Gareth Hughes

Gareth Hughes

Nacimiento : 1894-10-01, Dafen, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK

Muerte : 1965-10-01

Historia

Gareth Hughes was a Welsh stage and silent screen actor born in the village of Dafen near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. He pursued his acting career in the USA and, by the end of 1915 he had become successful on Broadway which led to his involvement in the motion picture business.

Perfil

Gareth Hughes

Películas

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
El trigo está verde
Dialect Coach
Miss Moffat (Bette Davis), una inglesa que va a vivir a un pequeño pueblo galés, descubre que los niños trabajan en las minas. Impresionada por esta situación, decide escolarizarlos. Adaptación de la obra de Emlyn Williams. En 1979 el maestro George Cukor dirigió otra versión protagonizada por Katharine Hepburn.
Mister Antonio
Joe
Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as Jorny, mayor of Avalonia, a straitlaced town where Tony was once arrested for playing his hurdy-gurdy. After this meeting, Tony's travels take him again to Avalonia. Camped on the outskirts of town, he meets June Ramsey, a cousin of the mayor's wife, ejected from town by the mayor because his reelection campaign is jeopardized by her having been seen in a roadhouse. Under considerable pressure because he wishes to conceal his previous encounter with Tony from the opposition, Jorny returns Tony's favor by asking June's forgiveness and inviting her to return to Avalonia. June accepts his apologies; she then follows Tony, with whom she has fallen in love.
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Lt. Fritz von Lang
During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.
The Eyes of the Totem
Bruce Huston
Película que se consideraba perdida y que ha sido recientemente encontrada, actualmente existe una campaña de crowdfunding para llevar a cabo su restauración planeando su reestreno para septiembre de 2015.
The Whirlwind of Youth
Curley
The Auctioneer
Richard Eagan
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
Men of the Night
The Midnight Girl
Don Harmon
A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.
The Sunset Trail
Collie King
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues on foot and finds on a dying man a map to a gold mine and a photograph of his daughter, who is none other than Louise.
Shadows of Paris
Emile Boule
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
The Spanish Dancer
Lazarillo
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a gypsy girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her gypsy occupation, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
Penrod and Sam
Robert Williams
Penrod y su pandilla no quieren permitir que el "bueno" del vecindario, Georgie Bassett, entre en su club, pero el padre de Penrod lo presiona para que deje entrar al niño, porque los padres de Georgie son miembros ricos y prominentes de la ciudad. Finalmente, los chicos aceptan que Georgie se una, pero primero exigen que se someta a una "iniciación", y están decididos a convertirla en una que Georgie no olvide pronto. (filmaffinit)
Enemies of Women
Philip Spadoni
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)
The Christian
Brother Paul
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
Kick In
Benny
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. Hewes witnesses a car accident in which Jerry Brandon, the son of the district attorney, runs over a child. He also meets Molly, the D.A.'s daughter. Because he feels the child's mother was treated unfairly, Hewes decides to pull one last heist to square things.
Forget Me Not
Jimmy, The Boy
Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage, and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan, Jimmy.
Little Eva Ascends
Roy St. George
Little Eva Ascends is a 1922 silent comedy
Sentimental Tommy
Tommy Sandys
Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town. Tommy and his sister come to the town. Tommy is friendly, but Elspeth keeps her distance. When the Painted Lady dies, Dr. Gemmell makes Grizel his housekeeper. Time passes and after the doctor dies, Grizel, who is now twenty-one years old, loves Tommy, who is an author in London. Tommy visits the town but cannot decide whether he loves Grizel. Grizel knows that Tommy does not love her, and after he returns to London her unhappiness leads to insanity. Tommy returns and marries Grizel, although he believes that she will hate him when she gets better. After two years under Tommy's care, she regains her sanity. After Tommy lets her know that he cared for her out of his love for her; not for pity, Grizel is happy.
The Chorus Girl's Romance
Horace Tarbox
When, on a prank, shimmy dancer Marcia Meadows visits bookworm Horace Tarbox in his Yale dormitory, Horace falls madly in love and follows her to New York where he and Marcia marry. Denounced by his wealthy father, Horace attempts to support Marcia through his writing, but all his manuscripts are rejected, and he is fired from every job.
Eyes of Youth
Kenneth Ashling
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the roads, she makes her choice.
The Isle of Conquest
Jack Frazier
A 1919 film directed by Edward José.
The Woman Under Oath
Jim O'Neil
After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Billy Wiggs
Mrs. Wiggs, a loving mother whose husband has abandoned her, supports her many children and lives in hope of her husband's return.
Every Mother's Son
Third Son
When the United States enters World War I, a mother sends her two eldest sons off to the battlefields with a smile, although her heart is breaking.