Etienne Girardot
Рождение : 1856-02-22, London, England, UK
Смерть : 1939-11-10
История
Etienne Girardot was a diminutive character actor in Hollywood films through the 1930s, often portraying pestering types. He was born in London, England, UK and died in Hollywood, California, USA.
Doc Spriggs
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
Doctor
Звонарь Собора Парижской Богоматери Квазимодо, его опекун и верховный судья Жеан Фролло, поэт Пьер Гренгуар и капитан королевской гвардии Феб де Шатопер влюбляются в цыганку Эсмеральду, но не предполагают, что тем самым обрекают её на верную смерть.
Professor Artemus Glenwater
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
Alonzo Dilman
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
Caretaker
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Poindexter
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
Papa Aubel
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Christopher Oates
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Hinkley - Secretary
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Judge Henry
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Bruneau
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
Jean Cabot
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Mr. Meggs
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
Albert Pemberton
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Waldo Peebles
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Mayor
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Hercules Dove
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Prof. Herbert Rigby
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
Kendrick Kinney
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Principal
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Du Fresne
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Dr. Alexander Cotton
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Dr. Doremus
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
Pluvius J. Aspinwall, the Rainmaker
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a horse race between the favorites of each family. Unfortunately, the Martingale's horse, Greyboy, only runs well in mud. And it hasn't rained in a long time.
Nello
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Professor
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Brooke
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
Mr. Wyckoff
В детском приюте «Лэйксайд» под жестким контролем надзирательницы Хигенс воспитываются двадцать девочек сирот, среди них кудрявая Элизабет Блэр — ее родители артисты цирка трагически погибли. Элизабет чудный ребенок, она — душа компании и всегда придумывает что-нибудь забавное и необыкновенное.
Judge Peterby
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
Mouche
An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school.
Seaver
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Mr. Warburton
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Mellis
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Professor Peterson
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
Dr. Doremus - Coroner
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Mr. Tuttle
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Matthew J. Clark
Оскар Джаффе — успешный Бродвейский режиссер и продюсер, он ставит спектакли, которые собирают немалые деньги. Его боятся и уважают, успех постановок гарантирован, когда он говорит, все должны молчать. Его слово — закон. Однажды, во время очередной репетиции новой постановки, среди актеров-новичков он находит будущую звезду Бродвея Лили Гарлэнд. Эта девушка на три года становится его музой и их семейный дуэт «продюсер и актриса» возглавляет рейтинг успешных пар на театральных подмостках Нью-Йорка. Быстро текущее время и желание новых ощущений берет свое и в один из дней Лили решает порвать с театром ради карьеры в Голливуде. Фабрика грез манит красотку своими перспективами. Такой поворот сюжета не нравится Оскару: во-первых, жена — актриса приносит немалую прибыль его бизнесу; во-вторых, он все-таки, несмотря ни на что, ее любит.
Glass
Авантюрист и прощелыга Шервуд Нэш, разорившись на инвестиционном бизнесе, встречает модельера — дизайнера Линн Мэйсон. Её рисунки одежды дают ему идею для новой аферы. Он начинает нагло копировать последние модели одежды, которые поступают в престижные бутики и продавать их большими партиями в дешевых магазинах по бросовым ценам. Когда владельцы дорогих магазинов обнаруживают его жульничество, Шервуд предлагает им интересный компромисс: они должны послать его в Париж, чтобы он инкогнито сделал копии европейских дизайнов. Получив согласие, Шервуд и его партнеры следуют в Париж на встречу приключениям…
Mr. Abernathie
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Bail Bond Clerk
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
Dr. Doremus
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.
Hungarian Officer (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.
An old inventor is robbed of his inventions by an unscrupulous rich man. When the inventor dies, his daughter Violet goes to New York and joins the "Follies," where she is advertised as "The Belle of New York." The rich man's son is infatuated with Violet, and is introduced to her anonymously as Jack. When Violet learns of Jack's identity, she casts him off. He takes to drinking and she joins the Salvation Army. Jack is attacked in an underworld saloon just as Violet enters in Salvation Army attire. She nurses him at his home. When Jack's father discovers with whom Jack is in love, he begs forgiveness for the wrong he did Violet's father.
William Marsh
Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sister, Salome, from starvation. He falls in love with, and proposes marriage to Tryphena, but she tells him she must first make her success on the stage.
Pere Gerome
During the Franco-Prussian War, a violin teacher gets separated from his daughter. He spends years wandering across Europe looking for her.
Old Nick Jr.
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
Isadore - Brummel's Valet
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.
Gryde
With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film.