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Joseph De Stefani is a Actor American born on 3 october 1879 at Venice (Italie)
Joseph De Stefani was an American character actor of the early sound era. Born in Venice, Italy, he began his film career in the 1931 movie, Beau Ideal. He would appear in 25 films over the next decade, his final appearance would be in a small role in 1940's A Dispatch from Reuters, which stars Edward G. Robinson. He was married to Helen De Stefani until her death in 1938. De Stefani would die on October 26, 1940, exactly one week after the release of A Dispatch from Reuters. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 october 1879 at Venice (Italie)
Death 26 october 1940 (at 61 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 3 october 1879 at Venice (Italie)
Death 26 october 1940 (at 61 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
^ "Joe De Stefani". Find a Grave. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
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Sky Bandits (1986)
, 1h45Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Scott McGinnis, Miles Anderson, Ronald Lacey, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Valérie Steffen, Ingrid Held
Rating46%
Quand deux cow-boys sont capturés dans le vieil ouest en essayant de voler une banque, ils sont exilés aux premières lignes de la Première Guerre mondiale pour se battre aux côtés des Britanniques. Ils font un pari pour voir s'ils peuvent piloter un Gunbus, mais ils finissent par se retrouver dans une autre base sous un officier qui est déterminé à traquer un dirigeable allemand.
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
, 1h30Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger
Roles Hans - Gauss' Assistant (uncredited)
Rating68%
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.
Babies for Sale (1940)
, 1h5Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Glenn Ford, Rochelle Hudson, Miles Mander, Joseph De Stefani, Isabel Jewell, Georgia Caine
Roles Dr. John Gaines (as Joseph Stefani)
Rating60%
Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)
Directed by William Witney, John English
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Henry Brandon, Robert Kellard, Olaf Hytten, Tom Chatterton, Luana Walters, George Cleveland
Roles High Lhama
Rating67%
Fu Manchu attempts to conquer the world by acquiring the Sceptre of Genghis Khan, which will unite the people of Asia under his rule. Allan Parker allies himself with the traditional British literary nemeses of Fu Manchu, Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his associate, Dr. Flinders Petrie after his father is kidnapped and killed by Fu Manchu's dacoits.
Rancho Grande (1940)
, 1h7Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Ferris Taylor, Roscoe Ates
Roles Jose (as Joseph De Stefani)
Rating65%
Following the death of rancher John Dodge, foreman Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is left the responsibility of taking care of Rancho Grande ranch and Dodge's three spoiled grandchildren raised in the east. Gene is also responsible for completing a major project started by Dodge—the construction of an irrigation system that would bring valuable water to the faithful Rancho Grande employees in the southern part of the valley. Dodge mortgaged his ranch in order to finance the project.
Sky Bandits (1940)
, 1h2Directed by Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Louise Stanley, Dewey Robinson, Joseph De Stefani, Jim Farley, Dave O'Brien, Karl Hackett
Roles Professor Burton Lewis
Rating53%
Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) fly in search of a missing aircraft flown by Buzz Murphy (Eddie Featherston). Murphy was carrying a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Local radio announcer Uncle Dimwittie (Dewey Robinson), has bugged the mine office, and is secretly transmitting information about gold shipments, in the guise of reading children's stories on the air.
Midnight (1939)
, 1h34Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer, Hedda Hopper
Roles Head Porter (uncredited)
Rating77%
American showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris on a train from Monte Carlo during a rainstorm wearing an elegant evening dress. With no money and no place to stay, she arranges a deal with a soft-hearted Hungarian taxi driver named Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), who agrees to drive her around to the city's nightclubs looking for a job in exchange for her doubling his fare. After an unsuccessful search, Tibor buys her dinner at a café and offers to let her stay overnight at his apartment while he finishes his night shift. While attracted to Tibor, she decides not to get involved with a poor taxi driver, and when he stops for gas, she slips away.
Homicide Bureau (1939)
, 58minutesDirected by Charles C. Coleman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Richard Fiske, Moroni Olsen, Gene Morgan
Roles Miller - the Junk Dealer
Rating56%
They Shall Have Music (1939)
, 1h45Directed by Reginald Le Borg, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Gene Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Porter Hall, Terry Kilburn
Roles Pawn Broker (uncredited)
Rating68%
Youngster Frankie (Gene Reynolds) and his small gang commit petty crimes in their New York City tenement neighborhood, such as stealing bicycles and taking money from other boys. One of those boys, Willy (Tommy Kelly), complains to his father about this, who takes the matter to Frankie's mother (Marjorie Main) and stepfather (Arthur Hohl). Frankie finds an old violin in his basement which he used to play when his father was around. He then pawns it to get some money to put in the gang's treasury.
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
, 1h18Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch, Leonid Kinskey, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Fritz Feld
Roles Norden Servant
Rating59%
Let Us Live (1939)
, 1h8Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker
Roles Dentist Juror (uncredited)
Rating66%
On the eve of his marriage to waitress Mary Roberts (O'Sullivan), taxi driver "Brick" Tennant is questioned as a murder suspect along with 120 other drivers, because a taxi served as the getaway car in a theater robbery in which a man was killed. When one of the witnesses swears that Brick and his friend Joe Linden (Baxter) were the killers, the district attorney (Ridges), eager for a conviction, brings the taxi drivers to trial even though Brick and Mary were in a church when the robbery took place. Although innocent, Brick and Joe are found guilty and sentenced to die on the electric chair. Mary, however, refuses to give up hope, and when she unearths a bullet from another robbery that was shot from the murder weapon, she convinces Police Lieutenant Everett (Bellamy) that the wrong men have been convicted. To prove Brick and Joe's innocence Everett and Mary search for the real culprits . As the time of his execution approaches, Brick is transformed from an idealistic youth into a man whose faith in the system has been shattered. On the day of the execution, Mary and Everett finally find the real culprits. The governor then pardons Brick, but although his life has been spared, his faith can never be repaired.
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
, 1h4Directed by Nick Grinde, Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Roger Pryor, Don Beddoe
Roles Dr. Stoddard
Rating67%
Dr. Savaard is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. A young medical student offers his services to him, but before he can bring him back to life, Savaard is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge and the jury before his hanging. His assistant claims his body and revives him by using his technique. The vengeful Savaard goes on a killing spree.
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
, 1h38Directed by Lloyd Richards, Herbert Wilcox, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, Zasu Pitts, H. B. Warner
Roles Manager
Rating64%
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The Three Musketeers (1939)
, 1h13Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Don Ameche, Binnie Barnes, Pauline Moore, Gloria Stuart, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine
Roles Monk
Rating59%
Thunder Afloat (1939)
, 1h35Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Grey, John Qualen, Leon Ames
Roles Fisherman (uncredited)
Rating62%
In a New England port town, Pop Thorson (Wallace Beery) and Rocky Blake (Chester Morris) are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it to keep Thorson from winning a lucrative contract to move barges of military supplies. Thorson is a widower who built his own tugboat and lives on it with his adult daughter Susan (Virginia Grey). She loves her father, but also likes Blake (who denies the sabotage) and does not want the two men to fight.