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Frank O'Connor is a Actor, Director and Story American born on 11 april 1881 at New York City (USA)
Frank O'Connor est un acteur, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur américain né le 11 avril 1881 à New York et mort le 22 novembre 1959 à Los Angeles (Californie) des suites d'une longue maladie.
Durant les années 1920, il fut le réalisateur d'une vingtaine de longs ou moyens métrages.
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Frank O'Connor est un acteur, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur américain né le 11 avril 1881 à New York et mort le 22 novembre 1959 à Los Angeles (Californie) des suites d'une longue maladie.
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De 1915 à 1958, il apparut en tant qu'acteur dans plus de 600 films.Durant les années 1920, il fut le réalisateur d'une vingtaine de longs ou moyens métrages.
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Decision at Sundown (1957)
, 1h17Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, Noah Beery, Jr, John Archer
Roles Townsman in Church
Rating67%
Bart Allison (Randolph Scott) rejoint un ami, Sam, qui a découvert la ville où se trouve le dangereux Tate Kinsbrough (John Carroll) qu'Allison cherche depuis 3 ans, certainement pour le tuer. Il souhaite venger une certaine Mary, que Kingsbrough avait poussée au suicide par un adultère. Les deux compères entrent en ville pour accomplir leur besogne. Mais cette ville, totalement sous la coupe de Kinsbrough, se prépare à célébrer le jour même le mariage de ce dernier. Par ailleurs la victime de Kinsbrough, que Sam a bien connue, n'était peut-être pas une oie blanche ; ce qui va diviser les deux amis quand Sam va apprendre le but de Bart...
Run of the Arrow (1957)
, 1h22Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Political films
Actors Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen
Roles un homme sur le chantier
Rating65%
Confederate veteran O'Meara (Steiger) refuses to accept defeat following the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. He renounces his family and the United States, travels west and joins the Native American Sioux tribe, and takes a wife (Sara Montiel).
A Lawless Street (1955)
, 1h18Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Jean Parker, Warner Anderson, Wallace Ford, Michael Pate
Roles Townsman (uncredited)
Rating63%
The marshal of Medicine Bend, Calem Ware (Randolph Scott), tries to keep peace in a lawless town whilst trying to prevent himself from being killed. The arrival of a show troupe reunites the marshal with someone from his past, leading to a showdown with his would-be killers and his old flame, Tally Dickinson (Angela Lansbury).
Top Gun (1955)
Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Karin Booth, James Millican, Regis Toomey, Hugh Sanders, John Dehner
Roles Mr Turner
Rating61%
Rick Martin arrives in a small town warning of an impending attack by his old gang.
Women's Prison (1955)
, 1h19Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, Cleo Moore, Phyllis Thaxter, Howard Duff
Rating64%
A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life hell for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions.
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
, 1h17Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, James Westerfield, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott, Richard Coogan
Rating63%
Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin (Richard Webb). He recounts the story of the night of the murder to Sheriff Ben East (Stephen Elliott). Viewers find out that he was strung up by a town mob after it appeared he had indeed committed the murder and he still bored the scar from the ordeal. Laurie (Donna Reed), Carter's sister, who was planning on marrying Jim delivers him from his fate. After being given three hours by the Sheriff to find the true killer, Jim, through much interrogation and speculation is led to the guilty man.
Angel Face (1953)
, 1h31Directed by Otto Preminger, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Leon Ames, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Bailiff (uncredited)
Rating71%
Frank and Bill, two Beverly Hills ambulance drivers, arrive at the Tremayne mansion, where Catherine Tremayne has been affected by gas poisoning, but has already been treated by the police. When Frank tries to reassure Catherine’s stepdaughter, Diane, she becomes hysterical, causing them to trade slaps. After they leave, Diane follows Frank to a diner, where they flirt and decide to go to dinner, in spite of Frank having a girlfriend, Mary.
