Holmes Herbert

Holmes Herbert

Born: July 30, 1882
Died: December 26, 1956
in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952.

Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940).

He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s.

Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955.

He died in 1956 at age 74.

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The Brigand
Title: The Brigand
Character: Archbishop
Released: June 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo, whom bears a remarkable resemblance to Delargo. When the king is wounded by assassins sent by Napoleon, Delargo takes over the throne at the request of the Prime Minister in a plot to thwart the traitors. He also falls in love with Princess Teresa, the king's fiancée.
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The Wild North
Title: The Wild North
Character: Magistrate (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
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The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Title: The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Constable (Uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
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Anne of the Indies
Title: Anne of the Indies
Character: English Sea Captain
Released: October 18, 1951
Type: Movie
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle's true identity as a former French navy officer.
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The Iroquois Trail
Title: The Iroquois Trail
Character: Gen. Johnson
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
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Barbary Pirate
Title: Barbary Pirate
Character: Thomas Jefferson
Released: November 10, 1949
Type: Movie
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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Post Office Investigator
Title: Post Office Investigator
Character: James Seeley
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
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The Lost Tribe
Title: The Lost Tribe
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.
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South of St. Louis
Title: South of St. Louis
Released: March 6, 1949
Type: Movie
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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Jungle Jim
Title: Jungle Jim
Character: Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Lady scientist, Hilary Parker is searching for a rare drug to help combat polio. Opportunist Bruce Edwards joins the quest but is actually after gold and buried treasure.
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Family Honeymoon
Title: Family Honeymoon
Character: Rev. Miller (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Wilkins (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Warder (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Title: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Character: Pastor West
Released: February 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
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The Swordsman
Title: The Swordsman
Character: Lord Glowan
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Inspector McIver
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.
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Singapore
Title: Singapore
Character: Rev. Barnes
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Title: The Ghost Goes Wild
Character: Judge
Released: August 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
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Ivy
Title: Ivy
Character: Mulloy (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1947
Type: Movie
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar
Released: May 15, 1947
Type: Movie
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.
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Over the Santa Fe Trail
Title: Over the Santa Fe Trail
Character: Doc Henderson
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Curt Mason saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the Morrell gang but later earns the enmity of Carolyn when he blames the troupe for polluting a local watering hole. Arriving in town, the medicine show, which consists of Doc Henderson, Taffy, the singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots and Carolyn, begin their performance while Curt is unsuccessfully attempting to stop the Morrell gang from robbing the bank. The sheriff mistakes Curt for one of the gang, and to save their friend, Curt's buddies Biscuit and Big Boy stampede their cattle through town. In order to clear his good name, Curt and his friends go in search of the real bank robbers, who as it turns out are working under orders from Doc Henderson.
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Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Title: Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Character: Dr. White, Minister
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy goes to college after serving in the war and finds his sweetheart is engaged to someone else.
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The Verdict
Title: The Verdict
Character: Sir William Dawson
Released: November 23, 1946
Type: Movie
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Ebenezer Crabtree
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
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Three Strangers
Title: Three Strangers
Character: Sir Robert
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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Confidential Agent
Title: Confidential Agent
Character: Lord Benditch
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Title: Swingin' on a Rainbow
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Melvyn Russell
Released: July 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Alan Cosgrave
Released: March 16, 1945
Type: Movie
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
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The Mummy's Curse
Title: The Mummy's Curse
Character: Dr. Cooper
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
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Enter Arsène Lupin
Title: Enter Arsène Lupin
Character: Jobson
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
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The Unwritten Code
Title: The Unwritten Code
Character: McDowell (uncredited)
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 Pearl of Death
Title: The Pearl of Death
Character: James Goodram, courier
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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The Uninvited
Title: The Uninvited
Character: Charlie Jessup
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
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Calling Dr. Death
Title: Calling Dr. Death
Character: Bryant, the Butler
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Commodore Ramsay
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Kilgallen
