John Roche
Nacimiento : 1893-02-06, Penn Yan, New York, USA
Muerte : 1952-11-10
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John Roche (February 6, 1893 – November 10, 1952) was an American actor of the stage and screen.
Roche was born in the small village of Penn Yan, New York, on February 6, 1893. He graduated from the University of Rochester, after which he began his acting career touring with stock companies during the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1922, he broke into the film industry with a featured role in The Good Provider. During the 1920s, he acted in both films and on stage, including several roles in Broadway productions. He acted steadily in films until 1936, in both featured and supporting roles. In the mid-1930s he took a break from films, focusing on the stage, including directing the play, Mackerel Skies, which had a short run at the Playhouse Theatre in New York in 1936. Roche returned to films in 1941, with a small role in the Norma Shearer vehicle, We Were Dancing (1942), based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. Over the course of his career he was involved in over half a dozen Broadway productions and appeared in over 50 films. His final screen appearance was in 1946's The Brute Man.
Roche died on November 10, 1952, in Los Angeles, California.
Casino Croupier (uncredited)
En esta nueva aventura de Holmes en la época de la II Guerra Mundial, en Inglaterra, Sherlock Holmes finge estar muerto para investigar una serie de aparentes suicidios unidos entre sí por supuestas picaduras de araña. Esto lo llevará a enfrentarse con uno de los rivales más peligrosos que haya conocido. Su sospecha pronto se centra en la atractiva pero al parecer, altamente peligrosa, Andrea Spedding.
Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
"El Halcón" y una periodista tratan de resolver una serie de asesinatos que coinciden con la salida de la cárcel de un ex-luchador. La historia se inspira en la novela de Raymond Chandler "Farewell, My Lovely" ("Adiós Muñeca"). Esta es la tercera vez que George Sanders interpretó el personaje del Halcón.
(uncredited)
Nick Donati, un mánager de boxeo, descubre en un hotel a Ward, un botones que logra noquear a un peso pesado que estaba molestando a Louise, la novia de Nick. Nick le ofrece al chico entrenarlo para hacer de él un boxeador profesional. Ward acepta y se hace llamar 'Kid Galahad'. Las cosas se complicarán porque un tipo sin escrúpulos se interpondrá en los planes de Nick. Además, Louise empieza a sentirse atraída por Ward, pero éste se enamora de Marie, la hermana de Nick.
R.H. Nelson
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
Robert Abbott
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Holland's Cohort Knapp
La matriarca de una familia de banqueros lidera a su clan durante una crisis económica.
Roger Elliott
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
Gregory Gordon
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Carl
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.
Paul, the 'Real' Hairdresser
La condesa Vera está a punto de contraer matrimonio con el estirado príncipe Otto, pero decide dejarle y se va a Montecarlo. Acude al casino, donde el conde Rudolph, hombre muy adinerado, se fija en ella. Le dice que, si le deja tocar su cabello, tendrá buena suerte en el juego. Ella se lo permite y empieza a ganar como por arte de magia. Tan impresionada queda por su cambio de suerte que, sin saber quién es, contrata a Rudolph en calidad de peluquero.
De witt
A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
Lieutenant Savor
One dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.
Jimmy Kempster
Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
Jack Donovan
Jack Donovan (John Roche), un jugador empedernido, es amenazado de muerte por sus acreedores. Además, una criada (Virginia Browne Faire) lo acusa de haberla abandonado por Lydia Rankin (Agnes Ayres). Donovan se gana además la enemistad de Cornish (William Collier Jr.), el pretendiente de la hija de Lydia (Dorothy Revier).
Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon is an aspiring composer who can't get arrested in his field of endeavor. Upon meeting nightclub singer Mary Talbot, Gordon is inspired to write his greatest melody. The song catches the ear of impresario George Monroe and before long Gordon has scaled the heights of fame and fortune. Mary despairs that she's been forgotten.
Jerry Fontaine
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
Frederick Grimm
"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.
Owen Ffolliott
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
House Guest
When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room.
Leandro
La acción se desarrolla en Roma, en la época de los Borgia, Lucrecia (Estelle Taylor), César (Warner Orland), y el Conde Donati (Montagu Love). Don Juan (John Barrymore), a quién su padre Don José (también John Barrymore) enseñó que las mujeres sólo traen tres cosas: vida, desilusión y muerte, tiene múltiples romances a sus espaldas, pero vive obsesionado con la única mujer que nunca pudo tener, Doña Isabel (Jane Winton). Ella y él sufrirán la ira de Lucrecia, despechada por ser ignorada por Don Juan, así como por matar este al conde Donati en un duelo...
Destaca por ser la primera película de la historia con una banda sonora completa y efectos de sonido sincronizados, al ser el primer largometraje de la Warner Bros que utilizó el sistema de sonido Vitaphone. Sin embargo, en esencia, y al margen de estos detalles técnicos, se concibió y produjo como una película muda, sin ningún diálogo sonoro, siendo todos los diálogos a base de intertítulos al igual que en el cine mudo.
Captain Fraser-Freer
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
Saltonstall Adams
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
Maurice
La esposa de Gaston Fleury (Monte Blue), Loulou (Marie Prevost), muestra un interés superficial por la música pero más profundo por un músico llamado Maurice (John Roche). Aunque Gaston no tiene intención de dejar a su esposa en manos de Maurice, finge estar dispuesto a divorciar a Loulou. Luego, Loulou se aburre de Maurice, y las hábiles maniobras de Gaston la llevan a desear desesperadamente una reconciliación con él. Felizmente cumple su deseo.
Spencer Hobart
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
Dr. Sampson
A black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn, a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
Crane Wilder
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
Dr. Max Wilson
Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.
Barry Compton
A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.
A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.
Fred Winship
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
Hal Tracy
