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Alan Roscoe is a Actor American born on 23 august 1886 at Nashville (USA)
Alan Roscoe (August 23, 1886 – March 8, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent and early talking film eras. He appeared in 108 films between 1915 and 1933. His interment was located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Jusqu'en 1929, Alan Roscoe contribue à environ soixante-dix films muets américains. Parmi eux, mentionnons encore Le Dernier des Mohicans de Clarence Brown et Maurice Tourneur (1920, rôle d'Uncas), avec Barbara Bedford. Un temps marié (divorce), le couple se retrouve à l'écran dans trois autres films muets (1923-1925-1928) et un film parlant (1932).
À partir de 1929 et jusqu'à sa mort prématurée en 1933 (d'un cancer), Alan Roscoe collabore à une trentaine de films parlants, dont Les Titans du ciel de George W. Hill (1931, avec Wallace Beery et Clark Gable).
Parmi ses autres partenaires au cinéma, citons Pauline Frederick (deux films muets, dont Madame X de Frank Lloyd en 1920), Mildred Harris (deux films muets), Leatrice Joy (deux films muets), Shirley Mason (trois films muets), ainsi que Mae Murray (un film muet, puis le film parlant — le dernier de l'actrice — Le Grand Enjeu de Lowell Sherman en 1931).
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Alan Roscoe
Birth name John Albert Roscoe
Nationality USA
Birth 23 august 1886 at Nashville (USA)
Death 8 march 1933 (at 46 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 23 august 1886 at Nashville (USA)
Death 8 march 1933 (at 46 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Après des débuts au cinéma dans huit courts métrages et un long métrage sortis en 1915, Alan Roscoe tourne trois films sortis en 1917, dont Le Roman de Marguerite Gautier (rôle d'Armand Duval) et Cléopâtre (rôle de Pharon), tous deux réalisés par J. Gordon Edwards et avec Theda Bara dans les rôles-titres. Il retrouve l'actrice sur cinq autres réalisations d'Edwards, deux de 1918 (When a Woman Sins et Salomé — rôle de Jean le Baptiste), puis trois de 1919. À noter que six des sept films du couple Bara-Roscoe sont actuellement réputés perdus (dont ceux pré-cités).Jusqu'en 1929, Alan Roscoe contribue à environ soixante-dix films muets américains. Parmi eux, mentionnons encore Le Dernier des Mohicans de Clarence Brown et Maurice Tourneur (1920, rôle d'Uncas), avec Barbara Bedford. Un temps marié (divorce), le couple se retrouve à l'écran dans trois autres films muets (1923-1925-1928) et un film parlant (1932).
À partir de 1929 et jusqu'à sa mort prématurée en 1933 (d'un cancer), Alan Roscoe collabore à une trentaine de films parlants, dont Les Titans du ciel de George W. Hill (1931, avec Wallace Beery et Clark Gable).
Parmi ses autres partenaires au cinéma, citons Pauline Frederick (deux films muets, dont Madame X de Frank Lloyd en 1920), Mildred Harris (deux films muets), Leatrice Joy (deux films muets), Shirley Mason (trois films muets), ainsi que Mae Murray (un film muet, puis le film parlant — le dernier de l'actrice — Le Grand Enjeu de Lowell Sherman en 1931).
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The Thrill Hunter (1933)
, 1hDirected by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Edward LeSaint, Eddie Kane, Robert Ellis, Harry Semels
Roles Movie Cowboy Joe
Rating60%
Braggart Buck Crosby rescues movie star Marjorie Lane when her horse bolts during location shooting. She invites him to dinner, where he regales the film crew with tall tales of his exploits. When someone notices his resemblance to a note car racer, he takes credit for that too. After he leaves, he is attracted to a commotion in an isolated cabin. Shots ring out, and he finds two men dead inside. They turn out to be members of the Blake gang, which just pulled off a $100,000 gold robbery. Buck finds a locket and keeps it, then claims the reward for shooting the two men. This latest exploit convinces director Ed Jackson to invite Buck to go to Hollywood and star opposite Marjorie in her next picture.
Lucky Devils (1933)
Directed by Ralph Ince
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors William Boyd, Bruce Cabot, Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan, William Bakewell, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Mr. Hacket - A Director
Rating61%
The Cheyenne Kid (1933)
, 54minutesDirected by Robert Hill
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates, Otto Hoffman, Al Bridge, Alan Roscoe, Anderson Lawler
Roles Mark Hollister
Rating52%
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Hell Divers (1932)
, 1h49Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Marie Prevost
Roles Captain - U.S.S Saratoga
Rating63%
Chief Petty Officer "Windy" Riker (Beery)is a veteran aerial gunner of a Navy Helldiver dive bomber and the leading chief of Fighting Squadron One, about to go to Panama aboard the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier. He loses his five-year title of "champion machine gunner" after young C.P.O. Steve Nelson (Gable) joins the squadron. Windy, notorious for using his fists to enforce discipline, is charged by local police with wrecking a Turkish bath. Windy is saved from arrest, however, when Lieutenant Commander Jack Griffin ( Miljan), skipper of the squadron, intervenes on his behalf. Griffin and his second-in-command, Lieutenant "Duke" Johnson (Nagle), agree that Nelson is the best candidate to replace Windy as he ponders retirement.
The Death Kiss (1932)
, 1h15Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about television
Actors David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Lee Moran, John Wray
Roles Chalmers
Rating59%
During the filming of a death scene of The Death Kiss, leading man Myles Brent is really shot and killed. Tonart Studios manager Joseph Steiner (Lugosi) is assigned to handle the situation. The studio wants to pass it off as a simple accident, but screenwriter Franklyn Drew (Manners) digs a bullet out of a wall and tells Homicide Detective Lieutenant Sheehan that it is a .38 caliber, while the guns used in the film are all .45s.
Hell-Fire Austin (1932)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Ken Maynard, Nat Pendleton, Alan Roscoe, Jack Perrin, Lafe McKee, Charles Le Moyne
Roles Mark Edmonds
Rating62%
The Last Mile (1932)
, 1h15Directed by Samuel Bischoff
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Théâtre, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Preston Foster, George E. Stone, Noel Madison, Alan Roscoe, Paul Fix, Al Hill
Roles Kirby... Cell 7 (as Allan Roscoe)
Rating61%
The movie presents the life in a prison where men are on death row. Some of them are wrongfully accused and convicted, there is nothing else in their future but the electric chair.
Strangers of the Evening (1932)
, 1h10Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield, Eugene Pallette, Tully Marshall, Miriam Seegar, Theodore von Eltz
Roles Sutherland
Rating50%
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Ladies of the Jury (1932)
, 1h3Directed by Lowell Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Ken Murray, Roscoe Ates, Kitty Kelly, Cora Witherspoon
Roles Prosecutor Halsey Van Stye (uncredited)
Rating62%
Middle aged Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna May Oliver) is selected to serve on a jury. The case is the murder trial of ex-showgirl Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond), accused of killing her rich elderly husband. Throughout the trial Mrs. Crane is outspoken but is able to ask the witnesses candid and important questions. At the end of the trial, Mrs. Crane casts the sole “not guilty” vote, causing a discussion. After lots of convincing and several votes, the count is ten not guilty to two guilty. During the deliberations, the wealthy Mrs. Crane secretly hires a detective agency to further investigate the case. They prove that Chauncy, Mr. Crane's nephew, paid the maid, Mrs. Snow, to lie under oath so Chauncy could inherit his uncle's entire estate.
Dirigible (1931)
, 1h40Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray, Hobart Bosworth, Roscoe Karns, Bess Flowers
Roles Commandant de l'U.S.S. Lexington
Rating62%
When famed explorer Louis Rondelle (Hobart Bosworth) requests the U.S. Navy's assistance in reaching the South Pole, officer Jack Bradon (Jack Holt) convinces Rear Admiral John S. Martin (Emmett Corrigan) to offer his dirigible, the USS Pensacola, for the attempt.
Danger Lights (1931)
, 1h14Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert, Robert Edeson, Frank Sheridan
Roles Jim
Rating60%
Louis Wolheim plays the boss of the railroad yard in Miles City, Montana. The film opens with a landslide across the tracks in Montana, and a repair crew is dispatched to clear the tracks. Several hobos are lounging nearby and are put to work helping the repair crew. One of the hobos, played by Robert Armstrong, is discovered to have been a former railroad engineer who lost his job due to insubordination. He is given a new job for the railroad by the yard boss, but quickly falls in love with the boss's fiancée, played by Jean Arthur.
The Public Defender (1931)
, 1h9Directed by J. Walter Ruben, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Edmund Breese, Frank Sheridan, Alan Roscoe
Roles Malcolm O'Neill
Rating63%
The Royal Bed (1931)
Directed by Lowell Sherman, Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Mary Astor, Lowell Sherman, Anthony Bushell, Nance O'Neil, Hugh Trevor, Robert Warwick
Roles Birten
Rating57%
Princess Anne (Mary Astor) plans to run away with Freddie Granton (Anthony Bushell), the commoner secretary of her father, King Eric VIII (Lowell Sherman), once her domineering mother, Queen Martha (Nance O'Neil), has left for a vacation in America. Anne is therefore aghast when the Marquis of Birten (Alan Roscoe) brings news that he has negotiated her political marriage to Prince William of Grec (Hugh Trevor), a man she has never even met. Dismissing Anne's vehement protests, the Queen is delighted, a feeling not shared by Anne's loving but ineffectual father.
High Stakes (1931)
, 1h12Directed by Lowell Sherman
Origin USA
Actors Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray, Karen Morley, Edward Martindel, Leyland Hodgson, Alan Roscoe
Roles Judge Hennessey
Rating65%
The Sin Ship (1931)
, 1h5Directed by Louis Wolheim, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Astor, Ian Keith, Louis Wolheim, Hugh Herbert, Russ Powell, Alan Roscoe
Roles Crewman Dave
Rating55%
Smiley Marsden (Ian Keith) is a bank-robber on the run from the police, with his moll, Frisco Kitty (Mary Astor). Cornered, they arrive at the San Francisco docks, where they convince the captain of a small cargo ship, Sam McVeigh (Louis Wolheim), to take them aboard on his run to Mexico, mostly because he is enchanted with Kitty. Marsden is posing as a minister. As the ship sets sail, every sailor aboard lusts after Kitty, none more so than the captain. One night, when inebriated, he corners Kitty in his cabin and begins to force himself on her. She stops him by basically telling him that he is better than that, which makes him do some deep soul-searching. During the rest of the voyage, Kitty manages to fend off the rest of the crew, with the help of the disarmed captain.