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Mr. Ahrens
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character: Sir Reginald
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
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The Undying Monster
Title: The Undying Monster
Character: Chief Constable (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
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Strictly in the Groove
Title: Strictly in the Groove
Character: Commissioner
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: Sir Alfred Spencer
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Danger in the Pacific
Title: Danger in the Pacific
Character: Commissioner
Released: June 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent Leo Marzeli in search of rare minerals. They soon run afoul of crooked trader Tagani, who's been busily stockpiling weapons in the hills on behalf of his Nazi partners.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Dr. Mathias
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
Title: The Ghost of Frankenstein
Character: Magistrate
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Saul Farnsworthy
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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The Letter
Title: The Letter
Character: Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1940
Type: Movie
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Asst. Commissioner
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Sir Edward
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Second Banker
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Everything Happens at Night
Title: Everything Happens at Night
Character: Featherstone
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Police Inspector
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Councilman (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Title: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character: Majordomo (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: Arthur Bennett
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: Dean Norris
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Intermezzo: A Love Story
Title: Intermezzo: A Love Story
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
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Hidden Power
Title: Hidden Power
Character: Dr. Morley
Released: September 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Justice of the Court
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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Stanley and Livingstone
Title: Stanley and Livingstone
Character: Frederick Holcomb
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Mr. McNeil
Released: July 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson, a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily and takes some of the firm's money to cover his losses.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Minor Role
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Marshal Randon (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Trapped in the Sky
Title: Trapped in the Sky
Character: Fielding
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
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The Sun Never Sets
Title: The Sun Never Sets
Character: Colonial Official
Released: May 31, 1939
Type: Movie
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
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Wolf Call
Title: Wolf Call
Character: J.L. Winton
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
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The Little Princess
Title: The Little Princess
Character: Doctor
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Mystery of the White Room
Title: Mystery of the White Room
Character: Hospital Administrator
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Prof. Ed Janney
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Title: Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Character: Bentham (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Richard Carrington Sr.
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Herald (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Judge
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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The Buccaneer
Title: The Buccaneer
Character: Captain McWilliams
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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The Black Doll
Title: The Black Doll
Character: Dr. Giddings
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
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Here's Flash Casey
Title: Here's Flash Casey
Character: Maj. Addison
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: Aaron Burr
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)
Released: September 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Commander
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Roscoe Crosby
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: First Doctor
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Spokesman
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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The House of Secrets
Title: The House of Secrets
Character: Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary
Released: October 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
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15 Maiden Lane
Title: 15 Maiden Lane
Character: Harold Anderson
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
Title: The Gentleman from Louisiana
Character: Chief Steward
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: War Minister (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Captain Dell
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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Brilliant Marriage
Title: Brilliant Marriage
Character: Mr. Rodney Allison
Released: March 25, 1936
Type: Movie
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Frawley (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Capt. Gardner
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Accent on Youth
Title: Accent on Youth
Character: Frank Galloway
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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Mark of the Vampire
Title: Mark of the Vampire
Character: Sir Karell Borotyn
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Title: Cardinal Richelieu
Character: Noble
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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One in a Million
Title: One in a Million
Character: Donald Cabot Sr.
Released: March 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
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Sons of Steel
Title: Sons of Steel
Character: Curtis Chadburne
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: John Scorsby
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Character: Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Lord Landslake
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Chief of Police
