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Brandon Hurst is a Actor British born on 30 november 1866 at London (United-kingdom)
Brandon Hurst (August 30, 1866 – July 15, 1947) was an English stage and film actor.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 30 november 1866 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 15 july 1947 (at 80 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 30 november 1866 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 15 july 1947 (at 80 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
, 1h27Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Alan Ladd, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frank Puglia
Roles Butler (uncredited)
Rating66%
The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that lead to his predicament. Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams about being a real private detective like his friend Sam McCloud (Ladd). One day he is mistaken for a detective by a mysterious lady in distress (Lamour) and soon finds himself involved in a murder mystery. In the end of the flashback, Ronnie is released from prison.
Road to Utopia (1946)
, 1h30Directed by Norman Panama, Hal Walker, Melvin Frank, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Douglass Dumbrille, Hillary Brooke, Robert Benchley
Roles Man at Zambini's (uncredited)
Rating70%
After the credits we see Sal and Chester Hooton (Lamour and Hope), an old married couple. They are visited by an equally old Duke Johnson (Crosby), and the three reminisce about their previous adventure in the Klondike.
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
, 1h33Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Schildkraut
Roles Marquis
Rating66%
King Louis XV of France is invited by his rival King Philip V of Spain to choose a suitable husband for Philip's daughter, Princess Maria, as a gesture of unity between their two nations. Louis's choice is Duc le Chandre, but the duke fancies Madame Pompadour, as does the king.
, 1h45Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, S.Z. Sakall, Alan Hale
Rating59%
Deux hommes de chant et de danse luttent pour produire un spectacle de Broadway. David Butler 1946 Dennis Morgan stars de la musique, Jack Carson, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, SZ Sakall, Angela Greene, Florence Bates, Donald Woods, Alan Hale et Mimi Aguglia.
Sister Kenny (1946)
, 1h56Directed by Dudley Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Holden
Roles Mr. Todd (Landlord) (uncredited)
Rating71%
In 1911, Elizabeth Kenny (Rosalind Russell) returns from nurse school in Brisbane, Australia to her home in the bush of Queensland with the head doctor at the nearest hospital, Dr. McDonnell (Alexander Knox). She informs him that she will be a bush nurse near her home instead of taking up residency at the hospital 50 miles away; her own personal experiences growing up in the bush made her want to help those not able to get to a hospital. Dr. McDonnell is incredulous, and says she will not last six months in the bush.
The Corn Is Green (1945)
, 1h55Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock, Joan Lorring
Roles Lewellyn Powell (uncredited)
Rating72%
Middle-aged Lily Cristobel Moffatt (Bette Davis) sets up a school in a Welsh coal mining town, despite the determined opposition of the local squire (Nigel Bruce). Eventually, she considers giving up. Then she discovers a promising student, Morgan Evans, a miner seemingly destined for a life of hard work and heavy drink. With renewed hope, she works hard to help him realise his potential.
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Ralph Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Paul Cavanagh, Konstantin Shayne, Edmund Breon, Morton Lowry
Roles Simpson
Rating60%
A scientist, Dr. Karell (Asther), has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) with the help of Dr. Van Bruecken (Schünzel). However, Dr. Karell has now fallen in love, and has discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.
The Great John L. (1945)
, 1h36Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Boxing films
Actors Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, Otto Kruger, Wallace Ford, George Mathews, Robert Barrat
Roles valet (non crédité)
Rating67%
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The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
, 1h34Directed by David Butler, Samuel Goldwyn, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak, Victor McLaglen, Marc Lawrence
Roles Mr. Pelly
Rating67%
A pirate captain known as the Hook (Victor McLaglen) buries his treasure on an island and kills the map maker so no one else will find it. He and his cut-throat crew go after the Mary Ann, a ship on which Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) is running away from her father, the King (Robert Warwick), so she can marry a commoner. The Hook plans to hold her for a large ransom. A cowardly actor, Sylvester the Great (Hope), is in the cabin next door to Margaret. The Hook's ship, The Avenger attacks the Mary Ann and after a big fight, the crew are killed or made to walk the plank by the pirates. Sylvester escapes by disguising himself as a gypsy woman and is taken on board The Avenger with Margaret.
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
, 2h4Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Dan Duryea, Tom Drake, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Footman (uncredited)
Rating69%
Susie Parkington (Greer Garson), an elderly society matron, is surrounded by her many relatives at her stately home at Christmastime in 1938, with the exception of her beloved great-granddaughter Jane (Frances Rafferty). When Jane does appear she informs her great-grandmother that she plans to elope with Ned Talbot (Tom Drake), her father's employee, who wishes to take her away from her family and their way of life. Susie arranges a meeting with Ned, where he reveals that Jane's father Amory (Edward Arnold) is being questioned for fraud and he planned to take Jane away in order to hide her from the truth. Susie sends Ned away, telling Jane to forget about him, and after hearing her grandson-in-law's side of the story makes the decision to ask her heirs to pay off Amory's debts with a loan ($31 million), much to her family's disgust, as it will mean that they may lose their inheritance.
House of Frankenstein (1944)
, 1h11Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films about magic and magicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Wolves in film, Dracula films, Frankenstein films, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Cyberpunk films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Elena Verdugo, Glenn Strange
Roles Dr. Geissler (uncredited)
Rating61%
The film focuses on the exploits of the vengeful Dr. Gustav Niemann (Boris Karloff), who escapes from prison. He is helped by the hunchback Daniel (J. Carrol Naish), for whom he promises to create a new, beautiful body. The two murder Professor Lampini (George Zucco), a traveling showman, and take over his horror exhibit. To exact revenge on Bürgermeister Hussman (Sig Ruman), who had once caused his imprisonment, Niemann revives Count Dracula (John Carradine). Dracula seduces Hussmann's granddaughter-in-law Rita (Anne Gwynne) and kills Hussmann himself, but in a subsequent chase, Niemann disposes of Dracula's coffin, causing the vampire to perish in sunlight.
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
, 2h10Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Films about writers
Actors Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine
Rating70%
A group of people are watching Halley's Comet overhead when Judge Clemens is called away for the birth of his son, Samuel Clemens. The film proceeds to mix in elements of many of Clemens' best-known stories as if they actually occurred. Thus, as he grows up, Sam plays with his friends Huck, Tom, and the slave boy Jim on a raft on the Mississippi, providing a fictitious "real–life" basis for the novels Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Radio Bugs (1944)
Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Billy Laughlin, Robert Blake, Janet Burston, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Brandon Hurst, Morris Ankrum
Roles Shakespearean actor
Rating53%
Froggy and his parents enjoy a Red Skelton USO performance over the radio. Learning from his father that comedians make "a lot of money," Froggy decides that he and the gang should become radio comedians. They buy a joke book from a local used bookstore, and crash the lobby of a local dentists' office looking for a sponsor. The gang's horrible jokes and worse singing cause the waiting dental patients pain and distress, leading to their being thrown off the premises.
Dixie (1943)
, 1h29Directed by A. Edward Sutherland, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Billy De Wolfe, Marjorie Reynolds, Lynne Overman, Eddie Foy, Jr.
Roles Dignified Man in Audience
Rating60%
Jane Eyre (1943)
, 1h32Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Sara Allgood, Henry Daniell
Roles Lowood School Trustee
Rating74%
Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel and selfish, uncaring paternal aunt, Mrs. Reed (Agnes Moorehead) of Gateshead Hall. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of the child, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell).