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Henry Victor is a Actor British born on 2 october 1892 at London (United-kingdom)
Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the silent era.
Raised in Germany, he made his film debut as Prince Andreas in The Revolutionist (1914), originally titled The Kings Romance. He appeared in literary interpreted pieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) and the Graham Cutts-directed The White Shadow (1923). Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the circus strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932). The role was originally considered for Victor McLaglen, with whom Browning had worked previously.
Never a leading man in sound films mainly due to his difficult to interpret accent, he established later in his career, and with the advent of talkies, many character roles, in which he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent such as the Ernst Lubitsch film, To Be or Not to Be (1942).
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 2 october 1892 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 15 march 1945 (at 52 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 2 october 1892 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 15 march 1945 (at 52 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Raised in Germany, he made his film debut as Prince Andreas in The Revolutionist (1914), originally titled The Kings Romance. He appeared in literary interpreted pieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) and the Graham Cutts-directed The White Shadow (1923). Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the circus strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932). The role was originally considered for Victor McLaglen, with whom Browning had worked previously.
Never a leading man in sound films mainly due to his difficult to interpret accent, he established later in his career, and with the advent of talkies, many character roles, in which he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent such as the Ernst Lubitsch film, To Be or Not to Be (1942).
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A Royal Scandal (1945)
, 1h35Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer
Roles Russian General (uncredited)
Rating66%
Une comtesse autrichienne souhaite que sa fille épouse un homme de son rang. Mais la princesse amoureuse d'un ingénieur des mines américain John Gavin, ne l'entend pas de cette oreille. Sur la vie amoureuse de l'impératrice de Russie (tsarine) Catherine la Grande. Scandale à la cour est le remake de "Paradis défendu" (Forbidden Paradise) film muet de 1924 d'après une pièce "Die Zarin" de Lajos Biró et Melchior Lengyel.
Betrayal from the East (1945)
, 1h22Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Lee Tracy, Regis Toomey, Nancy Kelly, Addison Richards, Richard Loo, Victor Sen Yung
Roles Brunzman (uncredited)
Rating60%
Un américain est recruté par un réseau d'espions japonais opérant aux États-Unis; ils recherchent en particulier des informations sur le Canal de Panama.
Mission to Moscow (1943)
, 2h4Directed by Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Roles Herr Schufeldt - Hamburg Official (uncredited)
Rating54%
The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe.
, 1h11Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Sherlock Holmes films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Kaaren Verne, Dennis Hoey, Holmes Herbert
Roles Professor Frederic Hoffner (uncredited)
Rating64%
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsight, in escaping a Gestapo trap in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly to London, where Holmes places him under the protection of his friend, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce). The scientist slips away against Holmes' instructions for a secret reunion with his fiancee, Charlotte Eberli (Kaaren Verne), and gives her an envelope containing a coded message. He tells Charlotte to give it to Holmes if anything should happen to him. Leaving Charlotte's apartment, an attempt to abduct him by German spies is foiled by a passing London bobby.
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors June Duprez, Philip Ahn, Elyse Knox, Henry Victor, Walter Sande, Nestor Paiva
Roles Heilrich
Rating63%
After service at Pearl Harbor, Naval Commander Don Winslow, and his friend and junior officer, Lieutenant "Red" Pennington, are assigned to the Coast Guard. There they are ordered to devote their activities to anti-fifth column work on the mainland. Winslow learns that The Scorpion, a fascist synthesizer, is in the pay of the Japanese and is expected to lay the ground work for a Japanese attack on the Pacific coast. Constantly in peril and aided by Mercedes Colby, the daughter of a Navy Admiral, they investigate secret island-bases and battles with submarines and enemy planes...
Nazty Nuisance (1943)
, 43minutesDirected by Glenn Tryon
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Johnny Arthur, Jean Porter, Ian Keith, Sam Lufkin, Henry Victor, Emory Parnell
Roles Kapitän von Popoff
Rating45%
Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler embarks on a secret journey to the oriental country of Norom to negotiate a treaty with the blood-thirsty High Chief Paj Mub, mostly because Paj Mub insists on meeting Hitler personally instead of making relations through Hitler's emissary, Kapitän von Popoff. Unfortunately, despite Hitler's insistence that they shouldn't be told and Goebbels' efforts to mislead them, his Axis partners Benito Mussolini of Italy and General Suki Yaki of Japan unsolicitedly appear at the submarine dock and invite themselves to the trip.
