George MacQuarrie

George MacQuarrie

Movies for George MacQuarrie...

This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Chief of Police
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Rancher
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Seaman (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Frightened Old Man (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Lawless Valley
Title: Lawless Valley
Character: Tim Wade
Released: November 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
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The Plainsman
Title: The Plainsman
Character: Gen. Merritt
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Clerk With Gun
Released: April 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Chief of Detectives (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Smithers
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Stockbroker
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Call of the Wild
Title: Call of the Wild
Character: Mounted Policeman
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
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The Black Room
Title: The Black Room
Character: The Judge
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
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The Mighty Barnum
Title: The Mighty Barnum
Character: Daniel Webster
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: First Judge (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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A Bedtime Story
Title: A Bedtime Story
Character: Henry Joudain
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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The Hole in the Wall
Title: The Hole in the Wall
Character: Inspector
Released: April 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
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The Rejected Woman
Title: The Rejected Woman
Character: Samuel Du Prez
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Backbone
Title: Backbone
Character: The Constable of France
Released: April 30, 1923
Type: Movie
When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an undisclosed illness. He is sequestered in a room and his secretary refuses to allow Yvonne to see him. Her attempts to get to him are constantly thwarted and the plot thickens with the appearance of John Thorne, who purchases part of the family's land holdings without Yvonne's consent.
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Find the Woman
Title: Find the Woman
Character: Judge Walbrough
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
This whodunit bears no relation to the 1918 picture of the same name, but both films coincidentally had the same director, Tom Terriss. When sleazy theatrical agent Maurice Beiner (Arthur Donaldson) is found stabbed to death in his office, just about everybody is a suspect -- there's aspiring actress Clancy Deane (Eileen Huban), who was one of the last people to see him alive, and Sophie Carey (Alma Rubens) who knows he has some love letters she wrote to Judge Walbrough (George MacQuarrie) before she married her alcoholic husband, Don (Henry Sedley). Or is it Marc Weber (Norman Kerry), who had a falling out with Beiner, or Weber's devoted wife, Fay (Ethel Duray)?
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The Love Flower
Title: The Love Flower
Character: Thomas Bevan
Released: August 21, 1920
Type: Movie
A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
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The Idol Dancer
Title: The Idol Dancer
Character: Rev. Franklyn Blythe
Released: March 21, 1920
Type: Movie
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
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Sacred Silence
Title: Sacred Silence
Character: Maj. Marston
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Lieut. Ralph Harrison is in love with Major Marston's wife, who pretends to love him. Harrison's mother implores Capt. Jim Craig to intervene to save her son from dishonor. When Craig visits Mrs. Marston, Harrison appears, precipitating a quarrel during which Harrison is wounded in the shoulder. Craig then leaves, and the major discovers Harrison. The major kills Harrison, and places the blame on Craig. To avoid a scandal, Craig runs away. Madge Summers of the Secret Service tracks him down and the two fall in love, but Craig is arrested and taken back to the army post.
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Love in a Hurry
Title: Love in a Hurry
Character: George Templar
Released: January 13, 1919
Type: Movie
The son of an American mine owner, traveling under the name of Charles Conant, tries to enter England in 1916 after masquerading as a muleteer, but the captain of his ship, suspicious when he sees Charles look through a spyglass, plans to take him back to the United States. Charles escapes and visits his relative, Lady Dartridge, where he falls in love with her daughter, Lady Joan Templar, who is loved by her cousin, the chief constable, George Templar. Templar, suspicious of Charles' manner and unexplainable meetings and activities, wants to arrest him as a spy.
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The Cabaret
Title: The Cabaret
Character: Stanley Sargent
Released: June 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, loses her job after his death. She then is hired as a portrait model by four artists--Jaffrey Darrel, Ned Lorrimer, Dick Turner and Stanley Sargent--all of whom become fascinated with her. Helene leaves the Village when Ned's jealousy disrupts the camaraderie of the quartet and becomes a stage star. Meanwhile, all of the artists have attained success except Jaffrey, who refuses to taint his art with commercialism.
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Stolen Orders
Title: Stolen Orders
Character: Adm. Gaveston
Released: June 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A renegade American and his innocent daughter become entangled in the snares of German secret agents during the First World War.
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Wanted, A Mother
Title: Wanted, A Mother
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
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Betsy Ross
Title: Betsy Ross
Character: George Washington
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
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The Stolen Paradise
Title: The Stolen Paradise
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
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Forget-Me-Not
Title: Forget-Me-Not
Character: Sir Horace Welby
Released: April 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Adventuress Stefanie Paoli forsakes her lover, humble fisherman Gabriel Barrato, for the arms of a nobleman, the Marquis de Mohrivart.
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The Social Leper
Title: The Social Leper
Character: Henry Armstrong
Released: March 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Adrianne is does not love Robert, but loves Henry. Henry is in love with Lorraine, but he fears she loves John still. Lorraine loves Henry, but John remains in her mind. John loves Lorraine, but his ex-wife Adrianne ruined his chance. Robert is angry.
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The Heart of a Hero
Title: The Heart of a Hero
Character: Guy Fitzroy
Released: November 6, 1916
Type: Movie
This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).