Henry Victor

Henry Victor

Nascimento : 1892-10-02, London, England

Morte : 1945-03-15

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films. Later in his career, he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent. He died at 52 of a brain tumor. He is buried in Chatsworth, California's at the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Victor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Henry Victor

Filmes

Betrayal from the East
Brunzman (uncredited)
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Czarina
Russian General (uncredited)
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Insuspeitos
German Office (Uncredited)
O professor Richard Myles e sua mulher Frances se preparam para sair em lua de mel na Alemanha quando são contratados pelo serviço secreto inglês. Eles precisam encontrar um misterioso cientista nazista determinado a destruir a Marinha britânica.
Missão em Moscou
Herr Schufeldt - Hamburg Official (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Heilrich
Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Sherlock Holmes e a Arma Secreta
Professor Frederic Hoffner (uncredited)
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
Agente Subterrâneo
Johann Schrode
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
Era Uma Lua de Mel
German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Col. Bosch
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Ser ou Não Ser
Capt. Schultz
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, na Polônia ocupada pelos nazistas, um grupo de atores de teatro deve ajudar a evitar que um espião, que possui informação sobre a resistência polonesa, entregue-a aos alemães.
Dois Tiros Silenciosos
Rudolf Hagerman
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Alarme no Atlântico
U-Boat Captain Horst (uncredited)
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
A Voz da Liberdade
Gestapo Agent
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
O Rei dos Zombies
Dr. Miklos Sangre
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
The Mad Doctor
Furber (Uncredited)
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Charter Pilot
Faber
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Fuga
Gestapo Officer with Hooked Nose (uncredited)
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Mystery Sea Raider
Cmdr. Bulow
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
A Pecadora
Dutch Police Officer (uncredited)
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Spring Parade
Dutch Officer
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Tempestades D'Alma
Gestapo Official Confiscating Book on Train
A família Roth leva uma vida tranquila em uma pequena vila nos Alpes alemães durante o início da década de 1930. Quando o nazismo chega ao poder, a família é dividida e Martin Brietner, um amigo da família é apanhado no turbilhão.
Zanzibar
Mate Simpson
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Nick Carter, Super Detetive
Hammil - tall spy boss
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Pack Up Your Troubles
Col. Schlager
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Espionage Agent
Foreign Official
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Thunder Afloat
German U-Boat Officer
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Nurse Edith Cavell
Jaubec
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Hotel Imperial
Sultanov (uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Confissões de um Espião Nazista
Wildebrandt
Ed Renard é um Homem do Governo investigando uma rede de espionagem nazista enorme nos Estados Unidos. Os contatos são descobertos e presos nos EUA, América Latina e Europa.
Our Fighting Navy
Lt. d'Enriquo
Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the Marines and the Customs" and Lieutenant Enricquo, the gunnery officer of the small republic's one battleship, have taken over the battleship, and the town. Most of the British citizens have taken refuge at the Consulate or have been evacuated to the small cruiser in Bianco's port, the "H. M. S. Audacious." But there are two major issues; the Consul's daughter, Pamela, and Canadian Lieutenant Bill Armstrong have been kidnapped by the rebels and now held hostage on the battleship "El Mirante," and El Presidente was visiting the consulate when the war broke out and is now under the protective custody of the British Empire.
The Great Barrier
Bulldog Kelly
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Conquest of the Air
Otto Lilienthal
This early docudrama uses dramatic re-enactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930's.
Fame
Actor
Comedy film...
Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Father
A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
The Way of Youth
M. Sylvestre
The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
Murder at Monte Carlo
Major
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
Tiger Bay
Olaf
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
I Spy
KPO
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
The Scotland Yard Mystery
Floyd
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
Luxury Liner
Baron von Luden
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Monstros
Hercules
Em um circo de atrações bizarras, a linda trapezista Cleopatra é cortejada pelo anão Hans, mas o rejeita até descobrir que este herdou uma fortuna. Seu plano, forjado com o amante Hercules, é casar para depois envenenar o pequeno, mas logo a armação é descoberta e os diferentes se unem pela vingança.
Suicide Fleet
Capt. Von Schlettow
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
The Seas Beneath
Baron Ernst von Steuben (U-boat commander)
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
One Heavenly Night
Almady, the Officer
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
Song of Soho
Henry
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
The Hate Ship
Count Boris Ivanoff
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
Tommy Atkins
Victor
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
After the Verdict
Mr. Sabine
A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
L'Argent
Jacques Hamelin
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
The Guns of Loos
John Grimlaw
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
The Luck of the Navy
Lt. Clive Stanton
A spy has his son steal an Admiral's submarine plans.
Topsy and Eva
Augustine St. Claire
Topsy is the main character in this movie. When the black girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned as a slave but nobody will bid on her, Little Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel. That's the one part of this movie that I found plausible: slaveholders often refused to buy children, since their upkeep in food usually exceeded any labour they performed. There's a gooey romantic subplot between Mariette (the niece of Simon Legree) and George Shelby, son of a prominent slaveholder.
The Fourth Commandment
Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially ambitious Mrs. Miller.
The Beloved Rogue
Thibault d'Aussigny
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Crossed Signals
Jack McDermott
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
Braveheart
Sam Harris
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
The White Monkey
Wilfrid Desert
Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new conventions that hurl their challenge to the old!
The Sins Ye Do
Ronald Hillier
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Ronald Cavendish
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
The White Shadow
Louis Chadwick
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive.
His Grace Gives Notice
George Berwick
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
Slaves of Destiny
Ralph Warriner
In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.
Henry, King of Navarre
Duc de Guise
In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.
The Royal Oak
Charles I / Charles II
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sweetheart masquerades as Charles. Only when she is brought before Cromwell is it discovered the switch has been made.
A Bill of Divorcement
Grey Meredith
Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
Diana of the Crossways
Hon. Percy Dacier
A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
A Romance of Old Baghdad
Horne Jerningham
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
Bentley's Conscience
Fletcer
A secretary takes the blame when his fiancée's father ruins his oil company.
The Old Wives' Tale
Gerald
A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
Dr. Lucien Calvert
A doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.
John Heriot's Wife
John Henriot
A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
As God Made Her
Seward Pendyne
A Lady persuades her son's lowly wife to desert him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray
She
Leo Vincey
An explorer is the reincarnated lover of a 2000-year-old queen. First adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's novel, unfortunately lost.
The King's Romance