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Dick Sutherland is a Actor American born on 22 december 1881 at Benton (USA)
Dick Sutherland (December 23, 1881 – February 3, 1934) was an American film actor, mostly during the silent film era. Born in Benton, Kentucky as Archibald Thomas Johnson, he appeared in 76 films between 1921 and 1932. Sutherland died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack, at the age of 52.
His distinctive facial features were a result of acromegaly.
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Birth name Archibald Thomas Johnson
Nationality USA
Birth 22 december 1881 at Benton (USA)
Death 3 february 1934 (at 52 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 december 1881 at Benton (USA)
Death 3 february 1934 (at 52 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Dick Sutherland (December 23, 1881 – February 3, 1934) was an American film actor, mostly during the silent film era. Born in Benton, Kentucky as Archibald Thomas Johnson, he appeared in 76 films between 1921 and 1932. Sutherland died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack, at the age of 52.
His distinctive facial features were a result of acromegaly.
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The Beast of the City (1932)
, 1h26Directed by Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Gangster films
Actors Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall
Rating66%
Police Captain Jim Fitzpatrick (Walter Huston) is a dedicated family man and crime fighter not averse to using violence to fight violence. Although he's been demoted for political reasons, public outcry forces the mayor to take more aggressive action against sleazy gang boss Sam Belmonte (Jean Hersholt), and Fitzpatrick is promoted to police chief. His younger brother, Police Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (Wallace Ford), allows himself to be seduced by a languorously sexy Belmonte gang moll (Jean Harlow) and needs money to continue the relationship. Frustrated when his principled brother will not promote him, he betrays Jim's trust by conspiring with Belmonte's henchmen in a truck hijacking that results in the deaths of a child and another police officer. After a crooked lawyer is able to get those guilty off on all charges, the relentlessly determined Chief turns to vigilantism to rid the city of its "Beasts.
Chandu the Magician (1932)
, 1h14Directed by Marcel Varnel, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Henry B. Walthall, Irene Ware, Herbert Mundin, Nigel De Brulier
Roles Bidder at Slave Market (uncredited)
Rating61%
Frank Chandler had learned eastern magics from the Yogis in India and is now known as Chandu. He has the power to teleport, astral project, mesmerize, as well as project illusions. With these supernatural abilities he has been entrusted to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind." Specifically, an Egyptian villain known as Roxor, played by Bela Lugosi. Roxor kidnaps Chandu's brother-in-law, Robert Regent, an inventor who has developed a death ray with a range that covers half way round the world. Chandu must use his entire bag of tricks to rescue not only his brother-in-law but his sister and their children, whom Roxor has kidnapped in order to compel Regent into revealing the secrets of the death ray. Chandu's sweetheart Egyptian Princess Nadji also gets kidnapped, leaving Chandu to ponder whom to rescue first. Using his Yogi abilities, Chandu makes daring escapes, including one from a submerged sarcophagus. Eventually he succeeds in rescuing everyone and mesmerizing Roxor long enough to destroy the death ray and the villain's entire lair.
Moby Dick (1930)
, 1h20Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Cétacé, Films about disabilities, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Walter Long, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson, Nigel De Brulier
Roles Bit Part
Rating56%
The film tells of a sea captain's maniacal quest for revenge on a great white whale who has bitten off his leg. Ahab meets and falls in love with the daughter of the local minister, after disembarking in New Bedford. She falls in love with Barrymore and is heartbroken when he leaves on another voyage. During his next voyage, Ahab loses his leg to a large white whale. When he returns to New Bedford, he mistakenly believes that the woman he loves no longer wants to see him due to his disfigurement. He vows revenge against the whale, and to kill it or be killed in the process, and returns to sea.
The Hoose-Gow (1929)
, 18minutesDirected by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tiny Sandford, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall, Leo Willis
Roles Cook
Rating69%
Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. After attempting to escape and giving themselves up after the officer shoots them in the seats of their pants they are sent to dig ditches with other convicts on work detail. After sitting down to eat at the officer's table and chopping down a tree being used as a watchtower, they accidentally puncture the radiator in the prison inspector's car with a pickaxe and then stupidly try to patch it with rice on the advice of another convict. The rice boils up and spews out after the engine is started. This starts a rice-throwing melee with the visiting governor and his party.
Wild Orchids (1929)
, 1h40Directed by Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther, Dick Sutherland
Roles Bully Java Servant (uncredited)
Rating63%
John Sterling (Lewis Stone) takes his young wife Lillie (Greta Garbo) to Java where he plans to invest in tea plantations. Beyond the difference in years between the two, he is neglectful, which creates reactions of frustration from his romantic young wife.
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
, 1hDirected by Benjamin Christensen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, William V. Mong, Sheldon Lewis, Sōjin Kamiyama, DeWitt Jennings
Rating65%
Jim and Eve, a young society couple, are kidnapped on the eve of Jim's departure for Africa and brought to a mansion that is home to a strange and glamorous Satanic cult.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1928)
, 2h24Directed by Harry A. Pollard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Margarita Fischer, Rondo Hatton, George Siegmann, James B. Low, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Eulalie Jensen
Roles Sambo (uncredited)
Rating67%
L'Oncle Tom et Eliza sont tous deux esclaves de la même maison dans le Kentucky.