Above Suspicion (1943)
, 1h30Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Basil Rathbone, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Richard Ainley
Roles German Office (Uncredited)
Rating64%
In the spring of 1939 in England, Oxford University professor Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and his new bride Frances (Joan Crawford) decide to honeymoon on the continent. Because they are American tourists and therefore "above suspicion," they find themselves commissioned by the British secret service to find an apparently missing scientist who has developed a countermeasure against a new Nazi secret weapon, a magnetic sea mine. Without knowing his name, what he looks like, or where to find him, the couple look upon the search as adventurous and cross Europe seeking clues from clandestine contacts.
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
, 1h57Directed by Leo McCarey, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros
Roles German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Rating63%
In the days leading up to World War II, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque performer masquerading as American socialite "Katherine Butt-Smith", pronounced byüt-smith, is about to marry Austrian Baron Von Luber (Walter Slezak). Foreign correspondent Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant) suspects Von Luber of being a Nazi sympathizer and tries unsuccessfully to get information from Katie by deceit, but is warned off by Von Luber.
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
, 1h39Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Military humor in film, Films about television, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Roles Capt. Schultz
Rating80%
Before the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the stars of a theater company in Warsaw are the "ham" Josef Tura (Jack Benny) and his beautiful wife, Maria (Carole Lombard). As part of the company's rehearsal of a play satirizing the Nazis, one of the actors, Bronski (Tom Dugan), takes to the street to prove that he looks like Hitler in his costume and makeup. People gawk at the appearance of the Nazi dictator in Warsaw, until a young girl asks for the autograph of "Mr. Bronski."
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
, 1h26Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Cecil Cunningham, Lloyd Corrigan, Stella LeSaint
Roles Col. Bosch
Rating62%
Desperate Journey (1942)
, 1h47Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, John Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman, Ronald Sinclair
Roles Heinrich Schwarzmueller
Rating67%
Assigned to bomb a German railway, Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes (Errol Flynn) presses home an attack but flies too low and the RAF bomber is shot down near the former Polish border. Along with his crew, consisting of Flying Officer Johnny Hammond (Ronald Reagan), Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards (Alan Hale, Sr.), Flying Officer Jed Forrest (Arthur Kennedy) and Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis (Ronald Sinclair) who is wounded, they are captured by the Germans.
Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
, 1h14Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, George Reeves, Helene Whitney, Steven Geray, Henry Victor
Roles Rudolf Hagerman
Rating64%
Le détective privé Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) annonce à sa petite amie Merle Garland (Mary Beth Hughes) qu'il quitte son métier pour un travail à l'usine, moins dangereux pour lui. En réalité, il s'agit d'une couverture pour une nouvelle enquête. Lors de son premier jour à l'usine, des diamants sont dérobés et Shayne doit suivre leurs traces sur un bateau de croisière qui le mêne vers le Panama à la poursuite d'espions allemands ...
Dangerously They Live (1941)
, 1h17Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Esther Dale
Roles U-Boat Captain Horst (uncredited)
Rating63%
In New York City, German agents arrange for Jane Graystone (Nancy Coleman) to take a taxi driven by one of their own men. The abduction goes awry when the taxi collides with another vehicle. Both driver and passenger are taken to the hospital in an ambulance attended by intern Dr. Mike Lewis (John Garfield). On the way, Jane regains consciousness and claims to have amnesia; she cannot remember who she is. The driver reports this to his superiors. Mike is excited, as this is his area of study, and persuades Dr. Murdoch (Roland Drew) to let him take the case.
King of the Zombies (1941)
, 1h7Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer, Guy Usher
Roles Dr. Miklos Sangre
Rating52%
During World War II, a Capelis XC-12 plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily frightened manservant (Mantan Moreland) soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies, and confirms this with some of the doctor's hired help. Exploring, the three stumble upon a voodoo ritual being conducted in the cellar, where the doctor, who is in reality a foreign spy, is trying to acquire war intelligence from a captured US Admiral whose plane had crashed in a similar fashion on the island. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their master.
Underground (1941)
, 1h35Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Romance
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn, Kaaren Verne, Mona Maris, Peter Whitney, Martin Kosleck
Roles Gestapo Agent
Rating71%
Le film raconte l'histoire de deux frères, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en Allemagne. L'un fait partie de la résistance (underground) et l'autre est un nazi. Celui-ci va peu à peu douter de son engagement idéologique et rejoindre son frère dans la clandestinité.