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Douglas Haig

Nacimiento : 1920-03-09, Édimbourg

Muerte : 2011-02-01

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Douglas Patrick Haig (March 9, 1920 – February 1, 2011) was an American child actor appearing in films in the 1920s and 1930s. His career began at age two in silent films and (unlike many silent film actors) continued into sound films ("talkies"). From 1928 onward he appeared in at least 14 films. As a small child he was placid and pleasant-looking. In a scholarly review of Attorney for the Defense, a 1932 sound film, his performance is described as very annoying. The high point of Haig's career as a film actor came in 1935, with a starring role in Man's Best Friend (1935). Before this he had appeared in both feature films and shorts such as The Family Group (1928), Sins of the Fathers (1928 lost silent film, of which only excerpts survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archives. Betrayal(1929, a silent film with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects), and Welcome Danger (1929). In Man's Best Friend (1935), he starred in the lead role of Jed Strong, a boy who has a fine dog and an abusive father who wants to kill the dog. In 1986, TV Guide described this film as a "simple, unpretentious story of a little mountain boy and his pet police dog."

Películas

Man's Best Friend

Man's Best Friend

Jed Strong

Jed and his dog Lightning contend with the boy's abusive father.

Pete as a Boy (Uncredited)

Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.

Tommy - as a Young Boy

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

Attorney for the Defense

Attorney for the Defense

Paul Wallace as a Boy

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

Billy Benton

The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sally’s children, he risks life and limb in order to save her little one.

Seryoska

1931 picture starring Kay Johnson.

Boy

Skippy (Jackie Cooper) es un niño de nueve años que no para de hacer travesuras. Su amigo Sooky, un niño pobre, le acompaña en sus aventuras. (FILMAFFINITY)

Let's Go Native

Let's Go Native

Boy (uncredited)

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Johnny

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.

¡Qué fenómeno!

Buddy Lee (uncredited)

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Peter

Vroni, una campesina suiza, vive un hermoso romance con Andre Frey. Por diversas razones, deciden mantener su affaire en secreto. Tras un tiempo separados, Andre viaja a Suiza para estar con ella, pero descubre que Vroni ha sido obligada a casarse con Poldi Moser, un rico y poderoso alcalde.

Sins of the Fathers

Sins of the Fathers

Tom, as a child

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.

The Family Group

The Family Group

Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.

El hombre cañón

El hombre cañón

Minor Role (uncredited)

Acabada la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un soldado belga emigra a Estados Unidos para trabajar en un espectáculo circense organizado por un antiguo enemigo, pero sobre todo para encontrar a una desconocida que le escribía cartas de amor cuando estaba en el frente.