Richard Ney

Richard Ney

Birth : 1916-11-13, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 2004-07-18

History

Richard Maximilian Ney (November 12, 1916 – July 18, 2004) was an American actor, author, and investment counselor.

Profile

Richard Ney

Movies

Ghostbreakers
Bunky Norris
A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.
The Premature Burial
Miles Archer
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Midnight Lace
Daniel Graham
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Babes in Bagdad
Ezar
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Ein Lächeln im Sturm
A Smile in the Storm
In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an adventurer.
Miss Italia
Massimo Lega
The Secret Of St. Ives
Anatole de Keroual
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
The Lovable Cheat
Jacques Minard
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
The Fan
James Hopper
Lord Windermere appears to all - including his young wife Margaret - to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
Joan of Arc
Charles de Bourbon, Duke de Clermont
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Ivy
Jervis Lexton
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
The Late George Apley
John Apley
George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Theodore Hadley
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Mrs. Miniver
Vin Miniver
English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II.
Personalities
(uncredited)
In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. The narrator says that moviegoers will have to decide whether these fledgling actors and actresses have that certain quality that made superstars out of MGM players Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner.