David Landau

David Landau

Born: March 8, 1879
Died: September 20, 1935
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
From Wikipedia

David Landau (March 9, 1879, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - September 20, 1935, Hollywood, California) was an American film actor who appeared in 33 films between 1931 and 1935. He appeared on Broadway in 12 plays from 1919 to 1929. He was born David Magee, and had a stroke in 1934 from which he never recovered. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Movies for David Landau...

The Fantastic Seven
Title: The Fantastic Seven
Character: Prop Man
Released: May 30, 1979
Type: Movie
An intrepid team of stunt experts stage a daring air, sea and land rescue of a kidnapped movie star from the clutches of a suave, modern-day pirate who rules a sovereign fortress state in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Judge Priest
Title: Judge Priest
Character: Bob Gillis
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
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Death on the Diamond
Title: Death on the Diamond
Character: 'Pop' Clark
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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The Man with Two Faces
Title: The Man with Two Faces
Character: Curtis
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Wharf Angel
Title: Wharf Angel
Character: Moore
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him. He explains that after he spoke out about the rights of man to a crowd, a riot ensued, during which a policeman was killed. Como took the gun from the killer, but is thought to be guilty of the crime himself. Como, who reciprocates Mary's love, spends the night with her, but leaves to keep her out of danger. He joins the crew of a ship sailing to China after he is befriended by Turk, a big lumbering sailor who is also in love with Mary. Each man is unaware that they love the same woman.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: Mark
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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Bedside
Title: Bedside
Character: Dr. J. Herbert Martel
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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One Man's Journey
Title: One Man's Journey
Character: McGinnis
Released: August 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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No Marriage Ties
Title: No Marriage Ties
Character: Mr. Zimmer
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Kelley
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Gabriel Over the White House
Title: Gabriel Over the White House
Character: John Bronson
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Character: Police Lt. Frank Martin
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Dan Flynn
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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They Just Had to Get Married
Title: They Just Had to Get Married
Character: Montrose
Released: January 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: John "Boss" Gilmurry
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Inspector Conklin
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: The Warden
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Air Mail
Title: Air Mail
Character: 'Pop'
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: McCullough
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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Heritage of the Desert
Title: Heritage of the Desert
Character: Judson Holderness
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: Tom Blake
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: Dan McKenna
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Horse Feathers
Title: Horse Feathers
Character: Jennings
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
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The Purchase Price
Title: The Purchase Price
Character: Bull McDowell
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
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The Roadhouse Murder
Title: The Roadhouse Murder
Character: Kraft
Released: April 28, 1932
Type: Movie
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates, Roscoe Karns and Purnell Pratt star in this 1932 thriller, directed by J. Walter Ruben.
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Amateur Daddy
Title: Amateur Daddy
Character: Sam Pelgram
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
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It's Tough to Be Famous
Title: It's Tough to Be Famous
Character: Chief Petty Officer Steve Stevens
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of the public, his employer and his PR agent, which he hates. Although he and his long time girlfriend Janet love each other, they are pressured to marry before they are ready. The strain takes its toll on both of them.
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Polly of the Circus
Title: Polly of the Circus
Character: Beef
Released: February 27, 1932
Type: Movie
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Kendall
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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This Reckless Age
Title: This Reckless Age
Character: Matthew Daggett
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
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Taxi!
Title: Taxi!
Character: Buck Gerard
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: State Veterinarian
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Street Scene
Title: Street Scene
Character: Mr. Frank Maurrant
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Circus Boss
Released: June 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.