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George Regas

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Birth name Geórgios Rígas(Γεώργιος Ρήγας)
Nationality Grece
Birth 9 november 1890
Death 13 december 1940 (at 50 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

George Regas (November 9, 1890 – December 13, 1940) was a Greek-born American actor.

Born in Sparta, Greece, he was the brother of actor Pedro Regas. He was a stage actor in Athens before coming to the U.S. In New York he played Romeo in a Grecian version of Romeo and Juliet.

In 1921 Regas acted in his first motion picture: The Love Light with Mary Pickford. This film was produced by Pickford's production company. He would go on to create character roles in over one hundred films. His rugged looks and Mediterranean complexion allowed him to play a wide variety of nationalities in action and adventure films. He was married to actress Reine Davies, the sister of Marion Davies. Starred as Mateo in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939).

Biography

Après des débuts au théâtre dans son pays natal, il émigre aux États-Unis où il s'installe définitivement. Il joue une seule fois à Broadway (New York), en 1932, dans la pièce Zombie de Kenneth S. Webb.

Au cinéma, sous son nom américanisé de George Regas (parfois George Rigas), il apparaît dans quatre-vingt-treize films américains (dont dix films muets), entre 1921 et 1940, année de sa mort prématurée, des complications d'une opération chirurgicale. On le retrouve régulièrement dans des seconds rôles de caractère (souvent non crédités) de type grec ou hispanique, ou encore d'indiens, à l'occasion de plusieurs westerns. Notons sa contribution à trois films adaptés du roman Beau Geste de Percival Christopher Wren, Beau Geste, version muette de 1926, puis Beau Ideal en 1931, et enfin Beau Geste, version de 1939 (avec Gary Cooper) ; dans les deux premiers, Ralph Forbes — qu'il retrouvera en 1936 dans Daniel Boone — interprète John Geste.

Son dernier film (sorti en 1940, un mois avant sa mort), l'un de ses plus connus, est Le Signe de Zorro, où il personnifie le Sergent Gonzales, aux côtés de Tyrone Power et Basil Rathbone.

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Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(9 films)
Dick Botiller
Dick Botiller
(8 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(7 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Regas (64 films)

