Rollo Lloyd

Rollo Lloyd

Born: March 22, 1883
Died: July 24, 1938

Movies for Rollo Lloyd...

Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Sam Schwartz - Butcher
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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The Saint in New York
Title: The Saint in New York
Character: Bartender (Uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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The Lady in the Morgue
Title: The Lady in the Morgue
Character: Coroner
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Duval
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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Night Spot
Title: Night Spot
Character: Vail
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: Amos Sprague
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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The Women Men Marry
Title: The Women Men Marry
Character: Peter Martin
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Armored Car
Title: Armored Car
Character: Organist
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
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Girl Loves Boy
Title: Girl Loves Boy
Character: Dr. Williams
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Matoot
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Four Days Wonder
Title: Four Days Wonder
Character: The Tramp
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Dr. Simms
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Love Letters of a Star
Title: Love Letters of a Star
Character: Sigurd Repellen
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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White Legion
Title: White Legion
Character: The Colonel
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
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Yellowstone
Title: Yellowstone
Character: Franklin Ross
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
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Straight from the Shoulder
Title: Straight from the Shoulder
Character: Mr. Blake
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
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Anthony Adverse
Title: Anthony Adverse
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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The Devil-Doll
Title: The Devil-Doll
Character: Detective
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Landlord (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Clerk to Perform Wedding (uncredited)
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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Professional Soldier
Title: Professional Soldier
Character: Cabinet Member
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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Barbary Coast
Title: Barbary Coast
Character: Wigham
Released: October 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Henry Crumm
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Varsac, Fingerprint Expert (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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The Mystery Man
Title: The Mystery Man
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Title: Whom the Gods Destroy
Character: Henry Braverman
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
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Carnival Lady
Title: Carnival Lady
Character: Harry
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
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Out All Night
Title: Out All Night
Character: David Arnold
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Dr. Fram
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Strictly Personal
Title: Strictly Personal
Character: Jerry O'Connor
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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Today We Live
Title: Today We Live
Character: Major
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Laughter in Hell
Title: Laughter in Hell
Character: Zeb
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Flaming Gold
Title: Flaming Gold
Character: Harry Banning
Released: September 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Joe Morton
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Prestige
Title: Prestige
Character: Capt. Emil de Fontenac
Released: December 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.