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Harry Semels is a Actor American born on 20 november 1887 at New York City (USA)

Harry Semels

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Nationality USA
Birth 20 november 1887 at New York City (USA)
Death 2 march 1946 (at 58 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Harry Semels (November 20, 1887 - March 2, 1946) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 315 film between 1917 and 1946.

Biography

Semels had two children, Ruth and David. David was killed in action during World War II.

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George B. Seitz
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Harry Semels (144 films)

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Actor

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 Half-breed Archer
Rating63% 3.197413.197413.197413.197413.19741
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.
And One Was Beautiful
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Billie Burke, Jean Muir, Esther Dale, Charles Waldron
Roles Courtroom Spectator
Rating64% 3.238483.238483.238483.238483.23848
Glamorous socialite Helen Lattimer (Jean Muir) is reaching for the top of society, while her younger sister Kate (Laraine Day) is perfectly content as she is.
Little Nellie Kelly, 1h38
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Arthur Shields, Forrester Harvey, James Burke
Roles Immigrant at Citizenship Ceremony (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.19643.19643.19643.19643.1964
In Ireland, Jerry Kelly (George Murphy) marries his sweetheart, Nellie Noonan (Judy Garland) over the objections of her ne'er-do-well father, Michael Noonan (Charles Winninger), who swears never to speak to Jerry again, even though he reluctantly accompanies the newlyweds to America, where Jerry becomes a policeman, and all three become citizens. Michael continues to hold his grudge against Jerry, even when Nellie dies while giving birth to little Nellie.
New Moon
New Moon (1940)
, 1h45
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, Ivan F. Simpson, H. B. Warner
Roles Bondsman
Rating66% 3.3434553.3434553.3434553.3434553.343455
During the 18th century in New Orleans, Louisiana, a French nobleman in disguise as a bondsman, Charles (Nelson Eddy) leads his fellow bondsman in revolt against his ship's captain, commandeering the ship and heading out to sea.
They Drive by Night, 1h35
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, George Tobias
Roles Leo, Cashier (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5971753.5971753.5971753.5971753.597175
Brothers Joe (George Raft) and Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) are independent truck drivers who make a meager living transporting goods. Joe convinces Paul to start their own small, one-truck business, staying one step ahead of loan shark Farnsworth (an uncredited Charles Halton), who is trying to repossess their truck.
Phantom Raiders, 1h10
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton, John Carroll
Roles Cafe Bartender
Rating60% 3.0495853.0495853.0495853.0495853.049585
Nick Carter, aidé de Bartholomew, enquête sur des disparitions de cargos lors de leur passage du Canal de Panama.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson (1940)
, 1h37
Directed by George B. Seitz, John E. Burch
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber, Ward Bond, Renie Riano
Roles Aide
Rating62% 3.1455153.1455153.1455153.1455153.145515
Kit Carson (Jon Hall) and his two saddle pals, Ape (Ward Bond) and Lopez (Harold Huber) are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make their way to Fort Bridger, where Captain John Fremont (Dana Andrews) hires Carson to guide a wagon train westward to California south along the Oregon Trail. Both Carson and Fremont fall in love with pretty Dolores Murphy (Lynn Bari), on her way to her father's hacienda in Monterey. Meanwhile, General Castro (C. Henry Gordon), the Mexican Governor General of California, arms the Shoshoni Indians in an effort to keep the Americans out of California.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson (1940)
, 1h37
Directed by George B. Seitz
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber, Ward Bond, Renie Riano
Roles Aide
Rating62% 3.1455153.1455153.1455153.1455153.145515
Kit Carson et ses hommes se joignent à John C. Frémont sur la route qui le conduit en Californie. En chemin, ils sont attaqués par des Indiens envoyés par les autorités mexicaines, peu désireuses de les voir atteindre la Californie qui fait alors partie du Mexique. Frémont et Carson mènent ensuite une campagne, au nom des États-Unis, visant à annexer la Californie.
Ninotchka
Ninotchka (1939)
, 1h50
