Frank Elliott

Frank Elliott

Nacimiento : 1880-02-11, Cheshire, England, UK

Muerte : 1970-07-01

Perfil

Frank Elliott

Películas

Golfus de Roma
Cuando un astuto esclavo, mentiroso, perezoso, ocurrente y tramposo descubre que el hijo de su amo está enamorado de una joven virgen, le ofrece su ayuda para conquistarla si a cambio le condede la libertad. Pero los amoríos se ven obstaculizados por asombrosas sorpresas, ingeniosos disfraces y una alocada carrera de cuádrigas.
Cariño, ¿por qué lo hiciste?
Simms
Adaptación de la obra teatral "Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire" escrita por J. M. Barrie, el autor de "Peter Pan". En el Nueva York de principios del siglo XX, una adolescente (Mona Freeman) se siente desolada porque cree haber descubierto una infidelidad de su madre (Joan Fontaine). Esto dará lugar a todo tipo de enredos y a una cierta crítica social sobre la hipocresía de la gente.
La llave de cristal
Peter (uncredited)
Durante la campaña para la reelección, el político corrupto Paul Madvig decide limpiar su pasado, rechazando el apoyo del gángster Nick Varna y asociándose con el respetable político reformista Ralph Henry. Cuando el hijo de Ralph, Taylor Henry, un jugador y el amante de la hermana de Pablo Opal, es asesinado, el brazo derecho de Paul, Ed Beaumont, encuentra su cuerpo en la calle. Nick utiliza la situación financiera de The Observer para forzar al editor Clyde Matthews a utilizar el periódico para sembrar la sospecha de que Paul Madvig podría haber matado a Taylor
Zis Boom Bah
Mr. Kendricks
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
Más fuerte que el orgullo
Mathews
Elizabeth (Greer Garson) es una de las 5 hermanas Bennet, que están deseando casarse. Darcy (Lawrence Olivier) es un joven apuesto que se instala en una finca cercana y hace latir los corazones de todas las chicas. De todas menos en el caso de Elizabeth, con la que desde el primer encuentro se lleva fatal. Este será el inicio de una historia basada en la lucha discreta y elegante de orgullo y prejuicio, de percepción y realidad, de perdón y de amor.
Luna llena
Party Guest
Marianne de Beaumaniour está de camino a Nueva Orleans desde París para inspeccionar la plantación que heredó de su tío. En el barco viajan también algunos esclavos para ser vendidos. Charles, Duque de Villiers, un enemigo político del rey, también está a bordo haciéndose pasar por esclavo. El jefe de la plantación de Marianne compra a Charles y éste pronto la seduce con su encanto. Marianne descubre rápidamente la verdadera identidad de Charles y le deja en libertad, antes de que los oficiales franceses le encuentren. Marianne decide volver a París con el Capitán de Policía, a bordo del barco “Luna Llena”, pero deben hacer escala en la Martinica. Después de la Martinica, el barco es asaltado por los piratas. Marianne queda conmocionada al ver que Charles es el líder de los piratas. Esa noche, una dura tormenta les azota, y todo se hunde. Ahora Charles es el líder y la diversión acaba de comenzar….
Maria Antonieta
King's Chamberlain (uncredited)
Siglo XVIII. La princesa de Austria María Antonieta (Shearer) se casa con el delfín de Francia, Luis XVI (Morley), un hombre tan retraído que su relación con la joven es puramente formal. Antonieta se dejará fascinar por las fiestas de París y derrochará el dinero a manos llenas, aunque esta situación no durará mucho. Un drama de época que obtuvo 4 nominaciones a los Oscar: Actriz principal (Norma Shearer), actor secundario (Robert Morley), banda sonora y dirección artística.
Doctor Rhythm
Lorelei's Butler
El doctor Remsen finge ser policía, y acaba recibiendo la misión de proteger a Judy Marlowe, de la cual se enamora.
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Bailey
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.
The White Angel
Officer in Barracks (uncredited)
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Playboy of Paris
M. Jabert
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Take the Heir
A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
Easy Virtue
Colonel Whittaker
Una mujer, Larita Filton, es acusada por su marido, un hombre borracho y celoso, de haberse enamorado de un artista. El matrimonio se divorcia entre un gran escándalo y el artista se suicida. El mundo de Larita se viene abajo, ella ha adquirido mala reputación, por lo que decide cambiar de identidad y empezar una nueva vida. Se enamora de un joven rico y se casa con él hasta que la madre averigua su turbio pasado...
One Increasing Purpose
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
The Dark Angel
Lord Beaumont
Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
Tearing Through
Mr. Greer
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
This Woman
Gordon Duane
This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
The Goldfish
Duke of Middlesex
A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
Gentle Julia
Randolph Crum
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love.
Ruggles of Red Gap
Honorable George
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Count Radistoff
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend.
Alias Ladyfingers
Justin Haddon
When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five years later her daughter, now widowed, is killed. Her young son comes under the influence of a professional safecracker and is soon on his way to becoming a hardened criminal. Twenty yeas later the Stetherill family lawyer learns that the infamous thief known as Ladyfingers bears a striking resemblance to Rachel's husband--and has fallen in love with Enid, Mrs. Stetherill's young ward. Complications ensue.
The Speed Girl
Carl D'Arcy
20 year old Betty Lee becomes famous for her movie stunts with airplanes and high power roadsters. While horseback riding, she allows Ensign Tom Manley to believe that he has saved her from a runaway; then at the studio he meets her suitor, Carl D'Arcy. Betty evades Carl's marriage proposal and accepts Tom's luncheon invitation.
The Last Card
Tom Gannell
Ralph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, Tom Gannell. Kirkwood's wife believes she knows the identity of the real killer and sets about trapping him.
The Hope
Hector Grant
An upper class melodrama.
Once to Every Woman
Duke of Devonshire
Aurora Meredith is the daughter of the village blacksmith. Because she has a promising voice, her family does everything they can to develop her talent. A wealthy New York woman hears her sing and sends her to Europe to study. But the woman dies, and Aurora borrows money for her last year from a hot-blooded Italian man. Instead of being paid back financially, the Italian wants her love, and she rejects him.
What Would You Do
Curtis Brainerd
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.
Home
Envidiosa de la riqueza de sus compañeros de clase en el elegante internado al que sus padres lucharon por enviarla, Millicent Rankin oculta el hecho de que su padre es plomero. Invita a su amiga Beatrice Deering a su casa, que describe como lujosa, para las vacaciones, pero cree que Beatrice se negará. La vergüenza que siente Millicent cuando recibe un telegrama de que viene Beatrice le causa dolor a su madre, pero cuando la hermana de Millicent se enferma de escarlatina, Millicent va a la residencia de campo de Beatrice, donde espera conocer a un marido rico. En Deering's, Millicent pronto se decepciona de las costumbres de la sociedad. Después de casi sucumbir a las insinuaciones de Elmer Lacy, quien secretamente tiene una aventura con la madrastra de Beatrice, Millicent protege la reputación de la Sra. Deering humillándose a sí misma. Cuando se entera de que su madre está enferma, Millicent se apresura a casa y descubre la felicidad con su familia y su antiguo amor.
The Scarlet Shadow
Harvey Presby
Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's mother, Elena possesses "the scarlet strain."
The Double Standard
Charles Ferguson
Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all.
John Needham's Double
Parks
Aunque ha sido designado para proteger la fortuna del joven Thomas Creighton, el inescrupuloso Lord John Needham decide gastarlo todo después de que Tom huye. Luego, sin embargo, llega un anuncio de que Tom regresa y que planea reclamar su dinero. Temiendo el castigo, tanto de Tom como de las autoridades, John mata a su primo y doble exacto, Joseph Norbury, y toma el lugar de Joseph, haciendo que parezca que el hombre muerto es realmente John.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Lord Huntersley
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English Secret Service agent, Lord Huntersley and a young American millionaire on pleasure bent, Richard Lane. Mr. Grex and two other diplomats who unofficially represent France and Germany, plan to meet as if by chance in Monte Carlo for the purpose of arranging a secret pact.
Jewel
Lawrence Evringham
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, her daughter, to the rich Dr. Ballard.
Nearly a Lady
The Scarlet Sin
Richard Alen (as Frank Elliot)
Against the wishes of Cecelia, his wife, the Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor mining town.
Sunshine Molly
Patricia's Fiancee
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
It's No Laughing Matter
Sam
The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the village, at one point reuniting a long-estranged family.