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Eddie Polo is a Actor and Director American born on 1 february 1875 at Los Angeles (USA)

Eddie Polo

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Birth name Edward W. Wyman / Weimer
Nationality USA
Birth 1 february 1875 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 14 june 1961 (at 86 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Eddie Polo (1 February 1875 – 14 June 1961) was an Austro-American actor of the silent era. He was born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. With his brother Sam he was the trapeze act The Flying Cordovas. Beginning in 1913, he appeared in serials and films in the USA and became an action star in Germany in the late 1920s. After his acting career ended in the mid-1940s he worked as a makeup artist. Polo died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

He was the father of actress Malvina Polo (1903-2000), best remembered as the mentally handicapped girl preyed upon for rape in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922). His brother was the acrobat, actor and makeup artist Sam Polo (1872-1966).

Biography

Jeune, il travailla comme artiste de cirque (trapéziste) et commença sa carrière au cinéma en 1913 en tant que cascadeur avant d'avoir régulièrement des rôles deux ans plus tard.

En 1915, il aurait réussi un saut en parachute depuis la Tour Eiffel.

À la fin des années 1920, il était une star du cinéma d'action en Allemagne.

Sa carrière d'acteur prit fin au milieu des années 1940 à Hollywood, et il devint ensuite maquilleur.

Il est le père de l'actrice Malvina Polo et le frère de l'acteur Sam Polo.

Usually with

J. P. McGowan
J. P. McGowan
(4 films)
Francis Ford
Francis Ford
(4 films)
Grace Cunard
Grace Cunard
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Eddie Polo (28 films)

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The Climax
The Climax (1944)
, 1h26
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, Thomas Gomez, June Vincent
Roles Stagehand (Uncredited)
Rating54% 2.705622.705622.705622.705622.70562
The physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, Dr. Hohner (Karloff) murders his fiancee, a prima donna, out of obsession and jealousy. Ten years later, he hears another young singer (Foster) who reminds him of the late diva, and is determined to make her sing only for him, even if it means silencing her forever.
Don Winslow of the Navy
Directed by Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Anne Nagel, John Litel, Walter Sande, John Holland, Samuel S. Hinds, Lane Chandler
Roles Taylor's Lab Assistant [Ch. 8]
Rating64% 3.23283.23283.23283.23283.2328
Commander Don Winslow is returned to the Office of Naval Intelligence from his command of his cruiser to investigate strange events on the Pacific island of Tangita, noticeably a ship being torpedoed. He discovers that there is a ring of saboteurs and enemy agents who are trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort. Though the US Navy is preparing to build a naval base on Tangita, an unknown foreign power secretly has a subterranean submarine base beneath the island with the goal of preventing the American base from being completed'
The Secret Code
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Clancy Cooper, Gregory Gaye, Ludwig Donath
Roles Special Delivery Messenger
Rating73% 3.675913.675913.675913.675913.67591
This serial introduces the World War II scenario when a masked hero tries to prevent Nazi agents from crippling the US's war effort. The spy ring is led by fifth columnist Jensen, who, with his lieutenant Rudy Thyssen and a network of Nazi saboteurs, is trying to get possession of a top-secret formula the United States had developed for manufacturing synthetic rubber while creating explosive gases and radio-controlled bombs to sabotage the exhausting war effort. Then Police Lieutenant Dan Barton stages a public dismissal from the police department, in order to join the saboteurs ring and learn the secret code they have been using. To further assist his efforts (especially after his superior, the only person to know that Barton is working undercover, is murdered), Barton assumes the secret identity of the Black Commando, a masked man who is wanted both by the villains (who want the secret formula they think he has) and police (who are also searching for Barton for murder). Finally, Barton steals the formula and is captured by Thyssen and put under the protection of the sabotage ring. Joining the gang, he learns of their plans, which he immediately leaks to his best friend and former partner Pat Flanagan and news reporter girlfriend Jean Ashley and, as "The Black Commando", continually frustrates the Nazi plots. After innumerable dangers and lost efforts in trying to decipher the enemy's secret codes, Barton and Flanagan discover the key to the Nazi code, capture the Nazi ring and make sure that the Nazi U-boat which has been waiting to help the Nazis escape is depth-bombed and destroyed.
The Wolf Man, 1h10
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi
Roles Churchgoer (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.597923.597923.597923.597923.59792
Sometime in the early twentieth century, after learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While there, Larry becomes romantically interested in a local girl named Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), who runs an antique shop. As a pretext to converse with her, he purchases a silver-headed walking stick decorated with a wolf. Gwen tells him that it represents a werewolf (which she defines as a man who changes into a wolf "at certain times of the year.")
It's a Date, 1h43
Directed by Joe Pasternak, William A. Seiter, Norman Krasna, Ralph J. Block, Frederick Kohner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Quarter Master
Rating63% 3.196523.196523.196523.196523.19652
The movie begins with Georgia Drake (Kay Francis) performing on the stage, singing "Gypsy Lullaby" while her daughter, Pamela (Deanna Durbin), watches with her boyfriend Freddie Miller (Lewis Howard). Georgia is an older Broadway actress who was once very famous. Her daughter, Pam, also has great acting skills and hopes to be a successful actress as well. At an after-party celebrating the closing of a play that Georgia was in, Pamela convinces director Sidney Simpson (Samuel S. Hinds) and writer Carl Ober (S.Z. Sakall) to attend one of the plays she is in. After the party ends, Pamela sings "Love is All" with the maid, Sara (Cecilia Loftus), playing piano and her mother listening.
Law and Order, 57minutes
Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, James Craig, Harry Cording, Earle Hodgins
Roles Bartender Ed
Rating60% 3.0462853.0462853.0462853.0462853.046285
At the beginning of the film, Bill Ralston arrests a bad cowboy named Deadwood and takes him to Judge Williams. Ralston returns to his girl, Sally Dixon, before she is shot in the chest 8 times by Brant, a goon of Deadwood's, and Poe Daggett, an old enemy of Ralston. Ralston shoots Daggett in the knee, and the two run away into the saloon. He sees all of his friends including Sheriff Fin Elder at the Saloon, and they sing him a song. Then Daggett comes behind the Sheriff and tries to kill him, but Poe's brother, Walt, stops him from doing it. Everyone gets into a big fight, and in the end, the only survivors are Bill Ralston and Sheriff Fin Elder.
Le Reporteur diabolique
Directed by Ernst Laemmle
Origin German
Genres Thriller
Actors Eddie Polo, Maria Forescu, Billy Wilder
Roles Reporter
Rating67% 3.3594053.3594053.3594053.3594053.359405