Richard Talmadge

Richard Talmadge

Born: December 3, 1892
Died: January 25, 1981
From Wikipedia

Richard Talmadge (Sylvester Alphonse Metz, Camburg, Germany, December 3, 1892 – January 25, 1981) was a German-born American actor, stuntman and film director. Alberta Vaughn and Richard Talmadge share a cigar in The Live Wire (1935) When he arrived in Hollywood in 1910, he began his career as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks, before becoming an actor himself. His films include American Manners, Dancing Dynamite, Speed Madness, and the Pirate Treasure series. He was the lead in The Cavalier (1928), film released by Tiffany Pictures with only a music and sound effects soundtrack. He never got rid of his German accent, so with the advent of the talkies, he started working behind the cameras - as assistant director, stunt coordinator and director. His later work included How the West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told and Casino Royale. He was also the stepfather of legendary polo player Sue Sally Hale.

Movies for Richard Talmadge...

Black Eagle
Title: Black Eagle
Character: Mort
Released: September 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end up fleecing our hero in one way or another. Even so, Jason manages to enjoy a brief romance with pretty Ginny Long (Virginia Patton) before returning to his life of carefree vagabondage. A very minor film, The Black Eagle makes the most of its excellent supporting cast, including Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette, Will Wright and stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge.
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Hitler's Madman
Title: Hitler's Madman
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Fisherman
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Sam
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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The Speed Reporter
Title: The Speed Reporter
Character: Dick Lawrence
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.
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Step on It
Title: Step on It
Character: Larry Evans
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A cop is fired from the force and attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Det. Dick Manning
Released: November 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
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The Live Wire
Title: The Live Wire
Character: 2nd Mate Dick Nelson
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also stars Alberta Vaughn, Charles K. French and Martin Turner.
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Now or Never
Title: Now or Never
Character: Dick Rainey / Norman Gray
Released: July 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.
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The Fighting Pilot
Title: The Fighting Pilot
Character: Hal Foster
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
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Pirate Treasure
Title: Pirate Treasure
Character: Dick Moreland
Released: January 29, 1934
Type: Movie
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.
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On Your Guard
Title: On Your Guard
Character: The Frisco Kid
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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Speed Madness
Title: Speed Madness
Character: Bob Stuart
Released: July 29, 1932
Type: Movie
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
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Get That Girl
Title: Get That Girl
Character: Dick Bartlett
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
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Yankee Don
Title: Yankee Don
Character: Dick Carsey
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A crook on the run from the law in New York flees to Mexico, where he falls for a beautiful young Mexican girl and tries to help her father save the family estate from a gang of criminals.
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The Cavalier
Title: The Cavalier
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Better Man
Title: The Better Man
Character: Lord Hugh Wainwright
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested in Nancy, Lord Hugh obtains passage as valet to her nouveau riche uncle, Phineas Ward.
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The Prince of Pep
Title: The Prince of Pep
Character: Dr. James Leland
Released: December 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Doctor James Leland is a successful doctor engaged to nurse Marion Nord. Working late one night he discovers his assistant stealing the supply of cocaine. The doctor is knocked unconscious and his body is dump assuming, incorrectly, that the good doctor is dead.
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The Isle of Hope
Title: The Isle of Hope
Character: Robert MacKay
Released: August 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A ship captain's beautiful daughter and a wealthy playboy who is searching for buried treasure find themselves stranded on a desert island.
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The Mysterious Stranger
Title: The Mysterious Stranger
Character: Paul Lesage
Released: July 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.
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The Fighting Demon
Title: The Fighting Demon
Character: John Drake
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
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Tearing Through
Title: Tearing Through
Character: Richard Jones
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
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Laughing at Danger
Title: Laughing at Danger
Character: Alan Remington
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up staged escapades and dangers in an attempt to get him out of his rut. His father isn't, and the dangers-- a cadre of hoods, car chases, a death ray-- are real!
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In Fast Company
Title: In Fast Company
Character: Perry Whitman Jr.
Released: July 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangsters. There's always something.
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On Time
Title: On Time
Character: Harry Willis
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
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Let's Go
Title: Let's Go
Character: Barry Macklin
Released: October 31, 1923
Type: Movie
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Bruce Randall
Released: September 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Produced by low-budget entrepreneur Phil Goldstone, this silent action melodrama starred Richard Talmadge, a German-born former stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks.Talmadge played Bruce Randall, a wealthy young man supposedly killed during a robbery in his home. But Bruce has survived and is instead wandering about in a state of amnesia.
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Speed King
Title: Speed King
Character: Jimmy Martin / King Charles
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Jimmy Martin, king of the motorcycle speedsters, visits the Kingdom of Mandavia for a race. There he is persuaded to impersonate the king by a traitor, Rodolph D'Henri, who intends to annex part of Mandavia for neighboring Selmarnia. The real king is in jail. D'Henri's plot is successful until Martin falls in love with Princess Margaret of Alvernia. Then he discloses his true identity, releases the real king, exposes the traitor, earns knighthood, and marries Margaret.