Fred Paul
Nacimiento : 1880-01-01, Lausanne, Switzerland
Muerte : 1967-01-01
Historia
Fred Paul (1880 – 1967) was a Swiss-born British actor and film director. Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and director in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films.
Director
A short musical film directed by Fred Paul.
Director
A musical film directed by Fred Paul.
Director
A musical film directed by Fred Paul
Writer
An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Director
An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Scenario Writer
'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)
Lt. Comdr. John Byrne R. N. of the N. S. S.
Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
Director
Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
Director
A spy has his son steal an Admiral's submarine plans.
Adaptation
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
Nayland Smith
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
Director
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
The Husband
A benefactor ejects a tramp who covets his wife and later adopts the child of the girl the tramp saved from suicide.
Nayland Smith
In this thrilling final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads sleuth Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?
Nayland Smith
When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
Nayland Smith
Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
Nayland Smith
Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...
Nayland Smith
The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the persona of a long-bearded professor, Fu-Manchu pays a visit to London's Madame Tussauds waxworks. Elsewhere, there's something horribly uncanny going on at a remote country cottage: sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie leave the capital to investigate.
Nayland Smith
Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.
Nayland Smith
This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie disguises himself as a rough bargee to investigate a smoky riverside drinking den, the Joy-Shop Club.
Nayland Smith
Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
Nayland Smith
In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?
Nayland Smith
n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man from Forest Hill found with his face covered with scratches; their enquiries lead them once more to the Devil Doctor, Fu-Manchu. Meanwhile, Petrie’s stiff upper lip begins to quiver, as he grows dangerously fond of Fu-Manchu’s slave girl, Karamaneh...
Nayland Smith
A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.
Nayland Smith
Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.
Nayland Smith
A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers
Director
A fantastic British entry from the ‘Grand Guignol’ series. After his wife leaves him, an old man suffers for 40 years, longing for her to return, until one day his fellow lodgers decide to play a vicious prank… (chapter.org)
Field Marshal Kitchener
A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
Producer
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
Director
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
Director
A squire jails a vicar for debt and fakes a marriage to his daughter.
Director
'Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son.' (The British Film Catalogue)
Director
Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.
Director
Dick Harris
Directed by L.C. MacBean and Fred Paul.
Director
Directed by L.C. MacBean and Fred Paul.
John Halifax
An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.
Ralph Most
A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.
Mr. Alendale
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
The Pauper
A pauper tells workhouse visitors of his wife's death from starvation.
Jefferson Hope
Sherlock Holmes solves a murder rooted in the Mormon trek of 1850.
Sir Douglas Carrington
'Crooks tunnel through fireplace to rob house next door.' (British Film Catalogue). According to BFI, this is the only surviving film of 7 episodes made in the Three-Fingered Kate series
Paulo
In Corsica, a lieutenant trails brigands and saves a captured flag.
An army officer comes to the aid of a girl who is the object of unwelcome attention from some locals.
