Guy Standing
Nacimiento : 1873-09-01, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1937-02-24
Historia
Commander Sir Guy Standing KBE RNVR (1 September 1873–24 February 1937) was an English actor.
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Reginald Nielson
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
John Angerstein
Jonathan Blake, amigo de la infancia de Lord Nelson, asciende de mensajero a un puesto importante en la aseguradora Lloyd’s gracias a que inventa un sistema de transmisión de noticias. Lord Stacey, un bellaco altanero, odia a Blake por su influyente cargo. Sin saber que está casada con Lord Stacey, Blake se enamora de Lady Elizabeth. Lord Stacey se convierte en enemigo de Blake cuando Lloyd’s rechaza su petición de un préstamo para cubrir sus deudas de juego.
Governor John Bancroft
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
Max Bernard
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady who is also a jewel collector. One day her employer decides to take an ocean trip to the US, taking Sophie with her. She also takes along a $200,000 diamond, which she locks up in the ship's safe. Of course, the diamond is soon stolen from the safe. A reporter also happens to be aboard the ship, and he has had his suspicions about who Sophie really is. Sophie has to find the real thief and recover the jewel before the ship docks in New York, because an investigation could reveal her true identity.
Captain Smythe
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Doctor
El propietario de una emisora de radio es secuestrado por una admiradora, una condesa insaciable.
Cmdr. Fitzhugh
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
John Vilker, alias Prof. Anthony
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Tom Stone
Ambientada en la frontera del noroeste de la India en tiempos de la dominación británica, narra las luchas del 41º regimiento de Bengala contra las tribus de Mohammed Khan.
Felix Evans
Jerry es un ladrón de guante blanco que se dedica al robo de joyas. Aunque está felizmente casado, su mujer quiere que abandone ese tipo de vida, pues desea tener hijos. Un día, reciben la visita de Penny, la hija de Jerry, que ha se ha criado con la familia de su difunta madre. El encanto y la simpatía de la pequeña hará que Jerry se replantee su vida y piense seriamente en formar una familia.
Mortimer Neff
A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
Judge Martin Prentice
Jack Brookfield, un jugador con poderes clarividentes e hipnóticos, es capaz de ganar jugando a las cartas utilizándolos. Pero cuando inadvertidamente hipnotiza al joven Clay Thorne, éste, mientras está en trance, mata a un enemigo de Brookfield. Nadie cree en lo que afirma Brookfield de que Thorne es inocente de cualquier intento de asesino, por lo que Brookfield se asocia con Martin Prentice, abogado ya jubilado, con la esperanza de salvar al joven de la horca.
Duke Lambert
La muerte decide tomarse unos días de vacaciones y convivir con un grupo de personas para ver lo que se siente siendo un ser mortal y comprender por qué la gente le teme tanto.
Doctor
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Commissioner Hope (as Sir Guy Standing)
With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy Standing) sends two of his officers (Billy Bevan and Charles McNaughton) to the Midnight Club to check up on a couple of shady characters - Colin Grant (Clive Brook) and Arthur Bradley (Allan Mowbray) and a girl, Iris Witney (Helen Vinson). There have been a number of jewel robberies around town recently, but, unknown to the police, these three have the perfect alibis!!! They have found "doubles", and while they are out committing the robberies, their doubles spend the night at the club, confusing the two officers who are on their tail.
Major Dunham
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Tres americanos (March, Grant y Oakie) se ofrecen para ir como voluntarios a combatir junto a los ingleses en la Royal Air Force.
Judge Drake
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.