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C. Henry Gordon is a Actor American born on 17 june 1884 at New York City (USA)

C. Henry Gordon

C. Henry Gordon
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Birth name Henry Racke
Nationality USA
Birth 17 june 1884 at New York City (USA)
Death 3 december 1940 (at 56 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

C. Henry Gordon (June 17, 1883 – December 3, 1940) was an American stage and film actor. Like many of his generation he enjoyed a long stage career, on and off Broadway, before entering films. Hence that well trained voice of his. He appeared in 79 films between 1930 and 1940. He was a Hollywood villain of the 1930s.

He was born Henry Racke in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California after having his leg amputated. He was educated both in New York and abroad in Switzerland and Germany. For some years he owned and ran a silver mine in New Mexico but failed to make it pay so he became an actor.

Biography

Sous le pseudonyme de C. Henry Gordon, il débute sa carrière au théâtre et joue à Broadway (New York) dans neuf pièces, entre 1922 et 1928, la dernière étant The Shanghai Gesture (qui sera adaptée au cinéma en 1941 ; film réalisé par Josef von Sternberg).

Deux ans après, en 1930, il apparaît au cinéma et contribue en tout à soixante-dix-neuf films américains, jusqu'en 1940, année où il meurt prématurèment. Un de ses films les mieux connus est Mata Hari en 1931, aux côtés de Greta Garbo qu'il retrouvera en 1937, avec Marie Walewska. Bien connu également est son rôle de Surat Khan en 1936, dans La Charge de la brigade légère, où il affronte Errol Flynn.

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(13 films)
Adrian
Adrian
(12 films)
Oscar Apfel
Oscar Apfel
(8 films)
Victor McLaglen
Victor McLaglen
(7 films)
Mischa Auer
Mischa Auer
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of C. Henry Gordon (73 films)

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Actor

Death on the Diamond
Death on the Diamond (1934)

Directed by Edward Sedgwick, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon, Paul Kelly
Roles Joe Karnes
Rating61% 3.050993.050993.050993.050993.05099
Un propriétaire de club de baseball recrute Larry Kelly, un jeune lanceur très prometteur de la ligue du Texas, pour son équipe de St. Louis Cardinal.
Fugitive Lovers
Fugitive Lovers (1934)
, 1h22
Directed by Richard Boleslawski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Madge Evans, Robert Montgomery, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon, Moe Howard
Roles Detective Daly
Rating64% 3.2370553.2370553.2370553.2370553.237055
Letty Morris (Madge Evans) is a New York dancer who's shunning the advances of the gangster "Legs" Caffey (Nat Pendleton) by jumping a cross-country bus to Hollywood. Legs learns of her plans and boards the bus. Along the way, the bus passes a penitentiary where a fugitive named Paul Porter (Robert Montgomery) made his escape and hides among the luggage.
Hide-Out
Hide-Out (1934)
, 1h21
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson, Mickey Rooney, Whitford Kane
Roles Tony Berrelli (the Boss)
Rating68% 3.443773.443773.443773.443773.44377
A womanizing racketeer (Montgomery) is wounded by police and hides out in a farmhouse, where he falls in love with a country girl (O'Sullivan) and meets her wholesome family.
This Side of Heaven
This Side of Heaven (1934)
, 1h17
Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Fay Bainter, Mae Clarke, Tom Brown, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle
Roles William Barnes
Rating65% 3.2894553.2894553.2894553.2894553.289455
Personal and professional problems eventually drive a man to attempt suicide.
Rasputin and the Empress
Rasputin and the Empress (1933)
, 2h1
Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard, Edward Arnold
Roles Grand Duke Igor
Rating64% 3.244583.244583.244583.244583.24458
The story takes place in the Russian Empire during the last years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II and the Czarina Alexandra. Reform-minded Prince Paul has long been concerned about the plight of the common people and knows a revolution is brewing. Prince Alexei, heir to the throne, is loved by the people but has hemophilia, and a slight fall turns out to be life-threatening. When royal physician Dr. Remezov is powerless to stop the boy's bleeding, Princess Natasha, Alexandra's lady-in-waiting and Paul's fiancee, recommends Rasputin as a healer. He convinces the frantic Empress that he has been sent by God to cure the child. Left alone with Alexei, he hypnotizes the boy and relieves his agony but also gradually makes Alexei a slave to his will.
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
, 1h30
Directed by Lowell Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Paul Kelly, Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Texas Guinan, Gregory Ratoff, Lucille Ball
Roles Tim Crowley
Rating64% 3.2380453.2380453.2380453.2380453.238045
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Night Flight
Night Flight (1933)
, 1h24
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Clark Gable, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy
Roles Daudet
Rating61% 3.0961853.0961853.0961853.0961853.096185
In South America, the daunting mountains and dangerous weather have hampered the operations of Trans-Andean European Air Mail, a 1930s-era airline. Charged with delivering a serum to stem an outbreak of infantile paralysis in Rio de Janeiro, Auguste Pellerin (Robert Montgomery) conquers his fears, but is reprimanded by the airline's stern director, A. Riviére (John Barrymore) for coming in late.
Penthouse
Penthouse (1933)
, 1h30
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes, C. Henry Gordon
Roles Jim Crelliman
Rating67% 3.3952853.3952853.3952853.3952853.395285
Attorney Jack Durant (Warner Baxter) successfully defends racketeer Tony Gaziotti (Nat Pendleton) against a high-profile murder charge and waives his fee. His staid law firm feels his taking the racketeer on as a client reflects badly on them; when he refuses to give up his exciting new line of work, they go their separate ways. His upper class girlfriend Sue Leonard (Martha Sleeper) turns down his proposal and breaks up with him for the same reason. Shortly afterward, Sue agrees to marry Tom Siddall (Phillips Holmes), but only if he gives up his mistress, Mimi Montagne (Mae Clarke). Although Tom offers Mimi a generous settlement, she becomes furious.
Stage Mother
Stage Mother (1933)
, 1h25
Directed by Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes, Ted Healy, Russell Hardie
Roles Ricco
Rating60% 3.000893.000893.000893.000893.00089
Four years after her vaudevillian husband's death, Kitty Lorraine, a frustrated former performer, marries comic Ralph Martin and returns to the stage, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter Shirley with her former in-laws. Fed up after ten years of Ralph's drinking, Kitty divorces him and sends for her now 14-year-old daughter. Two years of training allows Shirley to land a featured role in a touring music revue. Upon Shirley's return to New York City, Kitty blackmails the revue's manager into breaking Shirley's contract so she can take the starring role in a Broadway revue.
Gabriel Over the White House
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
, 1h26
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Samuel S. Hinds, Claire Du Brey
Roles Nick Diamond
Rating63% 3.19953.19953.19953.19953.1995
When the film opens, U.S. President Judson C. 'Judd' Hammond (Huston) (possibly a reference to Judson Harmon) is variously described as "a Hoover-like partisan hack" or "basically a do-nothing crook, based on, to some extent, Warren G. Harding." Then he suffers a near-fatal automobile accident and goes into a coma. Through what Portland State University instructor Dennis Grunes calls "possible divine intervention," Hammond (an "FDR lookalike") miraculously recovers, emerging "a changed man, an activist politician, a Roosevelt."
Turn Back the Clock
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
, 1h19
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox, Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier, Peggy Shannon, C. Henry Gordon
Roles Dave Holmes
Rating67% 3.3862053.3862053.3862053.3862053.386205
On March 23, 1933, Joe Gimlet (Lee Tracy) is a middle-aged cigar store owner, runs into his childhood friend, banker Ted Wright. While having dinner, with Joe and his wife Mary, Ted requests that Joe and Mary invest $4,000 in savings in Ted's company. Joe is excited by the idea, but Mary refuses to part with their savings. Angered by her reluctance, Joe gets drunk and declares to Mary that he should have married the wealthy Elvina. After drunkenly leaving the apartment, he is hit by a car. He is brought to hospital, to have a surgery.