Leander De Cordova

Películas

According to Mrs. Hoyle
Minister
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Tough Assignment
Schultz (the butcher)
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
The Mysterious Desperado
Padre
A cowboy is accused of his father's murder.
Albuquerque
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
Doble vida
Audience Member (uncredited)
Tony es una gran estrella del teatro. Britta, su pareja en los escenarios, lo fue también en la vida real aunque llevan divorciados más de dos años. En cuanto empiezan los ensayos de "Otelo", Tony vuelve a transformarse una vez más hasta perder su personalidad y adquirir la del celoso moro veneciano.
Gilda
Servant (uncredited)
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.
Misión en Moscú
Heckler (uncredited)
El empresario Joseph E. Davies es nombrado por el presidente Roosevelt embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Unión Soviética para que averigüe cuáles son las intenciones de este país respecto a la inminente Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). El embajador se llevará algunas sorpresas en una nación que pocos conocen realmente.
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Governor Felipe
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
Torture Ship
Ezra Matthews
A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.
Medianoche
Footman (uncredited)
Clásica "screwball comedy" (escrita por Billy Wilder y su guionista habitual, Charles Brackett) en la que una chica americana, perdida en París y sin un centavo, se hace amiga de un taxista. Éste la lleva en su taxi a una fiesta de la alta sociedad, donde se hará pasar por una dama rica y elegante.
The Penal Code
Isaac Lewin
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
After the Fog
Director
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
Ramona
Assistant Director
Ramona, una joven mestiza, aunque ella lo ignora, vive en la hacienda de la señora Moreno, quien la adoptó, con el hijo de ésta, a quien Ramona considera como un hermano. Todo cambiará cuando llegue Alessandro, el jefe de los esquiladores de ovejas.
She
Director
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
Polly with a Past
Director
Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead. The film has been lost.
Social Hypocrites
Assistant Director
While playing cards, Col. Francis Fielding is unjustly accused of cheating by the Earl of St. Albans. The charges are considered so serious in that strata of society that Fielding is disowned by his parents and held in contempt by "proper" society. Fleeing to Paris, Fielding marries and fathers a baby daughter he names Leonore. His wife soon dies and he is forced to raise the girl on his own, alone and broke. He soon dies, and Leonore is adopted by his sister Lady Mountstephen, but it's not much of an improvement: the "lady" hates Leonore, treats her badly and finally disowns her. Things look grim for Leonore until Lord Fitzmaurice loans her a sum of money. Unfortunately, that deed arouses the anger of the wildly jealous Lady Norton, who is secretly married to him. Complications ensue.