Otto Lederer

Otto Lederer

Born: April 16, 1886
Died: September 3, 1965
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Movies for Otto Lederer...

Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Character: Uncle Adolph
Released: February 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Bugs McGuire
Released: April 27, 1929
Type: Movie
United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists lost in a Central America banana republic jungle.
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One Stolen Night
Title: One Stolen Night
Character: Abou-Ibu-Adam
Released: March 15, 1929
Type: Movie
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
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Celebrity
Title: Celebrity
Character: Cyclone's Manager
Released: July 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
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You're Darn Tootin'
Title: You're Darn Tootin'
Character: Bandleader
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
Title: Sailor Izzy Murphy
Character: Jake
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume) to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
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The Jazz Singer
Title: The Jazz Singer
Character: Moisha Yudelson
Released: October 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Eber - a Pharisee
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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The Shamrock and the Rose
Title: The Shamrock and the Rose
Character: Rabbi Isaacs
Released: April 14, 1927
Type: Movie
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
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The Cruise of the Jasper B
Title: The Cruise of the Jasper B
Character: Auctioneer
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday-- otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
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The Cloudhopper
Title: The Cloudhopper
Character: The Alaskan Count
Released: June 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: Ambassador Wikked
Released: February 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Poison
Title: Poison
Character: Gale Preston
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Bob Marston, a San Francisco socialite turned amateur detective is assigned to apprehend a gang of bootleggers.
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Behind Two Guns
Title: Behind Two Guns
Character: Olaf Ludovic - aka Dr. Betz
Released: May 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Medicine Man Doctor Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still locked strongbox is opened only to find the money missing and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner now set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.
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The Sword of Valor
Title: The Sword of Valor
Released: May 6, 1924
Type: Movie
American romantic comedy which had the well known Australian actor Snowy Baker as a cast member. The daughter of a Spanish don falls in love with an American captain the moment she sees him. Her father takes the girl to the Riveria, where she is promised to a wealthy cad, but the captain arrives in time to rescue her from him as well as a crazed gypsy who has abducted her.
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Virginian Outcast
Title: Virginian Outcast
Character: Colonel Webster
Released: February 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In the Deep South, plantation owner Col. Webster, who is in dire financial straits, is offered a loan by wealthy neighbor Sam Logan on the condition that Webster's beautiful daughter, Madonna, marry him. Webster turns down the offer, thus angering Logan.
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Hungry Hearts
Title: Hungry Hearts
Character: Gedalyah Mindel
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
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Forget Me Not
Title: Forget Me Not
Character: Rodolfo, The Musician
Released: July 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage, and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan, Jimmy.
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The Dragon's Net
Title: The Dragon's Net
Character: King Carson
Released: August 23, 1920
Type: Movie
A set of eight golden lotus leaves holds the secret for eternal life. A young girl is tricked out of the one she holds, and enlists the aid of an adventurer is tracking down the entire set. Based on "The Petals of Lao-Tze".
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Over the Garden Wall
Title: Over the Garden Wall
Character: James Barstow
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because of his idleness, they must all move to humbler quarters. Peggy adapts quickly to their new surrounding, while Frances misses the social life she once enjoyed. Their neighbors are well off, and Peggy begins a romance with their son, whom she thinks is the chauffeur. Meanwhile, Frances has become involved with a roguish character and plans to elope with him. Peggy saves her sister from imminent disgrace, but comes close to compromising herself instead. Peggy's sweetheart comes to her rescue and now his true identity is revealed to the very grateful girl.
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The Little Boss
Title: The Little Boss
Character: Red O'Rourke
Released: June 2, 1919
Type: Movie
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay were by Rida Johnson Young starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
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The Enchanted Barn
Title: The Enchanted Barn
Released: January 27, 1919
Type: Movie
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
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The Woman in the Web
Title: The Woman in the Web
Character: Col. Bormsk
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An adventure serial released in 1918
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Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Title: Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Character: Ed Wetherford
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Ed Wetherford becomes an outlaw and, to escape imprisonment, abandons his wife Eliza and daughter Virginia. After attending college in the East, Virginia returns to California, where she meets and falls in love with Ross Cavanaugh, a United States ranger.
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The Wild Strain
Title: The Wild Strain
Character: John Calvin Hollywood
Released: January 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.
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Through the Wall
Title: Through the Wall
Character: John Harding
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
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What Did He Whisper?
Title: What Did He Whisper?
Released: August 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Under an assumed name, Phineas courts a widow and makes love to his own wife. He lands in court with a Breach of Promise suit looming big. He confesses, whispers in his wife's ear, and all is forgiven.
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Captain Alvarez
Title: Captain Alvarez
Character: Don Arana - the Foreign Minister
Released: May 18, 1914
Type: Movie
A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionary leader battling evil government spies in Argentina.
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Anne of the Golden Heart
Title: Anne of the Golden Heart
Character: Larkin
Released: January 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Upon the death of his wife, George Blake, an attorney, leaves the east. He first places his pretty young daughter, Lucy, in a convent. After traveling for a few years from place to place, in an endeavor to find some location which he might be happy in, he settles in Lariat Hollow, a mining town. He soon falls in love with a woman of the dance hall named Anne. This incites the jealousy of Larkin, the political boss of the town. To break George Blake, Larkin nominates him for mayor, purposing to have him defeated. Anne suspects the plot and tries to influence Blake to refuse the nomination. But Blake has given his word to enter the contest and goes in to win. Blake's daughter writes to her father that she wishes to remain in the convent and become a nun. The father gives his consent. Now with every eastern tie severed, he asks Anne to marry him. She accepts, but says they will wait until after the election.