George Zucco

George Zucco

Born: January 10, 1886
Died: May 27, 1960
in Manchester, England, UK
From Wikipedia

George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in 96 films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1951. In his horror films, he often played a suave villain or a mad doctor.

Movies for George Zucco...

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Title: Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Character: Dr. Moriarty (archive footage)
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ace Zucco has a new partner, reporter Fay Kendall, who is more than a match for the rowdy photographer. Daily Dispatch editor Mac sends them on assignment accompanying his niece Kate as she tries to find Rick Banning, her fiancée, an archeologist who disappeared while working in Egypt. A letter from Rick directs them to Lord Darby in England. The trail takes them from London to Scotland and finally to Egypt where they discover more than they bargained for as they search for the lost city of Lemuria.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Dr. Joseph Van Ee (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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The Horror of It All
Title: The Horror of It All
Character: Dr. Cameron (archive footage)
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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Doom of Dracula
Title: Doom of Dracula
Character: Prof. Lampini
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
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David and Bathsheba
Title: David and Bathsheba
Character: Egyptian Ambassador (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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The First Legion
Title: The First Legion
Character: Father Robert Stuart
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
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Flame Of Stamboul
Title: Flame Of Stamboul
Character: The Voice
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice". Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 drama stars Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, George Zucco, Nestor Paiva, Donald Randolph and Dick Elliott.
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Let's Dance
Title: Let's Dance
Character: Judge Mackenzie
Released: November 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
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Harbor of Missing Men
Title: Harbor of Missing Men
Character: H.G. Danziger
Released: March 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Dubocage
Released: August 25, 1949
Type: Movie
After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.
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The Barkleys of Broadway
Title: The Barkleys of Broadway
Character: The Judge
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
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The Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden
Character: Dr. Fortescue
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Constable of Clervaux
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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The Pirate
Title: The Pirate
Character: The Viceroy
Released: June 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
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Secret Service Investigator
Title: Secret Service Investigator
Character: Otto Dagoff
Released: May 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Title: Tarzan and the Mermaids
Character: Palanth, the High Priest
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Title: Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Character: Doc Hugo Robbin
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
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Captain from Castile
Title: Captain from Castile
Character: Marquis De Carvajal
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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Where There's Life
Title: Where There's Life
Character: Paul Stertorius
Released: November 21, 1947
Type: Movie
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
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Desire Me
Title: Desire Me
Character: Father Donnard
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
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Lured
Title: Lured
Character: Officer H.R. Barrett
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
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Moss Rose
Title: Moss Rose
Character: Craxton
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
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Scared to Death
Title: Scared to Death
Character: Dr. Josef Van Ee
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
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The Imperfect Lady
Title: The Imperfect Lady
Character: Mr. Mallam
Released: November 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Flying Serpent
Title: The Flying Serpent
Character: Prof. Andrew Forbes
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.
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Hold That Blonde!
Title: Hold That Blonde!
Character: Dr. Pavel Storasky
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
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Confidential Agent
Title: Confidential Agent
Character: Detective Geddes
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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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Bey of Aribajan
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Jelke
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Sudan
Title: Sudan
Character: Horadef
Released: April 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
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Having Wonderful Crime
Title: Having Wonderful Crime
Character: King aka The Great Movel
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
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Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Title: Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Character: Security Council Chair
Released: March 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
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Fog Island
Title: Fog Island
Character: Leo Grainger
Released: February 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.
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House of Frankenstein
Title: House of Frankenstein
Character: Prof. Bruno Lampini
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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Shadows in the Night
Title: Shadows in the Night
Character: Frank Swift
Released: July 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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The Seventh Cross
Title: The Seventh Cross
Character: Fahrenburg
Released: July 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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Return of the Ape Man
Title: Return of the Ape Man
Character: Ape Man
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
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The Mummy's Ghost
Title: The Mummy's Ghost
Character: Andoheb, High Priest of Arkan
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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Voodoo Man
Title: Voodoo Man
Character: Nicholas
Released: February 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
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Never a Dull Moment
Title: Never a Dull Moment
Character: Tony Rocco
Released: November 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
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The Mad Ghoul
Title: The Mad Ghoul
Character: Dr. Alfred Morris
