Wheeler Dryden is a Actor, Director, Writer, Production Assistant, Assistant Director and Second Unit British born on 30 august 1892 at Brixton (United-kingdom)
Wheeler Dryden
Wheeler Dryden participated to
6 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
3 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
, 2h4
Directed by Charlie ChaplinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Military humor in film,
Medical-themed films,
Monde imaginaire,
Hitler,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Political filmsActors Charlie Chaplin,
Paulette Goddard,
Jack Oakie,
Reginald Gardiner,
Henry Daniell,
Billy GilbertRoles Assistant Director
Rating83%
The action starts in 1918, with the collapse of the Tomainian (German) army. A Jewish barber saves the life of a wounded pilot, Schultz, but loses his own memory through concussion., 2h4
Directed by Charlie ChaplinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
CrimeThemes Serial killer films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Martha Raye,
William Frawley,
Charlie Chaplin,
Isobel Elsom,
Edna Purviance,
Fritz LeiberRoles Assistant Director
Rating77%
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before being laid off. To support his wife and child, he turns to the business of marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais draws all her money and disappears, only two weeks after marrying a man named "Varnay", whom they only know through a photograph. As Verdoux (Chaplin) prepares to sell the residence of the murdered Thelma, widowed Marie Grosnay visits the residence. Verdoux sees her as another "business" opportunity and attempts to charm her, but she refuses. In the following weeks, Verdoux has a flower girl repeatedly send Grosnay flowers. In need of money to invest, Verdoux, as M. Floray, visits widow Lydia Floray (Hoffman), who complains that his engineering job has kept him away too long. That night, Verdoux murders her for her money.Actor
, 2h17
Directed by Charlie ChaplinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Charlie Chaplin,
Claire Bloom,
Nigel Bruce,
Buster Keaton,
Sydney Chaplin,
Wheeler DrydenRoles Thereza's Doctor
Rating79%
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.