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Dr. Rasmussen
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Sister to Judas
Title: Sister to Judas
Character: Bruce Rogers
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Benefit Emcee (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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Miss Pinkerton
Title: Miss Pinkerton
Character: Arthur Glenn
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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Shop Angel
Title: Shop Angel
Character: James Walton Kennedy
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himself is in love with her.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Dr. John Lanyon
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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Daughter of the Dragon
Title: Daughter of the Dragon
Character: Sir John Petrie
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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Broadminded
Title: Broadminded
Character: John J. Hackett Sr.
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
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Chances
Title: Chances
Character: Maj. Bradford
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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The Hot Heiress
Title: The Hot Heiress
Character: Mr. Hunter
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
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The Single Sin
Title: The Single Sin
Character: Roger Van Dorn
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.
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The Ship from Shanghai
Title: The Ship from Shanghai
Character: Paul Thorpe
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Howard Presley
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Lassalle
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Sir Roscoe Crosby
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
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The Careless Age
Title: The Careless Age
Character: Sir John
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
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Her Private Life
Title: Her Private Life
Character: Rudolph Solomon
Released: August 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Noel
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
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Say It with Songs
Title: Say It with Songs
Character: Dr. Robert Merrill
Released: August 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
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Careers
Title: Careers
Character: Carouge
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
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The Charlatan
Title: The Charlatan
Character: Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they're having at her house. What the woman doesn't realize is that the "fortune-teller" is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the "charlatan" is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Gerald Trask
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
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Through the Breakers
Title: Through the Breakers
Character: Eustis Hobbs
Released: September 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Goodman (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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The Sporting Age
Title: The Sporting Age
Character: James Driscoll
Released: March 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight. He keeps this from his wife, who continues her affair. Finally, he invites his young niece Nancy Driscoll (Josephine Borio) in the hopes she will fall for Philip and vice-versa. His ploy works, James reveals he can see again, and husband and wife are reconciled.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Henry Spoffard
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
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The Silver Slave
Title: The Silver Slave
Character: Tom Richards
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
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East Side, West Side
Title: East Side, West Side
Character: Gilbert Van Horn
Released: October 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing prowess.
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When a Man Loves
Title: When a Man Loves
Character: Jean Tiberge
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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Slaves of Beauty
Title: Slaves of Beauty
Character: Leonard Jones
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
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The Heart of Salome
Title: The Heart of Salome
Character: Sir Humphrey
Released: May 8, 1927
Type: Movie
1927 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon.
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Mr. Wu
Title: Mr. Wu
Character: Mr. Gregory
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
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One Increasing Purpose
Title: One Increasing Purpose
Character: Charles Paris
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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The Fire Brigade
Title: The Fire Brigade
Character: James Corwin
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
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Josselyn's Wife
Title: Josselyn's Wife
Character: Thomas Josselyn
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre Marchand, her former lover, who left her to marry Ellen Latimer.
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The Honeymoon Express
Title: The Honeymoon Express
Character: Jim Donaldson
Released: September 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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A Woman of the World
Title: A Woman of the World
Character: Richard Granger
Released: December 28, 1925
Type: Movie
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
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The Wanderer
Title: The Wanderer
Character: Prophet
Released: August 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.
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Up the Ladder
Title: Up the Ladder
Character: Robert Newhall
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Title: Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Released: March 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.
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Sinners in Heaven
Title: Sinners in Heaven
Character: Hugh Rochedale
Released: September 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.
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The Enchanted Cottage
Title: The Enchanted Cottage
Character: Major Hillgrove
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.
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A Woman's Woman
Title: A Woman's Woman
Character: John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
