Al Ernest Garcia
Nacimiento : 1887-03-11, San Francisco, California, USA
Muerte : 1938-09-04
Historia
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Al Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887 – 4 September 1938) was an American actor, best known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. He acted with Chaplin in six films between 1921 and 1936, cast mostly in clinical or villainous supporting roles. Garcia portrayed the brutal circus director in The Circus (1928), the snobbish butler of the millionaire in City Lights (1931), and the factory owner in Modern Times (1936). He was also a casting director for Chaplin on The Circus, City Lights, and Modern Times.
Garcia was co-founder of the Motion Picture Extras and Supporting Players Association, founded in 1933.
Don Carlos Gonzalez
Escaped criminal "The Fox" hates Hoppy and a Rurales colonel for imprisoning him and lures Cassidy to Mexico in order to exact his vengeance.
Opera Patron (uncredited)
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Allan Garcia
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Casting
Extenuado por el frenético ritmo de la cadena de montaje, un obrero metalúrgico acaba perdiendo la razón. Después de recuperarse en un hospital, sale y es encarcelado por participar en una manifestación en la que se encontraba por casualidad. En la cárcel, también sin pretenderlo, ayuda a controlar un motín, gracias a lo cual queda en libertad. Una vez fuera, reemprende la lucha por la supervivencia en compañía de una joven huérfana a la que conoce en la calle.
President of the Electro Steel Corp.
Extenuado por el frenético ritmo de la cadena de montaje, un obrero metalúrgico acaba perdiendo la razón. Después de recuperarse en un hospital, sale y es encarcelado por participar en una manifestación en la que se encontraba por casualidad. En la cárcel, también sin pretenderlo, ayuda a controlar un motín, gracias a lo cual queda en libertad. Una vez fuera, reemprende la lucha por la supervivencia en compañía de una joven huérfana a la que conoce en la calle.
Police Captain
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Sgt. Florez (as Allan Garcia)
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
Honolulu Cigar Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Dan Hardesty, un hombre sobre quien pesa una acusación de asesinato, viaja en un barco escoltado por un policía, haciendo una travesía desde Hong Kong a la prisión norteamericana de San Quintín. Durante el viaje conoce a Joan, una muchacha gravemente enferma del corazón, de la que se enamora. Dan intenta fugarse, pero regresa al ver que Joan está sufriendo un ataque. Es entonces cuando planean fugarse a México. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bandit
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
(as Capt. Garcia) Felipe Anunciado Menendez Gonzales Rodriguez
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
Orderly (uncredited)
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.
Casting
Un pobre vagabundo (Charles Chaplin) pasa mil y un avatares para conseguir dinero y ayudar a una pobre chica ciega (Virginia Cherill) de la que se ha enamorado.
The Millionaire's Butler James
Un pobre vagabundo (Charles Chaplin) pasa mil y un avatares para conseguir dinero y ayudar a una pobre chica ciega (Virginia Cherill) de la que se ha enamorado.
Morgan
Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master
Último film mudo de Chaplin. El vagabundo Charlot viaja con un circo ambulante y se enamora de una mujer jinete que está enamorada de un musculoso trapecista. Mientras tanto, le suceden mil y una peripecias.
Prospector (uncredited)
Aventuras de un solitario buscador de oro en Alaska, donde se topa con varios personajes rudos, y se enamora de la hermosa Georgia, a la que trata de conquistar.
Weston Dore
In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
Drinking Companion and Policeman
Charlot trabaja de peón. Cuando llega tarde, le regala al capataz un lirio blanco para que le perdone, pero es tan lento en su trabajo que el capataz lo traslada a la sección de albañilería, donde trabaja tan deprisa que los compañeros no pueden seguirlo. Cuando la hija del capataz aparece, Charlot pierde la cabeza...
Cop in Park / Guest (uncredited)
Chaplin interpreta tanto a un rico señor como a un vagabundo. Ambos se encuentran en situaciones paradójicas donde uno es tomado por el otro.
Jean the Half-Breed
At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
Wang
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
Ben Broderick
La película cuenta cómo una banda hace reinar el terror en un condado al sur de las Rocosas. King la rueda en exteriores, en la región de Santa Bárbara.
Manager of Mine
Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard, who falls in love with him while nursing him to recovery, jealously intercepts his fiancée's letters and then writes Theresa that Allen is dead.
'Bush' McTaggart (as Al Garcia)
From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.
Lucifer and Satan
The story of the perfect man and woman in Eden, and the temptation of Mother Eve by Lucifer. Many episodes are then presented showing how Satan, from the time of Eden until now, has sought to thwart God's purposes and how, ultimately, Satan will be overthrown, and how restitution blessings will then come to mankind.
Rockingham (as Al E. Garcia)
Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion.
Joseph
In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in love.
Spagnoli (as Al Garcia)
Two young clerks in a department store meet and fall in love during a seaside vacation in Maine, but part as strangers because, unknown to each other, both had been masquerading as upper-class 'swells', just to see how the better half lives.
Henchman
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
Philip Moore - the Legal Advisor (as Al Garcia)
Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son is waylaid near the railroad yards, stripped of a big "roll" and thrown unconscious into a box car.
Jim
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.
Baptiste
Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter. Both men propose to the girl, both are refused. Baptiste, mad with jealous rage, abducts the girl and carries her off to a lonely cabin in the wilderness. She defies him, throws his proffered ring at him and is chained to the floor to change her mind.
Pierre Binbeau
Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wanted by her uncle, for his choice for his niece's hand is John Runyon. So when Annie returns to her home, and is told to marry Runyon, she refuses. In the meantime, Kingdon leaves for Honolulu. The vessel is wrecked. Kingdon, cast into the sea, clings half exhausted to a spar. By a trick of Fate, the wreck occurs on the rocks of Val Dez Island, and Annie sees the spar, rows out and succeeds in dragging it to shore, where Kingdon is recognized. The young people declare their love for each other, but Runyon plans to get Kingdon out of his way. The "best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," and so Kingdon escapes the trap laid for him, and taking Annie with him to the mainland, they get married.
William Manley
Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners