Jameson Thomas

Jameson Thomas

Nacimiento : 1888-03-24, St George Hanover Square, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1939-01-10

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jameson Thomas (born Thomas Roland Jameson; 24 March 1888 – 10 January 1939) was an English film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1923 and 1939. In 1929 he starred in Piccadilly opposite Anna May Wong. At the time, Piccadilly was not well received, but has since been recognised as one of the best films of the late British silent era. Thomas moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in minor roles in various films until his death. He played "King" Westley, the fortune-hunting husband/fiancé of Claudette Colbert, in Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night.

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Jameson Thomas

Películas

Death Goes North
Robert Druid, alias Herbert Barlow
Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.
Loca por la música
Russell
Una joven cantante muy generosa intenta ayudar a alcanzar el éxito a la orquesta los "Cien Hombres", un grupo de músicos ya retirados que viven en una casa de huéspedes. Sin embargo, la persona que más le preocupa es su padre (Adolphe Menjou), el más desafortunado del grupo. En realidad, a la orquesta lo que le falta es un líder con carisma. Entra entonces en escena el legendario director de orquesta Leopold Stowkowski, quien, después de mostrarse reacio a escuchar a la chica, queda cautivado al escuchar la Rapsodia Húngara nº 2 de Liszt interpretada por los cien andrajosos músicos en las escaleras de un edificio
Almas en el mar
Pelton (uncredited)
En 1842, dos miembros de la tripulación de un barco que transporta esclavos intentan salvar sus vidas tras verse atrapados por un motín y un tremendo huracán que azota la embarcación.
The Man Who Cried Wolf
George Bradley
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
The League of Frightened Men
Michael Ayers
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
Girl Loves Boy
Mack
Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
The House of Secrets
Coventry
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Lady Luck
Jack Conroy / Voice of announcer at racetrack
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
El secreto de vivir
Mr. Semple (uncredited)
Un ingenuo joven de provincias (Gary Cooper) va a Nueva York para hacerse cargo de una herencia de veinte millones de dólares. Allí se enamora de una chica encantadora (Jean Arthur), sin saber que es la periodista que lo ridiculiza en sus artículos.
Coronado
Carlton
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
The Lady in Scarlet
Dr. Phillip J. Boyer
When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
La última avanzada
Cullen
Un bravo oficial británico, Michael Andrews (Grant), es capturado por un grupo de kurdos rebeldes. Uno de sus captores resulta ser John Stevenson (Rains), un inglés que lleva años viviendo en el desierto. Tras liberar a Andrews, Stevenson le revela sus intenciones: salvar a los armenios, aliados de los ingleses, de la muerte a manos de las fuerzas turcas. Su plan consiste en trasladar a un lugar seguro a toda la población armenia atravesando el desierto. Andrews le acompaña en el viaje y no tarda en interesarse por Lya (Burke), la sensual esposa del jefe de la tribu Armenia.
Charlie Chan en Egipto
Dr. Anton Racine
Charlie Chan (Warren Oland) va a la tierra de las pirámides para investigar el crimen de un arqueólogo momificado.
Mister Dynamite
Carey Williams
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Tres lanceros bengalíes
Hendrickson
Ambientada en la frontera del noroeste de la India en tiempos de la dominación británica, narra las luchas del 41º regimiento de Bengala contra las tribus de Mohammed Khan.
Sing Sing Nights
Robert McCaigh
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
The World Accuses
Jerome Rogers
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
A Successful Failure
Jerry Franklin
Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.
The Curtain Falls
Martin Deveridge
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
A Lost Lady
Lord Verrington
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
The Moonstone
Godfrey Ablewhite
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.
Jane Eyre
Charles Craig
Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is attracted by the intelligent and energetic Sir Rochester, a man of almost twice her age. But just when Sir Rochester seems to pay attention to her, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram to stay at his house.
Stolen Sweets
Barrington Thorne
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Sucedió una noche
King Westley
Peter Warren, es un periodista desempleado que se topa con Ellie, la hija de un millonario que huyó del barco de Alexander Andrews, su padre, porque no acepta al hombre con el que ella se quiere casar. Peter ve la oportunidad de conseguir una buena historia, pero varios hechos acaban por crear un vínculo entre ellos.
Beggars in Ermine
James 'Jim' Marley
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
A Woman's Man
Roger Pentley - Playboy
Una temperamental estrella de cine abandona el plato para enzarzarse en una pelea con un ambicioso boxeador, ansioso de publicidad.
Bombay Mail
Capt. Gerald Worthing
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
El hombre invisible
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Adaptación de una novela de H.G. Wells sobre un hombre que posee la facultad de hacerse invisible.
Un breve instante
Count Armand
Un joven millonario se casa con una cantante, que ejerce sobre él una influencia inesperada.
The Solitaire Man
Inspector Kenyon
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Jones (Uncredited)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Self Defense
Jeff Bowman
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
No More Orchids
Prince Carlos
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
The Phantom President
Jerrido
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Damon Fenwick
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Escapade
John Whitney
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip looks up to John and while incarcerated maintained contact with him through a continental mailing agency. As John has no idea he was in prison, Phillip tells him that he has just returned from Japan.
Three Wise Girls
Arthur Phelps
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
The Devil Plays
Harry Forrest
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
Night Life in Reno
John Wyatt
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
Convicted
Bruce Allan
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
Entre dos corazones
Lt. Taylor (uncredited)
Amor y muerte. Paz y guerra. Tempestad en las almas de los hombres encendida por el amor de una mujer, y tempestad de metralla en los campos desencadenada por el odio y la rivalidad de las naciones… Historia de dos hermanos enamorados de una misma muchacha, que sin quererlo destroza el afecto fraternal de aquellos, haciendo de uno el favorito de su corazón y haciendo que el otro haga el sacrificio heroico y voluntario de su vida, en las trincheras, devoradoras de vidas...
Night Birds
Deacon Lake
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Extravagance
Harrison Morrell
Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.
Elstree calling
Hitchcock filmó algunas de las secuencias de esta película compuesta por sketches y números de music-hall. En ella se parodia el cine policíaco, la versión de "La fierecilla domada" (Shakespeare) llevada al cine por Douglas Fairbanks y Mary Pickford e incluso la televisión.
The Hate Ship
Vernon Wolfe
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
The Feather
Roger Dalton
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
Week-End Wives
Henri Monard
A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
High Treason
Michael Deane
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Piccadilly
Valentine Wilmot
Melodrama sobre el mundo del espectáculo, lleno de tensión sexual y racial. La estrella americana de origen chino Anna May Wong alias "Shosho", era una ayudante de cocina en un club de moda de Londres. Su danza exótica y sensual sobre una mesa llama la atención de Wilmot Valentine, el dueño del club, que se obsesiona con ella, provocando los amrgos celos de Mabel, su amante y bailarina estrella del local.
La mujer del granjero
Samuel Sweetland
El granjero Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) acaba de perder a su esposa, y tras haber casado a su única hija, ha quedado solo con su leal ama de llaves, Araminta (Lilian Hall-Davis) y con su ayudante Churdles Ash (Gordon Harker). Pensando entonces en volver a casarse, Sweetland hará una lista de los mejores prospectos que podría encontrar entre sus conocidas y su propósito, desde entonces, será conquistar a alguna de ellas.
The White Sheik
Westwyn
In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
Poppies of Flanders
Jim Brown
An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.
Roses of Picardy
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Blighty
David Marshall
A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Jungle Woman
Stephen Mardyke
Englishman Martin South (Eric Bransby Williams) is leading an expedition into the Dutch New Guinea hinterland to search for gold, being joined by George Mardyke (Jameson Thomas), who he thinks is his friend. The expedition is attacked by headhunters and Mardyke leaves Martin for dead so he can pursue the latter's fiancee, Eleanor (Lillian Douglas), the daughter of a plantation manager. Meanwhile, Martin is nursed back to health by native girl, Hurana (Grace Savieri), who falls in love with him and helps him escape from some angry natives. Hurana is bitten by a snake and dies, and Martin arrives back to civilisation in time to rescue Eleanor from Mardyke. Was partially filmed back to back on Thursday Island with 'The Hounds of The Deep'
The Apache
Gaston d'Harcourt
In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.
Chester Forgets Himself
Chester Meredith
Romantic and slapstick mishaps on a golf course.
The Sins Ye Do
Captain Barrington
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
Chu-Chin-Chow
Omar
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
Decameron Nights
Imliff
A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.