Charles Sellon

Charles Sellon

Nacimiento : 1870-08-24, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Muerte : 1937-06-26

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Charles Sellon was born on August 24, 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Bright Eyes (1934), It's a Gift (1934) and The Painted Desert (1931). He was married to Florence E. Willis. He died on June 26, 1937 in La Crescenta, California, USA.

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Charles Sellon

Películas

In Old Kentucky
Ezra Martingale
El entrenador de caballos Steve Tapley se encuentra atrapado en la pugna entre las familias Martingale y Shattuck. Él se posiciona del lado de la joven Nancy Martingale y su abuelo Ezra, y la pugna se va a resolver con una carrera de caballos entre los mejores de cada familia. Por desgracia, el caballo de los Martingale, Greyboy, solo corre bien en el barro. Y no ha llovido en mucho tiempo.
La alegre mentira
Mr. McCaffrey (uncredited)
Mirabel es una joven que gana 5.000 dólares en la lotería, lo que le permite vivir a cuerpo de rey en Nueva York. Un día conoce a Sandro, un apuesto muchacho que trabaja como botones; pero las cosas no son lo que parecen.
El hombre de los brillantes
John Touchey
La historia del legendario jugador Diamond Jim Brady y su romance con la actriz y cantante Lillian Russell.
Welcome Home
Andrew Anstruther
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
El diablo es una mujer
Letter Writer (uncredited)
España, 1890. Durante las fiestas de Carnaval, Antonio Galván, un joven oficial, conoce a Concha Pérez, una misteriosa mujer que trabaja en una fábrica de tabacos y que rápidamente cae en sus redes. A su vez, Concha seduce y ridiculiza a Don Pascual, un oficial de la Guardia Civil que intentará convencer a Galván de que Concha es una mujer muy peligrosa. Otro éxito de la pareja Sternberg- Dietrich.
It's A Small World
Cyclone
Jane Dane tiene un accidente de tráfico con el abogado Bill Shevlin en Clummmerhorn, un pequeño pueblo donde deciden resolver su litigio.
La vida comienza a los cuarenta
Tom Cotton
Un periodista (Will Rogers) vence a un banquero y limpia el nombre de un joven (Richard Cromwell) acusado de robo.
Bright Eyes
Uncle Ned Smith
Una familia de snobs se lleva a una niña huérfana ante la insistencia de su tío rico e irrespetuoso, incluso cuando su devoto padrino aviador lucha por la custodia.
One Hour Late
Simpson
Cuando el romance entre un cantante radiofónico y una empleada de la emisora se va al garete, ella se va de fin de semana con su jefe, mientras el cantante seduce a otra. Reunidos todos en un ascensor, el cable se rompe y el ascensor queda colgado entre dos pisos...
Ready for Love
Caleb Hooker
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
It's a Gift
Mr. Muckle
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Hoopla
The Colonel, Billy's Father
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
The Chief
Fire Chief at Statue Unveiling
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Golden Harvest
Jason Bowers
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.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Undertaker (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
As the Devil Commands
John Duncan
Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but villainous lawyer Alan Dinehart, in line to inherit Sellon's millions, is not so charitable. Dinehart kills Sellon, then makes it look as though Hamilton murdered the old guy for his money.
Carita de ángel
Vanderlure - Bank Director (uncredited)
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.
Strictly Personal
Hewes (uncredited)
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Employees' Entrance
Higgins
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
The Match King
Match Company Executive (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Central Park
Luke, the Lion Keeper (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Soy un fugitivo
Hot Dog Stand Owner (uncredited)
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
Ride Him, Cowboy
Judge Bartlett (uncredited)
John Drury salva a un caballo salvaje acusado de asesinato y lo entrena. Cuando descubre que el verdadero culpable, un villano conocido como El Halcón, es un prócer de la ciudad, le detienen bajo falsas acusaciones.
Speed Madness
Jim Stuart
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
The Washington Masquerade
Senator at Train Station
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
Make Me a Star
Mr. Gashwiler
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
The Dark Horse
Mr. Green
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
Carnival Boat
Charlie Lane
Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires. Buck is in love with Honey, a show-girl on the carnival boat, but she won't live in a lumberjack camp.
The Drifter
Whitey
A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.
The Age for Love
Mr. Pearson
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
The Tip-Off
Pop Jackson
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Penrod and Sam
Mr. Bitts
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
Dude Ranch
Spruce Meadows
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign.
Laugh and Get Rich
Biddle
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Trás las Puertas Cerradas
John Ritter
Mary Linden es una secretaria que se enamora de un compañero que no está ni por asomo a su altura, rechazando a muchos otros, por el que considera el hombre de sus sueños, y al que llevará “sutilmente” a la cima en el mundo de los negocios.
El desierto pintado
Tonopah
Jeff y Cash encuentran un bebé, y es Cash quien decide hacerse cargo de él. Con el paso del tiempo los dos amigos llegan a ser propietarios de dos ranchos vecinos, pero entre ellos surgen problemas: la hermosa hija Jeff es uno de ellos (FILMAFFINITY)
Tom Sawyer
Minister
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
Herencia de sangre
Judge
Un hijo se avergüenza de su padre porque éste cometió un crimen, pero no puede arrancar de su alma los lazos de amor filial que le unen con quien le dio el ser. Por su parte, su padre negado por su hijo no puede ahogar el sentimiento paterno que le lleva a solidarizarse con él en la desgracia. Los dos hombres que han querido sacrificarse calladamente, uno por el otro, acaban comprendiéndose y perdonándose.
Sea Legs
Adm. O'Brien
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
Big Money
Bradley
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
For the Love o' Lil
Mr. Walker
Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.
Borrowed Wives
Uncle Henry
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Let's Go Native
Wallace Wendell Sr.
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Love Among the Millionaires
Pop Whipple
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
The Social Lion
Jim Perkins
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
Tantas veo...
José Romero
Un vaquero llega a un pueblo y acaba intentando ayudar a un ranchero y acabar con una banda de ladrones de ganado, mientras flirtea con una hermosa muchacha.
Honey
Randolph Weeks
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
Men Are Like That
Pa Fisher
A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.
Burning Up
James R. Morgan
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
The Vagabond Lover
Chief George C. Tuttle
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
The Mighty
The Mayor
In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
Sweetie
Dr. Oglethorpe
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
La chica de la noche del sábado
Lem Woodruff
Mayme y su hermana Janie son vendedores de unas grandes almacenes. Mayme está enamorada de su compañero Bill, pero Janie se lo intenta robar.
Big News
J.W. Addison
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
The Man and the Moment
Joan's Guardian
Rich lout marries for freedom.
The Gamblers
Tooker
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
The Girl in the Glass Cage
Dan Jackson - Prosecutor
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
Hot Stuff
Wiggam
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
Bulldog Drummond
Travers
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
What a Night!
Editor Maadison
Happiness Ahead
Mr. Randall
Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Jim Bailey
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).
Feel My Pulse
Her Sanitarium's Caretaker
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
The Valley of the Giants
Pennington
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Mr. Thule
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.
Painted Ponies
Mr. Blenning
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
The Prairie King
Pop Wingate
Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late Abner Ferrige. Edna takes possession but Murdock gets her to leave and while the three are away his men take possession. But when the Lawyer arrives to announce that Ferrige never filed, everyone rushes off to be the first at the claims office.
The Mysterious Rider
Cliff Harkness
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).
Easy Pickings
Dr. Naylor
Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Peter's cousin. Knowing that Dolores is dead, Stewart, who catches Mary Ryan burglarizing the Van Horne home, induces her to pose as Dolores.
High Steppers
Grandpa Perryam
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
The Calgary Stampede
Regan
Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Calgary Stampede. When the father of his new French-Canadian girlfriend turns up dead, Molloy is the only suspect!
The Lucky Devil
Sheriff
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
Tracked in the Snow Country
Silent Hardy
When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.
The Monster
Russ Mason
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Sundown
Ranchman
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
The Roughneck
Sam Melden
Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
Merton of the Movies
Pete Gashwiler
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
Woman-Proof
Uncle Joe Gloomer (as Charles A. Sellon)
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.