Walter Byron

Walter Byron

Nacimiento : 1899-06-11, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

Muerte : 1972-03-03

Historia

Walter Byron (born Walter Clarence Butler; 11 June 1899 – 2 March 1972) was an English film actor.[1

Perfil

Walter Byron

Películas

Hubo una luna de miel
Guard (uncredited)
Katie O'Hara, una ex bailarina de cabaret norteamericana, después de casarse con el barón Von Luber, va a pasar su luna de miel en Europa. Con ellos viaja Pat O'Toole, un locutor de radio que colabora con los servicios secretos americanos, y que intenta convencer a Katie de que su marido es un nazi muy importante. De hecho, cada país que visitan los recién casados (Checoslovaquia, Polonia, Francia) es inmediatamente invadido por las tropas alemanas. Al final, Katie no sólo se convence, sino que se enamora de O'Toole y, además, en París, ejerce de espía y consigue obtener una valiosa información de Von Luber.
Gentleman Jim
Ringside Telegrapher (uncredited)
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
La señora Miniver
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una familia inglesa, que vive en un pequeño pueblo, logra sobrevivir a los bombardeos alemanes. La madre se encuentra al frente de la casa esperando que su hijo y su marido regresen de la guerra.
Nazi Agent
Officer (uncredited)
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Confirm or Deny
Minor Role
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Crashing Thru
McClusky
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
Death Goes North
Al Norton
Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
Trade Winds
Bob (Uncredited)
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Frontier Scout
Lieutenant Adams
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Dennis Andrews
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
Back in Circulation
Carlton Whitney
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Top of the Town
Nightclub Patron
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
The Bridge of Sighs
Arny Norman
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Búsquenme una novia
Roy - Pianist at Wedding Rehearsal (uncredited)
Jim Buchanan es un ejecutivo de capa caída cuya novia no le ama; pero un día conoce en un parque a Joan, una cocinera desempleada que está buscando un cocinero. Ambos deciden hacerse pasar por marido y mujer para un trabajo que requiere una pareja.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Dwight Boardman
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Folies Bergère
Marquis René de Lac
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
El agente británico
Under Secretary Stanley
El servicio de inteligencia Británico le encarga a Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) que persuada a la Unión Soviética para que no firme con Alemania un acuerdo de paz que sería muy perjudicial para los intereses de Inglaterra. Durante su misión, Locke se enamora de Elena (Kay Francis), la secretaria del líder ruso, que corresponde a sus sentimientos, pero que no está dispuesta a traicionar la causa bolchevique.
All Men Are Enemies
A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
Once to Every Woman
Dr. Freddie Preston
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
Hombre de dos mundos
Eric Pager
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Big Time Or Bust
John Hammond
Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Henry Jennison
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
Lost in Limehouse
Harold Heartright
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
Grand Slam
Barney Starr
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
The Savage Girl
Jim Franklin
An intoxicated millionaire commissions an expedition to Africa. A white jungle goddess falls in love with the millionaire's daring consort, incurring the wrath of the jungle itself.
La reina Kelly
Prince Wolfram
En Kronberg, capital de un antiguo reino centroeuropeo, la cruel y caprichosa reina Regina V castiga a su primo y prometido, el príncipe Wolfram, a ir de maniobras bajo el sol durante todo el día por su escandalosa escapada de la noche anterior. Por el camino de Kambach, el príncipe y su escuadrón se cruzan con un grupo de monjas y de jóvenes novicias de un convento cercano. Cuando las muchachas se inclinan ante el príncipe, los leotardos de una de ellas, Patricia Kelly, se deslizan hasta el suelo. El príncipe y su escuadron comienzan a reirse, y la muchacha, indignada, se los arroja a la cara. Enamorado locamente de ella desde ese momento, el príncipe decide raptarla conduciéndola a sus habitaciones en palacio, a pesar de que la Reina ya ha anunciado su boda para el día siguiente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Slightly Married
James R. "Jimmie" Martin
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
The Crusader
Joe Carson
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
This Sporting Age
Charles Morrell
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
Exposure
Andy Bryant
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
Week Ends Only
Jimmy Brigg
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
Society Girl
Warburton
Johnny se está entrenando para el campeonato de boxeo. Judy le distrae, de modo que su manager le deja plantado. Y también Judy.
Pecadores sin careta
Eric Nelson
Una modelo de Nueva York se encontrará perseguida por un pobre pero honesto mecánico y por un rico mujeriego.
Vanity Fair
George Osborne
Una joven ambiciosa y carente de escrúpulos asciende en la escala social desde institutriz a lo más alto de la sociedad británica.
Three Wise Girls
Jerry Dexter
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
The Menace
Ronald Quayle
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
The Yellow Ticket
Count Nikolai
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Left Over Ladies
Ronny
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
El último vuelo
Frink
Cinco pilotos, veteranos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, se muestran temorosos a afrontar su devenir diario tras el término del conflicto. Todos los horrores que han vivido les hacen adoptar un nihilista estilo de vida y esconderse en la ciudad de París bebiendo sin parar.
The Reckless Hour
Allen Crane
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
Not Damaged
A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
The Sacred Flame
Colin Taylor
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
Tommy Atkins
Harold
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
The Awakening
Count Karl von Hagen
En Alsacia, justo antes de la Guerra Mundial, se ve a Marie Ducrot, una hermosa y virtuosa campesina que se enamora del Conde Karl von Hagen, un teniente del ejército alemán, visitando a Karl en sus aposentos, y una multitud enojada de habitantes arroja piedras y maldiciones a ella. Marie, reportada erróneamente muerta, se convierte en novicia en una orden religiosa. Estalla la guerra y von Hagen resulta herido en un combate cerca del convento de Marie; Marie lo cuida y la convence de que regrese a Alemania con él. Le Bête, un sargento del ejército francés que conocen, les ayuda a alcanzar las líneas y la seguridad alemanas. Le Bête es asesinado por la bala de un francotirador, y Marie y Karl se preparan para un futuro mejor.
Yvette
Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.