
Birthday:
12-09-1886
Deathday:
11-07-1959 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Stepney, East London, England, UK
Biography
Victor McLaglen was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.
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The Quiet Man
Act like Squire 'Red' Will Danaher
event1952 star_border 7.3
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An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
The Princess and the Pirate
Act like Captain Barrett / The Hook
event1944 star_border 6.7
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Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom.
Rio Grande
Act like Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon
event1950 star_border 6.8
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Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.
Gunga Din
Act like MacChesney
event1939 star_border 6.5
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British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
The Unholy Three
Act like Hercules
event1925 star_border 6.8
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Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
Rio
Act like Dirk
event1939 star_border 5.1
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Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Act like First Sergeant Quincannon
event1949 star_border 6.9
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On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Fort Apache
Act like Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
event1948 star_border 7
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Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Forever and a Day
Act like Archibald Spavin
event1943 star_border 7.4
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In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Wee Willie Winkie
Act like Sgt. Donald MacDuff
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
The Informer
Act like Gypo Nolan
event1935 star_border 6.7
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Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
City of Shadows
Act like Big Tim Channing
event1955 star_border 4.9
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After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
Prince Valiant
Act like Boltar
event1954 star_border 5.9
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A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
The Sport of Kings
Act like Frank Rosedale
event1921
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A man helps a rich girl's slum work and wins the race on her ex-fiancé's horse.
Carnival
Act like Baron
event1921
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An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealous husband.
The Prey of the Dragon
Act like Brett 'Dragon' Mercer
event1921
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In Australia a drunkard hires a gang to kill his ex-fiancée's husband.
The Romany
Act like The Chief
event1923
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A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
M'Lord of the White Road
Act like Lord Annerley / John
event1923
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A dying lord asks a tramp to pose as him and marry a lady, and he is later accused of killing the lord.
Little Brother of God
Act like King Kennidy
event1922
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In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
The Crimson Circle
event1922
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Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
A Sailor Tramp
Act like The Sailor Tramp
event1922
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A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
Heartstrings
Act like Frank Wilson
event1923
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A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
In the Blood
Act like Tony Crabtree
event1924
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A woman frames her stepson for theft and he takes the place of his father's drugged champion and wins a boxing match.
Woman to Woman
Act like Nubian Slave (uncredited)
event1923 star_border 6.5
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David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
The Beloved Brute
Act like Charles Hinges
event1924
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A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
The Boatswain's Mate
Act like Ned Travers
event1924
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A retired boatswain hires an ex-soldier to rob a widow's inn.
The Gay Corinthian
Act like Squire Hardcastle
event1924
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A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet.
The Hunted Woman
Act like Quade
event1925
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Joanne Gray goes North to find out whether her husband is dead or alive and to attempt to obtain the release of her innocent brother from jail. She becomes enamored of a youth who has staked out a gold claim but remains chaste until her husband is found and killed, meeting death in a fight with the youth's partner.
Percy
Act like Reedy Jenkins
event1925
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Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
The Isle of Retribution
Act like Doomsdorf
event1926 star_border 2
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Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes with the rich girl, Lenor Harderworth, for the attentions of the heroic Ned Cornet. A snow-slide resolves a few issues.
Life in Hollywood No. 5
event1927
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Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
On the Level
Act like Biff Williams
event1930
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An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of his Cajun girlfriend who promptly shoots at him as he walks away and then follows him to the Big Apple where she becomes a nightclub performer.
The Gay Caballero
Act like Don Bob Harkness / El Coyote
event1932
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Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
Devil's Lottery
Act like Jem Meech
event1932
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Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
Captain Lash
Act like Captain Lash
event1929
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Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora Nevins. Nevins is actually a jewel thief who's lifted diamonds from wealthy passenger Arthur Condrax. She needs Lash to aid in sneaking the "ice" ashore at Singapore. Cocky is Lash's concertina-playing buddy and uses it to signal Lash.
O'Mara's Chain Miracle
Act like Officer O'Mara
event1951
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Officer O'Mara, a normally grumpy traffic cop, lightens up one day and smiles at a passing motorist. This sets off a chain of goodwill and pleasantness in the entire town, which leads to better business practices, but leaves O'Mara wondering why everyone is now so pleasant.
