Edgar Norton

Edgar Norton

Nascimento : 1868-08-11, London, England, UK

Morte : 1953-02-06

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Norton (August 11, 1868 – February 6, 1953) was an English-born American character actor. Born in London, England on August 11, 1868, Norton was active on both stage and screen, his theater performances were on both the London and Broadway stages, and his film career spanned both the silent and "talkie" eras in Hollywood. During his thirty-year film career, he appeared in at least ninety films. Many consider his most memorable role to be that of Poole, the butler to Dr. Jekyll in the 1931 classic, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—a role he had been playing on-stage since 1898, opposite Richard Mansfield as Jekyll. He died in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles in February 1953.

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Edgar Norton

Filmes

Devoção
Club Member (uncredited)
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
As Aventuras do Capitão Kidd
Nobleman with King William III (uncredited)
Almirantado Britânico encarrega dois oficiais para juntarem provas para condenar o Capitão Kidd por pirataria. Trata-se de um raríssimo seriado de cinema de apenas 15 capítulos da década de 50 Pura Nostalgia!
Kitty
Earl of Campton
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Rings on Her Fingers
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
The Corsican Brothers
Colonna's Barber (Uncredited)
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Irmão Orquídea
Meadows - London Butler (uncredited)
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
A Casa das Sete Torres
Phineas Weed - Jaffrey's Servant
A decadência da família Pyncheon é simbolizada no aspecto sombrio de sua mansão, em cujas fundações estão a ganância, a traição e a arrogância. Persistirá o mal, como terrível maldição, enquanto sobreviverem os últimos Pyncheons.
Dois Palermas em Oxford
Professor Witherspoon (uncredited)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.
Rulers of the Sea
Mr. McKinnon (Uncredited)
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
Fouquet's Servant
Os Três Mosqueteiros vão resgatar o rei que está preso injustamente pelo seu irmão gêmeo. Luís XIV da França faz artimanhas para manter seu irmão gêmeo Philippe encarcerado em uma máscara de ferro, longe do conhecimento do público, que dava mostras de preferir Philippe como Rei da França. Mas os mosqueteiros e o camarada D’Artagnan se combinam para salvar Philippe.
Captain Fury
Governor's Aide - Hamilton
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
O Filho de Frankenstein
Benson
Barão Wolf von Frankenstein quer limpar o nome da família da desgraça. Com a ajuda de Ygor, Wolf consegue reanimar o monstro que seu pai criou. Mas quando vários aldeões são mortos misteriosamente, Wolf deverá encontrar o culpado.
O Cowboy e a Granfina
Smith's Servant (uncredited)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
You Can't Buy Luck
Rivers (uncredited)
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Bill Cracks Down
Jarvis, the Butler
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Beloved Enemy
Mr. Moll (Uncredited)
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Dá-me Teu Coração
Jenkins (uncredited)
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Trouble for Two
Herald (Uncredited)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
A Filha de Drácula
Hobbs
Dr. Van Helsing, pensando ter livrado Londres de todos os vampiros, é ao contrário preso por assassinato. Quando o destino de Van Helsing parece estar traçado, os corpos desaparecem repentinamente. Logo, inúmeras pessoas são encontradas mortas, seus corpos encharcados de sangue. Enquanto isso, a bela Condessa Marya Zaleska aparece em Londres. A problemática mulher procura a ajuda de Dr. Garth, psiquiatra de Van Helsing, para uma consulta.
August Week End
Grimsby
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man.
East of Java
Resident
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
When a Man's a Man
Gibbs
A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. But Phil, jealous of Kitty's attraction to Larry, lets Cambert know of the scheme.
Sons of Steel
Higgins
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
Imitação da Vida
Butler at Party (uncredited)
Uma viúva em dificuldades e sua filha recebem uma empregada negra e sua filha de pele clara; as duas mulheres iniciam um negócio de sucesso, mas enfrentam problemas familiares, de identidade e raciais ao longo do caminho. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
A Pequena Mais Rica do Mundo
Binkley - The Butler
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
Million Dollar Ransom
Meigs
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Princesa Por um Mês
Baron Passeria
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Strictly Dynamite
Meadows (uncredited)
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
The Worst Woman in Paris?
Valet
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
Only Yesterday
George (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
The Big Brain
Butler
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
A Lady's Profession
Crotchett
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
The Big Broadcast
Secretary to Bellows
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
Ama-me Esta Noite
Valet (uncredited)
Alfaiate parisiense se encontra fingindo ser um barão para ganhar um dinheiro de um aristocrata, somente para acabar se apaixonando por um jovem e despreocupada princesa.
The Man Called Back
Donaldson - St. Claire's Secretary
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
A Mulher Parisiense dos Cabelos de Fogo
Gaerste's Butler Tompkins (uncredited)
Lil trabalha para a Legendre Company e faz com que Bill, seu chefe, divorcie-se de sua mulher Irene e case-se com ela, forçando a sociedade a prestar atenção nela.
