Ralph Truman

Ralph Truman

Nacimiento : 1900-05-07, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1977-10-15

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Ralph Truman

Películas

Lady Caroline Lamb
Admiral
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Nicolás y Alejandra
Rodzianko
En 1904, Nicolás II, que acaba de tener un hijo, está preocupado por la guerra ruso-japonesa, que acaba de comenzar, y por las reclamaciones cada vez más insistentes de su pueblo que desea un gobierno representativo. El joven heredero Alexis pronto es diagnosticado como hemofílico. Su madre Alejandra, emperatriz histérica poco querida por la familia de su marido, cae bajo el encanto de un campesino siberiano, Rasputín, que la convence de que él puede ser capaz de curar al niño. Nicolás II comienza a creer en su poder, mientras Lenin y el Partido bolchevique en la clandestinidad comienzan también a minar el régimen.
El Cid
King Ferdinand
En la segunda mitad del siglo XI, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador, se hizo célebre por sus victoriosas campañas contra los musulmanes (conquista del Reino de Valencia). Acusado injustamente de traición, Rodrigo mata en duelo al padre de Jimena, que lo rechaza y se encierra en un convento. Este es el punto de partida de numerosas peripecias: las intrigas del conde García Ordóñez, el desafío del rey Ramiro de Aragón y su enfrentamiento con Alfonso VI (Jura de Santa Gadea), que lo desterró de Castilla
Éxodo
Colonel
Superproducción sobre el nacimiento del estado de Israel (1948). Seiscientos once judíos que han sobrevivido a los campos de exterminio nazis, abandonan Alemania en un barco (el "Estrella de David") que atraca en Chipre. Después de superar grandes dificultades, logran al fin zarpar de la isla en el "Éxodo", barco de carga con destino a Palestina. El objetivo de los refugiados es crear el estado de Israel. Akiva, un líder fanático, considera que el terrorismo es la única vía para construir la nación, pero su hermano Barek y su sobrino Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) no son de la misma opinión.
Bajo diez banderas
Admiral Bensen
Epopeya naval. El navío alemán Atlantis, capitaneado por Bernhard Rogge, fue capaz de infiltrarse entre los buques enemigos, camuflado como si fuera un buque aliado. Una vez en su madriguera, presentaba dura batalla al enemigo. A Rogge le entregó el emperador Hiro Hito una espada de samurái, que sólo habían recibido Hermann Göring y Erwin Rommel.
Ben-Hur
Aide to Tiberius (uncredited)
Antigua Roma, bajo el reinado de los emperadores Augusto y Tiberio (s. I d.C.). Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, son dos antiguos amigos, pero un accidente involuntario los convierte en enemigos irreconciliables: Ben-Hur es acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, y Mesala lo encarcela a él y a su familia. Mientras Ben-Hur es trasladado a galeras para cumplir su condena, un hombre llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber. En galeras conocerá al comandante de la nave y más tarde a un jeque árabe que participa con sus magníficos caballos en carreras de cuadrigas.
Web of Evidence
Sir Matthew Sprott
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
The Spaniard's Curse
Sir Robert Wyvern
A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
The Good Companions
George Memsford
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Vice Admiral
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
The Long Arm
Colonel Blenkinsop
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Wicked as They Come
John Dowling
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
El hombre que sabía demasiado
Buchanan
Una familia americana, compuesta por el doctor Ben MacKenna, su mujer y su hijo Hank, está pasando unas vacaciones en Marruecos. Tras la muerte de un espía en brazos de Ben, mientras visitaban el mercado de Marrakech, el matrimonio descubre que su hijo ha sido secuestrado. Sin saber en quién confiar, los MacKenna se ven envueltos en una angustiosa pesadilla que tiene que ver con una operación de espionaje internacional.
La tienda negra
Major Cross
Durante la retirada británica, David Holland se refugia en una tribu beduina y se casa con la hija del jeque. No obstante, muere cuando intenta reunirse con su regimiento. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tons of Trouble
Inspector Bridger
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
The Ship That Died of Shame
Sir Richard
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
The Night My Number Came Up
Wainwright
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
El señor de Ballantry
Clarendon
Durante el siglo XVIII, dos hermanos enfrentados toman diferentes partidos en bandos opuestos que luchan por el trono de Inglaterra; el príncipe Carlos, heredero de los Estuardo, llama a las armas a sus compatriotas para derrocar al rey Jorge.
Historia de Malta
Vice Adm Willie Banks
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En 1942, Malta es bombardeada por la aviación alemana. En este escenario surge un romance entre un piloto, que es profesor universitario, y una muchacha maltesa.
La carroza de oro
Duc de Castro
América española, siglo XVIII. A una pequeña ciudad llega una compañía italiana de teatro. Camilla, la estrella del espectáculo, debe elegir entre tres hombres: el Virrey, un joven oficial y un torero. Es un homenaje a la Comedia del Arte.
Quo Vadis
Tigellinus
Cuando regresa a Roma, después de tres años en el campo de batalla, el general Marco Vinicio se enamora de Lygia. Pero ella es cristiana y sus creencias le impiden enamorarse de un guerrero. Aunque fue adoptada por un general retirado, jurídicamente es una esclava de Roma. Pero Marco consigue que el emperador Nerón se la ceda en pago por sus servicios.
La isla del tesoro
George Merry
El capitan William Bones, un viejo lobo de mar, llega enfermo a la posada de la madre de Jim Haxkins y antes de morir, entrega a Jim el mapa del tesoro del pirata Flint, recomendándole que esté prevenido contra el hombre de la pata de palo. Jim se lo cuenta todo al Sr. Trelawney y al doctor Livesey y juntos deciden emprender la búsqueda del tesoro. Contratan una tripulación y parten hacia la isla donde está escondido el tesoro. En mitad de la travesía, Jim se da cuenta de que la mayoría de la tripulación son piratas de Flint y de que el cocinero, un hombre con la pata de palo, llamado John Silver el largo, es el antiguo contramaestre de Flint, contra el que le previno el capitán Bones. Al llegar a la isla, los piratas, al mando de John Silver se amotinan y emprenden la lucha contra Jim, Trelawney, Livesey y los marineros fieles, para conseguir el mapa del tesoro
Christopher Columbus
Captain
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
A mitad de camino
Inspector Waterson
Un hombre casado se fuga con su amante. Pero cuando ella muere en un accidente ferroviario, él se convierte en el principal sospechoso.
Eureka Stockade
Gov. Hotham
Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Comber
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Oliver Twist
Monks
Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Famosa adaptación de la novela homónima de Charles Dickens. Oliver es un niño huérfano al que su madre, una joven soltera, abandonó a las puertas de un orfanato. Para librarse de él, el malvado director de la institución, decide venderlo a un empresario como aprendiz de su taller. Cansado de los malos tratos que recibe, huye y acaba uniéndose a un grupo de pequeños rateros que viven bajo la férula de un viejo tiránico.
Mrs. Fitzherbert
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Merryvale
Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
The Man Within
Prison Interrogator
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
The Laughing Lady
Lord Mandeville
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Papworth Village Settlement
Narrator (voice)
Following the recuperation and treatment of patient Frank Thompson, 'Papworth Village Settlement' is an account of the varied medical and social services available to sufferers of tuberculosis at Papworth.
Beware of Pity
Maj. Sandor Balinkay
A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
Lisbon Story
Police Commissionaire
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Read All About It
Robertson
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Enrique V
Mountjoy - The French Herald
Guerra de los Cien Años. Tras una vida disoluta, Enrique V (1413-1422) hereda el trono de Inglaterra y toma conciencia de sus responsabilidades. En 1415 reúne un ejército de 30.000 hombres y reanuda la guerra contra los franceses. Ese mismo año los derrota en la batalla de Azincourt y, a continuación, ocupa Normandía y París.
The Butler's Dilemma
Bishop
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
Sabotage at Sea
Horace Chandler
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
El Santo en Londres
Kussella
Con la misión de capturar a una banda de falsificadores, el Santo viaja a Inglaterra. Una vez allí contará con la ayuda de un alocado hombre.
Black Eyes
Diner
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
The Outsider
Sir Nathan Israel
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
Life of St. Paul
Orderly
The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
The Challenge
Giordano
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
South Riding
Nursing Home Doctor
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Dinner at the Ritz
Auctioneer
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Secret Lives
Prison Guard
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
The Crimson Circle
Lawrence Fuller
Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
The Marriage of Corbal
Charles
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
Captain Bill
Red
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
The Silent Passenger
Saunders
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
The Case of Gabriel Perry
Inspector White
An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Sam Cohen
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
The Perfect Flaw
Richard Drexel
A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
The Shadow
Chief Inspector Elliot
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Partners Please
CID Man
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
The Bells
Blacksmith
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.