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Gilbert Emery is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Additional Dialogue American born on 11 june 1875

Gilbert Emery

Gilbert Emery
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Birth name Emery Bemsley Pottle
Nationality USA
Birth 11 june 1875
Death 28 october 1945 (at 70 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Gilbert Emery est un acteur, scénariste, dramaturge et metteur en scène américain, de son vrai nom Emery Bemsley Pottle, né à Naples (New York) (État de New York) le 11 juin 1875, décédé à Los Angeles (Californie) le 28 octobre 1945.

Biography

Au théâtre, il contribue à des productions jouées à Broadway entre 1921 et 1933, principalement comme acteur, mais également comme auteur de pièces (dont l'une adaptée ensuite en comédie musicale) et, à deux reprises, comme metteur en scène.

Au cinéma, il débute comme acteur en 1921-1922, avec deux films muets, puis apparaît régulièrement à l'écran entre 1929 et 1945, année de sa mort. Il est aussi l'auteur de dialogues additionnels pour deux réalisations et, en outre, quelques autres films sont des adaptations de pièces ou histoires qu'il a écrites.

Best films

Sarah and Son (1930)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Gilbert Emery (79 films)

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Actor

Singapore Woman, 1h4
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Brenda Marshall, Dorothy Tree, David Bruce, Virginia Field, Jerome Cowan, Bruce Lester
Roles Sir Stanley Moore
Rating56% 2.81822.81822.81822.81822.8182
The House of the Seven Gables, 1h29
Directed by Joe May
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran, Nan Grey, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Gerald Pyncheon
Rating69% 3.4941053.4941053.4941053.4941053.494105
En 1828, la famille Pyncheon est ruinée et ses membres rivalisent pour obtenir la maison ancestrale, Seven Gables. Pour y parvenir, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtient une fausse déclaration de meurtre accusant son frère Clifford. Hepzibah, la fiancée de Clifford, attend vingt ans que son futur époux soit libéré. Mais à son insu, Clifford et son compagnon de cellule, Matthew, préparent un complot...
A Dispatch from Reuters, 1h30
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger
Roles Lord Palmerston in Parliament (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.435933.435933.435933.435933.43593
Paul Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) starts a messenger service using homing pigeons to fill a gap in the telegraph network spanning Europe, but has difficulty convincing anyone to subscribe. When poison is sent to a hospital by mistake, Reuter's message saves the day (and many lives). However, he is persuaded by Ida Magnus (Edna Best), the pretty daughter of Dr. Magnus (Otto Kruger), to keep it quiet, as a scandal would undo all the good work the doctors are doing.
Waterloo Bridge, 1h48
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaïa, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Colonel at Luncheon (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.8472553.8472553.8472553.8472553.847255
After Britain's declaration of World War II, Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor), an army colonel, is being driven to London's Waterloo Station en route to France, and briefly alights on Waterloo Bridge to reminisce about events which occurred during the First World War when he met Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh) whom he had planned to marry. While Roy gazes at a good luck charm, a billiken that she had given him, the story unfolds.
South of Suez, 1h26
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors George Brent, Brenda Marshall, George Tobias, James Stephenson, Lee Patrick, Eric Blore
Rating63% 3.188493.188493.188493.188493.18849
propriétaire de la mine de diamants Greedy Eli Snedeker, plein de ressentiment que son ex-contremaître John Gamble l'a empêché de prendre plus gentiment, mais le propriétaire ivre, moi la mine de Roger Smythe comme il était sur le point de le frapper riche, tue Smythe et blâme sur Gamble. Saisissant les diamants, Gamble se sauve l'Afrique en Angleterre où il change son nom et commence une nouvelle vie. Ce qu'il n'a pas compté sur, cependant, rencontre et tombe amoureux de la fille de Smythe Katherine, qui tombe amoureuse de lui, mais ne peut l'épouser jusqu'à ce qu'elle puisse faire face à sa haine de John Gamble, l'homme qu'elle croit tuée père.
Anne of Windy Poplars, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Patric Knowles, Henry Travers, Slim Summerville, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Stephen Pringle
Rating63% 3.1872453.1872453.1872453.1872453.187245
Anne Shirley takes up a teaching position in a town where she finds herself unaccountably in conflict with the founding family and its sour matriarch.
Raffles
Raffles (1939)
, 1h12
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, E. E. Clive
Roles Bingham
Rating63% 3.1971253.1971253.1971253.1971253.197125
A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high society. This circumstance he uses to his advantage in his secret career as "The Amateur Cracksman", a master burglar and safecracker who remains always one step ahead of Scotland Yard. An old school friend, Bunny Manders, reintroduces Raffles to his sister, Gwen, with whom Raffles had been infatuated a decade ago. Raffles falls in love with her all over again, and she with him. When Bunny confides a crushing gambling debt over which he is considering suicide, Raffles assures him the money can be obtained.
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The Saint Strikes Back, 1h4
Directed by John Farrow
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Jerome Cowan, Barry Fitzgerald, Robert Elliott
Roles Martin Eastman
Rating61% 3.0970853.0970853.0970853.0970853.097085
While dancing at a New Year's party, the Saint spots an agent of Valerie Travers preparing to shoot someone, so Templar guns him down first at the stroke of midnight. Templar is placed by witnesses at the scene, so the San Francisco police request the assistance of Inspector Henry Fernack (Jonathan Hale) of the NYPD. Before Fernack can leave, the Saint arrives in New York and accompanies him to the West Coast.
The Buccaneer, 2h4
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith
Roles Captain Lockyer
Rating65% 3.2946553.2946553.2946553.2946553.294655
Installé dans les bayous de La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle le commerce de toute la région tout en tentant de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Les circonstances vont l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
Lord Jeff
Lord Jeff (1938)
, 1h25
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Charles Coburn, Herbert Mundin, Terry Kilburn, Gale Sondergaard
Roles Magistrate
Rating65% 3.2929253.2929253.2929253.2929253.292925
Young "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer (Freddie Bartholomew) is supposedly an English aristocrat. In fact, he is an orphan and willing accomplice to con artists Jim Hampstead (George Zucco) and Doris Clandon (Gale Sondergaard), who took him in when his parents died in a train wreck. He conveniently faints in a jewelry store, distracting the employees and allowing Jim to steal a valuable necklace. However, an astute insurance investigator catches him. He is sent to Russell-Cotes, a mercantile marine school, one of many vocational schools run by Dr.
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A Man to Remember, 1h20
Directed by Garson Kanin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman, William Henry, Granville Bates, Frank M. Thomas
Roles Dr. Robinson
Rating69% 3.485663.485663.485663.485663.48566
Under the grieving eyes of most of a town, the funeral procession of Doctor John Abbott (Edward Ellis) passes a lawyer's office. The lawyer opens Abbott's strongbox for the deceased man's impatient creditors, local banker George Sykes (Granville Bates), newspaper editor Jode Harkness (Frank M. Thomas) and store owner Homer Ramsey (Harlan Briggs). Flashbacks begin as they peruse Dr. Abbott's papers.
Storm Over Bengal, 1h5
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Edward Van Sloan, Rochelle Hudson, Douglass Dumbrille, Colin Tapley
Roles Colonel Torrance
Rating53% 2.6960552.6960552.6960552.6960552.696055
Two Royal Air Force officers, Flt Lt Hallett and F/O Neil Allison visit a British outpost in India. Neil is the younger brother of Army Intelligence Officer Captain Jeffrey Allison who is away on an undercover mission in the unaligned and independent Princely state of Lhanapur. The British are worried about radio broadcasts from Ramin Khan inciting the Indian people to revolt. Upon the death of the elderly Maharajah of Lhanapur, Ramin Khan schemes to usurp the throne as a base for his revolt.