George B. French

George B. French

Born: April 14, 1883
Died: June 9, 1961
in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA

Movies for George B. French...

Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Husband in Cafe (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Townsman
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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The Black Pearl
Title: The Black Pearl
Character: Stephen Runyan
Released: December 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A pearl stolen from an Indian idol results in nothing but trouble for its owner. After he receives death threats by note pinned to a dagger, he decides to gather his relatives in his old mansion for a reading of his will. Unfortunately, the family members are being mysteriously bumped off one by one. The butler and an heiress set out to discover what's going on.
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The Boy Friend
Title: The Boy Friend
Character: Auto Driver
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
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The Sawdust Paradise
Title: The Sawdust Paradise
Character: Tanner
Released: June 28, 1928
Type: Movie
She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows.
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Won in the Clouds
Title: Won in the Clouds
Character: Dr. Cecil James (as George French)
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Nearly 7,000 Curtiss Jennies were built and they had a long and distinguished career in the movies. In this load of garbage, a Swahili village (somewhere in the sierras behind Hollywood) is affected by disease. The nearby diamond mine is using this as an excuse not to ship diamonds back to HQ in South Africa. The mine president has sent a doctor, his beautiful daughter and her duenna to find out what is going on and to cure the natives. They are travelling on foot. To speed things up the president sends his ace flyer up...
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The Battle of the Century
Title: The Battle of the Century
Character: Dentist
Released: December 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
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Bigger and Better Blondes
Title: Bigger and Better Blondes
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief
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Horse Shoes
Title: Horse Shoes
Character: Mayor
Released: April 17, 1927
Type: Movie
A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
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Hop Along
Title: Hop Along
Character: Professor Wise
Released: January 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of Universal's series of one-reel Bluebird Comedies, this one stars Arthur Lake as a student who's confined to his dorm room to study on the night of a big costume party. When Professor Wise (George B. French) comes to check up on him, he finds Lake in a bathrobe, book in hand. As soon as the prof leaves, Lake rips off the robe to expose his Scots costume.
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Lazy Lightning
Title: Lazy Lightning
Character: Dr. Hull
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
American silent western film directed by William Wyler
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Red Hot Leather
Title: Red Hot Leather
Character: Dr. Robert Marsh
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father, growing weaker at the prospect of losing his ranch. Jack plans to enter the local rodeo to earn the money, though Morton Kane, who holds the mortgage and has secretly discovered oil on the ranch, plots with his son Ross to keep him from the events.
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The Silent Trailer
Title: The Silent Trailer
Character: Nathan Stewart
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
"Fearless" the dog saves the day in this silent short.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Professor Clements
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Flyin' Thru
Title: Flyin' Thru
Character: Judson Blair
Released: December 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father has been falsely jailed for the murder of Judson Blair.
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Wandering Husbands
Title: Wandering Husbands
Character: Butler
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Diana Moreland, suspecting that her husband is cheating on her with Marilyn Foster, catches the two of them having a rendezvous at a roadhouse. Instead of screaming at them, she invites Marilyn back to her home. However, Diana has prepared a test to see just who it is that her husband really loves.
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Call the Wagon
Title: Call the Wagon
Character: Father
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
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Done in Oil
Title: Done in Oil
Character: 2nd Crook
Released: October 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Jimmie, an oil stock salesman, is roughly handled by a couple of shrewd promoters who have stolen a well from a poor girl. The latter saves our hero, who in turn gets the well back for her.
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Cold Feet
Title: Cold Feet
Character: Second Wolf
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
A wealthy father tries to discourage his daughter's taste for stories of the Mounted; her imagination conjures up the ideal lover as one who wears that red coat and whose slogan is "get your man." She arrives at her father's camp in the frozen North the victim of a frameup: her father had planned that his employees must discourage her in every manner possible. The idea is if she sees him she will be disillusioned. A few hunters spying the "wolves" shoot with intent to kill, and a real bear enters the hut and scatters the plotters. The scheme works well, even with all these inconveniences, until a genuine Mountie appears on the scene and administers punishment to the arch-villain and his dwarf-like henchman. As a result the girl's romantic imagination vindicates her beau ideal. The two lovers are last seen standing chest-deep in the snow.
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Title: The Adventures of Tarzan
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.
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His Pajama Girl
Title: His Pajama Girl
Character: The Deacon
Released: May 10, 1920
Type: Movie
Planning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president of San Salvador, a country in which Dodd holds mining interests.
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Easy Payments
Title: Easy Payments
Character: Jimmy's boss
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty, whose dad believes Cash Is King.
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The Romance of Tarzan
Title: The Romance of Tarzan
Character: Binns
Released: October 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
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Tarzan of the Apes
Title: Tarzan of the Apes
Character: Binns - a Sailor
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time missing Lord Greystoke. But then, one of the search members, Jane Porter, gets separated from the group and comes face to face with fearsome wild animals. Tarzan saves her from harm just in the knick of time and love begins to blossom.
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Crazy by Proxy
Title: Crazy by Proxy
Released: September 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for the wedding, the bridegroom is kidnapped by a jealous cousin who is envious of his position as heir of a fortune.