John St. Polis

John St. Polis

Nascimento : 1873-11-24, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Morte : 1946-10-08

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John M. St. Polis (November 24, 1873 – October 8, 1946) was an American actor. St. Polis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before starting his film career, he made a name for himself on the Broadway stage, most notably in the role of Frederik in the original production of The Return of Peter Grimm (1911–12) and the play's revival in 1921, both performed at the Belasco Theatre. He appeared in 126 films between 1914 and 1943. In all of his early roles, the actor is billed as John Sainpolis. His best-known performances are as Etienne Laurier in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and as Comte Phillipe de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). St. Polis successfully made the transition from silent cinema to "talkies" with one of his most praised performances as Dr. John M. Besant, the father of Norma Besant (played by Mary Pickford) in Coquette (1929).

Perfil

John St. Polis

Filmes

Crossroads
Professor (uncredited)
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Haunted House
Simkins
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
On the Spot
Doc Hunter
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Joseph Manners
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
O Libertador
Minor Role (uncredited)
Filme biográfico sobre a vida de Abraham Lincoln, um dos mais marcantes presidentes dos Estados Unidos. A narrativa mostra desde a juventude de Lincoln, quanto era um advogado, até sua eleição para a Casa Branca.
They Shall Have Music
Davis
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Boys' Reformatory
Superintendent Keene
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Mr. Wong, Detetive
Roemer
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
The Mysterious Rider
Townsman
Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.
Phantom Ranger
Pat Doyle
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
International Crime
Roger Morton
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
Saleslady
Crane
A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
Mr. Sombra
Caleb Delthern
Lamont Cranston assume sua identidade secreta como "O Sombra", para impedir uma tentativa de assalto no escritório de um advogado. Quando a polícia investiga a cena do crime, Cranston deve assumir a identidade do advogado. Antes que ele possa sair, um telefonema chama o advogado para a casa de Delthern, um cliente rico, que quer um novo testamento redigido.Quando Cranston reúne-se com ele, Delthern é subitamente baleado, e Cranston é rapidamente envolvido em um novo mistério.
Jungle Menace
Chandler Elliott
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
Paradise Isle
Coxon
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
O Herói da Fronteira
Doctor
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
Below the Deadline
Mr. Abrams
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Três Sobre a Pista
Sam Corwin
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
A Última Testemunha
Jim
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
The Dark Hour
Dr. Munro
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
The Lady in Scarlet
Jerome T. Shelby
When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
Death from a Distance
Prof. Trowbridge
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Guilty Parents
Defense attorney
A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
Notorious But Nice
John J. Martin
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
King of the Arena
Governor
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
The World Gone Mad
Grover Cromwell
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Terror Trail
Colonel Charles Ormsby
A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen, he steps in to break up the gang.
The Match King
Banker (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.
Call Her Savage
Doctor Consoling Nasa (Uncredited)
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
The Gambling Sex
John Tracy
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
False Faces
Dr. McDonald
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
The Crusader
Robert Henley
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
Symphony of Six Million
Dr. Schifflen
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
Lena Rivers
John Nichols
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
Glória Amarga
Dr. Niergardt
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.
The Yellow Ticket
Passport Official at Airport
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
The Gay Diplomat
General
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
Their Mad Moment
Hotel Manager
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers (Lawrence Grant), but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera (Warner Baxter). Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother (Nance O'Neil) and former girlfriend,Stancia (Mary Doran), and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Transgression
Serafin, Arturo's Butler
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Men of the Sky
Madeleine's Father
In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.
Doctors' Wives
Dr. Mark Wyndram
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
Beau Ideal
Judge Advocate (as John M. St. Polis)
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
O Código Penal
Dr. Rinewulf
O promotor Mark Brady condena Robert Graham à prisão por assassinato. Em seguida, ele se torna o diretor do presídio onde Robert cumpre pena. Apesar de repelir a amizade de Mark (que acredita ser ele um bom sujeito, apesar de tudo...), Robert aceita ser seu motorista e apaixona-se por Mary, a filha de Mark, que corresponde. Certo dia, na prisão, o assassino Ned mata Runch, um delator. Robert, que testemunhou tudo, recusa-se a entregar Ned e Mark envia-o para a solitária. Mas Robert é durão e a situação fica nesse impasse até que Ned confessa.
