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Hallam Cooley is a Actor American born on 7 february 1895 at Brooklyn (USA)

Hallam Cooley

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Nationality USA
Birth 7 february 1895 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 20 march 1971 (at 76 years) at Tiburon (USA)

Hallam Cooley (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 106 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Tiburon, California.

Biography

Au cinéma, Hallam Cooley contribue à cent-six films américains, essentiellement durant la période du muet, le premier étant un court métrage sorti en 1913.

Ultérieurement, mentionnons The Deciding Kiss (1918, avec Edith Roberts et Winifred Greenwood) et Une idylle dans le métro (1922, avec David Butler), tous deux réalisés par Tod Browning, The Painted Flapper de John Gorman (1924, avec James Kirkwood Sr. et Pauline Garon), ainsi que Le Monstre de Roland West (1925, avec Lon Chaney et Gertrude Olmstead).

Durant la période du parlant, il apparaît encore dans quelques films, dont Eaux troubles de Marshall Neilan (1929, avec James Kirkwood Sr. et Mary Brian), Holiday d'Edward H. Griffith (1930, avec Ann Harding et Mary Astor) et Frisco Jenny de William A. Wellman (1932, avec Ruth Chatterton et Louis Calhern), son antépénultième tournage.

Suivent deux derniers films où il tient des petits rôles non crédités, Et demain ? de Frank Borzage (1934, avec Margaret Sullavan et Douglass Montgomery), puis Marie Stuart de John Ford (1936, avec Katharine Hepburn et Fredric March), après quoi il se retire définitivement comme acteur et devient agent artistique.

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Filmography of Hallam Cooley (30 films)

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Mary of Scotland, 2h3
Directed by John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine, Douglas Walton, Ian Keith, Moroni Olsen
Roles petit rôle indéterminé
Rating62% 3.1492853.1492853.1492853.1492853.149285
Mary (Katharine Hepburn), by assuming her throne as Queen of Scotland, strikes terror into the heart of Queen Elizabeth I (Florence Eldridge). After languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth's command, Mary is offered a pardon if she will sign away her throne. Will she accept the deal, or die instead?
Little Man, What Now?, 1h34
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet, DeWitt Jennings, G.P. Huntley
Roles Bit Role
Rating71% 3.5854053.5854053.5854053.5854053.585405
Germany in the 1930s, a young couple struggling against poverty. Hans is a small business agent. He is happily married to Emma that he affectionately calls 'Lämmchen' (small lamb). They must keep their marriage a secret in order for Hans to keep his job, as his boss wants him to marry his daughter. Hans loses his job when the truth comes out. They move in with his stepmother in bustling Berlin to find success. Hans gets a small job in a department store. Things are okay until they find out that his stepmother is really a notorious madame and runs an exclusive brothel.
Frisco Jenny, 1h13
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy, Donald Cook, William A. Wellman, Hallam Cooley
Roles Willie Gleason
Rating67% 3.393613.393613.393613.393613.39361
In 1906 San Francisco, Frisco Jenny Sandoval (Ruth Chatterton), a denizen of the notorious Tenderloin district, wants to marry piano player Dan McAllister (James Murray), but her saloonkeeper father Jim (Robert Emmett O'Connor) is adamantly opposed to it. An earthquake kills both men and devastates the city. In the aftermath, Jenny gives birth to a son, whom she names Dan.
Too Many Cooks, 1h17
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates, Robert McWade, Sharon Lynn, Florence Roberts
Roles Frank Andrews
Rating55% 2.767482.767482.767482.767482.76748
Engaged couple Albert Bennett (Bert Wheeler) and Alice Cook (Dorothy Lee) plan on leaving the city they live in order to build their dream house in the country. They visit the site of their future home while it is only the foundation.
Sporting Blood, 1h20
Directed by Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans, Lew Cody, Marie Prevost, Hallam Cooley
Roles Bill Ludeking
Rating59% 2.9989152.9989152.9989152.9989152.998915
Gambler Rid Riddell works for Tip Scanlon, a crooked gambler, who buys Tommy-Boy, a racehorse from a wealthy man whose spoiled wife loses interest. Tip and Rid consistently win with the horse in both honestly and dishonestly run races. But before long, Tommy Boy loses a race he wasn't supposed to, and the mob is after Tip.
Back Pay
Back Pay (1930)
, 1h10
Directed by Frank Borzage, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Seena Owen, Corinne Griffith, Matt Moore, Grant Withers, J. Barney Sherry, Montagu Love
Roles Al Bloom
Rating62% 3.1487253.1487253.1487253.1487253.148725
Hester Bevins is tired of life in the small town where she has lived all her life. Although she has a boyfriend, Gerald Smith, who is in love with her, she deserts him and takes a train to New York with a travelling salesman. Bevins meets a rich older man, Charles Wheeler, who provides her with all the luxuries she wants in return for being his girlfriend. One day, Bevins' friends invite her on a motor trip to Hot Springs, which is about thirty miles from her old home town. She decides to visit her old hometown. She encounters Smith, who, thinking that she is still single and has a job in the city, proposes marriage but she refuses saying that it is now impossible. Disillusioned, he signs up for the war and ends up being gassed, suffering lung damage and blindness. When the news reaches Bevins, she immediately goes to see him and attempts to nurse him back to health. When the doctor tells her that Smith has only a short time left to livem Bevins asks Wheeler's permission to marry Smith before he dies. She finds peace and happiness in her brief relationship with Smith. After Smith dies in her arms, Bevins decides to end her sordid relationship with Wheeler and return to working for a living.
Oh, Sailor, Behave!, 1h10
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Charles King, Lowell Sherman, Charles King, Noah Beery Sr., Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson
Rating52% 2.603212.603212.603212.603212.60321
An American newspaper reporter named Charlie Carroll (Charles King) is sent to Venice to interview a Romanian general, who is played by Noah Beery. While in Venice Charlie falls for a young heiress named Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy). When Charlie is unable to get an interview with the Romanian general, a local siren named Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), who is the general's favorite helps him. Meanwhile, Nanette learns that her sister is being blackmailed by Prince Kasloff of Russia (Lowell Sherman), to whom she wrote some incriminating letters. Nanette attempts to vamp the Prince in order to obtain the love letters. The Prince, however, tricks her and demands that Nanette marry him if she wants to save her sister. After being repeatedly rebuked by Nanette, the prince hires the Romanian general (Noah Beery) to kidnap her and force her into marriage. Charlie, thinking she has eloped, consoles himself with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland) and almost marries her until he realizes the truth about Nanette and that she has been kidnapped by the Prince. Charlie sets out to rescue her and when the Prince shows up disguised as the general he shoots Prince Kasloff. Charlie and Nanette are happily reunited.
Soup to Nuts, 1h10
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Buddy films, Disaster films
Actors Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Lucile Browne, Hallam Cooley, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard
Roles Mr. D. Quincy Throckmorton
Rating58% 2.903492.903492.903492.903492.90349
Ted Healy is a salesman for the Schmidt Costume Shop who likes to hang out at the fire station where Moe (billed as "Harry Howard"), Larry and Shemp (along with Fred Sanborn) work. Old man Schmidt spends more time building crazy inventions (typical of devices by writer/cartoonist Rube Goldberg) than tending to his business; as a consequence he is bankrupt and his business is taken over by his creditors, who send a young man named Carlson to manage the business. Carlson immediately falls for Mr. Schmidt's niece, Louise, but she resists him.
So Long Letty, 1h4
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Charlotte Greenwood, Grant Withers, Claude Gillingwater, Patsy Ruth Miller, Bert Roach, Marion Byron
Roles Clarence de Brie
Rating60% 3.0473753.0473753.0473753.0473753.047375
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty which causes him to leave the Hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Fancy Baggage, 1h20
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Hallam Cooley, Wallace MacDonald, Edmund Breese, Eddie Gribbon
Roles Diuckey

