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George Reed is a Actor American born on 26 november 1866 at Macon (USA)

George Reed

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Birth name George Henry Reed
Nationality USA
Birth 26 november 1866 at Macon (USA)
Death 6 november 1952 (at 85 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

George H. Reed (November 27, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an African American actor working in the Hollywood film industry in both the silent and sound eras. His first major film was the 1920 Huckleberry Finn where he played Jim. He is also remembered for the film Green Pastures that featured an all African American cast and the orderly Conover in MGM's Dr. Kildare series.

Biography

Au cinéma, comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des petits rôles non crédités, George Reed contribue à cent-trente-huit films américains dès la période du muet, le premier étant Huckleberry Finn de William Desmond Taylor (1920, avec Martha Mattox et Frank Lanning). De cette première période, mentionnons aussi Scars of Jealousy de Lambert Hillyer (1923, avec Edmund Burns et Lloyd Hughes) et La Fille de Négofol de John Ford (1925, avec Henry B. Walthall et Gertrude Astor).

Actif principalement durant la période du parlant, il apparaît notamment dans Les Verts Pâturages de Marc Connelly et William Keighley (1936, avec Rex Ingram et Oscar Polk), Les Flibustiers de Cecil B. DeMille (1938, avec Fredric March et Akim Tamiroff) et Mon secrétaire travaille la nuit de Mitchell Leisen (1942, avec Rosalind Russell et Fred MacMurray). Ses quatre derniers films sortent en 1947, dont Le Maître de la prairie d'Elia Kazan (avec Katharine Hepburn et Spencer Tracy).

À noter encore son rôle récurrent de Conover dans onze films (y compris le dernier en 1947), dont Trois hommes en blanc de Willis Goldbeck (1944, avec Lionel Barrymore et Van Johnson) ; mais il tient surtout ce rôle dans sept films de la série cinématographique consacrée par la MGM au docteur James Kildare (1939-1942, avec Lew Ayres dans le rôle-titre et Lionel Barrymore).

George Reed meurt en 1952, à 85 ans.

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(22 films)
Willis Goldbeck
Willis Goldbeck
(13 films)
Alma Kruger
Alma Kruger
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Reed (92 films)

