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Ian Keith is a Actor American born on 24 february 1899 at New York City (USA)
Ian Keith (February 27, 1899 – March 26, 1960) was an American actor.
Pour la télévision, il contribue à quelques séries entre 1949 et 1959.
Au théâtre, il joue à Broadway de 1921 à 1960.
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Ian Keith
Birth name Keith Ross
Nationality USA
Birth 24 february 1899 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 march 1960 (at 61 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 24 february 1899 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 march 1960 (at 61 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
Au cinéma, où il apparaît à partir de 1924 (il tourne une vingtaine de films muets), Ian Keith participe notamment à plusieurs réalisations de Cecil B. DeMille, depuis Le Signe de la croix en 1932, jusqu'à Les Dix Commandements en 1956 (son dernier film). Autre fait particulier, il interprète le Comte de Rochefort dans deux adaptations des Trois Mousquetaires d'Alexandre Dumas, en 1935 et en 1948.Pour la télévision, il contribue à quelques séries entre 1949 et 1959.
Au théâtre, il joue à Broadway de 1921 à 1960.
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
, 3h42Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Action, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about religion, La précarité, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, L'émigration
Actors Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget
Roles Rameses I
Rating78%
Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt has ordered the death of all firstborn Hebrew males after hearing the prophecy of the Deliverer, but a Hebrew woman named Yoshebel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh's daughter, who had recently lost her husband and the hope of ever having children of her own, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew and protests.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
, 1h15Directed by Ray Harryhausen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Natural horror films, Films about cephalopods, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Harry Lauter
Roles Adm. Burns
Rating58%
A nuclear submarine on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey), comes into contact with a massive sonar contact. The boat is disabled but manages to free itself and return to Pearl Harbor. Animal tissue of great proportions is discovered jammed in its dive planes. A man-and-woman team of marine biologists, Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue) and John Carter (Donald Curtis), is called in; they identify the tissue as being part of a gigantic octopus. The military authorities scoff, but are finally persuaded after receiving reports of missing swimmers and ships at sea being pulled under by a large animal. Both scientists conclude the sea beast is from the Mindanao Deep, having been forced from its natural habitat by hydrogen bomb testing in the area, which has made the giant creature radioactive, driving off its natural food supply.
New York Confidential (1955)
, 1h27Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens
Roles Waluska
Rating70%
Charlie Lupo is a gangster who runs the New York branch of a crime syndicate. He is a widower with a grown daughter, Kathy and a new lover, Iris.
Prince of Players (1955)
, 1h42Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television, Children's films
Actors Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Sellars
Roles Ghost of Hamlet's father in "Hamlet"
Rating66%
Edwin "Ned" Booth (Richard Burton) is the son of the noted thespian Junius Brutus Booth and the older brother of another actor, John Wilkes Booth. Beginning In 1848, as a boy, and into early manhood, he travels with and assists Junius, who is often drunk and seems at times on the brink of madness.
New York Confidential (1955)
Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Broderick Crawford, Anne Bancroft, Richard Conte, Marilyn Maxwell, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens
Roles Waluska
Rating70%
Installé à Chicago comme tueur à gages, Nick Magellan (Richard Conte) est appelé à New York par Charlie Lupo (Broderick Crawford), un puissant homme d'affaires corrompu qui dirige le lucratif syndicat du crime de Manhattan. Lors d'un règlement de comptes, trois des hommes de main de Lupo laissent de trop nombreuses traces de leurs passages. Pour se couvrir, Lupo charge Magellan de les éliminer. En parallèle à cette mission, Lupo lui demande de surveiller Katherine (Anne Bancroft), sa fille. Magellan tombe amoureux de la jeune femme et rate sa mission, mettant Lupo dans une situation délicate.
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
, 1h39Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Barbara Rush, Torin Thatcher, Herbert Marshall, David Farrar
Roles King Henry IV
Rating63%
Myles Falworth (Tony Curtis) and his sister Meg (Barbara Rush) live in obscurity on a farm in Crosbey-Dale with their guardian Diccon Bowman (Rhys Williams). This is to protect them from the attainder placed upon their family by King Henry IV of England (Ian Keith) because their father has been (falsely) accused of treason and murdered by the Earl of Alban (David Farrar). When a hunting party comprising the Earl of Alban, the lord of Crosbey-Dale, and another nobleman, Sir Robert, stop at their farm for refreshment, they are repulsed by Myles to stop them molesting his sister.
The Three Musketeers (1948)
, 2h5Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Vincent Price, Lana Turner, Angela Lansbury
Roles Rochefort
Rating70%
D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly), an inexperienced Gascon youth, travels to Paris to join the elite King's Musketeers. On his way, he encounters a mysterious lady at a roadside inn. When he picks a fight with one of her escorts, she becomes suspicious and has him knocked unconscious. His letter of introduction from his father to de Treville (Reginald Owen), the commander of the Musketeers, is burned. When he awakens, he continues on to the city.
