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Walter Connolly is a Actor American born on 8 april 1887 at Cincinnati (USA)
Walter Connolly (April 8, 1887 – May 28, 1940) was an American character actor who appeared in almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939. His best known film is It Happened One Night.
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(1937)
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Walter Connolly
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 april 1887 at Cincinnati (USA)
Death 28 may 1940 (at 53 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Birth 8 april 1887 at Cincinnati (USA)
Death 28 may 1940 (at 53 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
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, 1h31Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram, Lynne Carver, Minor Watson
Roles The 'King'
Rating67%
Au milieu du XIX siècle, au bord du Mississippi, le jeune Huckleberry Finn vit chez la veuve Douglas et sa sœur, Miss Watson. Il a du mal à se tenir comme un gentleman, préférant l'école buissonnière et marcher pieds nus. Une nuit, Pap Finn, le père de Huck, se rend chez M Douglas et lui demande 800 dollars pour qu'elle puisse garder son fils. Entendant cela, Huck décide de partir pour qu'elle n'ait pas à payer, mais il est rattrapé par son père qui l'enferme dans une cabane. Le garçon réussit à s'enfuir, et laisse des indices suggérant qu'il aurait été tué et jeté dans le fleuve. Il remonte le fleuve et, quelque temps après, rencontre son ami Jim, un esclave de M Douglas qui s'est enfui car elle avait prévu de le vendre pour avoir assez d'argent pour garder Huck. À leur insu, les indices laissés par Huck et la disparition de Jim font croire aux autorités que c'est Jim le coupable du meurtre. Jim essaye de gagner un État non esclavagiste et de rejoindre sa femme, et Huck décide de l'aider. Plus en amont ils rencontrent le "King" et le "Duke", qui ont été débarqués d'un bateau pour avoir escroqués des passagers.
5th Ave Girl (1939)
, 1h23Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison, Tim Holt, Kathryn Adams Doty
Roles Mr. Borden
Rating67%
Wealthy industrialist Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) has problems both at work and at home. His employees at Amalgamated Pump are making demands that may drive the business he has built up from nothing into bankruptcy, and his son Tim (Tim Holt) has lost a major customer through neglect (he prefers playing polo). On his birthday, Borden's secretary gives him a loud tie as a gift, but when he goes home to his Fifth Avenue mansion, he finds nobody there but the servants. His unfaithful wife Martha (Verree Teasdale), his daughter Katherine (Kathryn Adams), and Tim have all forgotten or do not care.
The Great Victor Herbert (1939)
, 1h31Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly, Lee Bowman, Susanna Foster, Judith Barrett
Roles Victor Herbert
Rating56%
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
, 1h15Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis, Joan Perry, Isabel Jeans
Roles Olaf Brand
Rating67%
Jenny Swanson (Blondell) is a waitress in a small college town whose goal is to go to Paris. Jenny rationalizes a little gold-digging and blackmail to achieve her goal. She tries to explain this to the new professor Ronald Brooke (Douglas), and Brooke in turn tries to dissuade her from such schemes, telling her that "good girls go to Paris, too". When her first attempt at blackmailing ends with an attack of conscience and the necessity of leaving town. Instead of returning to her hometown as advised by Brooke, of whom she has grown fond, Jenny heads for New York. Brooke is also bound for New York where he is to marry the wealthy Sylvia Brand (Joan Perry).
Coast Guard (1939)
, 1h11Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Connolly, Warren Hymer, Robert Middlemass
Roles Tobias Bliss
Rating60%
Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower (Ralph Bellamy) commands a United States Coast Guard rescue ship. His best friend in the Coast Guard, Lieutenant Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw (Randolph Scott), is a highly regarded, but reckless pilot. In a daring rescue at sea, both men are involved in saving Tobias Bliss (Walter Connolly), the captain of a tramp steamer. At the base hospital, the two officers visit the rescued man and meet Nancy (Frances Dee), his granddaughter. Both friends fall in love with her, but Speed proposes first; broken-hearted, Ray still acts as the best man at the wedding.
Bridal Suite (1939)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Annabella, Robert Blake, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart
Roles Dr. Theodore Grauer
Rating56%
Start Cheering (1938)
, 1h18Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about television, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly, Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Broderick Crawford, Louis Prima
Roles Sam Lewis
Rating60%
Film star Ted Crosley (Charles Starrett) is fed up with Hollywood and quits the movies to enroll in college under a fake name. While Ted tries to fit in at academia, his frustrated managers (Walter Connolly, Jimmy Durante) try to have him expelled from the college in order for him to resume his Hollywood career.