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, George Reeves
Roles Passerby (uncredited)
Rating67%
In Los Angeles, California, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is a single woman who works as a switchboard operator along with her roommates, Crystal Carpenter (Ann Sothern) and Sally Ellis (Jeff Donnell). On her birthday, she decides to celebrate by dining alone at home, with the picture of her fiancé, a soldier serving in the Korean War. At the candlelight dinner table, she opens the latest letter from him and learns to her shock that he instead plans to marry a nurse he met in Tokyo.
The Quiet Man (1952)
, 2h9Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick
Roles Ringside Photographer (uncredited)
Rating76%
In the 1920s, Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, travels to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm and his birthplace in Inisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), the sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire "Red" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). Danaher, who had wanted the farm himself, is angry that the Widow Tillane (herself angered by Danaher's admission that he had discussed her in the local pub) accepts Sean's bid, and retaliates by refusing consent for his sister to marry. Several town locals, including the Catholic priest, Father Lonergan (Ward Bond), conspire to trick him into believing that the wealthy Widow Tillane (Mildred Natwick) wants to marry him, but only if Mary Kate is no longer living in his house. After learning the truth on Sean and Mary Kate's wedding day, an enraged Will refuses to give his sister her dowry which is made up of a large sum of money and her family possessions passed down from her mother.
Carrie (1952)
, 1h58Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Ray Teal, Barry Kelley
Roles Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Rating72%
Carrie Meeber (Jennifer Jones) leaves her family in a small rural town and heads to Chicago. On the train to Chicago, Charles Drouet (Eddie Albert) approaches her. Although Carrie is reluctant to speak to him, the salesman persists and the two chat until they reach Chicago. Carrie gets off in South Chicago, the slums as Charles Drouet points out, after taking Drouet's business card.
Scandal Sheet (1952)
, 1h22Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Rosemary DeCamp, Henry O'Neill, Harry Morgan
Roles Newspaperman (uncredited)
Rating73%
A newspaper man, Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford), takes over an ailing New York daily newspaper, the fictional New York Express, and revives it as a scandal sheet by staging a number of publicity stunts. The man's wife, whom he left penniless years ago, resurfaces and threatens to blackmail him. He kills her, accidentally, but then tries to cover it up.
Man in the Saddle (1951)
, 1h27Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox, Richard Steven Rauber, John Russell
Rating62%
Owen Merritt, petit propriétaire d'un ranch, se fait voler la femme qu'il aime par un important propriétaire terrien, Will Isham. Mais quand celui-ci apprend que c'est un mariage d'intérêt, il décide de se débarrasser définitivement de celui qui reste son rival. Merritt ne réagit pas, jusqu'au jour où ses deux amis et associés sont assassinés par l'homme de main de Isham.
A Place in the Sun (1951)
, 2h2Directed by George Stevens, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark
Roles Factory Floorman (uncredited)
Rating76%
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), arrives in town following a chance encounter with his uncle while working as a bellhop in a Chicago hotel. The elder Eastman invites George to visit him if and when he ever comes to town, and the ambitious young man takes advantage of the offer. Despite George's family relationship to the Eastmans, they regard him as something of an outsider, but his uncle nevertheless offers him an entry-level job at his factory. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle (whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman") with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Alice is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages.
The Stooge (1951)
, 1h48Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, Marion Marshall, Frances Bavier, Marie McDonald
Roles Sidewalk Passerby (uncredited)
Rating66%
In 1930, entertainer Bill Miller believes that he has the ability to become a solo performer. He and his partner Ben Bailey split up and go their separate ways. Miller fails miserably, and his manager, Leo Lyman thinks it would be a good idea to perform with a "stooge." Enter Ted Rogers, who plays an accident-prone foil for Miller. Soon afterwards, Miller's act is a hit.
In Old Amarillo (1951)
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Roy Barcroft, Elisabeth Risdon, Pierre Watkin, Pincus Leff (aka "Pinky Lee"), Estelita Rodríguez
Roles Frank (uncredited)
Rating61%