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Morgan Wallace is a Actor American born on 24 july 1881 at Lompoc (USA)

Morgan Wallace

Morgan Wallace
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 july 1881 at Lompoc (USA)
Death 12 december 1953 (at 72 years) at Tarzana (USA)

Morgan Wallace (July 26, 1881 – December 12, 1953), was an American actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1914 and 1946, including W.C. Fields' It's a Gift (1934) where he persistently asks Fields for some "Kumquats". He supported Fields again in My Little Chickadee (1940).

He was born in Lompoc, California, and died in Tarzana, California.

Biography

Au théâtre, Morgan Wallace joue à Broadway (New York) dans onze pièces, entre 1904 et 1946 (année où il se retire), dont huit au cours des années 1920. Il est également l'auteur d'une douzième, représentée en 1929.

Au cinéma, il débute dans un court métrage de Mack Sennett, Le Roman comique de Charlot et Lolotte, avec Marie Dressler et Charlie Chaplin, sorti en 1914. Il contribue à treize autres films muets jusqu'en 1924, dont trois réalisations de D. W. Griffith, Les Deux Orphelines (1921, avec Dorothy et Lillian Gish), La Rue des rêves (1921, avec Ralph Graves et Tyrone Power Sr.) et La Nuit mystérieuse (1922, avec Henry Hull).

Après le passage au parlant, il collabore encore à cent-dix films américains (dont des westerns), de 1930 à 1946, parfois dans des petits rôles non crédités. Mentionnons Blonde Vénus de Josef von Sternberg (1932, avec Marlène Dietrich, Herbert Marshall et Cary Grant), Furie de Fritz Lang (1936, avec Spencer Tracy et Sylvia Sidney), ou encore Monsieur Wilson perd la tête de W. S. Van Dyke (1940, avec William Powell et Myrna Loy).

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Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
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Syd Saylor
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Harry Strang
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Morgan Wallace (85 films)

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Actor

The Falcon's Alibi, 1h1
Directed by Ray McCarey, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett, Jane Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Emory Parnell
Roles Bender
Rating62% 3.1429053.1429053.1429053.1429053.142905
After attending a birthday party for the wealthy Gloria Peabody, The Falcon is employed by her secretary to find some missing jewels which she fears she will be blamed for. Before long, a man is murdered, bringing unwelcome police involvement in the case.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy (1945)
, 1h1
Directed by Clement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp, William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Joseph Crehan, Mickey Kuhn
Roles Steve Owens
Rating58% 2.9475652.9475652.9475652.9475652.947565
Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway), a supremely intelligent police detective, must solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces by the one known as Splitface. Suspects flourish but Tracy must find the common link of extortion and revenge before more are killed.
Song of the Sarong, 1h5
Directed by Harold Young
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Nancy Kelly, William Gargan, Eddie Quillan, Fuzzy Knight, George Dolenz, George Cleveland
Roles Cyrus P. Adams
Rating41% 2.0941052.0941052.0941052.0941052.094105
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
Kismet
Kismet (1944)
, 1h40
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Morgan Wallace, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Hugh Herbert
Rating60% 3.046813.046813.046813.046813.04681
The story takes place "when old Baghdad was new and shiny", in an Arabian Nights atmosphere. Colman plays Hafiz, a middle-aged beggar and magician who parades about as the King of Beggars during the day, and as the Prince of Hassir during the night. As the Prince of Hassir he meets Lady Jamilla (Dietrich), the Queen of the Grand Vizier's harem, who knows he is a poseur but is fascinated by him.
Gaslight
Gaslight (1944)
, 1h54
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Maude Fealy
Roles Fred Garrett (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.897263.897263.897263.897263.89726
World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered. The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by a child—Paula (Terry Moore)—Alice's niece, who was raised by her aunt following her mother's death.
Honky Tonk
Honky Tonk (1941)
, 1h45
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Claire Trevor, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker
Roles Mayor Adams
Rating65% 3.2962553.2962553.2962553.2962553.296255
Con man "Candy" Johnson (Clark Gable) and his friend "Sniper" (Chill Wills) flee town using quick wits and magic tricks. They catch a train to Yellow Creek, Nevada, where a gold rush is in progress. Aboard, he meets Elizabeth Cotton (Lana Turner); she takes an instant dislike to him. When they arrive, Candy is amused to discover she is the daughter of "Judge" Cotton (Frank Morgan), an old acquaintance of his. Elizabeth is unaware of her father's crooked past and present.
Sea Raiders
Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Hal E. Chester, William Hall
Roles Capt. Lester
Rating57% 2.8730252.8730252.8730252.8730252.873025
The Sea Raiders, a band of foreign agents, led by Carl Tonjes and Elliott Carlton, blow up a freighter on which Billy Adams and Toby Nelson are stowaways, seeking to avoid Brack Warren, a harbor patrol officer assigned to guard a new type of torpedo boat built by Billy's brother, Tom Adams. Intended targets or not, getting blown up does not set well with Billy and Toby and, together with their gang coupled with the members of the Little Tough Guys, they find the Sea Raiders' island hideout, investigate the seacoast underground arsenal of these saboteurs, get blasted from the air, dragged to their doom, become victims of the storm, entombed in a tunnel and even periled by a panther before they don the uniforms of some captured Sea Raiders and board a yacht that serves as headquarters for the Raiders.
Design for Scandal, 1h25
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mary Beth Hughes
Roles Homme dont la tête est peinte
Rating62% 3.1445853.1445853.1445853.1445853.144585
When wealthy newspaper publisher Judson M. Blair (Edward Arnold) divorces his wife Adele (Mary Beth Hughes), Judge Cornelia C. Porter (Rosalind Russell) awards Adele alimony of $4000 a month for five years or until she remarries. After learning from his lawyer, Northcott (Thurston Hall), that Porter refuses to hear an appeal, the furious Blair tries using his influence with her boss, Judge Graham (Guy Kibbee), to have her transferred, but to no avail.
Scattergood Meets Broadway, 1h8
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Guy Kibbee, William Henry, Emma Dunn, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton, Morgan Wallace
Roles Reynolds
Rating57% 2.8838452.8838452.8838452.8838452.883845
This script must be run from the command line
I Love You Again, 1h37
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about marriage
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas, Nella Walker
Roles Mr. Phil Belenson
Rating73% 3.6962553.6962553.6962553.6962553.696255
While on a cruise, stodgy, overly-frugal businessman Larry Wilson (William Powell) gets hit on the head with an oar while rescuing 'Doc' Ryan (Frank McHugh). He wakes up and remembers that he is actually a suave conman named George Carey; Doc is one of his crooked associates. However, he has lost all memory of the past nine years as Larry.
My Little Chickadee, 1h23
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Mae West, W. C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton, Fuzzy Knight
Roles Gambler (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.396573.396573.396573.396573.39657
The story is set in the American Old West of the 1880s. Miss Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) is a singer from Chicago who is on her way to visit relatives out west. While she is traveling on a stagecoach with three men and a woman named Mrs. Gideon (Margaret Hamilton), the town gossip and busybody, a masked bandit on horseback holds up the stage for its shipment of gold and orders the passengers to step out.