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Moonshine Valley
Title: Moonshine Valley
Character: Dr. Martin
Released: August 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate brings a sick visitor to their shack. The guest, Dr. Martin, is cared for by Connors' wife, who falls in love with him. When Connors returns to the shack after striking it rich, he finds his wife and Martin together.
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Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Judge Rowland
Released: May 5, 1922
Type: Movie
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Any Wife
Title: Any Wife
Character: Philip Gray
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Wild Goose
Title: The Wild Goose
Character: Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
While visiting New York, Ogden Fenn finds himself charmed with Diana Manners, wife of Frank Manners, an architect who is away on business in San Francisco, and they become involved. The husband returns unexpectedly and learns that his wife loves Fenn. When Diana and Fenn go to the latter's cabin near New York, Mrs. Hastings, who though married loves Frank, persuades him not to interfere because of the effects on his child. Mr. Hastings, learning of his wife's own infidelity, motors to the cabin, forces Fenn into his car, and drives the vehicle over a steep embankment.
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The Truth About Husbands
Title: The Truth About Husbands
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Lord Falkland
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
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Lady Rose's Daughter
Title: Lady Rose's Daughter
Character: Jacob Delafield
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of her daughter. Julie is buffeted by the ill treatment of her mother's family and nearly ruined by a fortune hunter, but her own resources and goodness stand her in good stead.
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Black Is White
Title: Black Is White
Character: Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Released: March 7, 1920
Type: Movie
A man's jealousy of his wife ruins their marriage. She leaves, taking a new name and beginning anew. Years later, they meet, but the husband does not know it is she. They marry, with the wife hoping that time has changed her husband for the better.
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His House in Order
Title: His House in Order
Character: Filmer Jesson
Released: March 7, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife.
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On with the Dance
Title: On with the Dance
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Sonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a young architect, but their marriage is not a good one. Sonia falls under the spell of a rich Broadway mogul, Jimmy Sutherland, whose wife is in love with Peter. The mix of relationships comes crashing apart when Sutherland ends up murdered.
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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The ABC of Love
Title: The ABC of Love
Character: Harry Bryant
Released: December 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.
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The White Heather
Title: The White Heather
Character: Lord Angus Cameron
Released: June 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Lord Angus Cameron's marriage to a woman of his titled Scottish class is thwarted by his secret marriage years before to Marion Hume, the housekeeper of the castle. Cameron attempts to repudiate the marriage, the only record of which is a certificate in the sunken wreck of a yacht, The White Heather . Marion goes to court to prove her claim and secure the rights of her son by Cameron, but is defeated. Alec McClintock, who is in love with Marion, and Cameron both want to recover the record, so they don diving suits and descend to the wreck. An underwater struggle ensues and Cameron severs his own air tube and drowns while attempting to cut off his rival's air supply. Alec then recovers the marriage record and wins Marion. —AFI
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The Divorcee
Title: The Divorcee
Character: Sir Paradine Fuldes
Released: January 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.
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The Death Dance
Title: The Death Dance
Character: Arnold Maitland
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Arnold Maitland is devastated when he finds out that his wife Cynthia is having an affair with a man named Boresky. He falls in love with Flora Farnsworth, a cabaret dancer, and sets out to divorce his wife and marry Flora. Unfortunately, Arnold is killed in an accident, and Flora turns for comfort to his business partner Philip Standish, and soon falls for him. Enter Cynthia, who has tired of Boresky and wants Philip for herself. She hatches a plan that will get rid of both Flora and Boresky and leave Philip for her.
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Thorvald Helmar
Released: June 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen's classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her father's name and comes to grief therefore is retained.
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: Lt. Philip Nolan
Released: September 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Convicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the name of the United States of America. The judge grants him his wish, sentencing him to life aboard a ship always at sea, aboard with sailors under orders never to let him hear of his homeland in any way. The punishment nearly destroys him, while changing him thoroughly.
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The Fisherwoman
Title: The Fisherwoman
Character: The Son
Released: October 31, 1915
Type: Movie
The Fisherwoman was a dominant force on the busy island. Unaided she had built up a large business. She employed many fishermen, and grew wealthier year by year. She sent her son to college, and was delighted when he told her, after graduation, that he intended to help her in the work. Contact with the world, however, had spoiled him for a narrow life. The mother divined his secret, although he tried to hide it. "You have your own life to live, my son," she said, "and I would not keep you here." The son's progress in business was rapid. One day word came from him that he was married, and he sent his mother the picture of his bride. Time passed, and the son wrote more and more infrequently. The mother believed that the wife was to blame, and although they had never met, she began to hate her bitterly.
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His Wife
Title: His Wife
Character: John Dennys
Released: October 28, 1915
Type: Movie
Henry Dennys, a wealthy Englishman, has two sons who are frequently brought into the company of Edith Danvers, whose father, a retired general, lives on the adjoining property. As the youths approach manhood each one unknown to the other is secretly in love with the girl.