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Lionel Pape

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Birth name Edward Lionel Pape
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 april 1877 at Brighton (United-kingdom)
Death 21 october 1944 (at 67 years)

Lionel Pape (1877-1944) as Edward Lionel Pape, was an English born stage and screen actor. His begun in his native UK with eventual migration to the US. He appeared on the Broadway stage in over 20 productions between 1912 and 1935. The beginning of his screen career goes back to the silent film era. Between the 1930s and early 1940s, he played supporting roles and bit parts in over 50 Hollywood movies. He played in numerous films of directors like John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor. Pape portrayed Katharine Hepburn's butler in The Philadelphia Story (1940) and appeared as the oppressive coal mine owner in How Green Was My Valley (1941).

Biography

Installé aux États-Unis, Lionel Pape apparaît d'abord au cinéma dans huit films muets, les quatre premiers sortis en 1915. Son dernier film muet est Le Douzième Juré de Roland West (avec Jewel Carmen et Kenneth Harlan), sorti en 1921.

Par ailleurs, il mène une carrière au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) de 1912 à 1935, dans dix-sept pièces et deux comédies musicales. Mentionnons La Fin de M Cheyney de Frederick Lonsdale, représentée 385 fois de novembre 1925 à octobre 1926, avec Felix Aylmer et Ina Claire (pièce adaptée au cinéma en 1937 sous le même titre, avec Joan Crawford reprenant le rôle d'Ina Claire).

Accaparé par les planches, Lionel Pape ne revient au cinéma qu'à partir de 1935, avec cinquante autres films américains, le dernier sorti en 1942. Six d'entre eux sont réalisés par John Ford, dont Marie Stuart (1936, avec Katharine Hepburn dans le rôle-titre) et Qu'elle était verte ma vallée (1941, avec Walter Pidgeon et Maureen O'Hara) ; quatre autres sont réalisés par George Cukor, dont Indiscrétions (1940, avec Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn et James Stewart).

Citons également Le Prince et le Pauvre de William Keighley (1937, avec Errol Flynn et Claude Rains), La Huitième Femme de Barbe-Bleue d'Ernst Lubitsch (1938, avec Claudette Colbert et Gary Cooper) et Le Chien des Baskerville de Sidney Lanfield (1939, avec Basil Rathbone et Nigel Bruce).

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Filmography of Lionel Pape (45 films)

