Vernon Steele

Vernon Steele

Born: September 16, 1882
Died: July 23, 1955
in Santiago, Chile
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Vernon Steele (18 September 1882 – 23 July 1955) was a Chilean-born British actor known for his appearances on the Broadway stage and in American films. He often played patrician young men in silent films. Steele was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of Daniel Antonietti, a professor of music, and his English wife, the former Grace Emma Bolton. Vernon Steele was christened Arturo Romeo Antonietti and his family eventually settled in London, England. His sister was actress Hilda Anthony.

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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Priest
Released: August 25, 1949
Type: Movie
After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.
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To the Ends of the Earth
Title: To the Ends of the Earth
Character: Commissioner Lionel Hadley (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Army Doctor
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Title: Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Character: Captain Blair
Released: February 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud, also the mayor of the small Canadian town where the gang is headquartered. Lucky Kerrigan is broken from the mounted service for apparent disobedience to orders, which results in the death of a fellow Mountie. Lucky, working undercover, aids the Mounties in rounding up the gang and gains back his uniform, and also the love of Gabrielle Renaud, Renaud's sister who was unaware of his criminal activities.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Glee Club Member (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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The Witness Vanishes
Title: The Witness Vanishes
Character: Nigel Partridge
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
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The Bill of Rights
Title: The Bill of Rights
Character: Thomas Jefferson
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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North of the Yukon
Title: North of the Yukon
Character: RCMP Insp. Wylie
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
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Flight to Fame
Title: Flight to Fame
Character: Officer
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Captain
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Lord Fenton (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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No matarás
Title: No matarás
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Antonio Guerra is an unemployed Spanish immigrant in the USA. His brother and mother in Spain haven't heard about him for many years or even receive a letter. But one day, his brother receives a letter from him, telling that things are going well. But the reality is other. Antonio is passing a hard time in New Yor City, suffering the Years of Depression as many out of workers. One day, Antonio meets a nice Cuban seller, who invites him to eat at his poor house. The seller advices Antonio to visit a man, who has contacts and could help him to find a job. Nevertheless, Antonio is send with the leader of a group of gangsters, dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcohol. Antonio is offered a work of dealer, but he won't do anything out of the law.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Count Michael Montaine
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Thomas Lawrence
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Detective Orderly Squires
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: King James
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: Col. Gregor McGregor
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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The Great Flirtation
Title: The Great Flirtation
Character: Bigelow
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
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Where Sinners Meet
Title: Where Sinners Meet
Character: Saunders, the Chauffeur
Released: May 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans. They learn a lot about each other, and themselves.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Douglas' First Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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The Silk Express
Title: The Silk Express
Character: Dr. Harold Rolph
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
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The King's Vacation
Title: The King's Vacation
Character: Barstow
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
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Big News
Title: Big News
Character: Reporter
Released: September 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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The Wanters
Title: The Wanters
Character: Tom Armstrong
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Released: March 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Girl Who Ran Wild
Title: The Girl Who Ran Wild
Character: The Schoolmaster
Released: October 9, 1922
Type: Movie
M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her father's murderer. She shows no interest in anything until the new schoolmaster persuades her to tidy herself and get some education. Believing the schoolmaster to be in love with some other girl, M'liss decides to run off with another man.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Christopher Armstrong
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
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The Highest Bidder
Title: The Highest Bidder
Character: Hastings
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
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His House in Order
Title: His House in Order
Character: Hillary Jesson
Released: March 7, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife.
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Human Desire
Title: Human Desire
Character: Jasper Norton
Released: October 31, 1919
Type: Movie
The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna. Bernice falls in love with the baby borrowed for this posing and is filled with sorrow when the child is taken away. Robert, who has become sincerely but honorably in love with the girl, adopts a baby for her. His wife meets Bernice and the baby, believes the worst, and insults her. Bernice takes the child and leaves the house, becoming lost in the city and finally finding refuge in a hospital where the child dies. Robert learns from his wife the reason for Bernice's departure, locates the girl, and, after divorcing his wife, marries her.
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The Phantom Honeymoon
Title: The Phantom Honeymoon
Character: Captain Bob Tidewater
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle, reputed to be haunted, the Hindu caretaker Sakes relates the following tale: Henry Claven, Sakes' master, courted his beautiful neighbor Betty Truesdale, but when she became engaged to Captain Bob Lambert, Claven precipitated a duel by telling Lambert that he knew his mother was a negress
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The Witness for the Defense
Title: The Witness for the Defense
Character: Dick Hazelwood
Released: September 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
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The Firing Line
Title: The Firing Line
Character: John Garret 'Garry' Hamil III
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.
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The Panther Woman
Title: The Panther Woman
Released: November 25, 1918
Type: Movie
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Polly of the Circus
Title: Polly of the Circus
Character: John Douglas the Minister
Released: September 8, 1917
Type: Movie
When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley. The two fall in love and marry secretly. But when the news leaks out, the minister loses his pastorate over disdain by the parishioners for Polly's background as a performer. Polly must decide whether to stay with the man she loves or leave him for the good of his calling.
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Silks and Satins
Title: Silks and Satins
Character: Jacques Desmond
Released: June 12, 1916
Type: Movie
On the eve of her wedding to a man she does not love, young Felicite (Marguerite Clark) stumbles upon a diary written by one of her ancestors.
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The Supreme Sacrifice
Title: The Supreme Sacrifice
Character: Reverend Philip Morton
Released: March 20, 1916
Type: Movie
David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.
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The Vampire
Title: The Vampire
Character: Robert Sterling
Released: August 9, 1915
Type: Movie
The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving silent films.
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Hearts in Exile
Title: Hearts in Exile
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men, separate in station, are in love with Ivanovna: Poor doctor Paul helps as much as he can, and wealthy merchant Serge donates money. The relentless and lascivious Chief of Police, also attracted by Ivanova's beauty and virtue, determines to possess her, and sentences all three to fifteen years in Siberia and East Russia on false charges.