The Viking (1928)
, 1h30Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age
Actors Pauline Starke, Donald Crisp, Richard Alexander, LeRoy Mason, Anders Randolf, Harry Woods
Roles Viking (uncredited)
Rating65%
Lord Alwin (LeRoy Mason), Earl of Northumbria, is captured in a Viking raid and taken to Norway as a slave. There he is bought by Helga (Pauline Starke), an "orphan of noble blood" under the guardianship of Leif Ericsson (Donald Crisp). He proves a troublesome slave, and Leif's sailing master, Egil the Black (Harry Woods), prepares to kill him for his insolence, but Helga stops him. When Alwin challenges Egil to a swordfight, Leif is impressed by his courage and permits it. Alwin manages to break Egil's sword, but spares him. Helga then gives Alwin to Leif.
West of Zanzibar (1928)
, 1h5Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter, Jacqueline Gadsden, Kalla Pasha
Roles Cannibal (uncredited)
Rating71%
Anna (Jacqueline Gadsden) cannot bring herself to tell her professional magician husband, Phroso (Lon Chaney), that she is leaving him. Her lover, Crane (Lionel Barrymore), informs Phroso that he is taking Anna to Africa, shoving the distraught husband away so forcefully that he falls over a railing and is crippled, losing the use of his legs. After a year, Phroso learns that Anna has returned. He finds his wife dead in a church, with a baby beside her. He swears to avenge himself on both Crane and the child.
Honeymoon (1928)
, 1hOrigin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Polly Moran, Harry Gribbon, Bert Roach, Dick Sutherland
Roles Uncredited Bit
The Battle of the Century (1927)
, 19minutesDirected by Clyde Bruckman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Noah Young, Eugene Pallette, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin
Roles Dental patient
Rating70%
Hardy enrolls Laurel at a boxing competition. Laurel, however, is too weak, and unfortunately loses. Hardy then seeks advice from an insurer on how to easily earn a lot of money: Laurel has to have an injury, so that Hardy can then pocket the insurance money. Hardy places a banana peel on a sidewalk, bringing Laurel there. But a pastry chef stumbles on the peel, and gets angry with Hardy, throwing a pie in his face. Hardy responds to the provocation, and soon the entire city block is involved in an epic battle of pies.
Don Juan (1927)
, 2h47Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Warner Oland, Jane Winton, John Roche, Estelle Taylor
Roles Gentleman of Rome (uncredited)
Rating70%
In the prologue, Don José, warned of his wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle; abandoned to his lust, he is stabbed by his last mistress, and with his dying words he implores his son, Don Juan, to take all from women but yield nothing. Ten years later, young Don Juan a graduate of the University of Pisa, is famous as a lover and pursued by many women, including the powerful Lucretia Borgia, who invites him to her ball; his contempt for her incites her hatred of Adriana, the daughter of the Duke Della Varnese, with whom he is enraptured; and Lucretia plots to marry her to Donati and poison the duke. Don Juan intervenes and thwarts the scheme, winning the love of Adriana, but the Borgia declare war on the duke's kinsmen, offering them safety if Adriana marries Donati; Don Juan is summoned to the wedding, but he prefers death to marriage with Lucretia. He escapes and kills Donati in a duel; the lovers are led to the death-tower, but while Adriana pretends suicide, he escapes; and following a series of battles, he defeats his pursuers and is united with Adriana.
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
, 1h39Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Henry Victor, Slim Summerville, Lawson Butt
Roles Tristan l'Hermite
Rating69%
This script must be run from the command line
When a Man Loves (1927)
, 1h51Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam De Grasse, Holmes Herbert, Stuart Holmes
Roles Tavern Waiter (uncredited)
Rating69%
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux, who has forsworn the world for the church, falls passionately in love with young Manon Lescaut when he encounters her en route to a convent with her brother André. The lustful Comte Guillot de Morfontaine offers André a tempting sum for Manon, and learning of their bargain, Fabien takes her to Paris, where they spend an idyllic week in a garret. André finds her, persuades her to leave Fabien, and tries to force her into an alliance with Morfontaine--then rescues Manon from the advances of a brutal apache. Fabien, crushed to believe that Manon has become Morfontaine's mistress, is about to take his vows but is deterred by her love for him. King Louis sees Manon in Richelieu's drawing room and wins her. The rejected Morfontaine orders her arrest and deportation, but he is killed by Fabien, who joins Manon on a convict ship bound for America. After inciting the convicts to mutiny, he escapes with her in a small boat.
The Claw (1927)
Directed by Sidney Olcott
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Norman Kerry, Claire Windsor, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Nelson McDowell, Larry Steers, Billie Bennett
Roles Chief Logenbuela
Rating60%