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King Baggot is a Actor, Director and Executive producer American born on 6 november 1879 at St. Louis (USA)
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon."
Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947; wrote 18 screenplays; and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles (1925) and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, Tumbleweeds (1925).
Among his film appearances, he was best known for The Scarlet Letter (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), and Ivanhoe (1913), which was filmed on location in Wales.
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Birth name William King Baggot
Nationality USA
Birth 6 november 1879 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 11 july 1948 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 6 november 1879 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 11 july 1948 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon."
Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947; wrote 18 screenplays; and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles (1925) and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, Tumbleweeds (1925).
Among his film appearances, he was best known for The Scarlet Letter (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), and Ivanhoe (1913), which was filmed on location in Wales.
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Il débute comme acteur dès 1905 et apparaît dans près de 300 films. Très populaire, il connaît cependant un recul de popularité après 1920. Il s'oriente intelligemment vers la mise en scène. Baggot excelle dans la comédie mondaine et le drame (The Kentucky Derby). Son chef-d'œuvre est pourtant un western, Tumbleweeds où il dirige son ami William S. Hart en 1925. Cet conflit classique entre héros et méchants comporte des scènes d'action d'une grande ampleur et montre qu'en plus d'une maîtrise du récit, il sait également diriger avec sûreté les mouvements de foule. Il se montre ainsi l'égal de Thomas H. Ince et de James Cruze. On lui doit également un des premiers Raffles, film policier mettant en scène un Arsène Lupin anglo-saxon. Incapable de s'adapter au film sonore, il n'apparaît après 1928 que dans des rôles épisodiques pour Frank Borzage ou Sam Wood et tombe dans l'oubli. La redécouverte de quelques-uns de ses films démontre son importance dans l'évolution du film d'action américain.Best films
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My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
, 1h32Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Edward Arnold, Charles Ruggles, Spring Byington, O. Z. Whitehead
Roles Bank Employee (uncredited)
Rating60%
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose (Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins) claims that he can converse with horses-and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder (Charles Ruggles), who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John (Peter Lawford) carries on a romance with the lovely Martha (Beverly Tyler).
Merton of the Movies (1947)
, 1h22Directed by Robert Alton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames, Alan Mowbray, Dick Wessel
Roles Man in Audience (uncredited)
Rating62%
, 1h53Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about capital punishment
Actors Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter
Roles Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Rating73%
Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter who stops at a rural diner for a meal and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a beautiful young woman, Cora Smith (Lana Turner), and her much older husband, Nick (Cecil Kellaway).
Holiday in Mexico (1946)
, 2h8Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Walter Pidgeon, José Iturbi, Roddy McDowall, Ilona Massey, Jane Powell, King Baggot
Rating60%
Jeffrey Evans (Walter Pidgeon), an American ambassador to Mexico, is the sole parent to his teenage daughter, Christine (Jane Powell). She finds fulfillment in managing her father's life and spending time with him. Her father forces her to attend a party where her childhood friend, Stanley Owen (Roddy McDowell), who has just turned sixteen, awaits her. In revenge she gives Stanley one of her father's expensive, brand-new tobacco pipes. Stanley, thinking that this gift was meant to show that he is finally a man, asks Christine to be "his girl", but she insists that she is too busy for that. Yvette Baranga (Helene Stanley), the daughter of the French ambassador, begs Christine if she can attend Jeffrey Evans' upcoming party. Christine agrees, unaware that Yvette has a crush on her father. When they return home, Christine asks her father to permit her to arrange the party, to which he agrees. The next day, Stanley comes to drive her to her errands. Christine apologizes for being rude to Stanley, and says he doesn't have to drive her, but he takes her to speak with Toni Karpathy (Ilona Massey), who agrees to sing at the party. Unbeknownst to Christine, Toni was once a love interest of her father.
The Secret Heart (1946)
, 1h37Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Patricia Medina, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Sterling
Roles Man at Graduation Ceremony
Rating64%
Lee (Claudette Colbert) is engaged to marry Larry Adams (Richard Derr), a spendthrift widower with two children, son Chase (Robert Sterling) and daughter Penny (June Allyson). Lee had been living in England with her guardian aunt, who didn't approve of the match since Larry was an alcoholic, and while returning to America on an ocean liner, she meets Chris Matthews (Walter Pidgeon), a close friend of Larry's. Despite her loving feelings for Chris, she marries Larry, and moves to his farm in Rhode Island. Larry's talent is playing the piano, which he teaches Penny, but he gave up this ambition to work in a bank, to please his father. This frustrated ambition has ruined his life, and over the next two years Lee tries to confront his alcoholism, while trying to win Penny's confidence. While Lee is out for the night with Chris, Larry dies, his body found at the bottom of a cliff. He had committed suicide after two years of marriage, and on his death, it is reported that Larry had embezzled money from his clients. Lee sends Chris away and moves the family away from the farm, to New York where she takes a job to pay off Larry's debts, and withholds the truth from Penny, wanting to shield her from the stigma of scandal. Penny makes a hero out of Larry, who she believes died of a heart attack, and is unable to embrace Lee, who is now left to look after them alone.
, 1h23Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Rags Ragland, Lucille Ball, Bob Haymes, Jean Porter
Roles Barbershop Patron (uncredited)
Rating62%
A barber, Buzz Curtis (Bud Abbott), and a porter, Abercrombie (Lou Costello), work for a Hollywood salon. They are sent to the office of agent Norman Royce (Warner Anderson) to give him a haircut and a shoeshine. On the way there they run into former co-worker Claire Warren (Frances Rafferty), who is about to star as the lead in a new musical. At the same time her co-star Gregory LeMaise (Carleton G. Young), whose fame is dwindling, arrives and invites her to join him at lunch. She declines, which angers him.
