Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes

Рождение : 1878-05-16, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Смерть : 1959-09-30

Профиль

Taylor Holmes

Фильмы

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Self (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953]) (archive footage)
Her story is well-known - the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars. And yet, in spite of the breakdowns, the failed marriages, the sordid rumors surrounding her life -- and her death.
Спящая красавица
King Stefan (voice)
Давным-давно в далекой стране жили король с королевой. Когда у них родилась долгожданная дочь Аврора, в королевстве был устроен большой праздник, чтобы все могли поприветствовать малютку. На бал пригласили и трех добрых фей — Флору, Фауну и Хорошую Погоду, а про злую колдунью Мэлифисент забыли. Оскорбленная, она наложила на принцессу проклятье — в день своего 16-летия Аврора уколется о веретено и уснет вечным сном. Колдовство оказалось таким сильным, что добрые феи не смогли разрушить его. Но все же они спасли принцессу: она очнется ото сна после поцелуя прекрасного принца…
The Book of Acts Series
High Priest
The Book of Acts is a 10-part series of short Bible films dramatizing the 28 chapters that comprise the Acts of the Apostles. The series was produced in 1957 by Family Films on behalf of Broadman Films, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Peacemaker
Mr. Wren
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.
Королева воров
Pete Callaher
Кит Бенион выросла в Вирджинии. После Гражданской войны уехала в Вайоминг, где получила прозвище «Королева воров» из-за того, что ставила свое клеймо на весь угнанный в округе скот, в итоге сколотила состояние, открыла салун и скотоводческую компанию. Однако порвать с прошлым для нее оказалось не так просто. Чтобы заработать еще больше денег, она присоединяется к «Дикой банде» Буча Кэссиди, которая безнаказанно занимается грабежами и разбоями от Канады до мексиканской границы. Однажды в ее салуне появляется человек, который называет себя племянником знаменитых братьев Янгеров, досрочно освободившимся из тюрьмы в Стиллуотере и приехавшим в Вайоминг, чтобы войти в «Дикую банду». Кит даже не подозревает, насколько этот человек изменит ее судьбу. В то же время за бандой начинают охоту пинкертоны…
The Fighting Chance
Railbird
A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.
Hell's Outpost
Timothy Byers
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
Тобор Великий
Prof. Arnold Nordstrom
Научно-фантастический опус о психической связи робота и маленького мальчика. Два ученых создали супер-робота для исследования открытого космоса, но механическое чудо похищено вражескими агентами. А заодно и мальчик Брайан, с помощью которого шпионы намерены перепрограммировать робота на злые цели. Удастся ли Брайану удрать от своих похитителей?
The Outcast
Andrew Devlin
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
Untamed Heiress
Walter Martin
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first he must reclaim his stash of gold from the crooked Williams. Judy helps the old coot by taking on not only Williams, but duplicitous private detectives Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor, not to mention gangsters Spider Mike and Louie.
Джентльмены предпочитают блондинок
Mr. Esmond Sr.
Шоу-герлз Лорелей и Дороти отправляются на гастроли в Париж. За ними тайно следит частный детектив, нанятый сынком миллионера, безумно влюбленного в блондинку. Юный отпрыск твердо намерен оборвать нежную привязанность отца... Режисер Хоукс создал картину, проникнутую искренним чувством и нежностью. Он мастерски, с иронией и юмором использует стереотипы секс-символов, которые делают мужчин марионетками в ловких руках героинь. В этом фильме Монро впервые исполнила песню "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" - "Только бриллианты лучшие друзья девушек", которая в ее исполнении вошла в золотую коллекцию песен из кинофильмов 50-х годов.
Ride the Man Down
Lowell Priest
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
Beware, My Lovely
Walter Armstrong
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
Woman of the North Country
Andrew Dawson
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
Hoodlum Empire
Benjamin Lawton
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
Hold That Line
Dean Forrester
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Rhubarb
P. Duncan Munk
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
The First Legion
Father Keene
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
Double Deal
C.D. 'Corpus' Mills
An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.
Медный каньон
Theodosius Roberts
Группу рабочих медного рудника, терроризируют местные бандиты под предводительством помощника шерифа Лейна Тревиса. Рабочие наедятся на помощь актера Донни Картера, в прошлом известного полковника Десмонда. Но они ошибаются: шоу Джонни прибывает в городок и Джонни начинает ухаживать за прекрасной мошенницей Лизой Розель, которая, уверены рабочие, является центром их неприятностей.
Яркий лист
Calhoun - Lawyer
В 1894 году Брант Роял возвращается в южный город, который он вынужден был оставить с отцом из-за Синглтона, крупнейшего и богатейшего предпринимателя табачной отрасли. Роял, среди прочих планов, собирается жениться на дочери Синглтона, Маргарет, и принять в качестве приданного шикарный особняк «Яркий лист». Брант получает финансовую поддержку и возможность конкурировать с продукцией Синглтона. Наводнят ли рынок сигареты Рояла? Выберет он любовь или холодный расчет?
В клетке
Sen. Ted Donnolly (uncredited)
Захватывающая драма о женской тюрьме. Наивную 19-летнюю Мари Аллен отправляют в тюрьму штата Иллинойс за сообщничество в вооружённом ограблении, где ее соседями становятся бесчувственные преступницы и охранницы-садисты.
Отец невесты
Warner
Классическая комедия о выживании преданного отца с того момента, когда дочь объявляет о своей помолвке до того, пока последний гость покинет свадебный банкет. Адвокат Стэнли Бэнкс оказывается неподготовленным, когда его дочь Кэй объявляет о своей помолвке с Бакли Данстэном, в то время как жена Элли и сын Томми с энтузиазмом воспринимают новость. Для Стэнли обретение «сына» не повод терять дочку, которая выросла и живет своей жизнью. Может быть, все уладится, если Стэнли примет Бакли и переживет свадьбу.
Quicksand
Harvey
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
Woman in Hiding
Lucius Maury
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband (Stephen McNally), Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI (Howard Duff) recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
The Christmas Carol
Ebeneezer Scrooge
A Christmas Carol was a 1949 low-budget, black and white television special narrated by Vincent Price.
Once More, My Darling
Jed Connell
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Dr. Gibbs
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Dr. Benson
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Жанна Д'Арк
The Bishop of Avranches
В Северной Франции, истерзанной постоянными междоусобными войнами с бургундцами и многолетней войной с англичанами, в простой крестьянской семье Жака д`Арка родилась дочь Жанна. В возрасте 12-ти лет Жанна впервые познала божественный свет, и голос промолвил, что Богом на неё возложена миссия спасти Францию и изгнать англичан. Весной 1429 года девушка добралась до крепости на Луаре и добилась встречи с королем. Владыка поверил юной деве и поставил ее во главе отряда рыцарей. Рыцари Жанны Де Арк освобождали одну область Франции за другой…
Act of Violence
Gavery
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
That Wonderful Urge
Attorney Rice
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
The Plunderers
Eben Martin
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum (Cameron) to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
Hazard
Meeler
As part of a bet, a compulsive gambler agrees to marry the winner, a professional gambler. Before he can "collect," she skips town. The gambler hires a private detective to track her down so he can collect his "winnings."
Smart Woman
Dr. Jasper
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Let's Live Again
Uncle Jim
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
Аллея кошмаров
Ezra Grindle
Стэн Карлайл работал фокусником, «читавшим» чужие мысли на ярмарках и в передвижном цирке. Вскоре это перестало его удовлетворять, и он с помощью психиатра начал убеждать состоятельных людей, что способен входить в контакт с их умершими родственниками. Стареющий миллионер Гриндл, жаждущий пообщаться с покойной дочерью, обращается к Карлайлу.
Поцелуй смерти
Earl Howser
