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Victor Kilian is a Actor American born on 6 march 1891 at Jersey City (USA)
Victor Arthur Kilian (March 6, 1891 – March 11, 1979) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
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Victor Kilian
Birth name Victor Arthur Kilian
Nationality USA
Birth 6 march 1891 at Jersey City (USA)
Death 11 march 1979 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 6 march 1891 at Jersey City (USA)
Death 11 march 1979 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Au théâtre, Victor Kilian joue à Broadway entre 1926 et 1962. Au cinéma, il contribue à 127 films américains entre 1929 et 1952, dont plusieurs westerns. Victime du maccarthysme et mis sur "liste noire", sa carrière sur grand écran s'achève alors. Il réapparaît néanmoins à la télévision (où il avait fait une première incursion en 1950), participant à un téléfilm en 1960, ainsi qu'à quelques séries, entre 1960 et 1979 — année où il meurt en son domicile hollywoodien, assassiné par des cambrioleurs —.Usually with
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Face to Face (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Bretaigne Windust, John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Western
Actors James Mason, Michael Pate, Gene Lockhart, Robert Preston, Albert Sharpe, Marjorie Steele
Roles Jasper Morgan
Rating60%
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
, 1h31Directed by Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Ann Sheridan, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King
Roles Nellie's landlord
Rating69%
The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), a New York City swindler, is illegally touting horses at a Florida racetrack. The Kid touts across a beautiful woman intending to bet $2,000 on a horse named Iron Bar. Rigging a con, the Kid convinces her to switch her bet, but learns that she was betting for boyfriend and notorious gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark). When the horse finishes dead last, a furious Moran demands the Kid pay him $10,000 (the amount he would have won) by Christmas Eve, or the Kid "won't make it to New Year's."
The Tall Target (1951)
, 1h18Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Historical, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson, Ruby Dee, Richard Steven Rauber
Roles John K. Gannon (uncredited)
Rating71%
New York Police Sergeant John Kennedy once guarded Abraham Lincoln for 48 hours while he was campaigning for President of the United States, and came away deeply impressed by the man. Kennedy has infiltrated a cabal and discovered that an assassination attempt will be made as the president-elect makes his way by train via Baltimore to Washington, DC. His boss, Superintendent Simon G. Stroud (an uncredited Tom Powers), dismisses the threat as "hogwash", as does Caleb Jeffers (Adolphe Menjou), a militia colonel with whom Stroud is meeting. Kennedy resigns on the spot to try to foil the conspirators on his own. Having already sent a copy of his report to the Secretary of War, he telegrams Lincoln, urgently requesting a meeting in Baltimore.
Unknown World (1951)
, 1h14Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Political films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Otto Waldis, Jim Bannon, Victor Kilian, Marilyn Nash
Roles Dr. Jeremiah Morley (uncredited)
Rating41%
Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists and has them use an atomic-powered machine, capable of drilling through earth and stone, known as the Cyclotram, to find an underground environment where people could escape from nuclear obliteration. The expedition, consisting of Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley and Dick Cogan begins, after government funding has fallen through and they are bailed out at the last minute with private financing from a newspaper heir Bruce Kellogg, who insists on going with them as a lark. Romantic rivalry develops between Bannon and Kellogg for Nash, and two lives are lost to perils of the expedition, but in the end, the scientists accomplish their goal and find an enormous expanse with plentiful air, its own ocean and phosphorus light. However, the lab rabbits they have brought with them give birth to dead rabbits. Nash discovers through an autopsy that the underground world has rendered the rabbits, and hence any other life form sterile. Dr Morley is depressed by the news and when an underground volcano erupts he doesn't enter the cyclotram and perishes. The survivors enter the underground sea and find themselves rising up to the surface of the upper world in the ocean, fortunately near a tropical island.
No Way Out (1950)
, 1h46Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about racism, Children's films
Actors Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Ruby Dee, Stephen McNally, Amanda Randolph, Sidney Poitier
Roles Father (uncredited)
Rating73%
Dr. Luther Brooks (Sidney Poitier), an intern who has just passed the state board examination to qualify for his license to practice, is the first African-American doctor at the urban county hospital at which he trained. Because he lacks self-confidence, Luther requests to work as a junior resident at the hospital for another year. Johnny (Dick Paxton) and Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark), brothers who were both shot in the leg by a policeman as they attempted a robbery, are brought to the hospital's prison ward. As Luther tends to the disoriented Johnny, he is bombarded with racist slurs by Ray, who grew up in Beaver Canal, the white working class section of the city. Believing that Johnny has a brain tumor, Luther administers a spinal tap, but Johnny dies during the procedure. Wondering if Ray's antagonism may have caused him to be careless, Luther consults his mentor, chief medical resident Dr. Daniel Wharton (Stephen McNally), and Wharton concedes that a brain tumor was only one possibility. Feeling that he must prove the accuracy of his diagnosis, Luther requests an autopsy, but Wharton informs him that according to state law, they cannot proceed without the permission of the deceased's family. When Ray refuses, as he does not want his brother's body to be cut up, Wharton confers with the head of the hospital, Dr. Sam Moreland (Stanley Ridges), about requisitioning an autopsy.
One Too Many (1950)
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ruth Warrick, Richard Travis, Rhys Williams, Thurston Hall, William Tracy, Onslow Stevens
Roles Frank J. Emery
Rating60%
The Showdown (1950)
Directed by Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wild Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor, Harry Morgan, Rhys Williams, Jim Davis
Roles Hemp
Rating65%
Ex-membre de la police du Texas, Shadrack Jones recherche l'homme qui a tué son frère. Il découvre qu'à l'époque du meurtre, il résidait au Halfway house tenu par Adelaide et, que le meurtrier fait partie de l'équipe de cowboys de Mac Kellar. Jones accepte le poste de trail boss que lui offre ce dernier. Adelaide qui a des parts dans le troupeau décide de se joindre au cattle drive.
The Bandit Queen (1950)
, 1h10Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Barbara Britton, Barton MacLane, Phillip Reed, Willard Parker, Victor Kilian, Thurston Hall
Roles Don Jose Montalvo
Rating58%
As the lead actress, Britton was the protagonist child of an American father and Spanish mother, Dones Jose and Zara Montalvo, as portrayed by Victor Kilian and Cecil Weston who is credited as Cecile Weston. The Montalvo family possessed land rights or Spanish land grants to a hacienda with gold mines present. Abroad, the daughter came home to California and witnessed her parents being murdered by Hank (John Merton) and an unknown man, Sheriff Jim Harden, who was played by Barton MacLane. Montalvo initially approached Harden about the crimes but eventually recognized him as part of murderers' gang. She teamed up with Phillip Reed, in the role of Joaquin Murietta, to regain her rightful inheritance. Together they assumed false identities with Montalvo hidden behind the alias of a Zorro-like character named Lola Belmont with Murietta as Carlos del Rio.
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Nick Cravat, Aline MacMahon, Norman Lloyd
Roles Apothecary Mazzoni
Rating67%
In the time of Frederick Barbarossa, in the area of Italy known as Lombardy, Dardo Bartoli (Lancaster) is walking with his son Rudi (Gordon Gebert) when they encounter Count Ulrich (Frank Allenby), known as "the Hawk", together with his niece, Lady Anne (Mayo), and his lover, Dardo's unfaithful wife Francesca (Lynn Baggett). Dardo shows off his skill as an archer by shooting down Ulrich's expensive hunting hawk. In revenge, the count takes Dardo's son to his castle. Dardo is struck by an arrow while rescuing Rudi, so the boy allows himself to be recaptured in order to draw the soldiers away.
Stars in My Crown (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell
Roles Ned (uncredited)
Rating73%
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into listening.
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
, 1h21Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Themes Films about families, Jesse James, Gangster films
Actors Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Tom Tyler, Reed Hadley, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Soapy
Rating67%
Bob Ford of the Jesse James gang is wounded during a bank robbery. He mends at Jesse's home in Missouri for six months, although Jesse's wife Zee doesn't trust him.
Reign of Terror (1949)
, 1h29Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl, Richard Hart, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd
Roles Jailer (uncredited)
Rating68%
Already the most powerful man in France, Maximilien Robespierre (Richard Basehart) wants to become the nation's dictator. He summons François Barras (Richard Hart), the only man who can nominate him before the National Convention. Barras refuses to do so and goes into hiding.
Rimfire (1949)
, 1h3Directed by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Millican, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, Henry Hull, Victor Kilian, Fuzzy Knight
Roles Sheriff Jim Jordan
Rating57%
Colorado Territory (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Raoul Walsh, Anthony Veiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell
Roles (uncredited)
Rating71%
Notorious outlaw Wes McQueen (Joel McCrea) is freed from jail and heads off to the Colorado Territory to meet the man who arranged the escape, his old friend Dave Rickard (Basil Ruysdael). Along the way, the stagecoach he is riding in is attacked by a gang of robbers. When the driver and guard are both killed, McQueen kills or drives off the remaining gunmen, earning the gratitude of the other passengers, dreamer Fred Winslow (Henry Hull) and his daughter Julie Ann (Dorothy Malone). Winslow has bought a ranch sight unseen and looks forward to making his fortune.
Northwest Stampede (1948)
, 1h19Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Joan Leslie, James Craig, Jack Oakie, Chill Wills, Victor Kilian, Stanley Andrews
Roles Mel Saunders
Rating55%