Nicholas Joy

Nicholas Joy

Born: January 30, 1884
Died: March 16, 1964
in Paris, France

Movies for Nicholas Joy...

Desk Set
Title: Desk Set
Character: Mr. Azae
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
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Affair with a Stranger
Title: Affair with a Stranger
Character: Producer George W. Craig
Released: June 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Nicholas Joy, Lillian Bronson and George Cleveland.
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The Man with a Cloak
Title: The Man with a Cloak
Character: Dr. Roland
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Uncle Prentiss
Released: September 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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Native Son
Title: Native Son
Character: Henry Dalton
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.
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And Baby Makes Three
Title: And Baby Makes Three
Character: Marvin Fletcher
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
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Song of Surrender
Title: Song of Surrender
Character: General Seckle
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Character: Amos Strickland
Released: August 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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The Sun Comes Up
Title: The Sun Comes Up
Character: Victor Alvord
Released: May 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog.
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Bride of Vengeance
Title: Bride of Vengeance
Character: Chamberlain
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims and Chancellor of France
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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Larceny
Title: Larceny
Character: Walter Vanderline
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
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The Iron Curtain
Title: The Iron Curtain
Character: Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
Released: June 16, 1948
Type: Movie
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
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The Fuller Brush Man
Title: The Fuller Brush Man
Character: Commissioner Gordon Trist
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
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The Naked City
Title: The Naked City
Character: Mr. McCormick (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
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If Winter Comes
Title: If Winter Comes
Character: Mr. Pettigrew
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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Daisy Kenyon
Title: Daisy Kenyon
Character: Coverly
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
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Gentleman's Agreement
Title: Gentleman's Agreement
Character: Dr. Craigie
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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Dishonored Lady
Title: Dishonored Lady
Character: Mitchell
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.