Bernard Vorhaus
Nacimiento : 1904-12-25, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2000-11-23
Historia
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Bernard Vorhaus (25 December 1904 - 23 November 2000) was an American film director born in New York City.
The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty-two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures. He worked steadily as a screenwriter in Hollywood while in his 20s but wanted to direct movies. He eventually decided to move to England and began directing B-movies or quota quickies, most notably The Last Journey (1935). After success in England, Vorhaus moved back to the U.S. and began working at Republic Pictures again directing B-movies.
Vorhaus was blacklisted in 1951 at HUAC hearings. Vorhaus had already moved to Europe at that time and directed a few minor films while there. He finally returned to England and retired from the film business, founding a business specialising in house renovations.
Vorhaus had two children, Gwyn and David, an electronic music pioneer who worked under the name White Noise.
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Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
Assistant Director
Drama histórico sobre el famoso relato bíblico, en el que el Rey David tiene una visión en la que Dios le comunica que su joven hijo Salomón le sucederá en el trono, lo que provoca los celos de su otro hijo: Adonijah.
Assistant Director
Una joven belga (Audrey Hepburn), que pertenece a una familia burguesa, ingresa como novicia en un convento. Tras profesar como monja, es enviada al Congo para trabajar como enfermera en una misión, como era su deseo desde niña. Sin embargo, su sorpresa será mayúscula cuando compruebe que no será destinada a atender a los nativos, sino a los europeos que viven allí.
Assistant Director
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Leon Tolstoi. En el año 1805 Napoleón amenaza con invadir Rusia. Pierre Bezukhov es un intelectual pacifista y ocioso, hijo natural de un noble. Cuando estalla la guerra, se mantiene al margen de la contienda y frecuenta la casa de sus amigos los Rostov, una acogedora familia aristocrática, en la que brilla por su encanto y generosidad Natasha.
Assistant Director
Tres cineastas estadounidenses descubren a una extraordinaria bailarina llamada María Vargas. Sin perder ni un minuto, se trasladan a Hollywood y lanzan a la desconocida al estrellato. Kirk, el productor de sus películas, corteja en vano a María. Ella, para humillarle, accede a acompañar al multimillonario Bravano en un crucero por la Riviera.
Assistant Director
El noble Rainiero, hijo del duque de Sidonia, vuelve a casa en compañía de su amigo Renzo. Nada más llegar, el caracter de Renzo chocará con las costumbres locales y se verá implicado en un tremendo lío, que no tendrá mas que dos posibles salidas: matrimonio o ingreso en prisión.
Assistant Director
Durante una visita a Roma, Ana, la joven princesa de un pequeño país centroeuropeo que detesta sus obligaciones y desea pasar inadvertida, se escapa de palacio para visitar la ciudad de incógnito. Así conoce a Joe, un periodista americano que busca una exclusiva y finge desconocer su verdadera identidad. La pareja vivirá entonces unas jornadas inolvidables.
Director
La hija de un playboy norteamericano va a un internado en los Alpes, donde la principal materia de estudio parece ser cómo casarse con un rico. Al principio, ha de compartir habitación con una becaria, pero cuando un opulento joven estadounidense demuestra interés por ella, se impone a todas las envidias y resquemores. Pero luego se enamora de un chico pobre de los alrededores.
Director
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Screenplay
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Story
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Director
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Director
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Director
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
Director
A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
Director
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Director
Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of pilots who have died and gone to heaven without ever getting into combat, all as a result of haphazard or inattentive flying. Joe points out several pilots as examples and tells Saint Peter just what they did wrong that landed them in Pilot Heaven.
Director
Military training film on the characteristics, capabilities, weaknesses, and recognition of the World War II Japanese fighter aircraft known as the Zero.
Director
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
Director
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Director
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped (?) along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), who by default is the brightest character in the picture.
Director
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
Director
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Associate Producer
John Reynolds debe ir a Nueva Orleans para investigar un juego de apuestas que está siendo un fraude. Allí conocerá a Julie, la hija del General Mirbeau, que está implicado en esta lotería fraudulenta, y ambos se enamorarán. Sin embargo, la historia sufre un giro cuando Mirbeau es asesinado. Entretenido film con el vaquero John Wayne metido de lleno en la justicia y enamorándose de quien no debe. John Reynolds, viaja a Nueva Orleans para acabar con una lotería amañada. En el proceso, se enamorará de Julie Mirbeau, que resulta ser la hija del General Mirbeau, quien maneja la lotería.
Director
John Reynolds debe ir a Nueva Orleans para investigar un juego de apuestas que está siendo un fraude. Allí conocerá a Julie, la hija del General Mirbeau, que está implicado en esta lotería fraudulenta, y ambos se enamorarán. Sin embargo, la historia sufre un giro cuando Mirbeau es asesinado. Entretenido film con el vaquero John Wayne metido de lleno en la justicia y enamorándose de quien no debe. John Reynolds, viaja a Nueva Orleans para acabar con una lotería amañada. En el proceso, se enamorará de Julie Mirbeau, que resulta ser la hija del General Mirbeau, quien maneja la lotería.
Director
El Dr. Braun, cirujano vienés, y su hija Leni llegan a un pequeño pueblo de Dakota del Norte como refugiados escapando de Hitler. Cuando los vientos del Dust Bowl amenazan el pueblo, John Phillips lidera a sus habitantes en su viaje a Oregon en busca de pastos más verdes. Philips se enamora de Leni, pero ella ya está comprometida con el hombre que los ayudó en su huida del Tercer Reich. Leni tendrá que optar por uno de los dos.
Director
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Director
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Director
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Director
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Director
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Director
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Director
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Director
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Director
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
Director
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Story
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
Director
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
Director
Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things out.
Director
Una mujer es chantajeada por un criminal que descubrió que su hermano fue asesinado a tiros durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Director
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Director
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Producer
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Story
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Director
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Director
'Lady Violet and Harry Newman are engaged. Corry, a jealous rival, employs Mabell, a night-club dancer, to make love to Harry when drunk and demand money from Harry's father for letters she has written to the son.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
Director
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Line Producer
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
Writer
No Other Woman
Adaptation
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
