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Ralph Graves is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 22 january 1900 at Cleveland (USA)
Ralph Graves (January 23, 1900 – February 18, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and actor who appeared in 93 films between 1918 and 1949.
Born as Ralph Horsburgh in Cleveland, Ohio, Graves had been featured in 46 films, half of them produced by Mack Sennett, before writing, directing, and starring in Swell Hogan (1926), produced by Howard Hughes, whose father once had supported Graves by placing him on the payroll of the Hughes Tool Company between screen assignments, although the actor never worked there.
Graves and the younger Hughes met on the Wilshire Country Club golf course, and over lunch the actor pitched a film about a Bowery bum that adopts a baby. The plot intrigued Hughes, who had a strong interest in Hollywood, and he invested $40,000 in the project. During filming he sat on the sidelines in order to familiarize himself with the technical aspects of production. The budget eventually doubled, and after seeing the completed film numerous times, Hughes hired Dorothy Arzner to help him re-edit it, but there was little they could do to salvage it. When asked his opinion of it, Hughes' uncle, novelist and film director Rupert Hughes, said, "It's nothing. No plot. No build up. No character development. The acting stinks. Destroy the film. If anbody sees it, you and that homo Graves will be the laughing stock of Hollywood." Hughes took his uncle's advice and ordered the screening room projectionist to burn the sole copy. Graves later claimed he and Hughes had engaged in a sexual relationship while collaborating on Swell Hogan.
Despite this temporary setback, Graves directed four more films in 1927 and contributed the story or wrote the screenplay for twelve additional films, but most of his career was spent acting. While working for Sennett, Graves met Frank Capra, and the director later cast him in several films, including Flight, based on a story by Graves, and a series of adventure films in which he was cast opposite Jack Holt.
Graves retired from films in 1949. He died in Santa Barbara, California, aged 77.
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Birth name Ralph Horsburgh
Nationality USA
Birth 22 january 1900 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 18 february 1977 (at 77 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 january 1900 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 18 february 1977 (at 77 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)
Born as Ralph Horsburgh in Cleveland, Ohio, Graves had been featured in 46 films, half of them produced by Mack Sennett, before writing, directing, and starring in Swell Hogan (1926), produced by Howard Hughes, whose father once had supported Graves by placing him on the payroll of the Hughes Tool Company between screen assignments, although the actor never worked there.
Graves and the younger Hughes met on the Wilshire Country Club golf course, and over lunch the actor pitched a film about a Bowery bum that adopts a baby. The plot intrigued Hughes, who had a strong interest in Hollywood, and he invested $40,000 in the project. During filming he sat on the sidelines in order to familiarize himself with the technical aspects of production. The budget eventually doubled, and after seeing the completed film numerous times, Hughes hired Dorothy Arzner to help him re-edit it, but there was little they could do to salvage it. When asked his opinion of it, Hughes' uncle, novelist and film director Rupert Hughes, said, "It's nothing. No plot. No build up. No character development. The acting stinks. Destroy the film. If anbody sees it, you and that homo Graves will be the laughing stock of Hollywood." Hughes took his uncle's advice and ordered the screening room projectionist to burn the sole copy. Graves later claimed he and Hughes had engaged in a sexual relationship while collaborating on Swell Hogan.
Despite this temporary setback, Graves directed four more films in 1927 and contributed the story or wrote the screenplay for twelve additional films, but most of his career was spent acting. While working for Sennett, Graves met Frank Capra, and the director later cast him in several films, including Flight, based on a story by Graves, and a series of adventure films in which he was cast opposite Jack Holt.
Graves retired from films in 1949. He died in Santa Barbara, California, aged 77.
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, 1h29Directed by Claude Accursi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Monty Banks, Stan Laurel, Marjorie Beebe, Mack Sennett, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde
Roles (archive footage)
Rating43%
Film de montage de scènes du cinéma muet, sonorisées, prenant pour trame une enquête menée par Stan Laurel.
Alimony (1949)
, 1h10Directed by Alfred Zeisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Martha Vickers, John Beal, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, Blossom Rock, Leonid Kinskey
Roles George Griswold
Rating53%
Paul Klinger is on a desperate search for his lost daughter, Kate. He goes to see a man in New York, Dan Barker, a songwriter who knew Kate in the past when she lived in the city. Dan tells Paul that Kate changed her name to Kitty Travers, and then continues to tell the story of what he knows about "Kitty":
Batman and Robin (1949)
, 4h23Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, Batman films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Poni Adams, Lyle Talbot, Ralph Graves, Don C. Harvey
Roles Winslow Harrison [Chs. 7-8]
Rating58%
The Dynamic Duo face off against the Wizard, a hooded villain with an electrical device which controls cars and a desire to set challenges for the Dynamic Duo, whose identity remains a mystery throughout until the end.
Eternally Yours (1939)
, 1h35Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Raymond Walburn, Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Mr. Morrisey
Rating57%
Anita Halstead (Loretta Young) goes to see a magic act performed by Tony (David Niven), the "Great Arturo", after her bridal shower for her wedding to Don Burns (Broderick Crawford). Anita and Tony are immediately attracted to each other and get married. She becomes his assistant in the act.
The Flying Irishman (1939)
, 1h31Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong, Gene Reynolds, Donald MacBride, Eddie Quillan, Minor Watson
Roles First Man Grounding Doug in New York
Rating51%
In 1938, an unlikely event unfolds as pilot Douglas Corrigan returns to the United States after his transatlantic flight, made "the wrong way" across the Atlantic. The passion to fly was there from an early age as young Douglas faced some hardships as his parents separated, leaving his mother (Dorothy Peterson) to rear two sons and a daughter.
Three Texas Steers (1939)
, 56minutesDirected by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis, Ralph Graves, Roscoe Ates
Roles George Ward
Rating54%
George Ward voudrait que Nancy Evans lui vende le ranch qu'elle a hérité de son grand-père, car il sait qu'un barrage doit être construit sur ce terrain. Nancy refuse mais un certain nombre d'accidents arrivent dans le cirque dont elle est propriétaire, accidents qui mettent le cirque en faillite. Nancy emmène le cirque sur ce qu'elle pense être son ranch, mais en fait un quiproquo les fait arriver chez Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith et Lullaby Joslin, qui vont l'aider à résoudre ses problèmes.
Street of Missing Men (1939)
, 1h5Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Ralph Graves, John Gallaudet, Nana Bryant
Roles Mike Reardon
Rating67%
Speed Limited (1935)
, 52minutesDirected by Albert Herman
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Evelyn Brent, Ralph Graves, Claudia Dell, Gordon Griffith, Fred Toones, Bobby Burns
Roles Jerry Paley
Rating57%
Huddle (1932)
, 1h43Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ramón Novarro, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Ralph Graves, John Arledge, Frank Albertson
Roles Coach Malcolm
Rating57%
Tony Ametto, a young steel-worker with immigrant parents, gets a scholarship to Yale, where he becomes a football star and finds romance with a young heiress.
Dirigible (1931)
, 1h40Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Fay Wray, Hobart Bosworth, Roscoe Karns, Bess Flowers
Roles 'Frisky' Pierce
Rating62%
When famed explorer Louis Rondelle (Hobart Bosworth) requests the U.S. Navy's assistance in reaching the South Pole, officer Jack Bradon (Jack Holt) convinces Rear Admiral John S. Martin (Emmett Corrigan) to offer his dirigible, the USS Pensacola, for the attempt.
Salvation Nell (1931)
Directed by James Cruze
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ralph Graves, Helen Chandler, Sally O'Neil, Jason Robards Sr., DeWitt Jennings, Charlotte Walker
Roles Jim Platt
Rating64%
Young Nell (Chandler) loses her job and home and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out of prison, bent on continuing his life of crime.
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
, 1h39Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman, Marie Prevost, George Fawcett, Nance O'Neil
Roles Jerry Strong
Rating66%
Aspiring artist Jerry Strong (Ralph Graves), the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, sneaks out of a party he allowed his friend Bill Standish (Lowell Sherman) to hold at his New York penthouse apartment and studio. While out driving in the country, Jerry meets self-described "party girl" Kay Arnold (Barbara Stanwyck), who is escaping from another party aboard a yacht, and gives her a ride back to the city. He sees something in her and offers her a job as his model for a painting titled "Hope". In their first session, Jerry wipes off her makeup to try to bring out her true nature. Perpetual partier and drunkard Standish thinks Kay looks fine just the way she is and invites her on a cruise to Havana. She declines his offer.
The Fatal Warning (1929)
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Helene Costello, Ralph Graves, George Periolat, Phillips Smalley, Boris Karloff, Lloyd Whitlock
Roles Russell Thorne
Rating15%
Serial en 10 épisodes.
The Flying Fleet (1929)
Directed by George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Ramón Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Alfred Allen, Wade Boteler, Sumner Getchell
Roles Steve Randall
Rating64%
Six friends are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. They all hope to become aviators. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow (Ramon Navarro) has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate. Two return loudly drunk after curfew. Tommy is able to shut Steve (Ralph Graves) up (by knocking him out), but "Dizzy" is not so lucky. An officer hears him and has him dismissed from the Academy.
Glad Rag Doll (1929)
, 1h10Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Dolores Costello, Ralph Graves, Albert Gran, Maude Turner Gordon, Tom Ricketts, Claude Gillingwater
Roles John Fairchild
Rating52%