
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The Sheik Steps Out
Title: The Sheik Steps Out
Character: Lt. Bordeaux
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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I Met Him in Paris
Title: I Met Him in Paris
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
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That Man's Here Again
Title: That Man's Here Again
Character: Caterer
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Maitre d'Hotel
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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That Girl from Paris
Title: That Girl from Paris
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
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The Plot Thickens
Title: The Plot Thickens
Character: Man Threatening Carter
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Headwaiter
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Police Officer
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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The House of a Thousand Candles
Title: The House of a Thousand Candles
Character: Henchman
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
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Snowed Under
Title: Snowed Under
Character: Set Designer Milkeimer (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!