Naomi Iverson learns that her father has assumed the blame for engaging in an illegal stock pool and is to be sentenced by the Federal Government to 5 years in prison. In return, Iverson will receive a check for $1 million from John Hardin, his former partner and now his bitterest enemy. She appropriates the check and goes to Hardin's yacht hoping to recover the written "confession." There she meets and falls in love with Hardin's son, Ernest. Complications set in when Iverson arrives and is set adrift by Tony, leader of a gang of rumrunners. Tony, who covets Naomi, gets involved in a fight with Ernest; Tony corners her, but she is rescued by Ernest. The revenue officers seize the rum boat and arrest the two old men as bootleggers. When Naomi and Ernest confront their fathers with their love, the fathers bow to necessity and once again become friends.
Paris Bound, 1h13
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty, Leslie Fenton, George Irving, Charlotte Walker
Roles Peter
Rating56% 2.812972.812972.812972.812972.81297
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Among the wedding guests is the young composer Richard Parrish, hardly disguising his admiration for the bride, and Noel Farley, whose passion is exceeded only by the pain of losing Jim to another woman. A child is born to them. When Jim goes off to Europe on a business trip, Mary declines to accompany him. Noel, who owns a villa at Antibes, lures Jim into a rendezvous. Meanwhile, Mary has an affair with Richard. Learning of Jim's rendezvous, she considers a Paris divorce so as to marry Richard. When Jim unexpectedly returns, he tells Mary of his affair with a French woman. Mary is devastated, for she would never believe that her husband would actually sleep with another woman. In the end their mutual love is confirmed, and they decide to adopt traditional marriage morals and remain monogamous.
Wedding Rings, 1h14
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Actors H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Olive Borden, Hallam Cooley, Kathlyn Williams, Aileen Manning
Roles Wilfred Meadows

Eve Quinn, a shallow but attractive debutante, makes a practice of leading men on, then cooly casting them aside for new conquests. She openly boasts that she would find pleasure in taking a man from her sister, Cornelia, who is an art student. When Cornelia falls in love with wealthy clubman Lewis Dike, Eve succeeds in vamping and capturing him; broken-hearted when they marry, Cornelia deliberately introduces Eve to Wilfred Meadows, a playboy with whom she begins a flirtation. Dike soon tires of the modernistic furnishings of their home and the jazz-mad parasites who frequent his drawing room, and he is refreshed by visits to Cornelia. When Dike accidentally learns of Eve's liaison with Wilfred, he realizes his error and is reunited with Cornelia.
Her Wild Oat, 1h10
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Colleen Moore, Larry Kent, Hallam Cooley, Gwen Lee, Martha Mattox, Charles Giblyn
Roles Tommy Warren
Rating70% 3.5080753.5080753.5080753.5080753.508075