В рождественский сочельник бывший вор Ник Бьянко вновь встает на скользкую тропу преступления. Поднявшись на верхний этаж небоскреба, он с двумя подельниками грабит ювелирный магазин и пробует скрыться, но в этот раз ему не везет. Раненый пулей Ник доставлен в участок. Помощник окружного прокурора Луи Д`Анжело пытается убедить Ника сдать своих скрывшихся с драгоценностями дружков в обмен на освобождение. Герой не соглашается и следует в тюрьму, надеясь, что заботу о его жене и дочерях возьмет на себя криминальный мир.
Mr. Bell
Gardiner Hubbard
This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson invented the first discernible speech, transmitted over a telephone.
Бумеранг!
T.M. Wade
На углу улицы в одном из тихих городков Коннектикута убит священник. Испуганные горожане требуют от полиции действий. Все свидетели опознают Джона Уолдрона в качестве убийцы, хотя тот отрицает свою вину. Прокурор Генри Харви берется за это дело в надежде добраться до истины.
Make Way for a Lady
George Terry
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
The First Baby
Mr. Wells
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
Git Along Little Wifie
Husband
Ex-wife Lena Malena wants her alimony, but Taylor Holmes pleads poverty. So she moves in on him and current wife Natalie Moorhead.
Before Morning
Leo Bergman
A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.
Terry of the 'Times'
Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
Her Market Value
Courtney Brooks
Her Market Value is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Agnes Ayres. Powell produced the picture and distributed through Producers Distributing Corporation.
Twenty Dollars a Week
Nothing But Lies
George Cross
Nothing But the Truth
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett, an idle socialite, wagers $30,000 with his three friends that he can tell nothing but the truth for a period of one week. His troubles begin at a party where his friends' wives question Robert about their husbands' outside activities. Forced to tell the truth, Robert's veracity results in domestic disharmony. Consequently, his vengeful trio of friends pursue Robert for the next five days, intent upon silencing him until the week is over. They finally resort to committing Robert to an insane asylum where he escapes with the aid of Dolly, who is in love with him because she believes that Robert is a society thief.
It's a Bear
Orlando Wintrhop
As an entomologist and all-around wimp, Orlando Winthrop gets little respect from his wealthy parents. But when business needs to be taken care at the Winthrop sheep ranches out West, Orlando is raring to go. Upon his arrival, the ranchers see Orlando as an easy mark, but it turns out they're wrong. They try to take Orlando's money in a poker game -- and wind up broke themselves.
Ruggles of Red Gap
Marmaduke Ruggles
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
The Small Town Guy
Ernest Gledhill
Coaxed by sharpers, who seek to profit by his rustic innocence, the boy from the small town goes to the city with them and become, innocently enough, a successful swindler, but he learns of the deception and returns home, too ashamed to seek his old sweetheart. The crooks return to try a blackmail game, but Ernie's eyes are opened now. He cleans up in whirlwind fashion.
Fools For Luck
Philander Jepson
Philander has embraced every superstition imaginable, from hoarding rabbit's foots and horseshoes to avoiding the third light on a match. But his luck manages to run out anyway -- he loses his girl, Brunhilda and his job.
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
Edgar Bumpus
Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce. He first eliminates Wimple, his closest competitor, who plays a guitar, by learning to play a saxophone, which makes louder noise, and by sending Mary flowers and candy each time Wimple calls on her. The plan works O.K., until the saxophone disturbs Mr. Pierce's slumbers. He and Edgar clash and the latter is forbidden to visit Mary any more. Edgar employs a clipping bureau to send news items to Mr. Pierce which tells of the troubles young girls get into when their fathers refuse to let them have beaux. One eloped with a milkman; another disappeared. This has no effect upon Mr. Pierce, however, except to make him hate Edgar more. However, the youth's persistence finally wins Mary's love. Then Edgar plays his trump card. He gets Mary to sign a legal agreement to forfeit $10,000 to him, unless she marries him.