Swing Fever (1943)
, 1h19Directed by Tim Whelan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Nat Pendleton, Lena Horne, Curt Bois, Morris Ankrum
Roles Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Rating59%
Air Raid Wardens (1943)
, 1h7Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally, Nella Walker
Rating61%
Set during World War II, just after Pearl Harbor, Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success. They finally open it as a bicycle store, but it goes bankrupt and they close it down to enlist in the army. They fail in every attempt to succeed in the military and return to their home town Huxton only to find out that their store now is open, with a man named Eustace Middling (Donald Meek) in charge, selling radios instead of bicycles. But Middling offers the unfortunate brothers to share the space in a joint venture. Stan and oliie don't realize that Middling in fact is a German spy, using the shop as a front to cover a base for espionage on the US Military. The brothers also join the civil defense by becoming air raid wardens in Huxton. To complete their training, they have to take part in an advanced military drill, and Stan of course manages to get the wrong assignment—one that is far more complicated than they can handle. They set out on their mission, to rescue a very prominent banker, J.P. Norton (Howard Freeman), from a fire. They fail hugely with their mission, ending up burying the banker alive in a huge load of sand. Still, they are given one more chance to prove their aptitude as air raid wardens, involving the task of ensuring that all the town citizens turn off their lights at night. They get into a quarrel with one of the more troublesome inhabitants, Joe Bledsoe (Edgar Kennedy), resulting in a commotion and a rumor that spy activity is taking place in Joe's home. The brothers are knocked out, and in the end they are finally dismissed from the corps altogether. When they return to their shop, they happen to overhear the psies speaking German, and follow them to a hide-out outside of town. They find out that Middling's real name is Mittelhause, and overhear him talking about blowing the town's magnesium plant to pieces with another spy, Rittenhause (Henry O'Neill). The brothers try to send a message to the civil defense, but instead they are captured by the German spies. Stan accidentally knocks out one of the spies and the boys manage to flee and alert the civil defense, who arrive at the plant just in time to stop the sabotage. Stan and Ollie also expose Middling as a German spy.
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
, 1h36Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso, Richard Whorf, George Coulouris
Roles un paysan à l'église
Rating65%
Free French Captain Pierre Matard (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is assigned the task of locating a concealed U-boat pen in occupied France due to his striking resemblance to Bertrand Corlay, a suspected Nazi collaborator being held prisoner by the British.
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
, 1h33Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Frank McHugh, Elizabeth Patterson, King Baggot
Roles Police Officer in Courtroom (uncredited)
Rating59%
Songwriter Terry Trindale is attracted to Consuelo Croyden, a woman he sees nightly at a Palm Beach casino. He finally works up the courage to approach her and express his feelings, but she rebuffs his advances. When he later accrues a $3,200 gambling debt to her, Consuelo agrees to hire him as her secretary to work off what he owes her. One of Terry's duties is to assume the role of her fiancé in order to discourage the insistent attention of Tony Barling, to whom Consuelo once was engaged, and to keep her from succumbing to her former beau's charms.
Jackass Mail (1942)
, 1h19Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish, Darryl Hickman, William Haade, Dick Curtis
Roles Old Miner
Rating60%
Rio Rita (1942)
, 1h31Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Tom Conway, Patricia Dane
Roles Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Rating59%
Nazi spies have infiltrated the Hotel Vista del Rio, a resort on the Mexican border. They plan to use a radio broadcast by a famous guest, Ricardo Montera (John Carroll), to transmit coded messages to their cohorts. Doc (Bud Abbott) and Wishy (Lou Costello) are stowaways in Montera's car, who steal a basket of "apples" that turn out being miniature radios used by the spies. Rita Winslow (Kathryn Grayson), the hotel's owner and childhood sweetheart of Montera, hire Doc and Wishy as house detectives, who discover the Nazi codebook and give it to Montera. They are then kidnapped by the spies, and left in a room with a bomb set to explode, but manage to escape while Wishy plants the bomb in the pocket of one of the culprits. Meanwhile, the broadcast has already begun and Montera, refusing to participate in treason, fights the spies until the Texas Rangers arrive. The spies' escape by car is thwarted when the planted bomb finally explodes.
Fingers at the Window (1942)
, 1h20Directed by Charles Davies Lederer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford, Miles Mander, James Flavin
Roles Psychiatrist at Lecture (uncredited)
Rating62%
An axe murderer stalks Chicago. After six murders, the police identify six suspects, all of whom are lunatics not responsible for the crimes. Only one victim, socialite Edwina Brown (Laraine Day), has survived; she was rescued by actor Oliver Duffy (Lew Ayres).
Honky Tonk (1941)
, 1h45Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Claire Trevor, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker
Roles Townsman
Rating65%
Con man "Candy" Johnson (Clark Gable) and his friend "Sniper" (Chill Wills) flee town using quick wits and magic tricks. They catch a train to Yellow Creek, Nevada, where a gold rush is in progress. Aboard, he meets Elizabeth Cotton (Lana Turner); she takes an instant dislike to him. When they arrive, Candy is amused to discover she is the daughter of "Judge" Cotton (Frank Morgan), an old acquaintance of his. Elizabeth is unaware of her father's crooked past and present.
The Philadelphia Story (1941)
, 1h52Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
Roles Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Rating78%
Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a member of her social set, because he did not measure up to her exacting standards, due to his alcoholism and Tracy's lack of faith in him, which exacerbated his condition. She is about to marry nouveau riche "man of the people" George Kittredge (John Howard).