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Chester Morris is a Actor American born on 16 february 1901 at New York City (USA)
Chester Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and was nominated for an Oscar. But he is best remembered today for portraying Boston Blackie, a criminal-turned-detective, in the modestly budgeted Boston Blackie film series of the 1940s.
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Birth name John Chester Brooks Morris
Nationality USA
Birth 16 february 1901 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 september 1970 (at 69 years) at Pennsylvania (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 16 february 1901 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 september 1970 (at 69 years) at Pennsylvania (USA)
Biography
Morris was married twice. He first married Suzanne Kilbourne on November 8, 1926. They had two children, John Brooks and Cynthia. Kibourne was granted an interlocutory divorce in November 1939 which was finalized on November 26, 1940. On November 30, 1940, Morris married socialite Lillian Kenton Barker at the home of actor Frank Morgan. They had a son, Kenton, born in 1944. The couple remained married until Morris' death in 1970.Best films
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The Great White Hope (1970)
, 1h43Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Théâtre, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Films based on plays, Le boxe anglaise, Children's films
Actors James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Moses Gunn, R.G. Armstrong
Roles Pop Weaver
Rating68%
Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones; patterned after real-life boxer Jack Johnson) going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Meanwhile, Jefferson prepares for a few more matches, but he lets his guard down by courting the beautiful (and very white) Eleanor Bachman (Jane Alexander), and when everyone, including Jack's black "wife", discover this, the tensions grow to fever pitch. Jack's close black friends become scared over his pushing the envelope of success and the white authorities conspire to frame him with unlawful sexual relations with Eleanor and thereby take away his title. It leads to jealousy, a run from the law, and finally, disaster.
The She-Creature (1956)
, 1h17Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Frieda Inescort
Roles Dr. Carlo Lombardi
Rating38%
The plot concerns an oily carnival hypnotist (Chester Morris), whose experiments in hypnotic regression take his unwitting female subject (Marla English) to a past life as a prehistoric humanoid form of sea life. He uses the physical manifestation of the prehistoric creature to commit murders. The hypnotist's motives are never explicitly described, and the murders happen, apparently, either for revenge or notoriety.
Unchained (1955)
, 1h15Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, Peggy Knudsen, Jerry Paris, John Qualen
Roles Kenyon Scudder
Rating60%
Steve Davitt décide de ne pas attendre le terme de la peine qu'il purge en prison et de s'évader, afin de retrouver sa femme Mary et son fils Win. Bill Howard, un autre prisonnier, le dissuade de passer à l'acte...
Blind Spot (1947)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell, William Forrest, Harry Strang
Roles Jeffrey Andrews
Rating66%
A mystery writer hates his publisher and during the same night he get blind drunk the same publisher is murdered. The writer is the key suspect.
Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
, 1h9Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully
Roles Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Rating62%
When Boston Blackie performs magic tricks at a Thanksgiving Day party for the inmates of a women's prison, Dinah Moran (Constance Dowling) volunteers to enter a booth. She disappears after he draws the curtain, but as a former magician's assistant, uses the opportunity to escape. Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) takes Blackie into custody as an accomplice, but Blackie easily gets away himself.
, 1hDirected by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully, Claire Carleton
Roles Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black / Cyrus Peyton
Rating59%
Ignoring Inspector Farraday's (Richard Lane) friendly advice to stop helping women, Boston Blackie goes to the rescue of a female being attacked by two men. She turns out to be Geraldine "Gerry" Peyton (Lynn Merrick), an old flame of his. She begs him to help protect her baby from her husband John (an uncredited Mark Roberts), who has just been paroled.
The Phantom Thief (1946)
, 1h5Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane, Dusty Anderson, George E. Stone, Frank Sully
Roles Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Rating63%
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Lynn Merrick, Frank Sully, Steve Cochran, George E. Stone
Roles Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Rating63%
Boston Blackie's wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), purchases an upscale bookstore from aged Wilfred Kittredge (George M. Carleton), but retains his services as a book expert. However, when Kittredge becomes ill just before an important auction he was to conduct, Blackie proves that he can impersonate him, fooling everyone, including Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane).
