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John Rand is a Actor American born on 19 november 1871
John Rand, né le 19 novembre 1871 à New Haven (Connecticut) et mort le 25 janvier 1940 à Los Angeles, est un acteur américain.
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John Rand commence sa carrière cinématographique dans les années 1910, et joue plus particulièrement dans des films de Charles Chaplin. Il apparaît dans plus de vingt de ses films.Usually with
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You Nazty Spy! (1940)
Directed by Clyde Bruckman, Felix Adler, Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Richard Fiske, Lorna Gray, Dick Curtis
Roles Grey-Haired Axis Minister (uncredited)
Rating77%
In the fictional country of Moronika, three munitions manufacturers—Messrs. Ixnay (Richard Fiske), Onay (Dick Curtis) and Amscray (Don Beddoe)—decide their country is in need of a change. They decide to implement a dictatorship, oust the king, and go about finding someone stupid enough to be a figurehead leader. Ixnay volunteers the three wallpaper hangers simultaneously working in his dining room—the Stooges.
Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
, 20minutesDirected by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Dorothy Appleby, Robert Sterling, Vernon Dent, Bobby Barber, Lynton Brent
Roles Farmer
Rating60%
Clarence Plunkett (Buster) and his wife (Dorothy Appleby) drive to Detroit to buy a new car. To save money on the shipping fee, they decide to drive it back home.
Blondie (1938)
, 1h10Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Rita Hayworth, Larry Simms, John Qualen, Bud Jamison
Roles Gardener (uncredited)
Rating68%
Back to the Woods (1937)
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Ethelreda Leopold
Roles Governor's Aide (uncredited)
Rating68%
Set in colonial times, the Stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive (and after a dancing fling with the governor’s daughters), they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians will not let them use their hunting grounds without a fee of 5,000 shekels. A down payment has made, but it is not enough. The Stooges decide to go hunting anyway to help out the colony.
Modern Times (1936)
, 1h27Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
Roles Waiter (uncredited)
Rating84%
Modern Times portrays Chaplin as a factory worker employed on an assembly line. There, he is subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a "modern" feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. He finally suffers a nervous breakdown and runs amok, throwing the factory into chaos. He is sent to a hospital. Following his recovery, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as an instigator in a Communist demonstration. In jail, he accidentally ingests smuggled cocaine, mistaking it for salt. In his subsequent delirium, he gets out of the jail. When he returns, he stumbles upon a jailbreak and knocks the convicts unconscious. He is hailed a hero and is released.
Uncivil Warriors (1935)
Directed by Del Lord
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Political films, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bud Jamison, Theodore Lorch, Lew Davis
Roles Soldier (uncredited)
Rating75%
Set during the American Civil War, the short begins with a Northern General (James C. Morton) assigning Larry, Moe, and Curly (as Operators 12, 14 and 15, respectively) to sneak behind enemy lines and obtain secrets. Disguising themselves as southern officers and taking the names Lieutenant Duck (Larry), Captain Dodge (Moe) and Major Hyde (Curly), they insinuate themselves into the mansion of southern officer, Colonel Butts (Bud Jamison).
City Lights (1931)
, 1h27Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Boxing films, Films about disabilities, Le boxe anglaise, La cécité
Actors Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia
Roles Tramp Who Dives for Cigar (uncredited)
Rating84%
The officials of a city unveil a new statue, only to find The Tramp sleeping on it. They shoo him away and he wanders the streets, destitute and homeless, and is soon tormented by two newsboys. He happens upon a beautiful Flower Girl (Virginia Cherrill), not realizing at first that she is blind, and buys a flower. Just when she is about to give him his change, a man gets into a nearby luxury car and is driven away, making her think that the Tramp has departed. The Tramp tiptoes away.
The Circus (1928)
, 1h10Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Circus films
Actors Al Ernest Garcia, Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, George Davis, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Roles An Assistant Property Man
Rating80%
At a circus midway, the penniless and hungry Tramp (Chaplin) is mistaken for a condemnable pickpocket and chased by both the police and the real crook (the latter having stashed a stolen wallet and watch in the Tramp's pocket to avoid detection). Running away, the Tramp stumbles into the middle of a performance and unknowingly becomes the hit of the show.
