Miles Mander

Miles Mander

出生 : 1888-05-14, Wolverhampton, England

死亡 : 1946-02-08

略歴

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Miles Mander (May 14, 1888 – February 8, 1946), born Lionel Henry Mander (and sometimes credited as Luther Miles), was a well-known and versatile English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miles Mander,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Imperfect Lady
Mr. Rogan
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Dr. Marko
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Lord Warrick
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
Confidential Agent
Mr. Brigstock
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Week-End at the Waldorf
British Secretary
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
The Crime Doctor's Warning
Frederick Malone
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
The Brighton Strangler
Chief Inspector W.R. Allison
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
(uncredited)
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sir Robert Bentley
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.
ブロンドの殺人者
Leuwen Grayle
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
Enter Arsène Lupin
Charles Seagrave
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
The Pearl of Death
Giles Conover
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
The Scarlet Claw
Judge Brisson
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
The White Cliffs of Dover
Major Loring (uncredited)
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Madame Curie
Businessman (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
The Return of the Vampire
Sir Frederick Fleet
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
オペラの怪人
Pleyel
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".
熱砂の秘密
Colonel Fitzhume (uncredited)
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, afraid of the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans. John assumes the identity of the recently deceased waiter to survive.
Assignment in Brittany
Col. Herman Fournier
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Guadalcanal Diary
Weatherby (uncredited)
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Secrets of the Underground
Paul Panois
With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
Lucky Jordan
Kilpatrick
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Apache Trail
James V. Thorne
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Somewhere I'll Find You
Floyd Kirsten
Brothers feud over a girl they both fall for while covering World War II.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Dr. Leonard V. Meecham
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
ミニヴァー夫人
第二次世界大戦の戦意高揚映画として撮影され、戦争の荒波に巻き込まれながら気丈に生きていくミニヴァー夫人とその一家の人々の姿を感動的に描き、アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演女優賞など6部門を受賞した名作。 1939年のロンドン郊外。明るく美しいミニヴァー夫人は、建築技師の夫と3人の子供たちと幸福な日々を送っていた。しかし、第2次世界大戦にイギリスが参戦し、長男ヴィンや使用人が出征、残されたミニヴァー夫人たちにも戦火が…。
This Above All
Major
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Portmaster
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
Fingers at the Window
Dr. Kurt Immelman
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
To Be or Not to Be
Major Cunningham
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
A Tragedy at Midnight
Dr. Wilton
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Fly-By-Night
Professor Langer
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Dr. Lockberg
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
They Met in Bombay
Doctor (uncredited)
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
That Hamilton Woman
Lord Keith
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Shadows on the Stairs
Tom Armitage
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
South of Suez
Roger Smythe
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
Captain Caution
Lieut. Strope
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Babies for Sale
Dr. Rankin
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Road to Singapore
Sir Malcolm Drake (uncredited)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
Primrose Path
Homer
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.
The House of the Seven Gables
Deacon Arnold Foster
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
Laddie
Mr. Charles Pryor
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
The Earl of Chicago
Attorney General (uncredited)
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Tower of London
King Henry VI
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Stanley and Livingstone
Sir John Gresham
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
The Man in the Iron Mask
Aramis
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Horace Granville
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
嵐が丘
Lockwood
日本でもなじみ深いエミリー・ブロンテによる名作文学を基にした映画。名作『ローマの休日』のウィリアム・ワイラー監督が、ローレンス・オリヴィエを主役に据え、切なくも甘美な愛の物語を見事なまでにスクリーンに焼き付けている。
テンプルちゃんの小公女
Lord Wickham
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
The Three Musketeers
Cardinal Richelieu
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Suez
Benjamin Disraeli
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
The Mad Miss Manton
Fred Thomas
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Kidnapped
Ebenezer Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Youth on Parole
The Sparkler
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
Wake Up and Live
James Stratton
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Slave Ship
Corey
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Lloyd's of London
Jukes
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
The Flying Doctor
Director
The real-life Flying Medical Association of Australia was the inspiration for the box-office hit The Flying Doctor. Hollywood's Charles Farrell is cast as "sundowner" Sandy Nelson, who aspires to tend to the sick in the Austrian outback. He gets his chance when he joins the F.M.A., taking aviation training to become a "flying doctor." Nelson proves his mettle during a medical emergency, in which he's required to ship supplies to a remote, desolate and virtually impenetrable region. The Flying Doctor was also the title of a late 1950s series, again based on the exploits of the F.M.A. and again featuring an American screen favorite (Richard Denning) in the lead.
The Three Musketeers
King Louis XIII
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Here's to Romance
Bert
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Death Drives Through
Garry Ames
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
The Morals of Marcus
Adaptation
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
The Morals of Marcus
Director
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
La Bataille
Feize
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
Matinee Idol
Harley Travers
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
Bitter Sweet
Captain Auguste Lutte
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Wriothesley
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Loyalties
Capt. Ronald Dancy, DSO
While a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.
The Lodger
Writer
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
That Night in London
Harry Tresham
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money and stay alive
Lily Christine
Ambatriadi
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
The Missing Rembrandt
Claude Holford
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
Fascination
Director
Madeleine Carroll stars as a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple, in this light-hearted melodrama from Miles Mander.
Mary
Gordon Moore
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."
The Woman Between
Theatre Play
An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
The Woman Between
Script
An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
The Woman Between
Director
An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
Murder!
Gordon Druce
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Loose Ends
Raymond Carteret
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
The Crooked Billet
Guy Merrow
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
The First Born
Sir Hugo Boycott
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
The First Born
Writer
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
The First Born
Director
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
Balaclava
Capt. Gardner
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
The Joker
Georg Jacoby’s Jokeren is a light-hearted entertainment picture set during the carnival in Nice, a romantic comedy with a touch of melodrama. A young artist, fatally injured in a car accident, foolishly entrusts a batch of compromising love letters to Borwick, a crooked and unscrupulous lawyer, instructing him to destroy them. Instead, Borwick proceeds to blackmail the woman who sent the letters, Lady Cecilie Powder, married to the straight-arrow Sir Herbert Powder. Lady Cecilie gets help from her spunky younger sister Gill. In turn, she draws in Peter Carstairs, a debonair adventurer known to all as “the Joker” – the card that trumps all others. When the Joker repeatedly foils Borwick’s schemes, the crooked lawyer ups the ante, trying to incriminate his adversary Carstairs and expanding his demands to include marriage to Gill. But as the characters converge at yet another lavish carnival celebration party, it becomes clear that one card does indeed trump all the others: the Joker!
Parisiennes
Armand de Marny
A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
Tiptoes
Rollo Stevens
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
The Pleasure Garden
Levett
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.
The Prude's Fall
Sir Neville Moreton
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
The Man Without Desire
Producer
A doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.