Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy

Nascimento : 1890-10-14, Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK

Morte : 1964-02-24

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Parish Conroy (14 October 1890 – 24 February 1964) was a British film and stage actor who appeared in many films, notably Grand Hotel (1932), The Little Minister (1934) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). He appeared on the Broadway stage and won a Tony Award for his performance in Graham Greene's The Potting Shed (1957).

Perfil

Frank Conroy

Filmes

O Poder e a Glória
Padre José
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
Espinhos da Carne
Dr. Sol Kelsey
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
O Moço da Filadélfia
Doctor Shippen Stearnes
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
A Última Caminhada
O'Flaherty
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
Little Moon of Alban
Father Curran
Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WW I she finds herself caring for what she considers the enemy. Then she begins to fall in love with soldier Kenneth Boyd.
O Dia em que a Terra Parou
Mr. Harley, Secretary to the President
Uma nave espacial pousa em Washington DC trazendo o alienígena Klaatu e seu robô Gort. Eles trazem um ultimato aos líderes da Terra para que acabem com as guerras e a corrida armamentista, o que estaria preocupando os habitantes de outros planetas. Logo no desembarque, Klaatu é baleado por um soldado que o julgava inimigo. É levado a um hospital, onde se cura rapidamente e recebe a visita do secretário de Estado dos Estados Unidos, a quem pede ajuda do presidente para organizar uma conferência de líderes mundiais. O secretário encaminha sua proposta ao governo, que a rejeita.
Lightning Strikes Twice
J.D. Nolan
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Homem Contra o Perigo
District Attorney Barker MacDonald
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
Legião Sinistra
Colonel Lemercier
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Sealed Verdict
Colonel Pike
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
Na Cova da Serpente
Dr. Jonathan Gifford
Uma crônica detalhada da estadia de uma mulher em uma instituição mental. Virginia Cunningham se encontra em um asilo de loucos... E não consegue se lembrar de como chegou lá. Em flashback, seu marido Robert relata seu namoro, casamento e seus sintomas em desenvolvimento. O pessoal do asilo não é demonizado, mas o medo, a ignorância e os preconceitos mantêm a Virgínia em um estado de miséria, enquanto o Dr. Mark Kik luta para encontrar a raiz de seu problema. Mas uma recaída leva Virgínia de volta para a angustiante 'Cova da Serpente' ...
For the Love of Mary
Samuel Litchfield
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Resgate de uma Consciência
Herbert Deever
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Cidade Nua
Capt. Donahue
Dois detetives da cidade de Nova York, Don Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) e Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) são designados pra investigar um misterioso assassinato de uma mulher. Seguindo os rastros de joias roubadas ligadas ao crime, os detetives localizam Ruth e seu noivo. Os dois, juntamente com o assassino da mulher, controlam um ladrão de joias que vem importunando a sociedade de Nova York. Um dos mais excitantes filmes do gênero "noir" da década.
Marcada pela Calúnia
Dr. Stone
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
A Morte Dirige o Espetáculo
'Stacchi' Stacciaro
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
Mergulho no Inferno
Capt. Bryson
Um tenente submarino e seu comandante se apaixonam pela mesma garota. Contra sua preferência pessoal, o comandante da embarcação PT Ward Stewart é nomeado diretor executivo do submarino USS Corsair. De licença antes de zarpar, ele conhece a professora Jean Hewlett e fica apaixonado... sem saber que ela é a queridinha de Dewey Connors, seu novo comandante. No mar, os homens criam um relacionamento enquanto lutam contra os navios alemães. Quando eles descobrirão sua rivalidade romântica mútua? Será que isso vai interferir num ataque de comando espetacular à uma base secreta alemã?
Consciências Mortas
Maj. Tetley
Dois vagabundos estão passando por uma cidade no oeste, quando chega a notícia de que um fazendeiro local foi assassinado e seu gado roubado. As pessoas da cidade se juntam aos vagabundos, formam uma patrulha para capturar os criminosos. Eles encontram três homens na posse do gado, e estão determinados a ver a justiça ser feita no local. Quando uma patrulha alcança três homens suspeitos de matar um fazendeiro local, alguns deles ficam fortemente divididos sobre se devem ou não linchar os homens.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
John Allan
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
Crossroads
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Carl Brissenden
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
This Woman Is Mine
First Mate Fox
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Uma Nação Em Marcha
Ward, banker
A história sobre o desenvolvimento das comunicações entre os Estados Unidos, durante sua rápida expansão no século XIX. A história narra a vida de Ramsey McCay (Joel McCrea), empregado da recém criada associação entre Henry Wells e William Fargo, e de como graças a sua dedicação, a Wells-Fargo chega a converter-se em uma grande empresa de correios e transporte de mercadorias para o Oeste, presente nos maiores acontecimentos de época.
The Last Gangster
Sid Gorman
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
Music for Madame
Morton Harding
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
That I May Live
Pop
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
Big Business
Leland Whitney
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
A Força do Coração
President William McKinley
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Dan Mallon
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
Love Is News
A.G. Findlay
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Ventura Roubada
Dupont
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
Charlie Chan na Ópera
Mr. Whitely
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Mulher Sublime
John C. Calhoun
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
A Astúcia de Nero Wolfe
Dr. Nathaniel Bradford
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
The White Angel
Mr. Le Froy
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Nobody's Fool
Jake Cavendish
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
Show Them No Mercy!
Reed
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Gaius Tanno
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
She Couldn't Take It
Henry Raleigh
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Só Assim Quero Viver
Doctor
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
A Nave de Satã
Defense Attorney
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
O Grito da Selva
John Blake
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
Charlie Chan no Egito
Prof. John Thurston
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
West Point of the Air
Capt. Cannon
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Sangue Cigano
Lord Rintoul
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
The White Parade
Dr. Thorne
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
Evelyn Prentice
District Attorney Farley
A criminal lawyer's wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
Wednesday's Child
Judge
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Return of the Terror
Prosecuting Attorney
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Such Women Are Dangerous
Bronson
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
Dada em Penhor
Doctor Ingalls
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.
Vencido pela Lei
Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Jim Wade (William Powell) e Edward "Blackie" Gallagher (Clark Gable) são amigos de infância que seguem caminhos distintos. Gallagher se torna um jogador e gângster, enquanto Wade é eleito promotor, devido à sua integridade, e se candidata a governador. Eleanor Packer (Myrna Loy), que tivera uma forte relação com Blackie, se casa com Wade. Neste período Wade se vê obrigado a pedir a pena de morte ao amigo, que foi acusado de assassinato, sem imaginar que Blackie cometeu o crime para ajudá-lo a se eleger governador.
Upperworld
Stream's Attorney Paul (uncredited)
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
The Crime Doctor
Martin Crowder
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Sempre Fiel
Capt. R.G. Deane
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
The Cat and the Fiddle
Theatre Owner
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Frontier Marshal
Oscar Reid
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
O Caso de Hilda Lake
Brisbane Coe
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
O Ás dos Ases
Wentworth
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
Asas da Noite
Radio Operator
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
O Passado de uma Mulher
District Attorney
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
Storm at Daybreak
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (uncredited)
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Ann Carver's Profession
Baker
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
Grande Hotel
Rohna
A dançarina Grusinskaya não crê no amor e não tem um rumo em sua vida, mas muda seu pensamento completamente ao conhecer o falido barão Felix von Geigern. Este, por sua vez, se torna amigo de Otto Kringelein, um homem que descobriu que está à beira da morte e decide passar seus últimos dias no luxuoso hotel em que está seu patrão, um rico empresário que pretende fechar um grande negócio e que conta com os serviços da taquígrafa Flaemmchen.
Disorderly Conduct
Tony Alsotto
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
Gigantes do Céu
Chaplain
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Manhattan Parade
Bill Brighton
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
West of Broadway
Judge Barham
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
Possuída
Horace Travers
Marian is a factory worker determined to leave the assembly line behind and move up in the world.
Bad Company
Markham King
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
The Royal Family of Broadway
Gilmore Marshall
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.