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
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Holy Matrimony
Title: Holy Matrimony
Character: Mr. Crepitude
Released: August 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
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Black Raven
Title: Black Raven
Character: Amos Bradford
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
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Dead Men Walk
Title: Dead Men Walk
Character: Lloyd Clayton / Elwyn Clayton
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Heinrich Hinckel aka Richard Stanley
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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The Black Swan
Title: The Black Swan
Character: Lord Denby
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Andoheb
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Dr. Renault's Secret
Title: Dr. Renault's Secret
Character: Dr. Robert Renault
Released: October 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
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Half Way to Shanghai
Title: Half Way to Shanghai
Character: Peter van Hoost
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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The Mad Monster
Title: The Mad Monster
Character: Lorenzo Cameron
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Dr. Hugo Streger
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Title: Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Character: Dr. Edwin L. Jannery
Released: November 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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International Lady
Title: International Lady
Character: Webster
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
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A Woman's Face
Title: A Woman's Face
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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Topper Returns
Title: Topper Returns
Character: Dr. Jeris
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Dr. Parry
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Title: Dark Streets of Cairo
Character: Abbadi
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: Prison Governor
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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The Mummy's Hand
Title: The Mummy's Hand
Character: Professor Andoheb
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Vicomte Ribaud
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Procurator
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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The Cat and the Canary
Title: The Cat and the Canary
Character: Lawyer Crosby
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: James K. Spaulding
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Professor Moriarty
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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The Magnificent Fraud
Title: The Magnificent Fraud
Character: Dr. Luis Virgo
Released: July 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Arnold Trist
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Title: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Character: Dr. Cardigan
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Title: Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Character: Rolf Alferson
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: Prime Minister
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Vacation from Love
Title: Vacation from Love
Character: Dr. Waxton
Released: September 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Governor of Conciergerie (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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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Otto Brockler
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Lord Jeff
Title: Lord Jeff
Character: James 'Jim' Hampstead
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Prefect of Police
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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Rosalie
Title: Rosalie
Character: General Maroff
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
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The Firefly
Title: The Firefly
Character: Secret Service Chief
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
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The Bride Wore Red
Title: The Bride Wore Red
Character: Count Armalia
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Dr. LaFarge
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Souls at Sea
Title: Souls at Sea
Character: Woodley
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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London by Night
Title: London by Night
Character: Inspector Jefferson
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.
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Saratoga
Title: Saratoga
Character: Dr. Bierd
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Parnell
Title: Parnell
Character: Sir Charles Arthur Russell
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
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After the Thin Man
Title: After the Thin Man
Character: Dr. Adolph Kammer
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Crowley Bascomb
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Title: The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Character: The Colonel's Butler
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
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The Common Round
Title: The Common Round
Character: Dr. Pyke
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
"The Common Touch" tells of an elderly headmaster (George Zucco) whose Christian beliefs are re-affirmed when he hears news from two of his ex-pupils who are working as missionaries in Africa.
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Abdul the Damned
Title: Abdul the Damned
Character: Officer of the Firing Squad
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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It's a Bet
Title: It's a Bet
Character: Convict
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
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Something Always Happens
Title: Something Always Happens
Character: Proprietor of the Maison de Paris
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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What Happened Then?
Title: What Happened Then?
Character: Inspector Hull
Released: September 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
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The Lady Is Willing
Title: The Lady Is Willing
Character: Bailiff
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
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Autumn Crocus
Title: Autumn Crocus
Character: Revered Mayne
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Fauntley
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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The Man from Toronto
Title: The Man from Toronto
Character: Squire
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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The Roof
Title: The Roof
Character: James Renton
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
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The Midshipmaid
Title: The Midshipmaid
Character: Lord Dore
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
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There Goes the Bride
Title: There Goes the Bride
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
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Dreyfus
Title: Dreyfus
Character: Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.