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Roles Gurganov (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8969353.8969353.8969353.8969353.896935
Three Russians, Iranov (Sig Ruman), Buljanov (Felix Bressart), and Kopalsky (Alexander Granach), are in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Upon arrival, they meet Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas), on a mission from the Russian Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), who wants to retrieve her jewelry before it is sold. He corrupts them and talks them into staying in Paris. The Soviet Union then sends Nina Ivanovna "Ninotchka" Yakushova (Greta Garbo), a special envoy whose goal is to go through with the jewelry sale and bring back the three men. Rigid and stern at first, she slowly becomes seduced by the West and the Count, who falls in love with her.
Midnight
Midnight (1939)
, 1h34
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Francis Lederer, Hedda Hopper
Roles Police Officer (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8948053.8948053.8948053.8948053.894805
American showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) arrives in Paris on a train from Monte Carlo during a rainstorm wearing an elegant evening dress. With no money and no place to stay, she arranges a deal with a soft-hearted Hungarian taxi driver named Tibor Czerny (Don Ameche), who agrees to drive her around to the city's nightclubs looking for a job in exchange for her doubling his fare. After an unsuccessful search, Tibor buys her dinner at a café and offers to let her stay overnight at his apartment while he finishes his night shift. While attracted to Tibor, she decides not to get involved with a poor taxi driver, and when he stops for gas, she slips away.
Balalaika
Balalaika (1939)
, 1h42
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Frank Morgan
Roles (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0944353.0944353.0944353.0944353.094435
In 1914 Tsarist Russia, Prince Peter Karagin (Nelson Eddy) is a captain of the Cossack Guards, riding home from manoeuvres to an evening of wine, women and song at St. Petersburg's Cafe Balalaika. The Balalaika's new star, Lydia Pavlovna Marakova (Ilona Massey), is blackmailed into attending the officers' party and is expected to choose a "favoured one." She intrigues Karagin when she makes good her escape instead.
Star Reporter, 1h2
Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Marsha Hunt, Morgan Wallace, Warren Hull, Wallis Clark, Clay Clement, Paul Fix
Roles Mike
Rating55% 2.771082.771082.771082.771082.77108
Star Reporter, John Randolph (Warren Hull), with his fiancée, Barbara Burnette, (Marsha Hunt), has faith in her Father, D.A. William Burnette (Wallis Clark), and throws the full weight of his newspaper behind him, in hopes of tracking down his own Father's killer.
Three Little Sew and Sews
Directed by Del Lord, Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Harry Semels, James C. Morton, Phyllis Barry
Roles Count Alfred Gehrol
Rating72% 3.6275853.6275853.6275853.6275853.627585
The Stooges are sailors employed in a naval base tailor shop. The three steal officer uniforms in order to pursue women. While pretending to be an Admiral, Curly and his "aides" (Moe and Larry) are tricked into stealing a submarine by a pair of spies. The Stooges eventually capture the spies, but whilst reenacting the capture for the real Admiral, Curly accidentally detonates a bomb. The short ends with the Stooges, now angels ascending to heaven, being chased by an angry Admiral, who is also now an angel.
Thunder Afloat, 1h35
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Grey, John Qualen, Leon Ames
Roles Cook on Tugboat (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1428153.1428153.1428153.1428153.142815
In a New England port town, Pop Thorson (Wallace Beery) and Rocky Blake (Chester Morris) are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it to keep Thorson from winning a lucrative contract to move barges of military supplies. Thorson is a widower who built his own tugboat and lives on it with his adult daughter Susan (Virginia Grey). She loves her father, but also likes Blake (who denies the sabotage) and does not want the two men to fight.
King of the Turf
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Dolores Costello, Walter Abel, William Demarest, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Harold Huber
Roles Coffee Pot Proprietor
Rating50% 2.5406052.5406052.5406052.5406052.540605
Jim Mason was once a distinguished figure in the sport of horse racing, but his reputation was ruined by a crooked race that caused the death of a horse and a jockey. He becomes an alcoholic and a drifter, forgotten by all.