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Hudson's Bay, 1h35
Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Nigel Bruce
Roles Valet de chambre
Rating62% 3.146133.146133.146133.146133.14613
A trapper, Pierre Esprit Radisson, and his friend, nicknamed "Gooseberry," hope to open a trading post in the Hudson's Bay region of northeastern Canada in the year 1667.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1h53
Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles M. Marley
Rating67% 3.396293.396293.396293.396293.39629
Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Mr. Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he rapes Ivy Pearson (Ingrid Bergman), who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll. Meanwhile, Jekyll is preparing to marry Beatrix Emery (Lana Turner). Over the course of the film, Hyde abuses Ivy. Feeling remorse over the treatment inflicted on Ivy, Jekyll vows to never take the serum again, destroys the key to his lab, and sends money to Ivy anonymously. Ivy believes the money was sent by Hyde in order to trick her into believing she is now free. On the advice of a friend over her rattled nerves, she goes to Jekyll for comfort. Jekyll promises that Hyde will never hurt her again.
A Woman's Face, 1h46
Directed by George Cukor, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, Marjorie Main
Roles Einer
Rating71% 3.595933.595933.595933.595933.59593
Set in Sweden, the film is shown in flashbacks in the course of a trial in which a young woman with a half-hidden face, Anna Holm, is charged with murder. The events, as described by the witnesses, begin years before when aristocrat Torsten Barring hosts a party at a tavern. The guests include Vera, the faithless wife of noted plastic surgeon Gustaf Segert. When the tavern refuses to extend his credit, Torsten meets the proprietress Anna — whose face is badly scarred from a fire 22 years ago caused by her father. Torsten treats Anna as if she is beautiful and charming rather than scarred and unpleasant. Anna is suspicious, and Torsten implies that he may need her help in the future.
How Green Was My Valley, 1h58
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Irving Pichel, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall
Roles Evans
Rating76% 3.8463753.8463753.8463753.8463753.846375
The film opens with a monologue by an older Huw Morgan (voice by Irving Pichel): "I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return." The valley and its villages are now blackened by the coal mines that fill the area.
Charley's Aunt, 1h20
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jack Benny, Kay Francis, Anne Baxter, James Ellison, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Roles Babberly
Rating67% 3.3912953.3912953.3912953.3912953.391295
Babbs, Charley et Jack, étudiants à Oxford, forment un trio que rien n'arrête. Charley et Jack rêvant d'obtenir Un rendez-vous avec deux jeunes filles, il leur faut un chaperon. Les 3 compères ne trouvent rien de mieux que de déguiser Babbs en femme et de prétendre qu'il est la tante de Charley....
Scotland Yard
Directed by Norman Foster
Genres Crime
Actors Nancy Kelly, Edmund Gwenn, John Loder, Henry Wilcoxon, Melville Cooper, Gilbert Emery
Roles Hugh Burnside
Rating64% 3.2196553.2196553.2196553.2196553.219655
When bank robber Dakin Barrolles is on the run from the police, he manages to sneak into the house of respectable Sir John Lasher and his wife Sandra. He finds the drunken Sir Lasher in the course verbally abusing his wife, fearing his upcoming military service.
Arise, My Love, 1h50
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about journalists, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Frank Puglia, Dick Purcell
Roles Lord Kettlebrook
Rating67% 3.391073.391073.391073.391073.39107
American pilot Tom Martin (Ray Milland) is a soldier of fortune who went to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. During the summer of 1939, he is languishing in a prison cell while awaiting execution. Unexpectedly granted a pardon on the morning that he is to face a firing squad, Tom's release has been managed by reporter Augusta "Gusto" Nash (Claudette Colbert), who posed as his wife. When the prison governor learns of the deception, the pair has to run for their lives.
The Long Voyage Home, 1h41
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick
Roles Mr. Clifton
Rating68% 3.4461853.4461853.4461853.4461853.446185
The film tells the story of the crew aboard a British tramp steamer named the SS Glencairn on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The crew is a motley, fun-loving, hard-drinking lot. Among them is their consensus leader, a middle-aged Irishman named Driscoll ("Drisk") (Thomas Mitchell), a young Swedish ex-farmer Ole Olsen (John Wayne), a spiteful steward nicknamed Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald), a brooding Lord Jim-like Englishman Smitty (Ian Hunter), and a burly, thoroughly dependable bruiser Davis (Joseph Sawyer), among others. The film opens on a sultry night in a port in the West Indies where the crew have been confined to their ship by order of the captain, yet they yearn as ever for an opportunity to drink and have fun with the ladies. Drisk has arranged to import a boat-load of local ladies, who along with baskets of fruit have agreed to smuggle bottles of rum on board where, with the acquiescence of the captain, the crew carouse until a minor drunken brawl breaks out and the ladies are ordered off the ship and denied any of their promised compensation. The next day the ship sails to pick up its cargo for its return trip to England. When the crew discovers that the cargo is high explosives, they at first rebel and grumble among themselves that they won't crew the ship if it is carrying such a cargo. But they are easily cowed into submission by the captain and the ship sails, crossing the Atlantic and passing through what they all know is the war zone and potential disaster.
Congo Maisie, 1h11
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson, Shepperd Strudwick, J. M. Kerrigan, E. E. Clive
Roles British Consul
Rating61% 3.094913.094913.094913.094913.09491
Maisie (Ann Sothern) hides aboard a West African steamer after she discovers that she cannot pay her hotel tab. She winds up in a hospital upon a rubber plantation, which she must save from a native attack.
The Philadelphia Story, 1h52
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
Roles Edward
Rating77% 3.898653.898653.898653.898653.89865
Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a member of her social set, because he did not measure up to her exacting standards, due to his alcoholism and Tracy's lack of faith in him, which exacerbated his condition. She is about to marry nouveau riche "man of the people" George Kittredge (John Howard).
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 Stock Exchange Chairman (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.435923.435923.435923.435923.43592
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.
Cross-Country Romance, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Billy Gilbert, Berton Churchill, G.P. Huntley
Roles Miller
Rating58% 2.9083552.9083552.9083552.9083552.908355
High-profile heiress Diane North (Wendy Barrie) stows away in the trailer of a bacteriologist Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Smith (Gene Raymond) to escape from her own wedding. Larry has to drive cross country to San Francisco to catch a ship to China, where he will work with an eminent expert on a cure for a serious disease. When he discovers his stowaway, Diane tells him she is poverty-stricken Maggie "Jonesy" Jones, making her way to a slightly less poor uncle. Larry tries to get rid of his passenger at every opportunity, but she falls in love and uses every wile to stay with him.
Midnight
Midnight (1939)
, 1h34
Directed 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 Edouart (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8947653.8947653.8947653.8947653.894765
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.