Redimida
Darrow's Butler (Uncredited)
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
O Médico e o Monstro
Poole
O Dr. Henry Jekyll acredita que há dois lados distintos para os homens: Um lado bom e um mal. Ele acredita que, ao separar os dois, o homem pode se libertar. Ele tem êxito em seus experimentos com produtos químicos, se transforma em Hyde e comete crimes horríveis. Quando ele interrompe o uso da droga, já é tarde demais ...
The Lady Refuses
Sir Gerald's Butler Dobbs
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
The Bachelor Father
Bolton
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Charley's Aunt
Spettigue's Lawyer (uncredited)
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
East Is West
Thomas
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Du Barry, A Sedutora
Renal
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
A Lady Surrenders
Butler
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
The Lady of Scandal
Morton
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
The Runaway Bride
Williams
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
One Romantic Night
Colonel Wunderlich
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Strictly Unconventional
Party Guest
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
The Man from Blankley's
Dawes
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
The Girl Said No
Alfred - Hettie's Butler
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Sarah and Son
Vanning's Butler (Uncredited)
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
Alvorada do Amor
Master of Ceremonies
A história da Rainha Louise da Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) e o seu novo marido, Conde Alfred (Maurice Chevalier). Embora o Conde Alfred tenha prometido, na cerimónia de casamento, ser um marido dócil, ele depressa se arrepende da sua decisão a partir do momento em que as suas ordens não são obedecidas e se vai tornando enfastiado com a vida que leva. Ameaçando partir para Paris, ele só é detido pela Rainha Louise quando ela lhe oferece o equivalente aos poderes de um rei...
Behind That Curtain
Galt
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk. John and Lois fly to San Francisco. Eric shows up and tries to kill John, but Scotland Yard's Lt. Charlie Chan intervenes. Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective only appears in a few scenes. The film is more noteworthy for its introduction of Boris Karloff to sound features, in a small role as a servant from Sudan who mutters inscrutable nonsense about the whims of the desert.
Oh Kay!
Lord Braggot
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Lutz
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
My Friend from India
Jennings the Butler
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
Singed
Ernie Whitehead
Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
Fast and Furious
Englishman
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
Marriage License?
Beadon
1926 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter McGrail.
The King On Main Street
Hugo Jensen
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
He's a Prince!
Valet
Prince Alexis is the son of the king of a small European country. His duties, though fairly unimportant, nevertheless keep him so busy that he has no time for anything else. One day he meets and falls in love with a pretty young girl and wants to spend as much time with her as possible, but the royal advisers won't allow it, as it would take away from his duties. To make matters worse, his father dies and Alexis becomes king. Frustrated at his position and his inability to spend time with the woman he loves, he comes up with a novel plan to solve his problems.
Enticement
William Blake
Enticement (1925)
Learning to Love
Butler
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
The Female
Clyde Wiel
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
Tiger Love
Don Victoriano Fuestes
Tiger Love silent film
Men
The Baron
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
The Wolf Man
Sir Reginald Stackpoole
Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage.
Woman-Proof
Cecil Updyke
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
Bright Lights of Broadway
Sherrill's butler / manservant
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
The Light in the Dark
Peters
Uma jovem é atingida pelo carro de uma dama da sociedade e fica gravemente ferida. Mais tarde, um ladrão fica sabendo que determinada taça poderia ser o Santo Graal, com poderes curativos, e se propõe a roubá-la, na tentativa de curar a garota que está morrendo e se mudou para seu cortiço. ("The Light of Faith" é a versão condensada de três rolos de "The Light In The Dark").
A Pair of Cupids
Martin
Henry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton, but she is only interested in her poodle, Frou Frou, and Peter devotes all of his attention to his business. To bring them together, Uncle Henry rents twin babies of the laundrywoman, Bridget McGroghan, placing one on Peter's doorstep and the other on Virginia's. Each discovering that the other has a baby, Peter and Virginia soon begin to share their views on child rearing and matrimony, and are about to become engaged when the babies disappear. Michael McGroghan, the twins' father, hires a pair of crooks to kidnap the babies so that he may collect the $25,000 bond that has been put up by Henry for their safe return. Peter, however, tracks down the kidnappers, and after the infants are returned to their grateful mother, he and Virginia look forward to having their own babies. (from the AFI)
The Amazons
Lord Tweenways
Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated society. A lost film.
A Órfã do Oceano
Hawkins the Valet
Cansada dos abusos e agressões do pai adotivo, Millie Jessup foge de casa. Ela se esconde em uma casa abandonada recentemente comprada por um escritor, e do encontro entre eles surge um grande amor.