Richard Wallace

Nacimiento : 1894-08-26, Sacramento, California, USA

Muerte : 1951-11-03

Películas

One Hour in Wonderland
Director
Airing on Christmas Day, 1950, this holiday special was the first Disney TV production. It features Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd at Walt Disney's Christmas party. The show includes clips of movies and animated shorts and the first appearance of the Fire House Five Plus Two jazz band.
A Kiss for Corliss
Director
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Aventura en Baltimore
Director
Durante el año 1900, Dina es una muchacha adolescente con inquietudes demasiado modernas para la época que le ha tocado vivir. Aficionada al budismo, anda en busca de la "luz" y además es una ferviente defensora del derecho al voto de las mujeres. La actitud rebelde de la chica tiene muy preocupados al novio y al padre de Dina, que unirán esfuerzos para intentar suavizar las ideas extremistas de la chica, tarea nada sencilla, puesto que Dina es una muchacha de convicciones fuertes.
Vivamos un poco
Director
Un agente publicitario, después de vivir unas extrañas relaciones con una psiquiatra, decide casarse con ella. Pero en el mismo altar donde se va a celebrar la ceremonia religiosa se encuentran con sus antiguos novios.
Hombres de presa
Director
John Monroe (John Wayne) es un ingeniero contratado para determinar el trazado de un ferrocarril en un complejo minero en Los Andes. La empresa encargada de realizar la obra pertenece a Frederick Alexander (Cedric Hardwicke). Las diferencias entre éste y Monroe sobre cómo salvar el desnivel del terreno se agravarán cada vez más, especialmente cuando el ingeniero comienza a cortejar a la hija del empresario, la bella Maura Alexander (Laraine Day). (FILMAFFINITY)
Paula
Director
Mike Lambert, ingeniero de minas sin trabajo, llega a una pequeña ciudad cuando los frenos fallan en el camión que conduce. En el café La Paloma conoce a la seductora Paula...
Simbad, el marino
Director
Charlatán y fanfarrón, Simbad cuenta a sus incrédulos amigos sus hazañas. La última, su octavo viaje fantástico, tiene que ver con una isla secreta en la que Alejandro Magno de Macedonia ocultó su tesoro. Tras conseguir capitanear un barco cuya tripulación falleció envenenada, Simbad se dispone a dar con el paradero de la isla. La bella Shirleen, que a raíz del medallón que cuelga del cuello de Simbad le toma por un príncipe, tendrá una importacia capital en su aventura. Pero también el malvado Emir, cuya ambición no conoce límites: quiere a Shirleen, quiere el tesoro y quiere dominar todos los reinos del continente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Su primera noche
Director
Tras una brillante temporada en Broadway, el famoso actor John Sheridan se dispone a estrenar una nueva obra del escritor Paul Taylor. Kim Walker, una aspirante a actriz que trabaja como camarera, consigue que el actor le firme un autógrado, aunque lo que realmente ha firmado es una carta de recomendación dirigida al productor. Pero Taylor no está de acuerdo y se resiste a confiar el papel de la protagonista a una desconocida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Kiss and Tell
Director
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
It's in the Bag!
Director
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Bride by Mistake
Director
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
My Kingdom for a Cook
Director
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
Perseguido
Director
Un antiguo prisionero de la Guerra Civil Española, John McKittrick, llega a Nueva York con la intención de investigar la muerte de su amigo Louie Lepetino, pues sospecha que no ha sido un suicidio.
Bombardero
Director
El Mayor Chick Davis demuestra ante el ejército de los EEUU la superioridad de los bombarderos de precisión a gran altitud y lo destinan a enseñar sus conocimientos en una escuela para bombarderos. Al estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los métodos utilizados por el Mayor Davis y sus alumnos serán ratificados durante un ataque en Tokio.
¡Qué noche aquella!
Director
Jeff Troy escribe novelas de poco éxito y Nancy, su mujer, piensa que ello es debido a que viven en un apartamento poco conveniente para un escritor como él, por lo que decide acabar con la mediocridad de su existencia y alquilar un piso bajo con un jardín en una discreta casa de un barrio más tranquilo. En ella vivirán una experiencia tan extraordinaria como irrepetible. La casa entera tiene un aire siniestro, y los vecinos parecen hostiles y asustados. Jeff deberá entonces poner en práctica sus conocimientos detectivescos para resolver un asesinato cometido en su propia casa.
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Director
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Obliging Young Lady
Director
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
She Knew All the Answers
Director
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Director
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
El capitán cautela
Director