The Gold Rush (1925)
, 1h22Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes L'Or
Actors Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Charlie Chaplin, Malcolm Waite, Jack Adams
Roles Prospector (uncredited)
Rating80%
The Lone Prospector (played by Chaplin), a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune among the sturdy men who marched across Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Lone Prospector's inoffensive patience and his ill-chosen garb make him the target for the buffoonery of his comrades and the victim of the merciless rigors of the frozen North. After he is caught in a blizzard, the icy clutches of the storm have almost claimed him when he stumbles into the cabin of Black Larsen (played by Murray), a renegade. Larsen is thrusting him out the door, back into the arms of death, when Fate, which preserves the destinies of simple children, appears in the person of Big Jim McKay (played by Swain). Jim subdues the renegade, and he and the Lone Prospector occupy the cabin while their unwilling host is thrust forth to obtain food. Starvation almost claims the two until a bear intrudes and is killed to supply their larder.
Pay Day (1922)
, 28minutesDirected by Charles Reisner, Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Sydney Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Albert Austin
Roles Workman
Rating73%
Chaplin plays a laborer on a house construction site. When he gets paid, his wife wants all of the money, but he manages to keep enough of it to go out drinking. He returns home just in time to pretend he has just woken up to go to work.
The Idle Class (1921)
, 31minutesDirected by Charles Reisner, Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain, Henry Bergman, Al Ernest Garcia, Lita Grey
Roles Golfer / Guest (uncredited)
Rating71%
The "Little Tramp" (Charlie Chaplin) heads to a resort for warm weather and a bit of golf. At the golf course, the Tramp's theft of balls in play causes one golfer (Mack Swain) to mistakenly attack another (John Rand). Meanwhile, a neglected wife (Edna Purviance) leaves her wealthy husband (also played by Chaplin) until he gives up drinking. When the Tramp is later mistaken for a pickpocket, he crashes a masquerade ball to escape from a policeman. There, he is mistaken for the woman's husband. Eventually, it is all straightened out, and the Tramp is once more on his way.
Down on the Farm (1920)
, 50minutesDirected by Erle C. Kenton, F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Louise Fazenda, Harry Gribbon, Bert Roach, James Finlayson, Marie Prevost, Don Marion
Roles Villager
Rating62%
La Petite Dame d'à côté (1919)
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charles Murray, Marie Prevost, Eddie Gribbon, James Finlayson, Bert Roach, John Rand
Roles le Shérif
Shoulder Arms (1918)
, 46minutesDirected by Charles Reisner, Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin, Tom Wilson
Roles U.S. Soldier (uncredited)
Rating72%
Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes "over the top" and captures thirteen Germans ("I surrounded them"), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then ... fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.
The Cook (1918)
, 22minutesDirected by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Glen Cavender, Bobby Dunn
Roles (uncredited)
Rating65%
Fatty est le chef-cuisinier d'un restaurant dont Buster Keaton est le serveur. Un grand classique de situation dans les comédies burlesques et l'occasion pour Roscoe de montrer sa dextérité à jongler avec les plats et les couteaux et reprend des gags de Fatty boucher ou Fatty chez lui. Une longue scène du film est une parodie de la danse de Salomé. L'irruption du truand Al St John venu faire la caisse est le prétexte à une bagarre et Luke finira par y mettre bon ordre. Ces deux personnages sont les protagonistes d'une course-poursuite qui se déroule en parallèle de la comédie elle-même pour la rejoindre au moment du dénouement. On retrouve nos personnages lors d'un repas pris à l'office à la fin du service et le film se termine par le repos de l'après-midi que Fatty consacre à la pêche non loin d'un parc d'attraction où se trouvent Alice Lake et Buster Keaton. La fin du film est difficile à suivre car le film est fragmenté et incomplet.