Edmund Breese

Edmund Breese

Born: June 17, 1871
Died: April 6, 1936
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
From Wikipedia

Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front.

His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.

Movies for Edmund Breese...

Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Presiding Judge
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Title: Lost in the Stratosphere
Character: Col. Brooks
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Pirate of the Spanish Main
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Editor
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Come On, Marines!
Title: Come On, Marines!
Character: General Cabot
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
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Dancing Man
Title: Dancing Man
Character: J.C. Trevor
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Maj. Tarrant
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Above the Clouds
Title: Above the Clouds
Character: Crusty
Released: December 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Zander
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Board Member (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Investor (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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A Man of Sentiment
Title: A Man of Sentiment
Character: John Russell Sr.
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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Trying Out Torchy
Title: Trying Out Torchy
Character: Mr. Ellins
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
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How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Title: How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Cabinet Officer
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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Fighting With Kit Carson
Title: Fighting With Kit Carson
Character: Matt Fargo
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
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International House
Title: International House
Character: Doctor Wong
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
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Torchy Turns Turtle
Title: Torchy Turns Turtle
Character: Mr. Ellins
Released: April 23, 1933
Type: Movie
One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
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On Your Guard
Title: On Your Guard
Character: Prison Warden
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Title: Torchy's Kitty Coup
Character: Edward (Hickory) Ellins
Released: January 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
Title: The Billion Dollar Scandal
Character: Mr. Haddock
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Olaf Christofsen
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Madame Butterfly
Title: Madame Butterfly
Character: Cho-Cho's Grandfather
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
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Women Won't Tell
Title: Women Won't Tell
Character: Attorney for the Defense
Released: November 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
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The Golden West
Title: The Golden West
Character: Sam Lynch
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
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Torchy Rolls His Own
Title: Torchy Rolls His Own
Character: Mr. Ellins
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
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Torchy's Busy Day
Title: Torchy's Busy Day
Character: Hickory Ellins
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: Holmes Scott
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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Drifting Souls
Title: Drifting Souls
Character: Brad Martin
Released: August 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
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The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: The Secretary's Father
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
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Alias Mary Smith
Title: Alias Mary Smith
Character: Mr. Hayes
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
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Torchy's Two Toots
Title: Torchy's Two Toots
Character: Hickory Ellins
Released: June 6, 1932
Type: Movie
When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
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As You Desire Me
Title: As You Desire Me
Character: Friar
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Title: Torchy Raises the Auntie
Character: Mr. Ellins
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
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Young Bride
Title: Young Bride
Character: Mr. C. B. Chadwick the Broker
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Torchy's Night Cap
Title: Torchy's Night Cap
Character: Hickory Ellins
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
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Love Bound
Title: Love Bound
Character: J.B. 'Lucky' Morrison
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
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Police Court
Title: Police Court
Character: Judge Robert Webster
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Doc
Released: February 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.
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Cross-Examination
Title: Cross-Examination
Character: Dwight Simpson
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Title: Torchy Turns the Trick
Character: Hickory Ellins
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
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The Hatchet Man
Title: The Hatchet Man
Character: Yu Chang
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
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Mata Hari
Title: Mata Hari
Character: Warden
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Title: Torchy Passes the Buck
Character: Mr. Ellins
Released: December 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
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Platinum Blonde
Title: Platinum Blonde
Character: Conroy
Released: October 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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Morals for Women
Title: Morals for Women
Character: Mr. Hutson
Released: October 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
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Chinatown After Dark
Title: Chinatown After Dark
Character: Le Fong
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
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Torchy
Title: Torchy
Character: Hickory Ellins
Released: October 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Frank Wells
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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Defenders of the Law
Title: Defenders of the Law
Character: Capt. Bill Houston
Released: May 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
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The Good Bad Girl
Title: The Good Bad Girl
Character: J.P. Henderson
Released: May 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
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Young Sinners
Title: Young Sinners
Character: Trent
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
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The She-Wolf
Title: The She-Wolf
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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The Painted Desert
Title: The Painted Desert
Character: Judge Matthews
Released: January 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
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Chiselers of Hollywood
Title: Chiselers of Hollywood
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
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Tol'able David
Title: Tol'able David
Character: Hunter Kinemon
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Jawan
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
