Nicholas Soussanin

Nicholas Soussanin

Born: January 16, 1889
Died: April 27, 1975
in Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire
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Nicholas Soussanin (born 16 January 1889, Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [present-day Crimea, Ukraine] – 27 April 1975, New York City, New York) was a Russian actor who settled and worked in the United States. He was married to the film star Olga Baclanova from 1929-39, and was the grandfather of actress Lanna Saunders.

He had at least two children (a son born from a previous relationship before his marriage to Olga Baclanova), and a son, Nicholas Soussanin Jr., born with Baclanova in 1930.

Movies for Nicholas Soussanin...

Black Magic
Title: Black Magic
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
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Those High Grey Walls
Title: Those High Grey Walls
Character: 'Lindy' Lindstrom
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Settler
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: French colonel (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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A Parisian Romance
Title: A Parisian Romance
Character: Emil
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
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Downstairs
Title: Downstairs
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Arsène Lupin
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Martin's Butler (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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Daughter of the Dragon
Title: Daughter of the Dragon
Character: Morloff
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: Convict
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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The Squall
Title: The Squall
Character: El Moro
Released: May 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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Trent's Last Case
Title: Trent's Last Case
Character: Martin
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
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Adoration
Title: Adoration
Character: Vladimir
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
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Night Watch
Title: Night Watch
Released: September 9, 1928
Type: Movie
Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
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The Woman Disputed
Title: The Woman Disputed
Character: Count
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
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The Yellow Lily
Title: The Yellow Lily
Character: Dr. Eugene Peredy
Released: May 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
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The Last Command
Title: The Last Command
Character: The adjutant
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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The Spotlight
Title: The Spotlight
Character: Daniel Hoffman
Released: November 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical producer. As Olga Rostova, an exotic Russian, she meets Norman Brooke, whose infatuation turns to love. Hoffman suggests that Norman could never care for Lizzie and proves his point. Heartbroken, Lizzie decides to see no more of him. On closing night, when he proposes to her in her dressing room and she refuses, Norman declares he must believe all the lurid details of her past; in desperation, she bares her true identity, only to find it is not her glamorous image but rather her real self that he loves.
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A Gentleman of Paris
Title: A Gentleman of Paris
Character: Joseph Talineau
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't enough to keep him busy, the Marquis also has to cope with an unexpected visit from his fiancée and her father.
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The Yankee Clipper
Title: The Yankee Clipper
Character: Prince Consort
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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One Increasing Purpose
Title: One Increasing Purpose
Character: Jule
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Baron Fredrikson
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
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The Midnight Sun
Title: The Midnight Sun
Character: Duke's Aide
Released: April 23, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Swan
Title: The Swan
Character: Lutzow
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.