Nicholas Dunaew

Nicholas Dunaew

Born: May 22, 1884
Died: January 1, 1963
in Moscow, Russia

Movies for Nicholas Dunaew...

Two Arabian Knights
Title: Two Arabian Knights
Character: Mirza's Man Servant
Released: September 23, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Nasir
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Antonio Verdi
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
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The Velvet Hand
Title: The Velvet Hand
Character: Secretary
Released: September 30, 1918
Type: Movie
On a beach in southern Italy, Gianna Russelli practices her dancing with her devoted brother Russino, looking forward to the day when she will begin formal dance studies. One day the beautiful Countess Michetti comes to the village and engages in a flirtation with Russino, but when her former lover, Prince Viscomte, arrives with his closest friend, Count Paul Trovelli, the countess resumes her affair with the prince.
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The Flower of Doom
Title: The Flower of Doom
Released: April 15, 1917
Type: Movie
The Flower of Doom is a 1917 silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram and starring Wedgwood Nowell, Yvette Mitchell, and Nicholas Dunaew. A reporter has to rescue a singer kidnapped in Chinatown.
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The Pulse of Life
Title: The Pulse of Life
Character: Domenic
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Lisetta, the daughter of a fisherman, lives with her father and brother on the island of Capri. When Serrani, an Italian who has grown wealthy in New York, visits the island, he induces Lisetta to accompany him to America. There he abandons her and she becomes a dancer in an underworld café owned by "Dago" Joe, where she meets the artist Stanford Graham, who employs her as a model. Meanwhile, Lisetta's brother Domenic comes to New York to avenge his sister's dishonor.
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The Reward of the Faithless
Title: The Reward of the Faithless
Character: Feodor Strogoff
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
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The Scarlet Crystal
Title: The Scarlet Crystal
Released: February 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.
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Who Killed Simon Baird
Title: Who Killed Simon Baird
Character: Kimba
Released: April 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Edith and John Maitland will allow David Sterling to marry their daughter Helen as soon as he earns five thousand dollars, so David tries to sell one of his inventions to Simon Baird for that amount. Simon, unable to make up his mind, is found murdered the next day, and David is arrested with five thousand dollars of Simon's money in his possession.
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Snatched from a Burning Death
Title: Snatched from a Burning Death
Character: Samson
Released: March 9, 1915
Type: Movie
LeGrande, an old trapper, refuses to vacate his favorite hunting grounds when ordered to do so by Sampson and other settlers, and his life is only saved through the intervention of his daughter, Joan. The rascals soon learn to fear the girl's keen wit and daring, and Sampson, already pledged to marry Sanchezza, a Mexican girl, falls in love with Joan.
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The Still, Small Voice
Title: The Still, Small Voice
Released: February 23, 1915
Type: Movie
The influence of Musa, a wildly beautiful dumb girl, upon every citizen of Gallows Gulch, a rough western mining town, is almost uncanny. They fear, yet hate her, and claim she has "the evil eye."
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The Spirit of the Poppy
Title: The Spirit of the Poppy
Character: Jules De Fonde
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
A psychological study of the effects of drug addiction on humanity. Helene Ford has been injected with heroin by an unscrupulous physician, causing her to act irrationally. Her husband Stephen, a noted artist, hires a model whom Helene, inflamed by their friend Jack Murray, suspects of having an affair with Stephen. The model is also addicted to drugs and convinces Stephen to try heroin to forget his troubles. Both Stephen and Helene then become addicted to drugs. They abandon their home and then separate, after which Stephen resorts to crime to support his heroin addiction. During an escape from the police after a robbery, Stephen encounters Helene again, this time near death. She sacrifices her own life to shield her husband, but Stephen and his former model plunge to their deaths.