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Actor

The Homestretch, 1h39
Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Langan, Helen Walker, James Gleason, Henry Stephenson
Roles Dee Dee
Rating64% 3.231793.231793.231793.231793.23179
Jock Wallace and Kitty Brant are rival thoroughbred horse breeders. He outbids her for a promising but injured horse, Abby R, paying $500 for it, angering the owner's niece, Leslie Hale, who feels the horse is worth much more.
The Sea of Grass, 2h3
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Oncle Nat
Rating62% 3.1492353.1492353.1492353.1492353.149235
The film opens in St. Louis, Missouri, on Lutie Cameron's (Katharine Hepburn) wedding day. She has had a short courtship with a cattle rancher of New Mexico. As she dresses, she receives a telegram from her fiancé Col. Brewton (Spencer Tracy) telling her to board the train for New Mexico to marry him in the small town of Salt Fork. The first person she meets in town is Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas), who warns her of likely unhappiness with Brewton, locally considered a tyrant. He takes her to the courthouse, where she sees Brewton testifying against a settler who had tried to stake a claim to part of the government-owned land where Brewton runs his cattle.
Dark Delusion, 1h30
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Craig, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Bremer, Edward Arnold, Jayne Meadows, Henry Stephenson
Roles Conover
Rating60% 3.0492053.0492053.0492053.0492053.049205
Dr. Gillespie (Barrymore) asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt (Craig), to go to the small town of Bayhurst to replace a local doctor while he is on assignment to the Occupation effort in post-WWII Europe. There, Coalt is asked to sign mental-health commitment papers on a beautiful young socialite, Cynthia Grace (Bremer). Coalt thinks there is something amiss, and begins his own investigation.
Nob Hill
Nob Hill (1945)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner, Alan Reed, Rory Calhoun
Roles vieil homme au El Dorado
Rating62% 3.1451853.1451853.1451853.1451853.145185
Sally Templeton sings at Tony Angelo's popular turn-of-the-century nightclub in San Francisco, which is called the Gold Coast. She is also in love with Tony.
Strange Illusion, 1h27
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers, Regis Toomey, Charles Arnt, George Reed
Roles Benjamin
Rating61% 3.0963553.0963553.0963553.0963553.096355
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
Dangerous Partners, 1h14
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Mabel Paige, John Warburton
Roles un vieux porteur
Rating60% 3.0496953.0496953.0496953.0496953.049695
Les rescapés d'un accident d'avion découvrent une valise pleine de bons du Trésor, d'un valeur d'un million de dollars.
Saratoga Trunk, 2h15
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Florence Bates, Curt Bois, John Warburton
Roles Un conducteur de cariole à La Nouvelle Orléans
Rating63% 3.1962953.1962953.1962953.1962953.196295
In 1875, Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman), the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole father and a light-skinned Creole woman of color who was his placée, returns from Paris to her birthplace in Rampart Street to avenge her mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family, the Dulaines. Years ago, Clio's mother accidentally killed Dulaine when he tried to prevent her from committing suicide, and the scandalized Dulaines then exiled Clio and her mother to Paris. Clio is accompanied by her Haitian maid, Angelique (Flora Robson), and her dwarf manservant, Cupidon (Jerry Austin).
Between Two Women, 1h23
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Keenan Wynn, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger
Roles Conover (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.955732.955732.955732.955732.95573
This episode in the series should have been called Between Three Women, because there are plot strands involving three, not two, women. Dr. Gillespie's (Lionel Barrymore) assistant, Dr. Red Adams (Van Johnson), is still fending off the romantic advances of beautiful blond socialite and social worker Ruth Edley (Marilyn Maxwell), who finally succeeds in winning Red's heart. The second woman is a pretty night club singer Edna (Gloria DeHaven), who collapses suddenly one night after a show and cannot understand why she is no longer able to eat. Red finds out that a complicated subconscious obsession is the cause. The third woman is Sally (Marie Blake), the reliable and wise-cracking switchboard operator in all of the episodes. Sally is stricken with Bright's Disease and refuses to let anyone besides Red operate on her ailing kidney. Things turn out well for Red and all three women.
Home in Indiana, 1h43
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, Ward Bond, Charles Dingle, Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain
Roles Tuppy
Rating64% 3.2406653.2406653.2406653.2406653.240665
Having just been sent away to live with his uncle and aunt in Indiana, teenager Sparke Thornton (Lon McCallister) has a penchant for trouble. At first, he is not satisfied with the arrangement, and continues to express his rebellious behavior. Already on his first day, he plans on running away, but crossing a harness racing track convinces him to stay in Indiana. The owner, Godaw Boole (Charles Dingle) welcomes Sparke, and introduces him to Char Bruce (Jeanne Crain), a tomboyish girl who loves to race horses. Through a colored servant (George Reed) informs him that his uncle Thunder Bolt (Walter Brennan) was once part of harness horse racing as a respected sulky driver.
The Adventures of Mark Twain, 2h10
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Films about writers
Actors Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine
Roles un observateur de la comète
Rating70% 3.5436953.5436953.5436953.5436953.543695
A group of people are watching Halley's Comet overhead when Judge Clemens is called away for the birth of his son, Samuel Clemens. The film proceeds to mix in elements of many of Clemens' best-known stories as if they actually occurred. Thus, as he grows up, Sam plays with his friends Huck, Tom, and the slave boy Jim on a raft on the Mississippi, providing a fictitious "real–life" basis for the novels Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Barbary Coast Gent
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine, Frances Rafferty, Chill Wills, Noah Beery Sr.
Roles Josephus
Rating61% 3.0920553.0920553.0920553.0920553.092055
Honest Plush Brannon (Wallace Beery) is a confidence man from the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. He is engaged to Li'l Damish (Binnie Barnes) who is a saloon owner. Plush is in need of money to prove he can stand on his own. His plan to come by some money is disturbed by his ex-companion, Duke Cleat (John Carradine), who accuses Plush of doing him wrong in the past. After a quick showdown, Plush manages to shoot and wound Duke badly. Because of this, Plush is forced to leave town, and decides to take the train to Denver to find his luck. Aboard the train he meets an industrial railroad Millionaire, Bradford Bellamy I (Donald Meek) and convinces him he is about to serve the man in a blackmailing process. Bellamy I wants to throw Plush off the train, but instead they make a deal, that Plush will hold a speech in Bellamy I's name in Gold Town. Plush pretends to be Bellamy I's financial voice and is greeted as such in Gold Town. Even his old partner with whom he used to rob stage coaches, Johnny Adair (Ray Collins), believes him. Johnny's daughter, Portia (Frances Rafferty) is engaged to Bellamy I's grandson, Bradford Bellamy III (Bruce Kellogg). When Plush is attending a ceremony and is about to dedicate a cornerstone in the city, he accidentally discovers that the stone has gold in it. Plush prevents an article declaring that Bellamy III is engaging another woman, an Eastern debutante, to reach the press, and since Bellamy III have no intentions of engaging anyone but Portia, he is grateful to Plush. When the gold finding in the cornerstone is confirmed, Plush clais the ground where the stone is, and everyone in Gold Town wants to invest in his newly founded gold-mining company. Back in San Francisco, Duke has recovered from his injuries and seeks revenge. He finds out about Plush's luck, and at gun-point he forces Plush to give all his earnings to him. Broke and homeless, Plush is forced to rob a Wells Fargo payroll stagecoach. He leaves a poem at the crime scene, and after a few more robberies, he is known as the outlaw "Jingle Bill". The only stage coach that never gets robbed is the one Johnny drives. Plush uses his booty to start up the mining for gold in his company, and soon enough he strikes gold. In an attempt to catch the robber, Plush is forced to stage a robbery against Johnny's coach, in which Plush participates. Plush is shot and wounded by Johnny. Meanwhile, Li'l has come to Gold Town to warn Plush that Duke has been at her place, stolen a bunch of Plush's poems, and is headed to Gold Town. After the fake robbery, suspicion falls on Plush to be the robber. When Duke confronts Plush in the street, the two men once again have a showdown, ultimately shooting each other. Duke dies from his wounds, and the stolen poems are found on his body. Duke is taken for Jingle Bill, but Plush steps up and confesses he is the robber. He waves goodbye to Li'l, Bellamy III and Portia, as he is off to serve a one-year sentence in prison.
Heavenly Days, 1h11
Directed by Howard Estabrook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marian Driscoll Jordan, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Oliver, Raymond Walburn, Barbara Hale, Donald Douglas
Roles Bigbee's Servant (non crédité)
Rating60% 3.002733.002733.002733.002733.00273
3 Men in White, 1h25
Directed by Willis Goldbeck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Keye Luke, Ava Gardner, Alma Kruger
Roles Conover
Rating60% 3.048743.048743.048743.048743.04874
Dr. Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?