Ian Maclaren

Películas

Las colinas de mi tierra
Story
Un pastor escocés, cuyo collie tiene una aversión al agua, engaña al doctor del pueblo para que compre su perro. Éste, de nombre Lassie, se convertirá en su mejor amigo y uno de sus máximos colaboradores para llevar adelante su más profunda ambición: convertir a su joven ayudante en el médico que pueda convertirse en su sucesor.
The Common Touch
Harmonica Player
The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Sendas siniestras
Crony #2
Tod Jackson es un joven abogado que llega a Kansas para visitar a sus amigos los Dalton. Una vez allí, averigua que la familia tiene graves problemas, pues una poderosa compañía está utilizando todo tipo de tretas para arrebatarles sus tierras. La situación llega a tal punto que consiguen convertir en proscritos a todos los miembros de la familia.
El doctor se casa
Professor
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
La horca fatal
Priest (uncredited)
Un brillante científico inventa un corazón artificial. Tras intentar realizar un arriesgado experimento con un hombre, es acusado por la novia de éste y es condenado a la horca. Después de su ejecución y gracias a su ayudante, regresará a la vida para vengarse de aquellos que lo enviaron a la muerte.
La máscara de hierro
Valet de Chambre
Adaptación de la famosa novela de Alexandre Dumas que sigue unas pautas muy similares a la versión rodada diez años antes por Allan Dwan.
El perro de los Baskerville
Sir Charles Baskerville
Durante más de doscientos años una maldición parece haber caído sobre la aristocrática familia de los Baskerville. Cuando Sir Charles es hallado muerto en extrañas circunstancias, el legendario Sherlock Holmes y su compañero Watson comienzan a investigar y llegan a la conclusión de que la próxima víctima será Sir Henry, el único miembro vivo de la familia y, por tanto, el heredero universal de la fortuna de los Baskerville.
Little Orphan Annie
Soo Long
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
If I Were King
Beggar
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Kidnapped
Minister
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Invisible Enemy
Sir Joshua Longstreet
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Portia on Trial
Father Caslez
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
El príncipe y el mendigo
Second Doctor
Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Tom, un niño pobre, y el príncipe Edward Tudor nacieron el mismo día, teniendo ambos un parecido asombroso. Un día Tom se cuela en los jardines del palacio y conoce al príncipe, decidiendo ambos intercambiase sus roles. Se cambian entonces las ropas, pero los guardias les descubren y expulsan al verdadero príncipe de Palacio. Nadie les cree cuando intentan contar la verdad...
The House of Secrets
Commissioner Cross
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
El último mohicano
William Pitt
Una de las primeras adaptaciones del clásico de Fenimore Cooper. La acción transcurre durante la guerra franco-india (1754-1763). Relata la masacre, perpetrada por los hurones y consentida por los franceses, de soldados angloamericanos prisioneros, sus mujeres y criados. Además los hurones secuestran a las dos hijas del comandante inglés, a cuyo rescate acudirá último mohicano.
I'm Much Obliged
Auntie Pru
Newspaper columnist Mr. Inquisitive telephones readers to ask, "What would you like to do?", with the chosen responses being eligible for a prize. The callees include torch singer Vera Van, bandleader Lester Cole (and his Texas Rangers), and other late-period vaudeville acts, all whom are ready to perform.
Cleopatra
Cassius (as Ian MacLaren)
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), reina de Egipto, recibe al cónsul romano Julio César (Warren William), con quien traza una alianza de cara a afianzar su posición. A la muerte de Julio, coquetea con Marco Antonio (Henry Wilcoxon), para intentar conservar el favor romano.
Afraid to Talk
Chief Frank Hyers
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Prestige
Colonel Du Flos (as Ian MacLaren)
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
The Conquering Horde
Marvin Fletcher
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
Cuerpo y alma
General Trafford-Jones
Andrews, Watson y Johnson luchan en la I Guerra Mundial con la R.A.F. (Royal Air Force) en Francia. Cuando Watson muere en combate, Andrews trata de devolver las cartas que Watson recibió de una chica llamada "Pom-Pom". Hay dos posibilidades: o es la viuda de Watson, o es una espía alemana.
Journey's End
Osborne "Uncle"
In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
Yolanda
Campo Basse
The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
Monsieur Beaucaire
Duke of Winterset
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
Under the Red Robe
King Louis XIII
Under the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon the Stanley Weyman novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
The Bonnie Brier Bush
Novel
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.