Captain Thunder
Pedro
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
Kismet
The Imam Mahmud
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
O Querido das Mulheres
Don Diego
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
The Bad One
Judge
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
The Melody Man
Von Kemper
A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter Elsa (Alice Day).
Party Girl
John Rountree
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Fast Life
Andrew Stratton
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
Coquette
Dr. John M. Besant
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Why Be Good?
Pa Kelly
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
The Power of Silence
Defense Attorney
Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?
A Woman's Way
Mouvet
Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.
O Monstro do Circo
Surgeon (uncredited)
Um atirador de facas, de grande sucesso num circo por não ter braços e usar os pés nos seus números, esconde um grande segredo.
Too Many Crooks
Erastus Mason
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
The Lily
Comte de Maigny
The Greater Glory
Prof. Leopold Eberhardt (as John Sainpolis)
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
O Fantasma da Ópera
Comte Philip de Chagny
Um compositor grotescamente desfigurado conhecido como o "Fantasma" assombra a casa de ópera de Paris, onde, apaixonado, ajuda secretamente Christine Daae a ser uma diva da ópera. Após atraí-la para seu covil subterrâneo, o Fantasma declara seu amor por ela. Mas Christine ama Raoul de Chagny e planeja fugir com ele depois de sua próxima apresentação. Quando o Fantasma descobre, ele rapta Christine, provocando a ira de Raoul - e uma horda de parisienses raivosos. O filme foi relançado com som, em 1929, usando discos de som da Vitaphone/Western Electric.
Paint and Powder
Mark Kelsey (as John Sainpolis)
Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fight with an East Side tough and finds a wallet on him belonging to a big theatrical manager. Jimmy, however, is accused of being the one who stole it and is thrown in jail.
My Lady's Lips
Inspector
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
The Dixie Handicap
Dexter
Tale of a man and his horse.
Folly of Vanity
Ridgeway (modern sequence)
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
The Rose of Paris
André du Vallois
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
The Alaskan
Rossland (as John Sainpolis)
An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
Those Who Dance
Monahan
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Mademoiselle Midnight
Colonel de Gontran (Prologue)
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Three Weeks
The King
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
Held to Answer
Hiram Burbeck
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Woman-Proof
Milo Bleech (as John Sainpolis)
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
The Social Code
The Untameable
Dr. Copin
The Most Shocking Film of 1923! Directed by Herbert Blache, The Untameable dramatizes the then-sensational subject of dual personality, with Gladys Walton in the dual role of Joy and her whip-toting, brutal, sadistic alter-ego Edna, and Etta Lee as her faithful Asian lesbian maid.
Three Wise Fools
John Crawshay
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
Almas à Venda
Himself - Celebrity Actor in Commissary
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Shadows
Nate Snow
Yen Sin, um chinês humilde, é lavado à terra depois de uma tempestade e encontra-se um estranho em na comunidade pesqueira profundamente cristã de Urkey. Yen Sin escolhe ficar, apesar de seu status de "pagão" desprezível, apenas para revelar a hipocrisia no meio da sociedade hipócrita .
Cappy Ricks
Skinner (as John Sainpolis)
When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of robbers. Matt falls in love with Florrie, whose father is ship owner Cappy Ricks (Charles S. Abbe).
Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse
Etienne Laurier
Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) éum filme mudo de 1921 produzido e realizado por Rex Ingram. Foi adaptado para cinema por June Mathis a partir do livro de Vicente Blasco Ibanez com o mesmo nome. Teve como actores principais Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard e AliceTerry. No filme Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse, Valentino é sensacional como Júlio,um dançarino de tango e conquistador de mulheres.
The Great Lover
Jean Paurel
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Kaiser
The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
Laughing Bill Hyde
Black Jack Burg
Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...
All Woman
Sam Tupper
Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon. As she struggles to make something of her new operation, she becomes involved in the life and difficulties of her new community....
The Love That Lives
Harvey Brooks
When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.
Sapho
Dejoie
The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
The Fortunes of Fifi
Duvernet
Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving Louis Bourcet tries to woo her because he wants her money. But Fifi wants nothing to do with him, and ultimately she gives up her money and returns to Cartouche. But Cartouche, believing he is too old, refuses to marry her until Napoleon himself orders him to do it.
The Salamander
Wormwood
Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors