Martin Faust

Martin Faust

Born: January 16, 1886
Died: July 19, 1943
in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Movies for Martin Faust...

Larceny with Music
Title: Larceny with Music
Character: Bus Driver
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Soldier
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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Hold Your Temper
Title: Hold Your Temper
Character: Moving man
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Foreman (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Miner
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Announcer
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Saddlemates
Title: Saddlemates
Character: Chief Thunder Bird (as Marty Faust)
Released: May 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both have been riled by someone with a hidden agenda - a renegade chief, who is found to be masquerading as an Army interpreter.
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Robbers of the Range
Title: Robbers of the Range
Character: Station Agent (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
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Hullabaloo
Title: Hullabaloo
Character: Pedestrian
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Marty - Lookout
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Second Picker
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Mr. Joe Carter (Uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: Waiter
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Title: Buck Benny Rides Again
Character: Cowhand
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Town Gossip
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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Zorro's Fighting Legion
Title: Zorro's Fighting Legion
Character: Mabesa
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Dighton (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Helmsman
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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Maisie
Title: Maisie
Character: Bailiff (Uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Railwayman (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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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Bus Driver #1
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Turnkey
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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Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Door Attendant (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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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Heir to Trouble
Title: Heir to Trouble
Character: Henchman Ike
Released: December 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
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Pursuit
Title: Pursuit
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Character: Apache
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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High Speed
Title: High Speed
Character: Kelly
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
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The Circus Show-Up
Title: The Circus Show-Up
Character: Yarrow - the Concessionaire (as Martin J. Faust)
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
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Hell Bound
Title: Hell Bound
Character: Omalm
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
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Hello Cheyenne!
Title: Hello Cheyenne!
Character: Jeff Bardeen
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings and Cheynne, Wyoming. Lineman Tom Remington's girlfriend is the daughter of one crew foreman, who wants to win the race in order to re-establish himself in the business. However, the foreman of the other crew has his own scheme to win the race, and will stop at nothing--including kidnapping--to accomplish it.
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Chain Lightning
Title: Chain Lightning
Character: Bannack (as Marte Faust)
Released: August 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Steve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.
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I Am the Man
Title: I Am the Man
Character: Robert McQuade
Released: December 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A jealous politician tries to force a woman to marry him by framing her father for a crime.
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Yolanda
Title: Yolanda
Character: Count Galli
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
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Under the Red Robe
Title: Under the Red Robe
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
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The Silent Command
Title: The Silent Command
Character: Cordoba
Released: August 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his seductress accomplice bent on destroying the Panama Canal.
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Wife Number Two
Title: Wife Number Two
Character: Philip
Released: July 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Bored by her country life and misunderstood by her parents, Emma Rolfe marries Dr. Charles Bovar, an older man whose dedication to his medical practice results in wifely neglect. To alleviate her growing loneliness, Emma enjoys the company of many of the young men from the village and eventually begins an affair with Rudolph Bulwer.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Character: Author
Released: June 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her. Caroline has a dream where she marries the man, who turns vicious and keeps her locked up in his mansion. He finally dies, and Caroline starts out having a good time with his money, but she sees the folly of her ways. She wakes up from the dream.
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Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph
Title: Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph
Character: Count Carl
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge Winters' home attracts him, and he crouches on the fire-escape to watch it. He becomes interested in the Judge, in his pretty daughter Peggy, in her cousin Flo, in Flo's admirer, the Count, and in Bob Ewing, a struggling young lawyer.
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The Kiss of Hate
Title: The Kiss of Hate
Character: Nicholas (as Martin J. Faust)
Released: April 3, 1916
Type: Movie
When Count Peter Turgeneff, his daughter, Nadia, and Paul, his generous-hearted son, came to live in the Governor's palace in the Russian province of Valogda, there was rejoicing among the oppressed race whose home was in the Ghetto.
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A Yellow Streak
Title: A Yellow Streak
Character: Outlaw
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Wall street broker Barry Dale is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard Marvin . This Marvin does so that he can win Dale's wife Virginia away from the discredited broker. Dispirited and disillusioned, Dale heads to the West for a fresh start in life. Unfortunately, he soon develops the reputation as a coward, but he manages to dispel this by becoming a notorious outlaw, reasoning that highway robbery is not all that different from Wall Street chicanery.
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Emmy of Stork's Nest
Title: Emmy of Stork's Nest
Character: Jim Whitlicks
Released: October 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untutored but attractive girl, just budding into womanhood.
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Chelsea 7750
Title: Chelsea 7750
Released: September 20, 1913
Type: Movie
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Until We Three Meet Again
Title: Until We Three Meet Again
Character: Martin Wynne
Released: March 7, 1913
Type: Movie
As James Abbott, Frank Arthur and Martin Wynne, college chums, are bidding farewell to one another at the commencement ball, James discovers that May Scott, whom he loves, favors Frank. He conceals his disappointment and just before they part, he suggests that each man write on a slip of paper, to be put in the back of his watch, the words "Until we three meet again, Thursday, June 12th, ten years from today."
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Pillars of Society
Title: Pillars of Society
Character: Johan
Released: May 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Bernick and Johan Tonnesen are close friends, living in Norway. Bernick is engaged to marry Johan's sister, who is an heiress. He is simply marring her for her money, as he is really in love with the wife of an actor. While on a visit to his old love, in which he hopes to break off the affair, the woman's husband unexpectedly enters the room, and Bernick is compelled to escape by the window. Johan, upon learning of his friend's threatened disgrace, assumes Bernick's guilt, and leaves the country for America. Bernick takes advantage of his friend's chivalry by allowing it to be generally believed that Johan also misappropriated funds. In reality, Bernick was guilty of this crime as well as the other.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Character: Vicar
Released: December 26, 1910
Type: Movie
Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of film language and cinematic techniques over the ensuing eight year period.
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The Winter's Tale
Title: The Winter's Tale
Character: Leontes - The King of Sicilia
Released: May 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Sicilian king Leontes jealously accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and while imprisoned, she delivers a child. Sent away, the child is raised by Bohemian shepherds. The Winter's Tale was the first of six Shakespeare adaptations from Thanhouser, and was the 13th or 14th title from the studio in its first nine weeks of releases.