Gerald Mohr

Gerald Mohr

Nacimiento : 1914-06-11, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1968-11-09

Historia

Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. Born in New York City, he was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in New York City, where he learned to speak fluent French and German. At Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, before being discovered as promising voice talent by a radio producer. Mohr was hired by the radio station and became a junior reporter. In the mid-1930s, Orson Welles invited him to join his formative Mercury Theatre and appeared on Broadway.   Mohr began appearing in films in the late 1930s, playing his first villain role in the 15-part cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl (1941). After three years' service in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, starring and appearing in numerous movies until 1949 when he joined Fred Foy has co-announcer for the first series of The Lone Ranger.   From the 1950s on, he appeared as a guest star in more than one hundred television series, mostly westerns, though several comedy, variety, crime, and early science fiction serials.  Mohr is remembered for his performance as "Ricky's friend" psychiatrist 'Dr. Henry Molin' (real life name of the assistant film editor on the show) in the classic February 1953 I Love Lucy episode, "The Inferiority Complex". Mohr's repeated line was, "Treatment, Ricky. Treatment".  

Perfil

Gerald Mohr

Películas

Una chica divertida
Branca
La cómica Fanny Brice deja atrás sus humildes orígenes para triunfar en Broadway. Sin embargo, la fama no evitará que se enamore de un jugador autodestructivo.
1967 Busch Advertisement
Narrator (uncredited)
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble quit their jobs at the gravel pit, drink Busch Beer for inspiration, watch a preview for Busch's advertising in 1967, and take up new positions as bartenders.
Las joyas de la familia
Movie Actor
Cuando una pobre niña rica (Donna Butterworth) se queda repentinamente huérfana, uno de sus seis chiflados tíos (todos interpretados por Jerry Lewis) será elegido como tutor. La heredera de nueve años ha de visitar a cada uno y decidir qué tío es el idóneo. Pero el proceso de selección no va a ser sencillo, ya que tan sólo uno es realmente sincero, y los demás tienen puestos los ojos en la herencia de 30 millones de dólares.
Wild West Story
Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.
This Rebel Breed
Lt. Robert Brooks
"Black Rebels" (also known as "The Rebel Breed") is about juvenile delinquents--in particular, kids who resort to racially motivated crimes. To combat this problem, the cops send two recent police academy graduates to a local high school to pose as students. However, the guys playing 'students' were 27 and 23 years of age! In fact, none of these teens looked close to being teenager. And, to make it worse, one of these pseudo-teens looks silly, as he's supposed to play a guy who is a biracial Latino--but this effect was achieved by painting his skin--it's quite obvious. And, oddly, some times he is a lot more black-looking than others!!
La furia del planeta rojo
Col. Thomas O`Bannion
Después de desaparecer sin dejar rastro, una nave que había viajado a Marte con cuatro tripulantes regresa a la Tierra. A bordo sólo se encuentran dos hombres, uno de los cuales está en estado crítico y tiene una extraña sustancia verde en el brazo. Los científicos someten al otro a hipnosis y éste les revela que Marte está habitada por plantas devoradoras de hombres, por unos extraños monstruos y por un gigante con un sólo ojo.
A Date with Death
Mike Mason / Louis Deverman
A drifter riding the rails gets mistaken for the new sheriff of a small town. He takes the police job and is immediately pressured to crack down on local organized crime.
Guns Girls and Gangsters
Charles (Chuck) Wheeler
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
My World Dies Screaming
Philip Tierney
A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
The Buckskin Lady
Slinger
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Dragonfly Squadron
Capt. MacIntyre
A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
El jinete loco
Marshall Preston
Un timador profesional, está desesperado porque tiene que pagar una deuda de juego a un mafioso de Nueva York. Para salir del problema, pide ayuda a su primo, un apasionado de los animales: el plan consiste en dopar al caballo My Sheba para que gané una importante carrera. Pero, cuando Nelson conoce a la bella propietaria de Sheba, se enamora de ella, y Virgil, por su parte, se encariña con el animal. Ahora les interesa más que nunca la victoria de Sheba y para conseguirla recurrirán a los planes más descabellados
The Eddie Cantor Story
Rocky Kramer
