Francis Sayles

출생 : 1891-11-22, Buffalo, New York, USA

사망 : 1944-03-19

약력

Francis Sayles was born on November 22, 1891 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Legion (1937), The Purple Vigilantes (1938) and Midnight Phantom (1935). He died on March 19, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

참여 작품

Moonlight in Vermont
Dr. Stubbs
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
Crazy House
Stooge
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Honeymoon Lodge
Bailiff
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
코니 아일랜드
Heckler
1905년, 에디 존슨(Eddie Johnson : 죠지 몽고메리 분)은 옛 친구인 존 로코(Joe Rocco : 세사 로메로 분)가 경영하는 코니 아일랜드의 화려한 영업소, '오션 가든스'을 찾는다. 하지만 존 로코는 그를 그다지 반기지 않고 에디는 로코의 가게 건너편에서 가게를 하고 있는 프랭키(Frankie : 필 실버스 분)와 함께 사업을 구상한다. 한편 에디는 조의 여자인 불같은 성미의 댄서 케이트 팔리(Kate Farley: 베티 그레이블)가 스타가 될 잠재성이 있다고 생각하고 케이트를 다듬어 가기 시작한다. 결국 케이트는 일류 연예인의 자질을 갖추게 되고 윌리엄 해머스타인(William Hammerstein : 매트 브리그스)의 후원 아래 브로드웨이의 일류 뮤지컬 스타가 된다. 하지만 정작 케이트를 열심히 키우던 에디는 조의 계략으로 케이트와 헤어지고 이후 케이트는 에디의 라이벌이 돼 버린 존 로코와 사귀게 된다. 하지마 머지않아 케이트는 자신이 사랑하는 에디의 품으로 돌아간다.
The Glass Key
Seedy-Looking Man at Campaign Headquarters (uncredited)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Alias Boston Blackie
Laundry Proprietor (uncredited)
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Sunset on the Desert
Desk Clerk
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Ben Freeman
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Pacific Blackout
Court Clerk
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
볼 오브 파이어
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
백과사전을 만들기 위해 모인 일곱 명의 학자들이 외딴 시골집에서 열심히 작업을 진행 중이다. 이 중 비속어 전문가인 학자가 클럽에서 일하는 한 여성에게 길거리 비속어에 대한 도움을 청하고, 마침 경찰과 건달들에게 쫓기던 그녀는 자신을 숨겨주는 조건으로 제안에 응한다. ‘백설공주와 일곱 명의 난장이’를 재치 있게 변주한 스크루볼 코미디 영화.
Bad Man of Deadwood
Show Spectator
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
The Son of Davy Crockett
Dr. Banks
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
시민 케인
Politician (uncredited)
1940년 뉴욕 인콰이어러지를 비롯, 수 많은 신문들의 발행인이었던 찰스 포스터 케인이 죽는다. 그는 당시 70세로 세계에서 손꼽히는 부자였으며, 죽음 직전에는 플로리다의 대저택에서 은둔 생활을 하고 있었다. 생전에 많은 정치인과도 친분을 맺고 있었고, 미국 정책에 막강한 영향력을 발휘하기도 했던 그는 자신에 대한 여러 얘기들에 대해 "나는 현재 미국인이고 과거에도 미국인이었으며 앞으로도 항상 미국인일 것이다"라고 일축하곤 했다. 잡지 편집장 록스톤은 그의 죽음을 취재하고자 기자 톰슨에게 케인이 죽기 전에 말했다는 장미꽃 봉오리가 무슨 뜻인지 알아오라고 한다. 톰슨은 케인의 주변 인물을 샅샅이 취재하기 시작하는데...
맨 메이드 몬스터
Frank Davis (uncredited)
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
One Crowded Night
Jasper, Postman
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Private Affairs
Bailiff (uncredited)
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Riders of Pasco Basin
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
Hollywood Cavalcade
Second Cab Driver
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
The Arizona Kid
Man Reporting Roy Alive
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
Riders of Black River
Doc Josh Greene
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
Overland with Kit Carson
Dr. Parker
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
대평원
Railwayman (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
The Night Riders
President James A. Garfield
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
닷지 시티
Stage Shotgun Guard (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Devil's Island
Boatman Taking Madame Lucien to Mainland
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Down on the Farm
Member of Chamber of Commerce
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
The Purple Vigilantes
Wiliam Jones
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.
Wells Fargo
Townsman
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
It Happened in Hollywood
Waiter
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
이지 리빙
Martin - Houseman (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
내일을 위한 길
Bartender (uncredited)
직장에서 은퇴 후 단 둘이서 다정하게 살아가던 바크와 루시 부부는 흩어져 살던 자식들을 불러 모아 은행에 집을 빼앗기게 됐다는 소식을 전해준다. 자식들은 경제적 어려움을 이유로 곤란해 하다가 결국 바크와 루시를 따로 모시겠다고 하고, 부부는 내키지 않아하면서도 어쩔 수 없이 이 결정을 받아들인다.
Black Legion
Charlie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Alibi for Murder
Waiter (Uncredited)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Satan Met a Lady
Detective (uncredited)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Big Brown Eyes
Barber (Uncredited)
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Midnight Phantom
Police Surgeon Kelly
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
One in a Million
Mr. Dickman
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
Bum Voyage
Madame Zaza's Manager (uncredited)
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Girl Missing
Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Blonde Venus
Charlie Blaine (uncredited)
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.
Strangers of the Evening
Roberts
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.