Forever Amber (1947)
, 2h18Directed by Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, Glenn Langan
Roles Tybalt
Rating64%
The film begins in 1644 during the English Civil War, as we see a group of Roundheads pursuing a Cavalier's carriage. The carriage drives into the country where its passengers abandon a baby, named Amber, on the doorstep of a farming cottage. The roundheads soon catch up with the carriage and kill all the passengers while the farmers discover and decide to adopt Amber.
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
, 1hDirected by John Rawlins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ralph Byrd, Kay Christopher, Jack Lambert, Ian Keith, Bernadene Hayes, Jimmy Conlin
Roles Vitamin Flintheart
Rating57%
Ruthless killer Kerry Reynolds is known to the public as "The Claw" for her way of killing her victims with her prosthetic hook. After her accomplices Ryan and Taylor have broken in and stolen furs from the Flawless Furs warehouse, Kerry kills the guard with her hook.
Nightmare Alley (1947)
, 1h51Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Circus films, Films about magic and magicians, Escroquerie
Actors Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith
Roles Pete Krumbein
Rating76%
The movie follows the rise and fall of a con man—a story that begins and ends at a seedy traveling carnival. Fascinated by everything there, including a grotesque geek, Stanton "Stan" Carlisle (Tyrone Power) works with "Mademoiselle Zeena" (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). Once a top-billed act, Zeena and Pete used an ingenious code to make it appear that she had extraordinary mental powers, until her (unspecified) misdeeds drove Pete to drink and reduced them to working in a third-rate outfit. Stanton learns that many people want to buy the code from Zeena for a lot of money but she won't sell; she is saving it as a nest egg. He tries to romance Zeena into teaching it to him but she remains faithful to her husband and even hopes to send him to a detox clinic for alcoholics.
The Strange Woman (1946)
, 1h40Directed by Douglas Sirk, Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Noir, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke, Rhys Williams
Roles Lincoln Pittridge
Rating64%
In Bangor, Maine in 1824, a cruel young girl named Jenny Hager pushes a terrified Ephraim Poster into a river knowing he cannot swim. She is prepared to let him drown until Judge Saladine happens by, at which point Jenny jumps into the water and takes credit for saving the boy's life.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
, 1h2Directed by Gordon Douglas, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Morgan Conway, Dick Wessel, Esther Howard, Anne Jeffreys, Rita Corday, Ian Keith
Roles Vitamin Flintheart
Rating58%
Luxurious diamonds are stolen but before the thief can safely hide them aboard an ocean liner he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball. Cueball takes the valuable diamonds and is given refuge by Filthy Flora, madam of the Dripping Dagger Bar, and then continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy allows his attractive girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but is put in grave danger when Cueball vows to eliminate . . .
Mr. Hex (1946)
, 1h3Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey
Roles Mr. Raymond, the Hypnotist
Rating60%
The boys are trying to raise money for their friend Gloria. She has to give up her aspiring singing career in order to stay home and take care of her sick mother. Slip comes up with the idea to hypnotize Sach into thinking he is an unbeatable fighter so that they can enter him into a contest to win $2,500. Meanwhile, Gabe brokers a deal with a crooked nightclub owner to give Gloria the big break she has been waiting for. The nightclub owner then hires a ringer to fight Sach as well as his own hypnotist to counter Slip's control over Sach in order to collect a fortune from everyone who has bet on Sach.
The Spanish Main (1945)
, 1h40Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes, John Emery, Barton MacLane
Roles Captain Lussan
Rating62%
Dutch sea captain Laurent van Horn (Henreid) is shipwrecked off the coast of the Spanish settlement of Cartagena. After being held and sentenced to death, van Horn and his crew manage to escape. Five years later, van Horn has established himself as the mysterious pirate known only by the name of his ship: The Barracuda. After infiltrating the vessel ferrying her to her wedding, they capture Francisca Alvarado (O'Hara) who has been arranged to marry the corrupt governor (Slezak). Wishing to avoid further bloodshed aboard the escort ship, Francisca offers to marry van Horn if he will spare the escort, to which he agrees. Over time Francisca and van Horn become attracted to each other and set out to defeat the villainous governor Don Juan Alvarado and treacherous pirates Du Billar and Capt.
Fog Island (1945)
, 1h12Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan, Veda Ann Borg, Jacqueline deWit, Ian Keith
Roles Dr. Lake
Rating53%
A recent ex convict named Leo Grainer (so-called in the credits, but in fact referred to as Grainger throughout) lives secluded on Fog Island with the daughter of his murdered wife. Seeking to learn who murdered her, and to exact revenge on those who framed him and destroyed his business, he invites his former associates to his creepy island mansion on the pretext he may share a hidden fortune with them.