Alphonse Ethier

Alphonse Ethier

Nacimiento : 1874-12-10, Virginia City, Nevada, USA

Muerte : 1943-01-04

Perfil

Alphonse Ethier

Películas

Sunset Trail
Superintendent
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
The Baroness and the Butler
President
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Romance of Louisiana
Marbaugh
A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Doc. Northrup
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
Las manos de Orlac
Assistant Prefect (Uncredited)
El Doctor Gogol se enamora de Yvonne Orlac, la esposa del pianista Stephen Orlac. Cuando éste sufre un accidente de tren, y sus manos son amputadas, Yvonne pide ayuda a Gorgol, que le transplanta las manos de un asesino. La operacion parece funcionar, y el organismo de Orlac no rechaza las nuevas manos. Sin embargo, Orlac descubrirá unas nuevas tendencias que nunca había tenido: la necesidad de matar. Su mujer Yvonne tambien descubre el cambio de su marido. Mientras tanto, Gogol sigue enamorado de Yvonne, con un amor cada vez más obsesivo... (FILMAFFINITY)
Barreras Infranqueables
Banker
Johnny Ramirez (Paul Muni), un abogado formado en la escuela nocturna y excluido de la práctica legal, acepta un empleo como matón en el casino de Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallete), situado en las afueras. Allí se hace indispensable que, al poco tiempo, se convierte en socio del mismo. Marie (Bette Davis), la atractiva pero inestable esposa de Roark, muestra un romántico interés por Johnny, pero éste esquiva sus insinuaciones y centra su atención en Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), una mujer de la alta sociedad que, aficionada a los barrios bajos, frecuenta los antros de las afueras de la ciudad.
Red Morning
The Village Chief
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Secret of the Chateau
Commissioner
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
El agente británico
Paul DeVigney
El servicio de inteligencia Británico le encarga a Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) que persuada a la Unión Soviética para que no firme con Alemania un acuerdo de paz que sería muy perjudicial para los intereses de Inglaterra. Durante su misión, Locke se enamora de Elena (Kay Francis), la secretaria del líder ruso, que corresponde a sus sentimientos, pero que no está dispuesta a traicionar la causa bolchevique.
Voice in the Night
W.T. Dale
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
No More Women
Captain Brent
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
The Big Shakedown
Norma's Doctor (uncredited)
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Golden Harvest
Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Carita de ángel
Adolf Cragg
Lilly Powers es una camarera de una horrible ciudad industrial que trabaja en la cantina de su padre, donde aprende las malas artes de los clientes masculinos. Cuando este muere, se traslada a Nueva York con su criada, donde aprovechará su experiencia y su capacidad de engatusar a los hombres para ir escalando posiciones. En la gran manzana conoce a Jimmy McCoy, un botones de oficina que la ayuda a conseguir un trabajo en la Gotham Trust Company. A partir de entonces seduce y rechaza a varios hombres.
Ex-Lady
Mr. Adolphe Bauer - Helen's Father
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Men Of America
Indian Tom
Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Mr Cobb
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
Honor of the Family
Bela
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Transgression
Maria's Father
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Fair Warning
Mr. Cumberland
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
Lightnin'
Mr. Harper
Lightnin' y Mary son propietarios de un hotel en la frontera entre Nevada y California, muy utilizado para parejas que quieren divorciarse. Cuando unos gangsters quieren apoderarse del establecimiento, obligan a su mujer a divorciarse de él...
La gran jornada
Town Marshal (uncredited)
El joven explorador Breck Coleman conduce una caravana a lo largo del peligroso camino a Oregón mientras trata de conseguir el afecto de la hermosa pionera Ruth Cameron y planea su venganza contra los despiadados criminales que asesinaron a un amigo suyo.
The Storm
Jacques Fachard
Burr y Dave, dos íntimos amigos que se hallan en una cabaña de las montañas, deben afrontar una terrible tempestad. Pero no están solos, los acompaña Manette, una bella mujer por la que acaban enfrentándose.
His First Command
Col. Gaylord
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
La sortija que mata
Capt. Peter Rankin
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).
Smoke Bellew
Harry Sprague
A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
En el viejo Arizona
Sheriff (uncredited)
Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter) es un bandido del Viejo Oeste que anda siempre escapando del sheriff del lugar, Mickey Dunn (Edmund Lowe). El problema viene cuando ambos se enamoran de la misma mujer, Tonia (Dorothy Burgess), la cual ayudará a Dunn a capturar a Cisco Kid, vivo o muerto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Shadows of the Night
O'Flaherty
Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.
Say It with Sables
Mitchell (as Alphonz Ethier)
Say It with Sables es una película de drama silencioso de 1928 dirigida por Frank Capra y producida por Harry Cohn para Columbia Pictures. Columbia ya no tiene un negativo o una impresión de esta película, por lo que la película se considera ccomo "una película perdida".
The Fighting Eagle
Maj. Oliver
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
Ladrones a bordo
Police Inspector Crone
Cuando Eve De Montalais (Lois Wilson) planea pasar de contrabando sus joyas a los Estados Unidos, sin saberlo viajando en el mismo barco, hay una banda de ladrones que planean robar las joyas. Michael Lanyard (Bert Lytell), alias The Lone Wolf, trastorna sus intrigas y Eve busca su ayuda para que las gemas pasen por los funcionarios de aduanas. Mientras está en un club nocturno de Nueva York, Eve se entera de que Lanyard es The Lone Wolf. Luego es engañada por un ladrón que asume el papel de un oficial de aduanas y la induce a entregar las joyas, Eve luego escapa al descubrir el engaño. Lanyard es dominado por la pandilla, pero logra liberarse y declara las joyas a los funcionarios de aduanas, quienes luego arrestan a los ladrones de inmediato. Eve se siente aliviada al descubrir que Lanyard es un agente del Servicio Secreto, y los amantes se reencuentran.
The Lone Wolf Returns
Crane
The Lone Wolf Returns
The Midnight Flyer
Jeb Slater
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
The Alaskan
John Graham
An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
A Message from Mars
Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U
Jim Diggs
Brave and good-natured cowboy Sandy Burke saves young Dolly after her father is killed in the saloon. He entrusts the girl to kindly Widow Mackey, who is having trouble paying her mortgage and decides he is responsible for the pair so he best start earning some money. Soon he is seeking work at the U-Bar-U ranch but who could predict the trouble he will have with the rancher's daughter, Molly, or the surly foreman, Jim Diggs!
I Want to Forget
August Von Grossman
Prior to the declaration of World War I, dancer Varda Deering was a member of the Austrian secret service, but later became a loyal citizen of the United States. In America, she captivates many men but cares for none of them until she meets Lieutenant John Long. At first, he regards Varda as little more than a social butterfly, but gradually comes to recognize her goodness and falls in love with her. While John is away on a war-related diplomatic mission, Varda agrees to aid the U.S. Secret Service in procuring classified documents from August Von Grossman, an agent whom she had known in Austria.
Rough and Ready
Jack Belmont
In New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets the situation and believes Bill to be unfaithful to her. She breaks her engagement, and Bill, in remorse, goes to Alaska. In the town of Yellow Gulch, Bill meets "Silver" Jack Belmont, the man responsible for nearly ruining the marriage of Bill's friend.
The Forbidden Path
William Sinclair
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village. One of the artists there, Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), uses her as model when he paints a portrait of the Madonna for a church. His friend Robert Sinclair (Hugh Thompson) corrupts Mary so that her father (Walter Law) casts her from his home. She goes to live with Sinclair in his mountain lodge, but after the birth of a child, he callously casts her aside. Subsequently, her baby dies and she sinks to the depths of despair.
The Patriot and the Spy
Johannes
Two young people marry in a Continental village and receive the congratulations of all save the rejected suitor. He bides his time while the couple live happily and are blessed twice with children. War is declared after the husband has suffered an injury for life and the rejected suitor enlists.
She
She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
Cinderella
Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
David Copperfield
Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
The Old Curiosity Shop
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.