Basil Ruysdael
Nascimento : 1888-07-24, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Morte : 1960-10-10
História
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Basil Ruysdael (July 24, 1888 - October 10, 1960) was an American film actor and opera singer.
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He started his career as a baritone singer for the Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1900's and appeared on the New York stage in 1918. Moving to California in 1923, he was a voice teacher for many actors. Encouraged to try acting himself, he made his big screen debut in "Cocoanuts" (1929). For the next 30 years he was a frequent character performer in films to include "Come to the Stable" (1949), "Broken Arrow" (1950), "People Will Talk" (1951), "The Last Hurrah" (1958) and "The Horse Soldiers" (1960). He also did voice over in "101 Dalmatians" (1961) and appeared on the TV shows "Perry Mason", "Official Detective", "Father knows Best" and "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. He at the age of 72 of complications following surgery.
Shammah
Ruth foi vendida quando criança a um grupo pagão e idolatrada como uma sacerdotisa. Ao crescer, conhece o hebreu Mahlon e é tocada por sua crença, mas o destino a obriga a embarcar em uma árdua jornada rumo a Jerusalém.
The Reverend (Jefferson Military Academy)
Baseado em um incidente da Guerra Civil americana, Marcha de Heróis mostra a coragem e determinação de uma tropa da Cavalaria que consegue se infiltrar em território inimigo para cumprir uma missão arriscada. Eles precisam eliminar uma base rebelde sulista que resiste bravamente a todos os ataques. Sem favorecer o Norte ou o Sul, o filme se tornou um tributo emocionante aos homens que lutaram e morreram nesta guerra entre irmãos. John Wayne, William Holden e o diretor John Ford se unem para criar um filme empolgante, repleto de ação, humor e romance que agrada a todos os estilos e idades.
The Episcopal Bishop
Em um mundo em mudança onde a televisão se tornou a principal fonte de informação, um jovem jornalista testemunha como seu tio, Frank Skeffington, um político veterano e honesto, prefeito de uma cidade da Nova Inglaterra, tenta ser reeleito enquanto banqueiros e empresários conspiram na sombra para colocar um candidato fraco e manejável no conselho da cidade.
Judge
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Shem Hoktor
Encontrado ferido pelo fazendeiro Shep Horgan, Jubal Troop aceita um emprego como peão e logo ganha a confiança de Shep. Mae Horgan, sentindo que está presa no casamento com Shep, dá bola para Jubal, embora ele esteja mais interessado em Naomi Hoktor que está viajando com uma carroça de pioneiro e está acampada nas terras de Shep. Pinky, que até então era o preferido e usava os favores de Mae, não gosta muito do novo arranjo e os problemas são inevitáveis. Um novo capataz rejeita os avanços sexuais da frustrada esposa de um fazendeiro, o que leva a conflitos que poderiam terminar em morte.
Chamberlain
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Tuan Michael
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
Gen. / President Andrew Jackson
Lendas e mitos sobre a vida do famoso rei das fronteiras americano Davey Crockett são retratadas nesse filme editado de episódios que foram originalmente ao ar na televisão. Crocket e seu amigo George Rrussell lutam na Creek Indian War. Depois Crockett entra para o congresso e traz sua postura inacabada à Câmara dos Representantes. Por fim, a jornada de Crockett e Russell até o Texas e sua participação no confronto final na batalha do Álamo.
Prof. A.R. Kraal
Um professor consegue emprego em uma escola de um bairro pobre em Nova York. Recebido com hostilidade, ele terá que enfrentar uma rotina dominada por gangues, delinqüentes, estupros e muita violência.
Tex Hinkleman
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
General Jackson
Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.
Rev. Hollingsworth
Xangai, China. Os últimos expatriados ocidentais que ainda vivem na cidade são mantidos em um hotel pelas autoridades comunistas a fim de encontrar o espião escondido entre eles.
An elderly couple of naturalized Germans living in the U. S. discovers after 60 years of marital bliss that, technically, they were never married.
Mr. Fitzgerald
A jovem Carrie (Jennifer Jones) viaja do Meio-Oeste dos Estados Unidos para Chicago em busca de crescimento na vida. No trem, ela conhece George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier), um respeitável homem de família e de boa situação financeira. O rapaz se apaixona por ela e se dispõe a largar tudo por seu amor.
Preacher Cole
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
Dean Lyman Brockwell
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
Dean Cazzley
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
Pierre Challon
Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
Cyrus Barrington
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Judge Ravinek
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
'Horse' Davis
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
General Oliver
Tom Jeffords tenta fazer a paz entre os colonos e os Apaches.
Em 1870, houve 10 anos de guerra cruel entre colonos e Apaches de Cochise. O ex-soldado Tom Jeffords salva a vida de um menino Apache e começa a se perguntar se os índios de fato não são humanos. Então ele resolve usar esta oportunidade de tornar-se um embaixador. Contra todas as probabilidades, a sua missão solitária na fortaleza de Cochise abre um diálogo. Oportunamente, o presidente envia o General Howard com ordens para concluir a paz. Mas, mesmo com a sorte de Jeffords, a queixa profunda e o ódio em ambos os lados fazem um trágico fracasso ser muito provável.
Father Moreno
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Judge Jonathan David Hancock
Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.
Dr. Francis I. Garard
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
Judge Walker
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Dave Rickard ('The Old Man')
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
The Bishop
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Narrator
A Washington Parade reel....
Narrator
This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world's largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even when their countries are wartime enemies. These munitions works, in the interest of making money, manipulate wartime conditions to prolong wars.
Detective Hennessy
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