The Lost Patrol
Act like The Sergeant
event1934 star_border 6.4
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A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Murder at the Vanities
Act like Bill Murdock
event1934 star_border 5.4
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Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Many Rivers to Cross
Act like Cadmus Cherne
event1955 star_border 6.2
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Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
China Girl
Act like Major Bull Weed
event1942 star_border 5.4
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Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
The Stolen Jools
Act like Sergeant Flagg
event1931 star_border 5.6
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Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Dishonored
Act like Colonel Kranau
event1931 star_border 6.8
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The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Whistle Stop
Act like Gitlo
event1946 star_border 4.5
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When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Under Two Flags
Act like J.C. Doyle
event1936 star_border 6
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Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
Klondike Annie
Act like Bull Brackett
event1936 star_border 6.4
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A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
The Captain Hates the Sea
Act like Junius P. Schulte
event1934 star_border 6.5
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Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Act like Dannie O'Neill
event1937
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After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
A Girl in Every Port
Act like Spike Madden
event1928 star_border 6.3
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Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
What Price Glory
Act like Capt. Flagg
event1926 star_border 6
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U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Act like Grimald
event1955 star_border 5.5
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Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
Captain Fury
Act like Jerry Black aka Blackie
event1939 star_border 4.8
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An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Battle of Broadway
Act like Big Ben Wheeler
event1938 star_border 4.2
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The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
Hangman's House
Act like Denis Hogan
event1928 star_border 6.3
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Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
Powder Town
Act like Jeems O'Shea
event1942 star_border 3.7
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Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Act like Herman "Owl" Banghart
event1944 star_border 6
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Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Women of All Nations
Act like Captain Jim Flagg
event1931 star_border 2.6
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Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
Calendar Girl
Act like Matthew O'Neill
event1947 star_border 5.9
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Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
This Is My Affair
Act like Jock Ramsay
event1937 star_border 7.3
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President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Laughing at Life
Act like Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale
event1933 star_border 6
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Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Guilty as Hell
Act like Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley
event1932 star_border 5.8
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Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the beginning of the film, so there’s no mystery for the audience to solve. Just the pleasure of watching an intricate cat-and-mouse game, with the murderer one step ahead of his pursuers until the final, tense confrontation.
The Abductors
Act like Tom Muldoon
event1957
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Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse.
Trouble in the Glen
Act like Parlan
event1954 star_border 5.7
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Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman. Written by Les Adams
While Paris Sleeps
Act like Jacques Costaud
event1932 star_border 5.8
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To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Broadway Limited
Act like Maurice "Mike" Monaghan
event1941 star_border 5.1
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A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
Professional Soldier
Act like Colonel Michael Donovan
event1935 star_border 4.5
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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.
Sea Devils
Act like Steve Webb
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Happy Days
Act like Minstrel Show Performer
event1929 star_border 6
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Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
The Black Watch
Act like Captain Donald King
event1929 star_border 6
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Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.
Wicked
Act like Scott Burrows
event1931 star_border 4.7
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Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
The Great Hotel Murder
Act like Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe
event1935 star_border 6
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Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Let Freedom Ring
Act like Chris Mulligan
event1939 star_border 6
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A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Beau Geste
Act like Hank
event1926 star_border 6
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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.
Mother Machree
Act like The Giant of Kilkenny
event1927 star_border 6.2
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Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
The Foxes of Harrow
Act like Mike Farrell
event1947 star_border 6.1
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An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
Call Out the Marines
Act like Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis
event1942 star_border 4
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Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
The Devil's Party
Act like Marty Malone
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
South of Pago Pago
Act like Bucko Larson
event1940 star_border 4.8
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Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
Winds of Chance
Act like Poleon Doret
event1925 star_border 4.8
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A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
Hot Pepper
Act like Jim Flagg
event1933 star_border 4.5
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In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Wharf Angel
Act like Turk
event1934 star_border 3.7
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On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him. He explains that after he spoke out about the rights of man to a crowd, a riot ensued, during which a policeman was killed. Como took the gun from the killer, but is thought to be guilty of the crime himself. Como, who reciprocates Mary's love, spends the night with her, but leaves to keep her out of danger. He joins the crew of a ship sailing to China after he is befriended by Turk, a big lumbering sailor who is also in love with Mary. Each man is unaware that they love the same woman.
Bengazi
Act like Robert Emmett Donovan
event1955 star_border 3.4
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An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.
