Roland Varno

Roland Varno

Born: March 15, 1908
Died: May 24, 1996
in Utrecht, Netherlands

Movies for Roland Varno...

Istanbul
Title: Istanbul
Character: Mr. Florian
Released: January 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
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The Mad Magician
Title: The Mad Magician
Character: Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
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Scared to Death
Title: Scared to Death
Character: Ward Van Ee
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
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Flight to Nowhere
Title: Flight to Nowhere
Character: James Van Bush
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
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Follow That Woman
Title: Follow That Woman
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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My Name Is Julia Ross
Title: My Name Is Julia Ross
Character: Dennis Bruce
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
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Betrayal from the East
Title: Betrayal from the East
Character: Kurt Guenther
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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The Master Key
Title: The Master Key
Character: Arnold Hoffman
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
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The Unwritten Code
Title: The Unwritten Code
Character: Cpl. Karl Richter
Released: October 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central character is supporting-actor Roland Varno. He plays a Nazi spy who sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent. The most interesting aspect of The Unwritten Code is the casting of Savage and Neal as the "good" characters: in 1945, these two cult favorites would play the decidedly unsavory protagonists of the film noir classic Detour.
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The Return of the Vampire
Title: The Return of the Vampire
Character: John Ainsley
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Jan Pavel
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Gunnery Captain (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
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Valley of Hunted Men
Title: Valley of Hunted Men
Character: Nazi posing as Paul Schiller
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis war criminals may be heading towards the local valley.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Aide-de-camp
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Bauer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: De Revenau's Friend at Opera (Uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
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Devil Pays Off
Title: Devil Pays Off
Character: Ship's Doctor
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Steward (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Ernst Demmler
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Lt. Schmidt
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Dr. Eric Von Scherer
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: German Officer (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: Lieutenant Nikitin
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Gunga Din
Title: Gunga Din
Character: Lt. Markham (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1939
Type: Movie
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Czar's Officer (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Quality Street
Title: Quality Street
Character: Ens. Blades
Released: March 26, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Consul Clerk
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Het Meisje met den Blauwen Hoed
Title: Het Meisje met den Blauwen Hoed
Character: Soldaat Daantje
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
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The Girl in the Blue Hat
Title: The Girl in the Blue Hat
Character: Daantje
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
When grocers's son Daantje Pieters is drafted, he falls for a girl in a blue hat he spots aboard the train to the garrison. At the barracks in The Hague, crafty conman Toontje takes Daantje under his wing. Toontje decides to help him look for his dream girl, but draws the line at them planning an engagement — for such things are not for soldiers.
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Malle Gevallen
Title: Malle Gevallen
Character: Boy de Wit
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Three students decide to share a flat, each courting a young woman. While they pass the time teasing their rival Piet Janssen (de Klit) and nosy neighbour Mr. Smallebroek, rumours and arguments threaten to drive the boys and their crushes apart.
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Private Jones
Title: Private Jones
Character: Lt. Brinkerhoff (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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As You Desire Me
Title: As You Desire Me
Character: Albert
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
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Arsène Lupin
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Jean Moucante (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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The Man in Search of His Murderer
Title: The Man in Search of His Murderer
Released: February 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
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The Blue Angel
Title: The Blue Angel
Character: Pupil
Released: April 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
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Zwischen vierzehn und siebzehn
Title: Zwischen vierzehn und siebzehn
Released: September 26, 1929
Type: Movie