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Playboy of Paris
Title: Playboy of Paris
Character: General de Karodek
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Franklin Harris
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
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Top Speed
Title: Top Speed
Character: Spencer Colgate
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
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The Sea Bat
Title: The Sea Bat
Character: Maddocks
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
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Rough Waters
Title: Rough Waters
Character: Captain Thomas
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
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The Czar of Broadway
Title: The Czar of Broadway
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Herr Meyer
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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Hold Everything
Title: Hold Everything
Character: Pop O'Keefe
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
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Girl Overboard
Title: Girl Overboard
Character: Jim Keefe
Released: July 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.
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Sonny Boy
Title: Sonny Boy
Character: Thorpe
Released: April 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
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Fancy Baggage
Title: Fancy Baggage
Character: John Hardin
Released: January 26, 1929
Type: Movie
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: William Holden
Released: December 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Judge
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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The Haunted House
Title: The Haunted House
Character: Uncle Herbert
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
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The Wright Idea
Title: The Wright Idea
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Perfect Crime
Title: The Perfect Crime
Character: Wilmot
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
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Burning Daylight
Title: Burning Daylight
Character: John Dossett
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
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Finders Keepers
Title: Finders Keepers
Character: Hastings
Released: February 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
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Back to Liberty
Title: Back to Liberty
Character: Tom Devon
Released: November 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Uncle Howard
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
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Stepping Along
Title: Stepping Along
Character: Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
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The Brown Derby
Title: The Brown Derby
Character: John J. Caldwell
Released: July 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns that an eccentric uncle has died, leaving him a brown derby said to bring good luck to its wearer. Meanwhile Edith Worthing and her Aunt Anna are expecting Edith's wealthy uncle, Adolph Plummer, from Australia. On a call to their house, Tommy is mistaken for the uncle, being announced as "a plumber," and soon a mutual romance develops with Edith. They are wedded by mistake when serving as witnesses to marriage by elopement. Farrell, a rival for Edith, learns of Tommy's deception and persuades Edith to elope with him; but Tommy follows in hot pursuit, in his pajamas and derby. At the last minute, a message arrives telling Edith that she and Tommy are already married.
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The Highbinders
Title: The Highbinders
Character: Mike Harrigan
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
The Highbinders
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Womanhandled
Title: Womanhandled
Character: Uncle Lester
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
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The Live Wire
Title: The Live Wire
Character: Sawdust Sam
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him know it. He is so smitten that his works suffers to the extent that he is soon just a hobo drifting along the open road. When he again encounters Dorothy, she gets him a job as a salesman with her father's light-and-power company, and proves to be a a real "live-wire" salesman. He is then put in charge of the lighting in an amusement park being built under Dorothy's supervision, and trouble comes many directions, guided by Dorothy's cad fiancée who wants to make the stock in the project worthless so he can buy it cheaply.
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The Early Bird
Title: The Early Bird
Character: The Great La Tour
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to poison the independent milk supply.
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The Speed Spook
Title: The Speed Spook
Character: Chuck Brady
Released: August 30, 1924
Type: Movie
An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
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The Sixth Commandment
Title: The Sixth Commandment
Character: Col. Saunders
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields. However is playing around with a variety of different women.
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Damaged Hearts
Title: Damaged Hearts
Character: Innkeeper
Released: February 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with hostility, David now an adult, goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the adopting family.
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Restless Wives
Title: Restless Wives
Character: Hobart Richards
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.
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Three O'Clock in the Morning
Title: Three O'Clock in the Morning
Character: Mr. Winthrop
Released: December 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Impulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after breaking with her fiance, Clayton Webster. Hugo Von Strohm, a wealthy playboy, procures Elizabeth a job as a chorus dancer and secretly pays her salary. After he tries to seduce her, Elizabeth sees through his kindnesses and returns to her parents and Clayton.
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Bright Lights of Broadway
Title: Bright Lights of Broadway
Character: Reverend Graham Drake
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
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Luck
Title: Luck
Character: Alan Crosby
Released: March 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
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Beyond the Rainbow
Title: Beyond the Rainbow
Character: Insp. Richardson
Released: February 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Title: Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Character: King Cole
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
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Chains of Evidence
Title: Chains of Evidence
Character: Judge Frank Sturgis
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.
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Someone Must Pay
Title: Someone Must Pay
Character: Charles Bryant
Released: September 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Broker Henry Taylor is furious at the attention his wife Regina receives from Charles Bryant, an elderly bachelor. When he comes home one night and finds Regina in Bryant's arms, he orders him to leave. Bryant obliges, but he doesn't go away -- when the Taylors' daughter, Vivian, has a birthday, Bryant gives her a Shetland pony.
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An Honorable Cad
Title: An Honorable Cad
Released: September 2, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Weakness of Strength
Title: The Weakness of Strength
Character: Daniel Gaynor
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
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The Song of the Wage Slave
Title: The Song of the Wage Slave
Released: October 4, 1915
Type: Movie