John Loder

John Loder

Born: January 2, 1898
Died: December 26, 1988
in London, England, UK
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John Loder (3 January 1898 — 26 December 1988) was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the Irish 1916 Rising in Dublin, surrendered. Both General Lowe and his son were present at the surrender of Pearse.

He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College and followed his father into the army, commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant on 17 March 1915, and then serving in the Gallipoli Campaign and at one point being imprisoned by the Germans.

Upon being released, he stayed in Germany to run a pickle factory and also began to develop an interest in acting, appearing in bit-parts in a few German films. He left Germany to briefly return to England and then headed to Hollywood to try his luck in the new medium, Talkies. He appeared in The Doctor's Secret, which was Paramount's first talking picture—though his very English persona didn't win America over at this time and he returned to England where he co-starred in plush musicals and intrigue such as Love Life and Laughter and Sabotage. He was the male romantic interest in the 1937 original film version of King Solomon's Mines.

When World War II started he returned to America where he seamlessly coasted into a career in 'B' movie roles usually playing upper crust characters with occasional appearances on Broadway. He occasionally did play roles, though supporting ones, in major 'A' films such as How Green Was My Valley, in which he was at the same time one of Roddy McDowall's brothers and Donald Crisp's sons.

In 1947 he became an American citizen, his last screen appearance was in 1971. In 1959 he became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom as he has been of "uncertain nationality".

