Herbert Corthell
Nacimiento : 1878-01-20, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Muerte : 1947-01-23
Historia
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Herbert Corthell (born Joseph Bertram Corthell, January 20, 1878 – January 23, 1947) was an American stage and film actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Hollywood, California.
Sheriff Lem Bates
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
'General' Courtney
A fake general sends two sailors on a wild-goose chase for buried treasure.
City Editor (uncredited)
Un importante financiero estadounidense, Charles Foster Kane, dueño de una importante cadena de periódicos, de una red de emisoras, de dos sindicatos y de una inimaginable colección de obras de arte, muere en su fabuloso castillo de estilo oriental, Xanadú. La última palabra que pronuncia al expirar es Rosebud. El país entero y la prensa en general quedan intrigados por saber el significado de esta palabra. Para descubrirlo, un grupo de periodistas se pone a investigar.
Herb - Man Getting Ga
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Pop O'Shea
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
Pete
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
Joe (uncredited)
Un hombre acaudalado contrata a una pobre chica para que se haga pasar por su amante, de cara a conseguir mayor atención por parte de su desapegada familia.
Minor Role
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Tug Lawson
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
Nightclub Manager
Los hermanos Beebe tienen poco en común, el jove Mike solo quiere ser un niño; el responsable Dave quiere trabajar y casarse con Martha; pero Joe piensa que su único camino al éxito es dedicarse a las apuestas y al contrabando. Parece que lo único que puede unirles es su número como cantantes, el cual Mike y Dave odian.
James Bronson
El sargento Preston de la policía montada de Canadá patrulla la selva de la Yukon con su caballo Rex y su fiel perro Yukon King, luchando tanto contra los criminales como contra los elementos.
Sheriff Martin
Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're headed for.
Conductor
El doctor Jim Stanton (John Beal) es un prestigioso cirujano traumatizado por las muertes de un accidente de avión que él pilotaba. Expulsado de su hospital por el escándalo, Jim se marcha a California con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida bajo una nueva identidad. Conoce entonces a Doris (Joan Fontaine), una enfermera que se las ingenia para que Jim maneje durante una urgencia el avión-ambulancia en el que ella trabaja, logrando así demostrarse a si mismo su valía.
Police Judge
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Police Commissioner
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
Louis Adolphe Thiers, 1st President, Republic of France
Tragedia que depende de la incomprensión, de la incultura, de la injusticia y de la ingratitud, magnificadas en un hombre para el que su bandera era la ciencia y de su aplicación dependía el bien de la Humanidad. Está estructurada en tres partes marcadas por acontecimientos relacionados con los estudios de Pasteur en el campo de la Microbiología y las enfermedades infecciosas: teoría microbiana de la enfermedad, mantenida a lo largo de la película y eje vertebrador de la trama, estudios sobre el carbunco e investigaciones sobre la rabia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jenkins
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
Commodore Brunton
An insurance investigator falls in love with a society girl, unaware that her uncle and his boss are conspiring to commit insurance fraud by overvaluing a decrepit warehouse and its contents and burning the building to the ground.
Butler
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
Edward J. Breeze
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Cowboy Cook (uncredited)
Adaptación de la novela de Will James, publicada tres años antes, sobre la relación que se establece entre un pistolero y un niño a lo largo de un viaje.
Preston (Uncredited)
Película inspirada en la novela de Stefan Zweig “Carta de una desconocida”. La protagonista es una mujer que es seducida en dos ocasiones por el mismo hombre, sin que éste la reconozca la segunda vez.
Baldy
Los altibajos de un equipo de fútbol americano universitario.