Adrian Rosley

Birth : 1887-10-28, Iasi, Romania

Death : 1937-03-05

Movies

The Go-Getter
Fish vendor (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Ready, Willing and Able
Angelo
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
The Great O'Malley
Nick - the Tailor (uncredited)
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Mad Holiday
Official Guide (uncredited)
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
The Magnificent Brute
Papapolas
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Sins of Man
Singarelli's Butler
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Italian Interpreter (uncredited)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
The Gay Desperado
Radio Station Manager
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
If You Could Only Cook
French Servant (uncredited)
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Metropolitan
Mr. Tolentino
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
I Live My Life
Greek Listening to Radio (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Here's to Romance
Sandoval
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Front Page Woman
Tailor (uncredited)
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Stranded
Headwaiter (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Marcel, Restaurant Owner
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
Break of Hearts
Bierbauer (uncredited)
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
The Florentine Dagger
Pasquale (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Roberta
Professor
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.
Death Flies East
Pastoli
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
Enter Madame
Doctor
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
Bum Voyage
Ship's Captain
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
I Sell Anything
Artist (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Chained
Emil (uncredited)
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
Of Human Bondage
Paris Art Teacher Mons. Flourney (uncredited)
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Handy Andy
Henri Duval
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
The Great Flirtation
Mikos
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Director
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Flying Down to Rio
Hotel Atlântico Manager (uncredited)
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
My Weakness
Baptiste
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
A Modern Cinderella
Mr. Ragusa
Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the design at first, but agrees to let Anita model it for her to decide whether to keep it. Charlie, a drunk partygoer, sees Anita in the dress and invites her to attend the festivities. She reluctantly agrees and sings for the other guests.
The Divorce Racket
Tony, Window Washer
Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.