Bernard Siegel

Bernard Siegel

Born: April 19, 1868
Died: July 9, 1940
in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Movies for Bernard Siegel...

Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Otto (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Pawnee
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Ebb Tide
Title: Ebb Tide
Character: Waiter
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
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Confession
Title: Confession
Character: Theatre Doorman (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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East of Java
Title: East of Java
Character: Crewman
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Man (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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The Wedding Night
Title: The Wedding Night
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Ehrhardt
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: Ivan Badinoff
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Title: The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Character: Verressjeff
Released: February 23, 1930
Type: Movie
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
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The Wizard's Apprentice
Title: The Wizard's Apprentice
Character: Apprentice
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
This one has it all, the apprentice, the multiplying brooms, the buckets of water, everything that the Fantasia sequence has.
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Redskin
Title: Redskin
Character: Medicine man Chahi
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".
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The Far Call
Title: The Far Call
Character: Aleut Chief
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Minor Role
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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The Rescue
Title: The Rescue
Character: Jorgensen
Released: January 12, 1929
Type: Movie
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
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Freedom of the Press
Title: Freedom of the Press
Character: Italian Father
Released: October 28, 1928
Type: Movie
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
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Guardians of the Wild
Title: Guardians of the Wild
Character: Won Long Hop
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang try to force them off their land.
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The Divine Sinner
Title: The Divine Sinner
Character: Johan Ludwig
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Title: Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Character: Simon
Released: April 14, 1928
Type: Movie
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
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Open Range
Title: Open Range
Character: Chief Brave Bear
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
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Drums of the Desert
Title: Drums of the Desert
Character: Chief Brave Bear
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
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Blazing Days
Title: Blazing Days
Character: Ezra Skinner
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
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Going Crooked
Title: Going Crooked
Character: Crook
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Schwartz
Released: August 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Joseph Buquet (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Wild Horse Mesa
Title: Wild Horse Mesa
Character: Toddy Nokin
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
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The Spaniard
Title: The Spaniard
Character: Manuel
Released: May 4, 1925
Type: Movie
In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.
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Against All Odds
Title: Against All Odds
Character: Lewis
Released: July 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.
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The Fortieth Door
Title: The Fortieth Door
Character: Tew Fick Pasha
Released: May 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Aimee is a young girl betrothed to a rascal, Hamid Bey. An American archeologist, Jack Ryder, arrives to help the girl escape ending up in Bey's harem, but it takes the boy ten episodes to finally succeed.
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The Next Corner
Title: The Next Corner
Character: The Stranger
Released: February 18, 1924
Type: Movie
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
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Thundergate
Title: Thundergate
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
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The Man Who Paid
Title: The Man Who Paid
Character: Anton Barbier
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In her first leading role, a very young Norma Shearer played Jeanne, a wild girl of the Canadian Northwest who marries and has a child with a mystery man, Oliver Thornton
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The Birth of a Soul
Title: The Birth of a Soul
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mountain families feud.
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The Song of the Soul
Title: The Song of the Soul
Character: Oelsen
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a business man, but a gambler, and that her marriage is bigamous. The child is taken from her by a Helping Hand Society and apprenticed to a brutal farmer. She is left upon her own resources. Seven years later Fenton again crosses her path, but she finds happiness in honorable marriage while her betrayer is taken away to face a murder charge, and the Song of the Soul now rises in full, pure tones from the breast of the happy wife and mother.
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The Message of the Mouse
Title: The Message of the Mouse
Character: Valet
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is tricked by a pair of spies into giving millions to foreign powers. His daughter is suspicious and hires a Detective, who is able to foil the foreign agent's plans. Meanwhile, the daughter has fallen in love with a fellow from the enemy camp, but all ends well as his true identity is revealed as a member of the U.S. secret service.
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The Stolen Treaty
Title: The Stolen Treaty
Character: Riddle
Released: June 16, 1917
Type: Movie
At a reception given for the vacationing Prince Zarl of Zorania, secretly the emissary of Zorania set on negotiating a treaty with the United States, Geoffrey Wynne, apparently a society dandy, but in reality a secret service agent, meets the prince. During the reception, Wynne is summoned to Washington where he learns that the treaty has been stolen and is being held for $15,000,000 ransom. Discovering that one of the thieves is an Italian named Farnelli, Wynne enlists the aid of his fiancée, Irene Mitchell, in apprehending the thief. Irene meets the Italian who offers to accompany her to New York. En route, Wynne overtakes them, chloroforms Farnelli and rips off his disguise to reveal Prince Zarl. Zarl then admits that he has stolen the treaty in order to cover his gambling debts.
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Title: Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Character: The spy Carl
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
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Apartment 29
Title: Apartment 29
Character: Janitor
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Apartment 29 is a mystery story.
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Arsene Lupin
Title: Arsene Lupin
Character: Charolais
Released: March 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Story of the gentleman thief.
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The Glory of Yolanda
Title: The Glory of Yolanda
Released: January 20, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Ogre and the Girl
Title: The Ogre and the Girl
Character: The Ogre
Released: December 9, 1915
Type: Movie
This Ogre was not he of the fairy tales, but a kindly wealthy man of forbidding face to whom those who did not know him gave the name. Tiring of loneliness he decided to marry, and wooed the Girl who lived at the foot of the hill. On account of his great wealth the Girl's parents encouraged his suit, but she shrank from him
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The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch
Title: The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch
Character: Karl
Released: October 25, 1915
Type: Movie
A royal princess gives her time to the Red Cross, and works alongside a young American doctor.
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Threads of Destiny
Title: Threads of Destiny
Character: Isaac Gruenstein
Released: October 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
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The Wolf
Title: The Wolf
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie