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Wallis Clark is a Actor British born on 1 march 1882
Wallis Clark (né le 2 mars 1882 dans le comté d'Essex, en Angleterre) et mort le 14 février 1961 (à 78 ans) à North Hollywood, en Californie) est un acteur britannique.
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Wallis Clark
Birth name Wallis H. Clark
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 march 1882
Death 14 february 1961 (at 78 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 march 1882
Death 14 february 1961 (at 78 years)
Wallis Clark (né le 2 mars 1882 dans le comté d'Essex, en Angleterre) et mort le 14 février 1961 (à 78 ans) à North Hollywood, en Californie) est un acteur britannique.
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Wallis Clark fit carrière aux États-Unis, d'abord au cinéma muet, et franchit avec succès le cap du parlant, sa dernière apparition datant de 1956.Usually with
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Free For All (1949)
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Cummings, Ann Blyth, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Donald Woods, Mikhail Rasumny
Roles Mr. Van Alstyne
Rating60%
Devotion (1946)
, 1h47Directed by Edward Chodorov, Robert Buckner, Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Films about families
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Nancy Coleman, John Arthur Kennedy
Roles Mr. George Smith (uncredited)
Rating65%
The story takes place in the early 1800s, when the Brontë sisters Charlotte and Anne have made the decision to leave their family - their sister Emily, their brother Branwell, their aunt and their vicar father - to take positions as governesses in other families. The two sisters long to break free from their tedious life and get experiences from the outside world, to prepare for their careers as writers.
Mildred Pierce (1945)
, 1h51Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Moroni Olsen
Roles Wally's Lawyer (uncredited)
Rating78%
While the novel is told by a third-person narrator in strict chronological order, the film uses voice-over narration (the voice of Mildred). The story is framed by Mildred's interrogation by police after they discover the body of her second husband, Monte Beragon. The film, in noir fashion, opens with Beragon (Zachary Scott) having been shot. He murmurs the name "Mildred" before he dies. The police tell Mildred (Joan Crawford) that they believe the murderer is her first husband, Bert Pierce (Bruce Bennett). Bert has already been interrogated, and confessed to the crime. Mildred protests that he is too kind and gentle to commit murder, and goes on to relate her life story in flashback.
National Velvet (1945)
, 2h3Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owen
Rating72%
National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old girl, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who wins a spirited gelding in a raffle and decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. She is aided by a penniless young drifter named Mi (or Michael) Taylor (Mickey Rooney), who found Mrs. Brown's name and address among his late father's effects, but is unaware of what it was doing there. Hoping to gain some money from the association, Mi stays at the Browns' home, but Mrs. Brown is unwilling to allow Mi to trade on his father's good name and remains vague about how she knew him. Nevertheless she convinces her husband (Donald Crisp) to hire Mi over his better judgment, and Mi is brought into the home as a hired hand. It is revealed that Mi had been a jockey in Manchester, but his career ended in a collision which resulted in the death of another jockey. Since then Mi has not held a job, and he has come to hate horses. Velvet's horse is named "The Pie," short for "Pirate," the epithet given him by his owner due to the horse jumping clear of his paddock and wrecking things in the village. The man decides to be rid of the Pie, and offers him up in a raffle. Velvet wins The Pie, and on realizing the extent of the horses natural talent, she pleads with Mi to train the horse for the Grand National. He believes it a fools errand, not because of the horse, but because they have no real way to support the effort. He makes his case to Mrs. Brown, but she consents to Velvet's desire to train the horse. Velvet and Mi train the horse and enter him into the race. An experienced jockey is hired to ride him. The night before the race Velvet senses that the jockey hired to ride The Pie has no faith in him, and doesn't believe the horse can win. Velvet convinces Mi to fire the jockey, leaving them without a rider. That night Mi determines to overcome his fears and ride The Pie himself. Instead, he discovers that Velvet has slipped on the jockey's colors, and intends to ride the horse in the race herself. Aware of the dangers of such a race, Mi pleads with Velvet but is unable to dissuade her. As the race unfolds Velvet and The Pie avoid a number of falls, clear all the hurdles and win the race. Elated by their win, Velvet faints and falls off her mount at the finish. As she is revived the race doctor realizes she is not a young man, but a young woman. As such she and The Pie are disqualified, but Velvet knows The Pie proved himself. Velvet becomes a media sensation, declining an offer of £5,000 to travel to Hollywood with The Pie to be filmed. She ran the Pie at the Grand National because he deserved to have a chance. He wasn't an oddity to be stared at. In refusing the offer she states simply: "He wouldn't like being looked at." At the close of the film Mi takes his leave, and Mrs. Brown gives Velvet permission to reveal to him the nature of her relationship with his father. Velvet rides off to catch up with Mi and tell him that his father had been Mrs. Brown's coach when she won the prize as the first woman to swim the English Channel, many years before.
San Antonio (1945)
, 1h49Directed by David Butler, Raoul Walsh, Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Victor Francen, Paul Kelly, S.Z. Sakall, John Litel
Rating62%
Rustlers are running rampant in Texas, but at least one rancher, Charlie Bell, isn't pulling up stakes yet, particularly with the news that old friend Clay Hardin is en route from Mexico back home to San Antonio.
First Yank into Tokyo (1945)
, 1h22Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Tom Neal, Keye Luke, Barbara Hale, Leonard Strong, Richard Loo, Benson Fong
Roles Dr. Langley (uncredited)
Rating54%
In the film, the U.S. government assigns Major Steve Ross to receive plastic surgery to appear Japanese; Ross had lived in Japan and is well versed with Japanese culture. The government assigns Ross to rescue Lewis Jardine, a scientist bearing valuable secrets about the atomic bomb. Ross is also driven by the knowledge that his one true love, Abby, was captured by the Japanese and "is in their hands". Both Abby and Ross's former college roommate, the treacherous Hideko Okanura, are now at the same prison camp where Jardine is being held. Abby (Barbara Hale), does not recognize Steve but senses something strange about the new Japanese soldier from Korea. She detects something about him that makes him different from all the other Japanese who are uniformly portrayed as crazed sadists who, when not busy committing war crimes and stealing, drink themselves into a stupor and then give free rein to their insatiable lust for American women. Okanura, now a colonel in the Japanese army (after attending American universities to steal industrial secrets and plan sabotage), also detects something strangely familiar about his new NCO. In addition to committing acts of non-stop savagery, Okanura enjoys driving his subordinates to suicide and leering at Abby. He then sees a dog chase Major Ross across the prison yard and he remembers where he last saw such "superb open field running". It was in a college football game where Steve Ross excelled. Okanura (played by Richard Loo) also remembered that his American roommate displayed a nervous thumb gesture identical to the one seen in the mysterious new NCO. In the film's "exciting climax", Major Ross places a bomb in the prison camp's factory (where Allied prisoners are being worked to death by vicious Japanese guards who then steal their food). Just as Okanura is on the verge of exposing him at a banquet where movies are shown that were taken by Okanura during his American treachery (including films of Ross playing football), the bomb goes off and throws the camp into confusion. Ross kills Okanura with his bare hands, frees Abby and Jardine and then leads the group to a rendezvous with an US submarine just off shore. At the last second, Steve realizes that he cannot go back to the States "looking like a Jap" and bundles his charges into a boat and then staying behind to help some Korean prisoners kill some more of the "yellow monkeys".
The Captain from Köpenick (1945)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Albert Bassermann, Mary Brian, Eric Blore, Herman Bing, George Chandler, Luis Alberni
Roles Friedrich Hoprecht
Rating74%
Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt is released from prison after many years of hard labor. His freedom is new to him and, as he tries to navigate this strange new world, he promptly finds himself in the midst of a Prussian catch-22: To get a residence permit (passport), he must have a job, but he can only get a job if he has a residence permit. No one in the Prussian-German bureaucracy feels compelled to help him, everything must go by the book. To escape this vicious circle, out of desperation Voigt breaks into a police station to forge the much needed permit.
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
, 2h25Directed by Vincent Sherman, Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, John Alexander
Roles Clubman (uncredited)
Rating75%
In 1914, spoiled Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis) is a renowned beauty, with many suitors. She loves her brother Trippy (Richard Waring) and would do anything to help him. When Fanny learns that Trippy has embezzled money from his stockbroker employer Job Skeffington (Claude Rains), she marries the lovestruck businessman in order to save her brother. Disgusted by the arrangement, in part because of his prejudice against Skeffington being Jewish, Trippy leaves home to fight in the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I.
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
, 2h4Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Dan Duryea, Tom Drake, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Capt. McTavish (uncredited)
Rating69%
Susie Parkington (Greer Garson), an elderly society matron, is surrounded by her many relatives at her stately home at Christmastime in 1938, with the exception of her beloved great-granddaughter Jane (Frances Rafferty). When Jane does appear she informs her great-grandmother that she plans to elope with Ned Talbot (Tom Drake), her father's employee, who wishes to take her away from her family and their way of life. Susie arranges a meeting with Ned, where he reveals that Jane's father Amory (Edward Arnold) is being questioned for fraud and he planned to take Jane away in order to hide her from the truth. Susie sends Ned away, telling Jane to forget about him, and after hearing her grandson-in-law's side of the story makes the decision to ask her heirs to pay off Amory's debts with a loan ($31 million), much to her family's disgust, as it will mean that they may lose their inheritance.
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
, 1h26Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich von Stroheim, Helen Vinson, Sidney Blackmer, Mary Nash
Roles Warden (Uncredited)
Rating56%
The film is about the attempts to keep alive the brain of a multimillionaire after his death, only to create a telepathic monster. The man then takes over the medical assistant's mind, and the "lady" of the title has to fight it.
Uncertain Glory (1944)
, 1h42Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson, James Flavin, Dennis Hoey
Roles Razeau, member of underground
Rating70%
During World War II, Jean Picard (Errol Flynn) is a convicted killer being led to the guillotine. He escapes during an air raid but is captured by French Sûreté Inspector Marcel Bonet (Paul Lukas). They learn that a bridge has been blown up by three saboteurs, and that the Germans have taken 100 hostages who will be killed unless the saboteurs are apprehended by the Vichy police. To buy time in order to escape again, Picard persuades Bonet to let him pose as one of the saboteurs to save the hostages. In the course of enacting a story that will convince the Vichy that Picard is one of the escaped saboteurs, he and Bonet encounter the real saboteur, captured by the Vichy, and aid him in escaping.
The Desert Song (1943)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Faye Emerson
Rating59%
Paul Hudson, qui mène un groupe de bandits dans le désert contre plusieurs nazis, veut les utiliser comme employés pour son entreprise de chemin de fer.
Mission to Moscow (1943)
, 2h4Directed by Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Roles Well-wisher with Bill (uncredited)
Rating54%
The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe.
Bomber's Moon (1943)
, 1h7Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Edward Ludwig, Robert Florey, John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford, Martin Kosleck, Dennis Hoey
Roles Col. Sir Charles Sanford
Rating66%
Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) is shot down over Germany on a bombing raid as he sees his brother, Danny (Richard Graham) serving on the same aircraft, shot dead as he parachutes out of the stricken aircraft. Imprisoned in a camp, Dakin conspires with Alexandra "Alec" Zorich (Annabella), a beautiful Russian doctor, and Captain Paul Husnik (Kent Taylor), a Czech resistance leader, to mount an escape. They escape during an air raid and make their way towards safety, but the Czech is not who he seems.
Crime Doctor (1943)
, 1h6Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Ray Collins, Leon Ames, Harold Huber
Roles Judge
Rating62%
During the Great Depression, a man (Warner Baxter) is thrown out of a speeding car. When he regains consciousness in a hospital, he has amnesia. He is visited by a man who accuses him of faking his condition. The stranger calls the patient Phil and demands to know what happened to a valise, then runs away when Phil summons a nurse for help. When the man recovers, he takes the name Robert Ordway, after a hospital benefactor.