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Actor

The Mark of Zorro, 1h34
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Children's films, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Sergeant Gonzales
Rating74% 3.744743.744743.744743.744743.74474
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is urgently called home by his father. To all outward appearances, he is the foppish son of wealthy ranchero and former Alcade Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), having returned to California after his military education in Spain. Don Diego is horrified at the way the common people are mistreated by the corrupt Alcalde, Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg), who had forced his father from the position. Don Diego then adopts the guise of El Zorro ("The Fox"), a masked outlaw, who becomes the defender of the common people and a champion for justice. Meanwhile, he romances the Alcalde's beautiful and innocent niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), whom he grows to love. As part of his plan, Don Diego simultaneously flirts with the Alcalde's wife Inez (Gale Sondergaard), filling her head with tales of Madrid fashion and culture and raising her desire to move there with her corrupt husband. In both his guises, Don Diego must contend with the governor's ablest henchman, the malevolent Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone). He eventually dispatches the Captain in a fast-moving rapier duel-to-the-death, forcing a regime change, Don Diego's plan all along.
North West Mounted Police, 2h6
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft
Roles Freddie
Rating63% 3.197823.197823.197823.197823.19782
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper) is sent to Canada during the 1880s in pursuit of outlaw Jacques Corbeau (George Bancroft), arriving in the midst of the Riel Rebellion. Dusty meets nurse April Logan (Madeleine Carroll) and quickly falls in love with her. However, she is already involved with Canadian Mountie Sergeant Jim Britt (Preston Foster). Dusty and April have become involved with one another, which becomes evident to Jim, to whom April wishes to remain loyal.
'Til We Meet Again, 1h39
Directed by Anatole Litvak, William K. Howard, Edmund Goulding, William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie Barnes, Frank McHugh
Roles Mexican Bartender (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3422653.3422653.3422653.3422653.342265
Total strangers Dan Hardesty (George Brent) and Joan Ames (Merle Oberon) meet by chance in a bar in Hong Kong. They share a single drink before leaving, called by Dan the "Paradise Cocktail". They romantically shatter their glasses, which Dan tells Joan is a tradition connected with the drink, along with leaving the broken stems crossed. Outside, after Joan has left, Dan is handcuffed by Lieutenant Steve Burke of the San Francisco police (Pat O'Brien). Burke has spent a year chasing the convicted murderer around the world.
Torrid Zone, 1h28
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan
Roles Sergeant of Police
Rating66% 3.3465153.3465153.3465153.3465153.346515
Steve Case (Pat O'Brien) has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation. A revolutionary, Rosario La Mata (George Tobias), is stirring up unrest among the workers, and the only man who can handle the situation, foreman Nick Butler (James Cagney), has just quit. Steve manages to persuade Nick to stick around (for a big bonus). Adding to the complications is Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), a woman whom Steve has ordered out of the region for causing a different kind of trouble among the men.
Virginia City, 1h58
Directed by Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, Miriam Hopkins, Michael Curtiz, Robert Buckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale
Roles Murrell's Halfbreed Henchman (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.395233.395233.395233.395233.39523
Union officer Kerry Bradford (Errol Flynn) stages a daring escape from a Confederate prison run by prison commander Vance Irby (Randolph Scott) after learning that the rebels plan to smuggle five million dollars in gold from Virginia City, Nevada (in Union territory), to Texas, from where it can be shipped to Richmond, Virginia to aid the Confederate war effort. Bradford reports to Union headquarters and is immediately sent to Virginia City to determine where the gold is being kept. On the stagecoach, he meets and falls in love with the elegant Julia Hayne (Miriam Hopkins), who unbeknownst to him is in fact a dance-hall girl—and a rebel spy! Also on the stagecoach is the legendary John Murrell (Humphrey Bogart), leader of a gang of "banditos" traveling as a gun salesman. Before he and his gang can rob the stage, Bradford gets the drop on them and they escape empty-handed.
Gunga Din
Gunga Din (1939)
, 1h57
Directed by Robert Parrish, George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Poésie, Political films, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine
Roles Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.595353.595353.595353.595353.59535
On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact has been lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur in the midst of a telegraph message. Colonel Weed (Montagu Love) dispatches a detachment of 25 British Indian Army troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the Royal Engineers, MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), Cutter (Cary Grant), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), long-time friends and veteran campaigners. Although they are a disciplinary headache for their colonel, they are the right men to send on a dangerous mission. Accompanying the detail are six Indian camp workers, including regimental bhisti (water carrier) Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe), who longs to throw off his lowly status and become a soldier of the Queen.
The Cat and the Canary, 1h12
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Indian Guide
Rating70% 3.5469653.5469653.5469653.5469653.546965
Cyrus Norman was a millionaire who lived in the Louisiana bayous with his mistress Miss Lu (Gale Sondergaard). Norman died ten years previous, and now an American Indian man (George Regas) paddles the executor of Norman's estate, Mr. Crosby (George Zucco), through alligator-infested waters to Norman's isolated mansion, where his will is to be read at midnight. At the mansion, Crosby meets Miss Lu, who lives there with a large black cat. When he removes the will from a safe, he discovers that someone has tampered with it.
Union Pacific, 2h15
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Charles Barton, James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Roles Indian Hearing Mollie's Telegraphy (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.542083.542083.542083.542083.54208
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1h25
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, George Zucco, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson
Roles Henchman Mateo
Rating72% 3.6449253.6449253.6449253.6449253.644925
The film begins with Moriarty and Holmes verbally sparring on the steps outside the Old Bailey where Moriarty has just been acquitted on a charge of murder due to lack of evidence. Holmes remarks, "You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it, pickled in alcohol, to the London Medical Society". "It would make an impressive exhibit", replies Moriarty.
The Oklahoma Kid, 1h25
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Western
Actors James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Ward Bond, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp
Roles Pedro (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1975253.1975253.1975253.1975253.197525
The American government has agreed with the Cherokee Indians to purchase the rights to their land known as the Cherokee Strip (actually, the Cherokee Outlet) in the future state of Oklahoma. After the money arrives by train, it is then loaded onto a stagecoach which subsequently gets robbed by Whip McCord (Humphrey Bogart) and his gang. Jim Kincaid, aka, "The Oklahoma Kid", (James Cagney) sees the robbery, and then ambushes the gang and makes off with the money.
Code of the Secret Service, 58minutes
Directed by Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Eddie Foy, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Moroni Olsen, Rosella Towne, Jack Mower, John Gallaudet
Roles Mexican Police Officer
Rating51% 2.565272.565272.565272.565272.56527
United States Secret Service Lieutenant Brass Bancroft (Ronald Reagan) and his partner, Gabby Watters (Eddie Foy, Jr., producer Bryan Foy's brother), seek engraving plates stolen from the U.S. Treasury Department, and the investigation leads Bancroft and Watters to pursue a counterfeiting ring in Mexico. Along the way, Bancroft is falsely blamed for the death of a fellow Secret Service agent, escapes from jail, captures the leader of the counterfeiting ring, and wins the heart of his love interest, Elaine (Rosella Towne).
Scouts to the Rescue
Directed by Ray Taylor, Alan James
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Vondell Darr, William Ruhl, Sidney Miller, Edwin Stanley, Frank Coghlan, Jr.
Roles Lokola -Indian Tribe High Priest
Rating57% 2.8744352.8744352.8744352.8744352.874435
A troop of boy scouts use a treasure map to find a stash of counterfeit notes and a lost tribe with a secret Radium deposit.
Beau Geste
Beau Geste (1939)
, 1h52
Directed by William A. Wellman, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes French war films
Actors Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Arab Scout (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.744563.744563.744563.744563.74456
The film opens up with a company of French Foreign Legionaries approaching a fort. From a distance it is perceived to be occupied, but upon closer inspection the bodies representing are found to be dead, only mounted for deception. However, a lone shot is fired from inside and two people investigate. One goes missing and the other finds a death note on one of the bodies admitting to the stealing of a valuable sapphire called the "Blue Water".
The Light That Failed, 1h39
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, Ronald Sinclair, Dudley Digges
Roles Cassavetti
Rating65% 3.292453.292453.292453.292453.29245
In 1865, youngster Dick Heldar is briefly blinded when his girlfriend Maisie accidentally fires his pistol too close to his head. She later tells him that her guardians are sending her away somewhere to be educated, but she agrees when he says she belongs to him "forever and ever".
The Rains Came, 1h43
Directed by Otto Brower, Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaïa
Roles Rajput (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.395583.395583.395583.395583.39558
The story centers on the redemption of its lead female character. George Brent is Tom Ransome, an artist who leads a rather dissolute if socially active life in the town of Ranchipur. His routine is shattered with the arrival of his former lover, Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy) who has since married the elderly Lord Esketh (Nigel Bruce). Lady Edwina first sets out to seduce, then gradually falls in love with, Major Rama Safti (Tyrone Power) who represents the "new India."