Al morir su padre, una muchacha ayudará a un joven a tomar el mando del barco que luchará contra los británicos en la guerra de 1812
The Under-Pup
Director
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Los alegres vividores
Director
Los Carleton son una familia que, durante años, se ha dedicado al engaño y la estafa de poca monta, pero un día su suerte cambia y tienen que huir de Montecarmelo para no ir a la cárcel. En Londres conocen a una anciana, Doña Fortuna, con quien entablan una relación de amistad. Doña Fortuna está sola en el mundo y posee una gran fortuna, parece la victima perfecta de una estafa... o no?
Blossoms On Broadway
Director
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
John Meade's Woman
Director
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
Cásate conmigo... si puedes
Director
Charlie Mason y Rusty Fleming, una feliz pareja de periodistas de Chicago, deciden formalizar su relación casándose. Pero pronto llegarán los problemas incluyendo incendios, persecuciones policiales y secuestros.
Why Pay Rent?
Telegram Messenger (uncredited)
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
Sangre gitana
Director
Los feligreses de una pequeña parroquia escocesa tratarán de impedir por todos los medios, las relaciones entre su clérigo y una bella joven de raza gitana. (FILMAFFINITY)
Eight Girls in a Boat
Director
In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers she is going to have a baby, and keeps the secret from everyone but her lover, David Perrin, a young medical student. Having been in the private school most of her life, she can't confide in her father whom she hardly knows and, while he wishes to but can't afford to marry her, David can't get the approval of his father.a
The Masquerader
Director
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
Hearts of Humanity
Joey Bloom
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
Divorce In The Family
Snoop
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
Thunder Below
Director
Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Director
A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.
The Road to Reno
Director
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
Kick In
Director
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
Man of the World
Director
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
The Right to Love
Director
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
Anybody's War
Director
A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.
Siete días de permiso
Producer
Sarah Ann Dowey es una anciana londinense solitaria que elige al joven soldado Kenneth como hijo ficticio, el cual está luchando en el frente. De este modo, presumirá ante sus amistades de los logros del muchacho, como si fuera su propio hijo. Cuando Kenneth cae herido en batalla es llevado a Londres con un permiso de una semana, y allí conocerá a Sarah Ann, que se hacer pasar por su madre.
Siete días de permiso
Director
Sarah Ann Dowey es una anciana londinense solitaria que elige al joven soldado Kenneth como hijo ficticio, el cual está luchando en el frente. De este modo, presumirá ante sus amistades de los logros del muchacho, como si fuera su propio hijo. Cuando Kenneth cae herido en batalla es llevado a Londres con un permiso de una semana, y allí conocerá a Sarah Ann, que se hacer pasar por su madre.
River of Romance
Director
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
Innocents of Paris
Director
Directed by Richard Wallace.
The Shopworn Angel
Director
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
The Butter and Egg Man
Director
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
Lady Be Good
Director
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
A Texas Steer
Director
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
American Beauty
Director
American Beauty (1927)
The Poor Nut
Director
Raggedy Rose
Director
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
Syncopating Sue
Director
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.
Merry Widower
Director
Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a plan to win her back.
Along Came Auntie
Director
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
Dizzy Daddies
Director
When the story begins, Johnnie comes to the lawyer's house (James Finlayson) in order to woo the man's daughter. However, a love-crazy woman has been chasing Johnnie and the lawyer tries to help out....and gets nothing but trouble in return. The lady now wants the lawyer...who's a married man. Soon all sorts of problems develop...and the lawyer is sure his wife is going to kill him!
Madame Mystery
Director
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
What's the World Coming To?
Director
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Katherine Grant goes tomcatting around town.
Starvation Blues
Director
It stars Clyde Cook working with Stan Laurel. Stan helped write this and fans of L&H will recognize the situation: a street musician in the snow. Yes, it's the set-up from BELOW ZERO. It's all about the falls in the snow here, and Clyde takes them great.