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The Firechasers
Title: The Firechasers
Character: Routledge
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
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Allá donde el viento brama
Title: Allá donde el viento brama
Released: June 15, 1963
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.
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The Secret Man
Title: The Secret Man
Character: Major Anderson
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Ponsford 'The Duke'
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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Josette of New Orleans
Title: Josette of New Orleans
Character: The Colonel
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Josette of New Orleans
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The Story of Esther Costello
Title: The Story of Esther Costello
Character: Paul Marchant
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
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Small Hotel
Title: Small Hotel
Character: Mr. Finch
Released: October 14, 1957
Type: Movie
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
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Woman and the Hunter
Title: Woman and the Hunter
Character: Mitchell Gifford
Released: January 13, 1957
Type: Movie
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Preston Mitchell
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Dishonored Lady
Title: Dishonored Lady
Character: Felix Courtland
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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One More Tomorrow
Title: One More Tomorrow
Character: Owen Arthur
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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The Wife of Monte Cristo
Title: The Wife of Monte Cristo
Character: De Villefort, Prefect of Police
Released: April 22, 1946
Type: Movie
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
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The Fighting Guardsman
Title: The Fighting Guardsman
Character: Sir John Tanley
Released: January 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
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Woman Who Came Back
Title: Woman Who Came Back
Character: Dr. Matt Adams
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
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A Game of Death
Title: A Game of Death
Character: Don Rainsford
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Dr. David Brent
Released: July 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Reginald Parker / Edward Grey
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Abroad with Two Yanks
Title: Abroad with Two Yanks
Character: Aussie Sgt. Cyril North
Released: August 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
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The Hairy Ape
Title: The Hairy Ape
Character: Tony Lazar
Released: July 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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Passage to Marseille
Title: Passage to Marseille
Character: Manning
Released: March 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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Old Acquaintance
Title: Old Acquaintance
Character: Preston Drake
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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Adventure in Iraq
Title: Adventure in Iraq
Character: George Torrence
Released: September 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Five Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be.
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Murder on the Waterfront
Title: Murder on the Waterfront
Character: Holbrook
Released: September 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
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The Mysterious Doctor
Title: The Mysterious Doctor
Character: Sir Henry Leland
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
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The Gorilla Man
Title: The Gorilla Man
Character: Captain Craig Killian
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Carlton De Witt
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Now, Voyager
Title: Now, Voyager
Character: Elliot Livingston
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Paddy Carson
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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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: Captain Lionel Channing
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Ianto Morgan
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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One Night In Lisbon
Title: One Night In Lisbon
Character: Cmdr. Peter Walmsley
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
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Scotland Yard
Title: Scotland Yard
Character: Sir John Lasher
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Reggie Carstairs
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Diamond Frontier
Title: Diamond Frontier
Character: Dr. Charles Clayton
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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Adventure in Diamonds
Title: Adventure in Diamonds
Character: Michael Barclay
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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Meet Maxwell Archer
Title: Meet Maxwell Archer
Character: Maxwell Archer
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
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Threats
Title: Threats
Character: Dick Stone
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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Murder Will Out
Title: Murder Will Out
Character: Dr. Paul Raymond
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
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The Silent Battle
Title: The Silent Battle
Character: Bordier
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.
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Anything to Declare?
Title: Anything to Declare?
Character: Capt. Rufus Grant
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
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Peace on the Rhine
Title: Peace on the Rhine
Character: Émile Scheffer
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: Le Tsar Alexandre II de Russie
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
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Owd Bob
Title: Owd Bob
Character: David Moore
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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Under Secret Orders
Title: Under Secret Orders
Character: Lt. Peter Carr
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
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Non-Stop New York
Title: Non-Stop New York
Character: Inspector Jim Grant
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Doctor Syn
Title: Doctor Syn
Character: Denis Cobtree
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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King Solomon's Mines
Title: King Solomon's Mines
Character: Sir Henry Curtis
Released: June 17, 1937
Type: Movie
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Ted
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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Queen of Hearts
Title: Queen of Hearts
Character: Derek Cooper
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind
Title: The Man Who Changed His Mind
Character: Dick Haslewood
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
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Guilty Melody
Title: Guilty Melody
Character: Richard Carter
Released: July 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy.
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Ourselves Alone
Title: Ourselves Alone
Character: Captain Wiltshire
Released: April 27, 1936
Type: Movie
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Title: Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
Character: Prince Lobkowitz
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Mozart biopic.
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Paul
Released: June 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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The Silent Passenger
Title: The Silent Passenger
Character: John Ryder
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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18 Minutes
Title: 18 Minutes
Character: Trelawney
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: John Ridd
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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My Song Goes Round the World
Title: My Song Goes Round the World
Character: Rico
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
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Sing As We Go
Title: Sing As We Go
Character: Hugh Phillips
Released: September 13, 1934
Type: Movie
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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Java Head
Title: Java Head
Character: Gerrit Ammidon
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
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The Battle
Title: The Battle
Character: Fergan
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
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Rolling in Money
Title: Rolling in Money
Character: Lord Gawthorpe
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
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Love, Life and Laughter
Title: Love, Life and Laughter
Character: Prince Charles
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
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You Made Me Love You
Title: You Made Me Love You
Character: Harry Berne
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: Peynell
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Money for Speed
Title: Money for Speed
Character: Mitch
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
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Wedding Rehearsal
Title: Wedding Rehearsal
Character: John Hopkins aka Bimbo
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
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Money Means Nothing
Title: Money Means Nothing
Character: Earl Egbert
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Mr. Loder
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
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Seas Beneath
Title: Seas Beneath
Character: Franz Shiller
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Hayes
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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Sweethearts and Wives
Title: Sweethearts and Wives
Character: Sam Worthington
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
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The Man Hunter
Title: The Man Hunter
Character: George Castle
Released: May 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin leaves his usual far north and ranch settings for Africa.
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The Second Floor Mystery
Title: The Second Floor Mystery
Character: Fraser-Freer's Younger Brother
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Walter Harker
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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The Racketeer
Title: The Racketeer
Character: Jack Oakhurst
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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Love, Live & Laugh
Title: Love, Live & Laugh
Character: Dr. Price
Released: November 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.
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Her Private Affair
Title: Her Private Affair
Character: Carl Weild
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
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The Unholy Night
Title: The Unholy Night
Character: Captain Dorchester
Released: September 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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Black Waters
Title: Black Waters
Character: Charles
Released: April 5, 1929
Type: Movie
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Ashleigh Preston
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
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The Doctor's Secret
Title: The Doctor's Secret
Character: Hugh Paton
Released: January 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The Doctor's Secret is a 1929 American drama film directed by William C. deMille and written by William C. deMille. The film stars Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner, John Loder, Robert Edeson, Wilfred Noy and Ethel Wales. It is based on a play by J. M. Barrie.
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The First Born
Title: The First Born
Character: Lord David Harborough
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
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Fair Game
Title: Fair Game
Character: Oberleutnant von Rohnstedt
Released: February 21, 1928
Type: Movie
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A Daughter Of Destiny
Title: A Daughter Of Destiny
Character: Viscount
Released: January 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
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Die weiße Spinne
Title: Die weiße Spinne
Released: October 26, 1927
Type: Movie