Fair Wind to Java
Act like O'Brien
event1953 star_border 4.9
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The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Sea Fury
Act like Bellew
event1958 star_border 6
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The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
Three Rogues
Act like Bull Stanley
event1931
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In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each been betrayed by a woman. They come across a wagon train bound for the town of Custer, where hundreds of people are gathering for a land rush in the Dakotas, which President Ulysses S. Grant has opened to settlers thanks to a treaty with the Sioux Indians. After the three rogues ride off, they spy a lone wagon with a tempting string of thoroughbreds. Before they can steal the horses, however, the wagon is attacked by a gang led by Layne Hunter, a shifty saloon owner from Custer. The trio chase off the gang, and as they are about to abscond with the horses, they find pretty Lee Carleton, whose father was killed in the attack.
Full Confession
Act like Pat McGinnis
event1939 star_border 4.7
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A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
A Devil with Women
Act like Jerry Maxton
event1930 star_border 5.3
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Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
Under Pressure
Act like Jumbo Smith
event1935 star_border 5
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Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
Hot for Paris
Act like John Patrick Duke
event1929
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A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.
Tampico
Act like Fred Adamson
event1944 star_border 5.5
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A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Act like Himself (archive footage)
event2011 star_border 9
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Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Annabelle's Affairs
Act like John Rawson / Hefly Jack
event1931
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After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her husband and told not to part with them. However she is an extravagant spender and is forced to give the stocks to her husband's millionaire rival.....
On Location with Gunga Din
Act like MacChesney (archive footage)
event2004
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A documentary focusing on the production history and legacy of the adventure-comedy phenomenon, Gunga Din.
Pacific Liner
Act like Crusher McKay
event1939 star_border 5.2
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The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.
The Cock-Eyed World
Act like Top Sergeant Flagg
event1929 star_border 4.3
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Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1994
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As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.
The Italians They Are Crazy
Act like Sergente O'Riley
event1958
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In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
The Call of the Road
Act like Alfred Truscott
event1920
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In 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.
We're Going to Be Rich
Act like "Dobbie" Dobson
event1938 star_border 5
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A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
Love, Honor and Goodbye
Act like Terry O'Farrell
event1945 star_border 4.5
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A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
Rough, Tough and Ready
Act like Owen McCarey
event1945
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The story is the old bromide about two brawling buddies, duking it out over the same girl, in this case pert Jo Matheson (Jean Rogers). Owen and Brad own a salvage company, but split up over Jo. Both separately sign up for the army, and both are reunited in the Pacific.
The Loves of Carmen
Act like Escamillo
event1927 star_border 5.2
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Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
The Magnificent Brute
Act like 'Big Steve' Andrews
event1936 star_border 6.3
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Dick Turpin
Act like Dick Turpin
event1933
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The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
The Passionate Adventure
Act like Herb Harris
event1924 star_border 6
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A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Act like SS Henrietta Helmsman
event1956 star_border 6.6
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Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Diamond Frontier
Act like Terrence Regan
event1940
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Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
Women and Diamonds
Act like Brian Owen
event1924
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In Africa a typist is framed for killing a diamond smuggler who betrayed her father.
A Romance of Old Baghdad
Act like Miski
event1922
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In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
Corinthian Jack
Act like Jack Halstead
event1921
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A boxer saves a girl from a noble kidnapper.
The Fighting Heart
Act like Soapy Williams
event1925 star_border 5
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This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
Strong Boy
Act like Strong Boy
event1929 star_border 5
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"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
Rackety Rax
Act like 'Knucks' McGloin
event1932 star_border 5
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Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
event1934 star_border 6
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Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
No More Women
Act like Forty-Fathoms
event1934 star_border 4.5
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Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
Ex-Champ
Act like Tom 'Gunner' Grey
event1939 star_border 6
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A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Men of Steel
Act like Pete Masarick
event1926
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Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1985 star_border 5.6
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Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Act like Self - Actor (archive footage)
event2019 star_border 6.5
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Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the legend of the Far West. By giving a face to the underprivileged, from humble cowboys to persecuted minorities, he revealed like no one else the great social divisions that existed and still exist in the United States. More than four decades after his death, what remains of his legacy and humanistic values in the memory of those who love his work?
The Glorious Adventure
Act like Bulfinch
event1922 star_border 4
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An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
The River Pirate
Act like Sailor Fritz
event1928
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This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.
Michigan Kid
Act like Curley Davis
event1947 star_border 6
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A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
The Big Guy
Act like Warden Bill Whitlock
event1939
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A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Act like Himself
event1937 star_border 6.1
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While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
Rawhide
(1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.2
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The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Have Gun, Will Travel
Act like Mike O'Hare (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 7.4
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Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.
The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.
Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Lux Video Theatre
Act like Michael O'Reilly (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6
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Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
(1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
This Is Your Life
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.3
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This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family.
Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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