Frederick Kerr
Nacimiento : 1858-10-11, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1933-05-03
Historia
Frederick Kerr (born Frederick Grinham Keen) was an English stage and screen actor who performed in plays and movies both in the UK and America, his film career beginning in 1916. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the old Baron Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931).
Sir Henry Bovey
Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.
Bunston
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry.
Leila (Jessie Matthews) is a widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to the receipt of it. The two much marry within a year.
To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love.
However when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
Sir Percy Newbiggin
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
Count Von Tolheim
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Duke of Hampshire
Los Clement viven gracias a la generosidad de una rica mujer. Max, el hijo, se fija en Lady Joan, una rica mujer con los pies en la tierra y encantadora. En su casa conoce a Rosine Brown, una viuda austriaca. Max se encaprichará con ella y la perseguirá hasta que ella ceda y se case con él. Sin embargo, el padre de Max pierde 4.500 libras jugando, por lo que Max pretenderá casarse con Joan para evitar que lo metan en la cárcel.
Admiral Percy Blayne
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
Baron Frankenstein
El doctor Henry Von Frankenstein acomete un experimento tenebroso: construir, a partir de fragmentos de cadáveres, un nuevo ser humano. Con la ayuda de su criado Fritz, se adentra durante la noche en los cementerios de la localidad para arrancar a los cadáveres las partes que necesita. Lo que ignora es que el cerebro que ha utilizado en su experimento había pertenecido a un criminal.
Paul Barony
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
General Thomas Armstrong
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
Major Fred Wetherby
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
Sir George Boomer
Una rica heredera, arruinada y abandonada por su amante, se alía con un estafador para engañar a un millonario en su villa italiana. Pero el hombre ya ha sido alertado por Scotland Yard...
Lord Ponsonby
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
Lord Leland Hale
Ronald Colman interpreta a un apuesto galán que lleva una vida alborotada. Ahora tiene puestas sus armas de seducción en dos atractivas señoritas, interpretadas por Loretta Young y Myrna Loy. Colman regresa de un ocioso viaje por Sudamérica y se encuentra con su padre enfurecido, que le echa en cara el despilfarro que hace del dinero, además de su ligera forma de vida. Pero a Colman sólo le interesan sus amoríos, y ahora está envuelto en una complicada relación a dos bandas. No sabe por qué señorita decidirse. Por un lado siente una gran atracción hacia la temperamental actriz interpretada por Myrna Loy, pero a la vez no puede negar sus sentimientos hacia una amiga de su hermana, Loretta Young. La honestidad de Colman se pone a prueba cuando se ve obligado a decidir, y logra demostrar que no es un simple y vanidoso seductor.
Lord Harry Melrose
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
Lord Trench
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Dr. Wrightman
Louis Fernando fails to sell a patent upon which he has spent the better part of his life and drowns himself. His orphaned child Marie is adopted by Lord Chatterton. Geoffrey Brooke, who is in the employ of Lord Chatterton, falls in love with Marie. Chatterton's general manager Arthur Newton also loves Marie and formulates a scheme whereby he hopes to win her and also acquire the Chatterton fortune. Chatterton becomes suspicious and by a ruse traps Newton and exposes his plot. Marie and Geoffrey are made happy in the end.
Sir Richard Arkwright
'Nurse saves captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads counter-attack.' (British Film Catalogue)
