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Edward Van Sloan is a Actor American born on 1 november 1882 at Chaska (USA)
Edward Van Sloan (November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) was an American film character actor best remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films such as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and The Mummy (1932).
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 november 1882 at Chaska (USA)
Death 6 march 1964 (at 81 years) at San Francisco (USA)
Birth 1 november 1882 at Chaska (USA)
Death 6 march 1964 (at 81 years) at San Francisco (USA)
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This Side of the Law (1950)
, 1h14Directed by Richard L. Bare
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Kent Smith, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Janis Paige, John Alvin, Monte Blue
Roles Judge (uncredited)
Rating63%
David Cummins (Kent Smith) is trapped in a dry cistern and wondering whether he will die there. The largest portion of the rest of the film is a flashback to a week earlier then forward, detailing the events that landed him in that precarious pit.
The Underworld Story (1950)
, 1h31Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea, Mary Anderson
Roles Minister at Funeral (uncredited)
Rating69%
When newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) loses his job at a big city paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from a gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm), who immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. When a local black woman is suspected, Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again. The film is notable for the pejorative use of the word "nigger", though this is clearly dubbed, not what was originally filmed.
A Foreign Affair (1948)
, 1h56Directed by Billy Wilder, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Stanley Prager, William Murphy
Roles German (uncredited)
Rating72%
In 1947, a United States congressional committee which includes prim Phoebe Frost of Iowa (Jean Arthur) arrives in post-World War II Berlin to visit the American troops stationed there. Phoebe hears rumors that cabaret torch singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), suspected of being the former mistress of either Hermann Göring or Joseph Goebbels, is being protected by an unidentified American officer. She enlists Captain John Pringle (John Lund) to assist in her investigation, unaware he is Erika's current lover.
The Mask of Diijon (1946)
, 1h13Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Erich von Stroheim, Jeanne Bates, William Wright, Edward Van Sloan, Denise Vernac, George Chandler
Roles Sheffield
Rating56%
Diijon, a tired magician, gives up his act to study the power of the mind. His wife Victoria, once supportive, now is struggling to pay bills. She urges her stubborn and older husband to return to the magic field where Diijon was considered one of the greats. He refuses but does reluctantly agree to do a hypnotism nightclub act at Victoria's urging. The act goes bad and he's laughed off the stage. He's convinced this is the handiwork of Victoria's ex-lover Tony Holliday. Later, Diijon finds that he does indeed have the power to control men's minds and begins to take revenge on the people he felt made him look like a fool. He hypnotizes his young wife to kill the man. Unfortunately for Diijon, things go horribly wrong.
The Conspirators (1944)
, 1h41Directed by Don Siegel, Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia
Roles Dutch Underground Leader (uncredited)
Rating64%
During World War II, former schoolteacher turned Dutch resistance fighter Vincent Van Der Lyn (Henreid) causes so much trouble for the Nazis, they place a bounty on his head. As a result, he is ordered to travel to England by way of neutral Lisbon.
Captain America (1944)
, 4h4Directed by Elmer Clifton, John English
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Dick Purcell, Lorna Gray, Lionel Atwill, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, George J. Lewis
Roles Gregory
Rating53%
A rash of suspicious suicides among scientists and businessmen, all found holding a small scarab, gets the attention of Mayor Randolph. He demands that Police Commissioner Dryden and District Attorney Grant Gardner get to the bottom of the case, while openly wishing that Captain America, a masked man who has helped defeat crime in the past, were around to solve the mystery. Gail Richards, Grant Gardner's secretary, investigates and realises someone knows of the "Purple Death", a hypnotic chemical responsible for the suicides. However he then pulls out a gun and takes her into another room. He then orders an associate to tie her up. The D.A. realises she is there and forces the man to take him to her. He finds her tied up and gagged. He frees her but it is threatened that the purple death will be dropped killing them all. But the D.A. shoots him then gets out of the room with Gail.
Mission to Moscow (1943)
, 2h4Directed by Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Roles German Diplomat in Berlin (uncredited)
Rating54%
The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe.
Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
, 55minutesDirected by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Edward Van Sloan, Roy Barcroft, Chester Conklin
Roles Pop Owens
Rating68%
Valley of Hunted Men (1942)
, 1hDirected by John English
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Edward Van Sloan, Roland Varno, Arno Frey
Roles Dr. Heinrich Steiner
Rating71%
Virginia (1941)
, 1h50Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Helen Broderick, Leigh Whipper, Carolyn Lee
Roles Ministre
Rating68%
Love Crazy (1941)
, 1h39Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)
Rating73%
Architect Steve Ireland (William Powell) and his wife Susan (Myrna Loy) eagerly look forward to their fourth wedding anniversary, but her mother Mrs. Cooper (Florence Bates) shows up and puts a damper on their plans for the evening. She sends Steve downstairs to mail her insurance premium.
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
, 1h28Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick, Frank Sully
Roles Burkhardt
Rating67%
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
, 1h50Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Minor Watson, Mary Howard, Alan Baxter
Roles Dr. Barrett (uncredited)
Rating72%
Abe Lincoln leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offut to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat overturns at the settlement of New Salem, Abe first sees and loses his heart to Ann Rutledge, the beautiful daughter of the local tavern keeper. Thus, when Denton later offers him a job at the store he has decided to set up in New Salem, Abe readily accepts.
Before I Hang (1940)
, 1h2Directed by Nick Grinde
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Edward Van Sloan, Don Beddoe, Pedro de Cordoba
Roles Dr. Ralph Howard
Rating61%
Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff) is on trial for murder after performing a mercy killing on an elderly friend. In the trial, he reveals that he had been researching a cure for aging, but had not had time to perfect it before his friend's pain became unbearable. Despite his pleas for mercy, the judge sentences him to be hanged in three weeks' time.
Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
, 19minutesDirected by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Sidney Blackmer, Pierre Watkin, Arthur Loft, Glenn Strange, Theodore von Eltz, Selmer Jackson
Roles Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Rating59%