Double Exposure (1944)
, 1h3Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Phillip Terry, Richard Gaines, Charles Arnt, Dewey Robinson
Roles Larry Burke
Rating60%
Pat Marvin (Nancy Kelly) is a small town photographer from Iowa Falls who gets a job offer in New York City for a magazine. She was hired due to a misunderstanding from the magazine's publisher, and sports fanatic James R. Tarlock (Richard Gaines) that she was a man. Larry Burke (Chester Morris), the magazine's editor, is thrilled that his new co-worker is a female, and takes an immediate interest in her. Pat's boyfriend Ben Scribner (Phillip Terry) is less enthusiastic about the girl who he is intending on marrying, leaving him for a job in the big city, and goes as far as following her to make sure that she is not unfaithful to him. Pat, meanwhile, quickly impresses Larry by providing him photographs of Dolores Tucker (Jane Farrar), as she is lying on the ground in a restaurant's toilet after a failed suicide attempt. The publishing of the photo unleashes some controversy, because Dolores is the estranged wife of millionaire Sonny Tucker (Charles Arnt). To deliver him a successful follow-up, Pat travels to Sonny's apartment to photograph him, and disguises herself as a chorus girl to seek entrance. Inside, she quickly flatters him, enabling herself to take as many photos as she wants. Dolores walks in minutes later, and grows convinced that Pat is Sonny's mistress.
Gambler's Choice (1944)
, 1h6Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Lee Patrick, Lloyd Corrigan, Sheldon Leonard
Roles Ross Hadley
Rating60%
The year is 1896, and the three young friends Ross Hadley, Mary Hayes and Michael McGlennon play in the streets of the Tenderloin District in New York, and they are totally oblivious to what surrounds them.
One Mysterious Night (1944)
, 1h1Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Janis Carter, Richard Lane, William Wright, George E. Stone, Mark Roberts
Roles Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Rating60%
The Blue Star of the Nile is stolen from an exhibition guarded by the police under Inspector Farraday. Under intense pressure from the police commissioner to recover the diamond, Farraday tells reporters, among them Dorothy Anderson, that he is sure Boston Blackie is responsible. However, he does not really believe that; it is only a ruse. When Blackie walks into Farraday's office, the inspector is so desperate he deputizes his old nemesis to get the jewel back, using his own methods.
Secret Command (1944)
, 1h22Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Barton MacLane, Tom Tully
Roles Jeff Gallagher
Rating62%
Deux frères se rencontrent sur un chantier naval travaillant pour la guerre, après plusieurs années de séparation. L'aîné a tout lieu de se méfier de son cadet, dont la conduite lui paraît suspecte ; mais c'est grâce à ce dernier, qui appartient au service du contre-espionnage, que le chantier échappera aux projets des saboteurs allemands...
Aerial Gunner (1943)
, 1h18Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Chester Morris, Richard Arlen, Jimmy Lydon, Ralph Sanford, Amelita Ward, Dick Purcell
Roles Foxy Pattis
Rating55%
Policeman Jon Davis (Richard Arlen) informs "Foxy" Pattis (Chester Morris) at his shooting gallery, that his criminal father has died. Foxy blames all policemen, feeling they harassed him all his life and were responsible for his death. Both men enlist in the United States Army Air Forces where Foxy becomes the instructor at an aerial gunnery school. He makes life miserable for Jon, now a "Flying Sergeant" student, trying to force the former policeman to resign.
, 1h5Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall
Roles Boston Blackie
Rating63%
When "Diamond" Ed Barnaby (an uncredited Walter Baldwin) is paroled, he sets out to give $100,000 worth of diamonds to his daughter, Betty (Ann Savage). Aware that several shady characters know he has the jewels, he stashes them in a safe deposit box in the Arcade Building. Betty later receives a call asking her to meet him there, but he never shows up. She contacts her father's only real friend: Horatio Black, better known as Boston Blackie. He agrees to help and drops Betty off at the apartment of his wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), for safekeeping. His sidekick, "the Runt" (George E. Stone), has to postpone his wedding to statuesque bubble dancer Dixy Rose Blossom.
The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
, 1h5Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Chester Morris, Jeanne Bates, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Arthur Hunnicutt
Roles Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Rating60%
Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's apartment, all except robber Dooley Watson. Blackie allows him to see his wife and son.