Four's a Crowd (1938)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles, Walter Connolly, Hugh Herbert
Roles John P. Dillingwell
Rating62%
Reporter Jean Christy (Rosalind Russell) works for a newspaper in danger of being thrown away by its young owner, Pat Buckley (Patric Knowles), after Buckley has a falling-out with the editor-in-chief, Robert Lansford (Errol Flynn). Meanwhile, Lansford hopes to gain tycoon John Dillingwell's (Walter Connolly) business for his public relations firm, and uses his position at Buckley's paper to drum up good press for Dillingwell. In the process, he discovers that Dillingwell's granddaughter Lorri (Olivia de Havilland) is Buckley's fiancée. Lansford decides to try to charm Lorri while Christy makes a play for Buckley.
Penitentiary (1938)
, 1h19Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat, Marc Lawrence, Arthur Hohl
Roles Dist. Atty. Thomas Mathews
Rating62%
William Jordan (Howard) is befriended by the man who sent him to prison on a manslaughter charge, former DA now prison warden Matthews (Connolly). In order to give Jordan the opportunity to rehabilitate himself Matthews allows him to work as chauffeur to his daughter Elizabeth (Parker), though he's a bit uncomfortable when Elizabeth falls in love with the young convict. All of this extra effort goes out the window when Jordan, adhering to the "criminal code" of never snitching on a fellow con, allows himself to be implicated in the murder of another convict. Jordan is saved from the death penalty by a last-minute confession of his hard-bitten but honorable cellmate.
The Girl Downstairs (1938)
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Franchot Tone, Franciska Gaal, Walter Connolly, Rita Johnson, Reginald Gardiner, Reginald Owen
Roles Mr. Brown
Rating60%
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
, 1h47Directed by Jack Conway, Richard Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Johnny Hines, Leo Carrillo, Walter Connolly
Roles Gabby MacArthur
Rating65%
Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model airplane with his cameraman José Estanza (Leo Carrillo).
First Lady (1937)
, 1h23Directed by Stanley Logan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Victor Jory
Roles Carter Hibbard
Rating61%
The granddaughter of a President of the United States, Lucy Chase Wayne (Kay Francis) discreetly campaigns to gain the presidential nomination for her beloved husband, Secretary of State Stephen Wayne (Preston Foster). She tries to gain the support of rising Senator Gordon Keane (Victor Jory), a victory that would be doubly sweet inasmuch as he is the protégé of her despised arch-rival, Irene Hibbard (Verree Teasdale).
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
, 1h11Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Eduardo Ciannelli, Irene Hervey, Victor Kilian, Nana Bryant
Roles Nero Wolfe
Rating59%
Professor Hibbard (Leonard Mudie) requests for detective Nero Wolfe's assistance in tracking down the sender of a few sinister letters, which killed two of Hibbard's acquaintances. Prominent author Paul Chapin (Eduardo Ciannelli), who is a cripple, is pinpointed by Wolfe as the culprit. Wolfe rationally deduces that Chapin is out to play payback — decades ago, a prank then-Harvard University scholar Hibbard and a group of chums played on Chapin went awry, causing him to be in his current state. Hibbard shares with Wolfe that his daughter (Irene Hervey) is romantically involved with Chapin's elder brother, Mark (Joseph Allen). With that, he quietly makes a move.
Nothing Sacred (1937)
, 1h17Directed by William A. Wellman, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about journalists
Actors Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton
Roles Oliver Stone
Rating68%
New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) is blamed for passing off an ordinary African-American (Troy Brown) as an African nobleman hosting a charity event (despite his claims of not knowing this was false). Cook is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly) for another chance. Wally is sent to the (fictional) town of Warsaw, Vermont, to interview Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), a woman supposedly dying of radium poisoning. Cook finally locates Hazel, who is crying because her doctor has told her that she is not dying. Unaware of this, he invites her to New York as the guest of the Morning Star newspaper.
The Good Earth (1937)
, 2h18Directed by Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin, Gustav Machatý
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charley Grapewin, Keye Luke
Roles Uncle
Rating74%
In pre-World War I northern China, a young farmer Wang Lung (Paul Muni) marries O-Lan (Luise Rainer), a lowly servant at the Great House, the residence of the most powerful family in their village. O-Lan proves to be an excellent wife, hard working and uncomplaining. Wang Lung prospers. He buys more land, and O-Lan gives birth to two sons and a daughter. Meanwhile, the Great House begins to decline.