Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

Born: April 15, 1871
Died: April 24, 1956
in Granada, British West Indies
From Wikipedia

Henry Stephenson Garraway (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956), sometimes credited as Harry Stephenson, was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise Gentleman in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles was Sir Joseph Banks in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist.

Stephenson was educated in Rugby in Warwickshire and started acting in his twenties. He appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars. In the following decades, he appeared in over 30 Broadway plays. Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elder man in sound films. Between 1931 and 1932, he appeared in the successful Broadway play Cyanara with over 200 performances. He came to Hollywood for the film version of Cyanara, starring Ronald Colman and with Henry Stephenson in a supporting role.

In the same year year, he played the tycoon C.B. Gaerste in Red-Headed Woman and Doctor Alliott in A Bill of Divorcement. The following year, the English-born actor appeared as the intimidating yet warm-hearted Mr. Laurence in Little Women. The tall, white-haired actor specialized in portraying wise, dignified and friendly British gentlemans in supporting roles. He could be "both imposing and benevolent in his patrician portrayals, usually expounding words of wisdom or offering gentlemanly aid." He appeared overall in 90 films from 1917 to 1951, often as a doctor or professor, general, judge or aristocrat. He often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the oscar-winnig adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette (1938).

Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior.

He portrayed Sir Thomas Lancing in Tarzan Finds a Son! in 1939 and playing an entirely different role as Sir Guy Henderson in Tarzan and the Amazons in 1945. He seldom played dark figures, among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr. Bryant in Mr. Lucky in 1943. Stephenson also appeared in literature adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and as Mr. Brownlow in David Lean's literature adaption Oliver Twist (1948). He made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two TV-series in 1951 before the end of his career. In 1950, after finishing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the drama play, That Lady, Stephenson retired from the stage.

He married actress Ann Shoemaker. They had one daughter.

Henry Stephenson died in 1956 at the age of 85 years. He was survived by Ann and his daughter.

Movies for Henry Stephenson...

Challenge to Lassie
Title: Challenge to Lassie
Character: Sir Charles Loring
Released: October 31, 1949
Type: Movie
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
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Enchantment
Title: Enchantment
Character: General Fitzgerald
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
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Julia Misbehaves
Title: Julia Misbehaves
Character: Lord Pennystone
Released: August 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mr. Brownlow
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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Song of Love
Title: Song of Love
Character: King Albert
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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Ivy
Title: Ivy
Character: Judge
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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Dark Delusion
Title: Dark Delusion
Character: Evans Biddle
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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The Homestretch
Title: The Homestretch
Character: Don Humberto Balcares
Released: May 4, 1947
Type: Movie
A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.
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Time Out of Mind
Title: Time Out of Mind
Character: Wellington Drake
Released: May 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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The Locket
Title: The Locket
Character: Lord Wyndham
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The Return of Monte Cristo
Title: The Return of Monte Cristo
Character: Prof. Duval
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Louis Hayward, star of 1940's Son of Monte Cristo, returns to Alexandre Dumas territory in Columbia's Return of Monte Cristo. This time, Hayward plays the grandson of his namesake Edmond Dantes, who, it will be recalled, was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles (Steven Geray), Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright. One of his principal antagonists - at least during the first half of the film - is haughty aristocrat Angele Picard (Barbara Britton), who because she wasn't a part of the original conspiracy genuinely believes that Dantes is a criminal.
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Her Sister's Secret
Title: Her Sister's Secret
Character: Mr. DuBois
Released: September 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams
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Of Human Bondage
Title: Of Human Bondage
Character: Dr. Tyrell
Released: July 5, 1946
Type: Movie
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
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The Green Years
Title: The Green Years
Character: Blakely
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
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Night and Day
Title: Night and Day
Character: Omar Cole
Released: July 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Minister
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
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Tarzan and the Amazons
Title: Tarzan and the Amazons
Character: Sir Guy Henderson, the Archeologist
Released: April 29, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: J. H. Wadsworth
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Secrets of Scotland Yard
Title: Secrets of Scotland Yard
Character: Sir Reginald Meade
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Title: Two Girls and a Sailor
Character: John Dyckman Brown I
Released: June 14, 1944
Type: Movie
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
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The Hour Before the Dawn
Title: The Hour Before the Dawn
Character: Gen. Hetherton
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Mr. Bryant
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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The Mantrap
Title: The Mantrap
Character: Sir Humphrey Quilp
Released: April 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
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Half Way to Shanghai
Title: Half Way to Shanghai
Character: Col. Algernon Blimpton
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: General Cathaway
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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Rings on Her Fingers
Title: Rings on Her Fingers
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: General Anatole Mirbeau
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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The Man Who Lost Himself
Title: The Man Who Lost Himself
Character: Frederick Collins
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Don Diego Quintana
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Emperor Franz Joseph
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Capt. Andrew
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Robert R. Livingston
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Title: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character: Lord Burghley
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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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Sir Ronald Ramsgate
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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Tarzan Finds a Son!
Title: Tarzan Finds a Son!
Character: Sir Thomas Lancing
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.
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Dramatic School
Title: Dramatic School
Character: Pasquel Sr.
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: Count Mathieu de Lesseps
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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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Count de Mercey
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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The Young in Heart
Title: The Young in Heart
Character: Felix Anstruther
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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The Baroness and the Butler
Title: The Baroness and the Butler
Character: Count Albert Sandor
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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Wise Girl
Title: Wise Girl
Character: Mr. Fletcher
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: Count Anastas Walewski
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Prince Johann
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Duke of Norfolk
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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When You're in Love
Title: When You're in Love
Character: Walter Mitchell
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.
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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: Lord Athleigh
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Sir Charles Macefield
Released: October 20, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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Give Me Your Heart
Title: Give Me Your Heart
Character: Edward, Lord Farrington
Released: September 17, 1936
Type: Movie
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Walking on Air
Title: Walking on Air
Character: Mr. Horace Bennett
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
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Hearts Divided
Title: Hearts Divided
Character: Charles Patterson
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Half Angel
Title: Half Angel
Character: Prof. Jerome Hargraves
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Havisham
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Lord Willoughby
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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Mutiny on the Bounty
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Character: Joseph Banks
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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The Perfect Gentleman
Title: The Perfect Gentleman
Character: Bishop
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Russian Ambassador Gregory
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Title: O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character: Maj. Winslow
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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The Flame Within
Title: The Flame Within
Character: Dr. Jock Frazier
Released: May 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
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Reckless
Title: Reckless
Character: Colonel Harrison Sr.
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Title: Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character: Barney Newmark
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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The Night Is Young
Title: The Night Is Young
Character: Emperor Franz Josef
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: Charles Venables
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
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Outcast Lady
Title: Outcast Lady
Character: Sir Maurice
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
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The Richest Girl in the World
Title: The Richest Girl in the World
Character: John Connors
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
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She Loves Me Not
Title: She Loves Me Not
Character: Dean Mercer
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Sir Laurence Mont
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Mr. Hugh Clarkson
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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Thirty Day Princess
Title: Thirty Day Princess
Character: King Anatol XII
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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All Men Are Enemies
Title: All Men Are Enemies
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
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The Mystery of Mr. X
Title: The Mystery of Mr. X
Character: Frensham
Released: February 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
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Man of Two Worlds
Title: Man of Two Worlds
Character: Sir Basil Pemberton
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
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If I Were Free
Title: If I Were Free
Character: Hector Stribling
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Mr. Laurence
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
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My Lips Betray
Title: My Lips Betray
Character: De Conti
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
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Blind Adventure
Title: Blind Adventure
Character: Major Thorne
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
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Double Harness
Title: Double Harness
Character: Colonel Sam Colby
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
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Tomorrow at Seven
Title: Tomorrow at Seven
Character: Thornton Drake
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
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The Animal Kingdom
Title: The Animal Kingdom
Character: Rufus Collier
Released: December 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.
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Cynara
Title: Cynara
Character: John Tring
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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A Bill of Divorcement
Title: A Bill of Divorcement
Character: Doctor Alliot
Released: September 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his daughter grown and about to marry; his wife divorced and also about to marry.
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Guilty as Hell
Title: Guilty as Hell
Character: Dr. Ernest S. Tindal
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the beginning of the film, so there’s no mystery for the audience to solve. Just the pleasure of watching an intricate cat-and-mouse game, with the murderer one step ahead of his pursuers until the final, tense confrontation.
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Red-Headed Woman
Title: Red-Headed Woman
Character: Charles B. 'Charlie' / 'C.B.' Gaerste
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
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Wild, Wild Susan
Title: Wild, Wild Susan
Character: Peter Van Dusen
Released: August 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds work with a private detective agency. She meets Tod Waterbury, who, under another name, is working as a cab driver (in search of story material for a novel), and the two fall in love.
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Men and Women
Title: Men and Women
Character: Arnold Kirke
Released: March 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market. With his newfound riches, Seabury proceeds to woo Prescott's wife, Agnes (Claire Adams), by buying her luxurious items that her husband can not afford. Seabury makes no secret of his aim, and Prescott desperately steals some of the bank's bonds, hoping to make enough money to keep Agnes by his side.
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A Society Exile
Title: A Society Exile
Character: Sir Howard Furnival
Released: October 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed part in a scandal which culminated in a murder-suicide by a nobleman and his wife. Nora disguises her identity and goes to Italy, where she finds happiness - until the spectre of the past is raised.