Ivan Lebedeff

Ivan Lebedeff

Born: June 18, 1895
Died: March 31, 1953
in Ushpol, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Užpaliai, Lithuania]

Movies for Ivan Lebedeff...

The War of the Worlds
Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Dr. Gratzman (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Marquis (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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California Conquest
Title: California Conquest
Character: Alexander Rotcheff
Released: July 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also interested and the Russians have established bases in the northern part of the state. To further their hold they have stolen guns and Don Arturo Bordega, a leader of those wanting statehood, is out to recover them.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Thief at Ball (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
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Oh, What a Night!
Title: Oh, What a Night!
Character: Boris
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
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Are These Our Parents?
Title: Are These Our Parents?
Character: Alexis Dolan
Released: June 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with horny teenage boys, scuzzy nightclub owners and murder.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Menlo
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Mr. Rosengoltz (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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Foreign Agent
Title: Foreign Agent
Character: Okura
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Lure of the Islands
Title: Lure of the Islands
Character: The Commandant
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with his pal Jinx, is there to investigate rumored Japanese spy activity. He agrees to marry her if she will help him in his investigations. Through the discovery of a contraband radio set tuned to Japanese reception, Wally learns that the local Commandant is in league with the enemy and is planning an invasion of the island.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Alexis Fournier
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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The Shanghai Gesture
Title: The Shanghai Gesture
Character: Boris
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Feodor
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Passport to Alcatraz
Title: Passport to Alcatraz
Character: Bogen
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
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Hotel for Women
Title: Hotel for Women
Character: Galdos
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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Trapped in the Sky
Title: Trapped in the Sky
Character: Dure
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Michael Strogonoff
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Ronnie (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Ivan Borokov - Russian Jockey
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Wise Girl
Title: Wise Girl
Character: Prince Michael
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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Atlantic Flight
Title: Atlantic Flight
Character: Baron Hayygard
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film. In "Atlantic Flight" he's top-billed as a pilot who undertakes a dangerous mission to transport medicine to an ailing friend. Monogram.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Count Andre Lukacha
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Character: Michael Browsky
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Mama Steps Out
Title: Mama Steps Out
Character: Coco
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
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Love on the Run
Title: Love on the Run
Character: Igor
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Baron Von Stofel
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Character: Count Guilliano
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Count
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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China Seas
Title: China Seas
Character: Ngah
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Ivan Valadov
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
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Sweepstake Annie
Title: Sweepstake Annie
Character: Baron Rudolph Baritska
Released: January 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Dr. Sascha Pilnakoff
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: Ramon Alvarez
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Ramon
Released: January 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Marquis Hugo di Binelli di Pisa
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Don Flavio Montenegro
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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Sweepings
Title: Sweepings
Character: Prince Niko Gilitziv (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
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Unholy Love
Title: Unholy Love
Character: Alex Stockmar
Released: June 8, 1932
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
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The Gay Diplomat
Title: The Gay Diplomat
Character: Captain Orloff
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
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Bachelor Apartment
Title: Bachelor Apartment
Character: Pedro 'Pete' De Maneau
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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Laugh and Get Rich
Title: Laugh and Get Rich
Character: Count Dimitriff (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1931
Type: Movie
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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The Lady Refuses
Title: The Lady Refuses
Character: Nikolai Rabinoff
Released: March 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Butch Miller
Released: August 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
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Midnight Mystery
Title: Midnight Mystery
Character: Mischa Kawelin
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
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The Cuckoos
Title: The Cuckoos
Character: Baron de Camp
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
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They Had to See Paris
Title: They Had to See Paris
Character: Marquis de Brissac
Released: September 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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Street Girl
Title: Street Girl
Character: Prince Nicholaus of Aregon
Released: August 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
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The One Woman Idea
Title: The One Woman Idea
Character: Hosainn
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman- a woman from another country-wife of another man.
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The Veiled Woman
Title: The Veiled Woman
Character: Capt. Paul Fevier
Released: April 14, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.
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Walking Back
Title: Walking Back
Character: Beaut Thibaut
Released: May 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
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Let'er Go Gallegher
Title: Let'er Go Gallegher
Character: Stephen B. Hade AKA Four Fingers Dan
Released: January 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand. He gives his account of the murder and a description of the killer to his hero, newsman Henry Callahan, resulting in his getting a job on the paper as an office boy. When circumstances arise that result in Callahan losing his job on the paper, he and Gallagher set out to discover the identity of the killer and help Callahan get his job back.
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The Forbidden Woman
Title: The Forbidden Woman
Character: Sheik
Released: October 28, 1927
Type: Movie
A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to be drafted into the colonel's own corps. Unknown to either is the fact that the colonel's wife is actually an Arab spy.
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The Angel of Broadway
Title: The Angel of Broadway
Character: Lonnie
Released: October 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere. There she meets Jerry Wilson, an honest truckdriver and friend of the Army captain. Although the act is a success, Babe is disillusioned to find Lonnie, a fellow worker who has been romancing her, stealing her money and making overtures to Big Bertha, the hard-boiled club hostess.
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The Love of Sunya
Title: The Love of Sunya
Character: Ted Morgan (as Ivan B. Lebedeff)
Released: March 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
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The Sorrows of Satan
Title: The Sorrows of Satan
Character: Amiel
Released: October 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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Fine Manners
Title: Fine Manners
Character: The Prince
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.