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
El pirata de los siete mares
Captain Jose Salcedo
Título de piratas de bajo presupuesto que recrea las supuestas hazañas del célebre pirata Barbarroja en aguas del Caribe. La trama se centra en su relación con una mujer, Alida, que ha caído en su poder y en su lucha contra los españoles que navegan por esas aguas.
Invasion, U.S.A.
Vince Potter
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
The Ring
Pete Ganusa
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
Duelo en Silver Creek
Rod Lacy
Un pistolero que se ha ganado una buena reputación por su habilidad en el duelo, llega a un pequeño pueblo que vive bajo el terror de una banda de forajidos. El joven decide ponerse de parte del sheriff... (FILMAFFINITY)
El francotirador
Joe Ferris
En San Francisco, Eddie Miller, un modesto empleado, armado con un fusil de precisión mata desde un tejado a cuatro mujeres. A continuación se quema una mano para poder ingresar en un hospital y atraer la atención de los médicos sobre su estado mental.
Brigada 21
Tami Giacoppetti
Adaptación de una obra de Broadway que describe la vida cotidiana en una comisaría de policía de Manhattan. Un temperamental policía (Kirk Douglas) recurre a los métodos más implacables para obtener información de cualquier sospechoso de un crimen. Obtuvo cuatro nominaciones a los Óscar de 1952: mejor director, mejor actriz principal (Eleanor Parker), mejor actriz secundaria (Lee Grant) y mejor guión adaptado.
Diez valientes
Kayeed Hussein
Un anciano y sus dos hijas cruzan el desierto del Sáhara con una pequeña caravana. En realidad, la expedición no es sino una tapadera para un sargento y dos soldados en misión de exploración. Una comedia de aventuras protagonizada por un Burt Lancaster en un papel a su medida, secundado por la entonces debutante Jody Lawrance.
Siroco
Major Jean Leon
Damasco, 1925. Harry Smith (Bogart), un despiadado contrabandista de armas, necesita un salvoconducto para salir de Damasco y no tiene más remedio que recurrir a su máximo rival, el coronel francés Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), que lo chantajea exigiéndole a cambio una importante información militar...
Hunt the Man Down
Walter Long
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Undercover Girl
Reed Menig
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
The Blonde Bandit
Joe Sapelli
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Con acento francés
J.B. (voice) (uncredited)
Douglas Sirk, el rey del melodrama desgarrador, dirige una comedia musical, sustentada por unos actores de múltiples recursos, sobre las dificultades de la pronunciación francesa. Ameche se empeña en que Lamour se haga pasar por una actriz nacida en la tierra de L'amour.
Movies Are Adventure
Narrator (uncredited)
Produced in association with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as part of a twelve part series called The Industry Film Project, meant to inform the public about specific facets of production and industry life. It shows that the "magic seat" of a movie theater can transport the movie-goer to all types of adventures, such as the Oklahoma land rush; being rescued by a sheik in the Sahara Desert; watching a huge ape climb the Empire State Building; or experiencing a hurricane in the south Pacific. No matter what type of thrill your looking for, you'll find it on the big screen.
Two Guys from Texas
Link Jessup
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
The Lone Wolf in London
Michael Lanyard
Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.
Heaven Only Knows
Treason
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
The Lone Wolf in Mexico
Michael Lanyard
In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.
The Magnificent Rogue
Mark Townley
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
The Invisible Informer
Eric Baylor
An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company assigns operatives Eve Rogers and Mike Regan to the case.
Dangerous Business
Duke
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
Passkey to Danger
Malcolm Tauber
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Gilda
Capt. Delgado
Johnny Farrell, un aventurero que vive de hacer trampas en el juego, recala en Buenos Aires. Allí le saca de un apuro un hombre llamado Ballin Mundson, propietario de un lujoso casino. El recién llegado termina convirtiéndose en el individuo de confianza de su anfitrión. Un día, su superior le presenta a su esposa, Gilda. Él reacciona con perplejidad, ya que ella lo convirtió en el ser amargado y cínico que es ahora.
The Catman of Paris
Inspector Severen
When author Charles Regnier (Carl Esmond) returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour, Marie (Lenore Aubert), and best friend, Henry (Douglass Dumbrille), believe he's innocent ... until the creature begins to stalk Marie (from Netflix description).
The Truth About Murder
Johnny Lacka
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Esclava de un recuerdo
Walter (Uncredited)
La hermosa Joan Kenwood no puede superar la muerte de su marido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Periodista de profesión, Joan tiene obsesivamente presente la imagen de su difunto esposo en todos los aspectos de su vida. El simpático ex soldado Jim Cameron la persigue con la esperanza, contra toda lógica, de que finalmente olvide a su marido y le preste su atención a él.
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Michael Lanyard / The Lone Wolf
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
A Guy Could Change
Eddy Raymond
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
The Desert Song
Hassan
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Redhead from Manhattan
Chick Andrews
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
King of the Cowboys
Maurice
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Murder in Times Square
O'Dell Gissing
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
One Dangerous Night
Harry Cooper
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.
Dr. Broadway
Red
A New York doctor (Macdonald Carey) saves a chorus girl (Jean Phillips) from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
La mujer del año
Radio Emcee (voice) (uncredited)
Ésta es la primera película de la famosa pareja formada por Spencer Tracy y Katharine Hepburn. Él es un periodista deportivo, ella, una periodista política que necesita que le recuerden los placeres simples de la vida. Una inteligente comedia de lucha de sexos llena de química y encanto.
The Lady Has Plans
Joe Scalsi
La acción se desarrolla en Lisboa, donde una corresponsal de guerra es confundida con una espía nazi. Un agente de la inteligencia británica será el encargado de vigilar sus movimientos y descubrir su verdadera identidad. La única pista de que dispone el agente es que la espía tiene un revelador tatuaje en cierta parte de su anatomía. De ahí que no tenga más remedio que seducirla.
We Go Fast
Nabob of Borria
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Jungle Girl
Slick Latimer
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.
El dragón chiflado
Studio Guard / Narrator (segment "Baby Weems") (voice) (uncredited)
Un entrañable dragón se distingue del resto de su especie porque no se siente violento ni malvado. Antes que atacar a los seres humanos, prefiere entretenerse en cantar canciones o recitar poesía. Un día aparece un famoso caballero andante, que le enseñará a combatir.
Aventuras del Capitán Maravillas
The Scorpion (Voice)
Para proteger un talismán mágico, un joven recibe el poder de convertirse en un adulto con superpoderes diciendo una palabra mágica: ¡Shazam!. Serie sobre el Capitán Maravillas, personaje de cómic también conocido como Shazam. Supuso la primera representación cinematográfica de un superhéroe de cómic.
El monstruo y la joven
Munn
Un muchacho va al patíbulo por un crimen que no cometió. Los verdaderos culpables se ocupan de la hermana del difunto y la sumergen en la prostitución. Un científico reclama el cuerpo del difunto para realizar unos experimentos y logra trasplantar su cerebro al cuerpo de un gorila el cual recuerda todo su pasado humano y comienza una venganza contra los villanos.
El halcón del mar
Spanish Messenger
Clásico del género de piratas en el que un pletórico Errol Flynn interpreta a un bucanero inglés del siglo XVI al que la reina Isabel I concede patente de corso para abordar la flota española y atacar y saquear sus ciudades en el Nuevo Mundo. Las autoridades españolas elaboran un plan para acabar con el temido pirata. El maestro Curtiz deja su sello con una perfecta narración y espectaculares batallas navales.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Gangster
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Dr. Zodiac (in disguise)
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Tú y yo
Man (uncredited)
Un elegante play boy y una bella cantante de un club nocturno se conocen a bordo de un transatlántico, gracias a la invitación de otras dos personas. Ella es la amante de un magnate y él está comprometido con una rica heredera. Entre ellos surge un apasionante romance que los llevará a la siguiente promesa: romper con sus compromisos actuales, buscar trabajo y encontrarse a los seis meses, para continuar su vida juntos. Pero un trágico accidente impide a Terry acudir a la cita, con lo que el futuro de ambos sufrirá un giro emotivo e incierto.
Panama Patrol
Pilot
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
MF DOOM - MM.. FOOD THE MOVIE
Mister Fantastic (Voice)
Fan-made tribute film to the rapper MF DOOM featuring visuals reflecting samples used in his 2004 album MM.. FOOD.