Frank Vosper

Frank Vosper

Birth : 1899-12-15, Hampstead, London, England, UK

Death : 1937-03-06

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Frank Vosper

Movies

Love from a Stranger
Theatre Play
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Shadows on the Stairs
Theatre Play
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
Love from a Stranger
Theatre Play
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
Secret of Stamboul
Kazdim
A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.
Crimson Dynasty
Maj. Baron de Boise
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Heart's Desire
Van Straaten
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
Blind Justice
Dick Cheriton
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Ramon Levine
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Jew Süss
Duke Karl Alexander
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss (Veidt) works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power himself with the help of an evil Duke.
Red Ensign
Lord Dean
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Waltzes from Vienna
Prince Gustav
The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
Open All Night
Anton
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
Dick Turpin
Tom King
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
No Funny Business
Screenplay
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
Rome Express
Dialogue
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Rome Express
M. Jolif
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Murder on the Second Floor
Theatre Play
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...