Lawrence Gray

Lawrence Gray

Nacimiento : 1898-07-28, San Francisco, California, USA

Muerte : 1970-02-02

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lawrence Gray (July 28, 1898 – February 2, 1970) was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s. Gray began in the technical side of films at the Lasky Studios, but later decided on an acting career. He appeared in over 40 films between 1925 and 1936. Gray spent much of his career in vaudeville.

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Lawrence Gray

Películas

In Paris, A.W.O.L.
Buddy
Three vaudeville actors after being suspected of a jewel theft and going off to war in 1917 are reconciled in 1917.
A Face in the Fog
Peter Fortune
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
Timber War
Larry Keane
The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill.
The Old Homestead
Bob Shackleforth
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
Danger Ahead
Jerry Mason
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.
Dizzy Dames
Terry Ramsey
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
Here Comes the Groom
Marvin Hale
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Golden Harvest
Hugh Jackson
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Hello Pop
Singer
A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
The She-Wolf
An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
Man of the World
Frank Reynolds
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Going Wild
Jack Lane
Un tonto enamorado pretende ser un as de la aviación.
Sunny
Tom Warren
Una bailarina se enamora de un muchacho de la alta sociedad, pero tendrá que ganarse a su familia.
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Self
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
The Florodora Girl
Jack Vibart
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Children of Pleasure
Danny Regan
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
Spring Is Here
Steve Alden
Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
It's a Great Life
Jimmy Dean
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
Marianne
Stagg
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
The Sin Sister
Peter Van Dykeman
Pearl a vaudeville dancer is stranded somewhere in Alaska. With no official place to stay in the vicinity, Pearl is obliged to accept the hospitality of a wealthy family which has itself been stranded in the Great White North. An ill-tempered fur trader and a looney Eskimo both lust after Pearl, but she is rescued by Peter Van Dykeman her hosts' male secretary….
Shadows of the Night
Jimmy Sherwood
Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.
La señorita sin miedo
Jimmy Winter
La película nos presenta una sucesión de enredos que comienzan cuando la atrevida Kay se niega a contraer matrimonio con un lord inglés. Desobedeciendo los designios de su padre, su fuerte y decidido carácter le hace cambiar de nombre y encontrar trabajo de doncella.
Diamond Handcuffs
Larry
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
La que paga el pato
Billy Caldwell
En la familia Harrington, Patricia (Marion Davies) es la rechazada por mamá, mientras que Grace (Jane Winton), la menor, lo consigue todo... hasta el hombre con el que su propia hermana sueña. Solo papá respalda a Pat, pero la muchacha va a demostrar que, con un poco de personalidad, se puede hacer que las cosas cambien.
Love Hungry
Ladies Must Dress
Joe
Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
After Midnight
Joe Miller
When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.
The Callahans and the Murphys
Film was released in 1927
Convoy
Eugene Weyeth
A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent
The Telephone Girl
Tom Blake
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.
Ankles Preferred
Barney
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
Everybody's Acting
Ted Potter
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
Kid Boots
Tom Sterling
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
The Palm Beach Girl
Jack Trotter
Emily Bennett, arriving in Palm Beach on a train, puts her head out of the window and her face is smudged black from the locomotive's coal smoke. She is mistaken for a black girl and this embarrasses her two aunts who are hoping to join the Palm Beach social set. She later fails to impress playboy Jack Trotter when she bungles the christening of his motor-boat. Late she runs into some bootleggers who are loading liquor onto Jack's boat with intent to steal the boat. They have no wish of anyone knowing their intentions, so they kidnap Emily. As it turns out, the gangsters would have been better off by just leaving Emily where she was.
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Bill Billingsley
Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
The Untamed Lady
Larry Gastlen
A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
The American Venus
Chip Armstrong
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
De la cocina al escenario
Orme Wilson
La camarera Jennie Hagen, que sueña despierta, fantasea con convertirse en una actriz famosa, mientras que en realidad ella y su novio cocinero, Orme Wilson, esperan algún día tener su propio restaurante. Aunque Orme ama a Jennie, también siente debilidad por las estrellas de teatro, así que cuando un equipo de teatro de un barco fluvial llega a su ciudad, se enamora de la actriz principal Lillian Lyons. Desesperada por quedarse con Orme, Jennie insiste en subir al escenario para superar a Lillian, pero pronto se le escapa.
Are Parents People?
Dr. Dacer
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are planning to divorce. She schemes to get them back together by pretending to fall for a dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance".
The Dressmaker from Paris
Allan Stone
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long lost lover.