Wilmuth Merkyl
출생 : 1885-06-02, Keokuk, Iowa, USA
사망 : 1954-05-01
약력
Wilmuth John Merkyl was an American opera singer, as well as stage and screen actor. He appeared in films from 1915 to 1945. After 1917 he was sometimes credited as John Merkyl.
Headwaiter (uncredited)
베어너클시대(맨주먹복싱시합)였던 1880년대, 미국의 전설적인 헤비급 복서 존 L. 설리반에게 복싱의 신기술을 보여주며 당당히 KO승을 한 제임스 코벳의 실화를 바탕으로 만든 영화. 1880년대 샌프란시코에서 복싱은 불법에다 저급 스포츠로 취급되었다. 유명 회원제 클럽의 회원들은 글로브를 장착하고 KO룰을 적용시킨 이른바 ‘퀸즈베리룰’이 복싱을 좀 더 신사적인 스포츠로 만들어 줄 것이라 생각하고 새로운 룰의 적용을 지지한다. 클럽의 회원들은 후원하던 젊은 복서 제임스 코벳은 퀸즈베리룰 도입이래 최고의 선수가 되었다. 그러나 아직 어린 짐에게 성공의 달콤한 맛은 독이 되었고 결국 그는 자만과 욕심으로 후원자까지 잃게 되었다. 그러나 이 같은 시련 속에서도 그는 자신만의 스텝을 갈고 닦아 승승장구했으며 결국 세계챔피언이자 자신의 어린 시절 우상이었던 존 L. 설리번과 경기를 하게 된다. 당시 최고의 미남배우였던 에롤 플린이 주인공 짐 코벳 역을 맡았으며 사실적인 권투경기의 묘사로 평론가로부터 호평을 들었던 작품이다.
Prentiss (uncredited)
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Headwaiter (uncredited)
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Escort (uncredited)
유럽의 작고 가난한 왕국 마코브니아의 국왕 아치메드는 국가의 재정을 보호하기 위해 고군분투한다. 왕국에서 제일가는 부자인 과부 소냐가 파리로 떠나자 국왕은 매력적인 대위 다닐로를 보내 그녀가 외국인과 재혼하는 것을 막으려 한다. 소냐와의 결혼에 실패하면 다닐로는 감옥에 가게 되는 것이다. 우여곡절 끝에 다닐로는 소냐와 결혼을 약속하지만 그가 명령에 의해 자신에게 접근했음을 알게 된 소냐는 다닐로의 청혼을 거절하고, 결국 다닐로는 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 프란츠 레하르의 유명한 동명 오페라타를 각색한 영화. 경쾌한 음악과 활기 넘치는 대사를 루비치 만의 세련된 유머와 스타일로 증류해 낸 작품으로, 시대를 통틀어 가장 뛰어난 뮤지컬 영화라는 평가를 받으며 이후 할리우드 뮤지컬에 많은 영향을 미쳤다.
Receiver
The owner of a London clothing store is driven out of business, but later makes a triumphant return.
Jeweler (uncredited)
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
Herbert Morton
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
Craig Stephenson
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.
Robert Ames
Elaine Brooks marries Robert Ames, a junior member of the Department of Justice. Mrs. Durand, a spy uses underhanded means to steal important papers from Ames, which she gives to her superior, Dr. Kemp. Although she is innocent, Elaine becomes implicated in this plot.
Calvignac (as Wilmuth Merkyl)
A bit too immature for marriage, Cyprienne allows her pretty head to be turned by an egotistical fop. The girl demands that her husband Prunelles grant her a divorce, but he devises a scheme to bring her back into the matrimonial fold.
Jack Dexter (as Wilmuth Merkyl)
Having made public her disdain for wealthy men, musical comedy actress Elaine Elton is nonetheless ardently pursued by a handsome young millionaire who, for her sake, poses as his own chauffeur. A romance blossoms, but Elaine cannot accept the handsome millionaire's marriage proposal; she has already promised to marry a powerful producer who has threatened to blacklist her from Broadway if she refuses to become his bride.
Tompkins (as Wilmuth Merkyl)
The statue of Niobe comes to life through the dream of a hen-pecked old man.
Ernesto (as Wilmuth Merkyl)
The Celebrated Scandal