Charles Calvert

Movies

All the Fine Young Cannibals
Deacon (uncredited)
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Love Nest
Mr. Knowland (Uncredited)
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
Fear
Doc
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
Trocadero
Tony Rocadero
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
Road to Happiness
Bald-headed Boarder (uncredited)
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Director
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
The Avenging Hand
Director
The ghost of an Egyptian princess curses the archaeologist who stole her mummified hand.
Paul Sleuth and the Mystic Seven
Director
A detective saves a kidnapped heiress by hiding a film camera in the headlamp of the ransom car.
Three-Fingered Kate - The Wedding Presents
Sheerluck Finch
'Crooks tunnel through fireplace to rob house next door.' (British Film Catalogue). According to BFI, this is the only surviving film of 7 episodes made in the Three-Fingered Kate series
Lieutenant Daring Defeats the Middleweight Champion
Lieutenant Derrick
The Lieutenant is saved from kidnappers in time to win a boxing match and the colonel's daughter
Three-Fingered Kate: The Pseudo-Quartette
Sheerluck Finch
Crooks kidnap musicians and take their places to rob a ball.
The Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate
A jewel thief eludes a detective by changing clothes with a Negress at a public bath.
Three-Fingered Kate: Her Second Victim, the Art Dealer
Sheerluck
A girl helps her sister rob a baron's art gallery and escape over the roof.
Three-Fingered Kate: The Episode of the Sacred Elephants
Sheerluck
A girl robs a colonel and eludes a detective by posing as a curio dealer.