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Lee Moran is a Actor American born on 23 june 1888 at Chicago (USA)

Lee Moran

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Birth name Leon George Brown
Nationality USA
Birth 23 june 1888 at Chicago (USA)
Death 24 april 1961 (at 72 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Lee Moran (June 23, 1888 – April 24, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He transcended the silent film era of motion pictures to the talkies. Moran appeared in 462 films, directed 109 and wrote for 92 between 1912 and 1935. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Woodland Hills, California.

Biography

Très actif au cinéma, Lee Moran joue dans 480 films américains entre 1912 et 1935, dont 393 courts métrages, un grand nombre de ces derniers aux côtés d'Eddie Lyons (1886-1926), par exemple An Elephant on His Hands d'Al Christie (1913, avec aussi Lon Chaney). Après le décès prématuré de son partenaire (à 39 ans), il contribue principalement à des longs métrages, les six derniers sortis en 1935.

Mentionnons également Listen Lester de William A. Seiter (1924, avec Louise Fazenda et Harry Myers), Le Temps des cerises d'Edward Sedgwick (1927, avec William Haines et Joan Crawford), Hearts in Exile de Michael Curtiz (1929, avec Dolores Costello et Grant Withers) et Grand Slam de William Dieterle (1933, avec Paul Lukas et Loretta Young).

Par ailleurs, durant la période du muet, il est un prolifique réalisateur (107 films de 1915 à 1924, généralement en association avec Eddie Lyons) et scénariste (91 films de 1915 à 1921), le plus souvent sur des courts métrages (par exception, citons le long métrage Everything But the Truth en 1920 de Lyons et Moran, avec Eddie Lyons et Anne Cornwall).

Définitivement retiré de l'écran après 1935, Lee Moran meurt en 1961, à 73 ans.

Usually with

Robert Lord
Robert Lord
(5 films)
Louis Silvers
Louis Silvers
(5 films)
Al Christie
Al Christie
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lee Moran (51 films)

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Streamline Express, 1h11
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable, Esther Ralston, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ralph Forbes, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Larry Houston
Rating53% 2.670582.670582.670582.670582.67058
Broadway star Patricia Wallis quits her Broadway show to run off with wealthy Fred Arnold. Her director Jimmy Hart follows them aboard the super-speed train the "Streamline Express". Meanwhile, also aboard is John Bradley and his mistress Elaine Vincent, but Bradley's wife Mary ends up on the train as well. When Elaine gives her crooked pal Gilbert Landon a diamond pendant given her by Bradley, in order to keep Landon quiet about her past, she pretends the pendant was stolen, in hopes of hiding the truth from Bradley. But Landon manages to throw suspicion on Jimmy Hart, who is masquerading as a steward. It takes several confessions by several people to resolve everyone's dilemmas.
The Circus Clown, 1h3
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Dorothy Burgess, Don Dillaway, Gordon Westcott, Charles C. Wilson
Roles Slim
Rating60% 3.049383.049383.049383.049383.04938
The Circus Clown is about a man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Footlight Parade, 1h44
Directed by Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd
Roles Mac, le directeur de danse
Rating74% 3.7447853.7447853.7447853.7447853.744785
Chester Kent (James Cagney) replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called "prologues", short live stage productions presented in movie theaters before the main feature is shown. He faces pressure from his business partners to constantly create a large number of marketable prologues to service theaters throughout the country, but his job is made harder by a rival who is stealing his ideas, probably with assistance from someone working inside his company. Kent is so overwhelmed with work that he doesn't realize that his secretary, Nan (Joan Blondell), has fallen in love with him, and is doing her best to protect him.
High Gear
High Gear (1933)
, 1h7
Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors James Murray, Joan Marsh, Ann Brody, Theodore von Eltz, Lee Moran, Gordon De Main
Roles Howard - Mechanic
Rating53% 2.6831552.6831552.6831552.6831552.683155
Mark "High Gear" Sherrod has been a race car driver for the past five years and is now at the height of his career. His co-driver Ed is the widowed father of Jimmy. Ed promised his wife before she died that he would send Jimmy off to a fine military school after winning the "big race". The day before the race finds Jimmy and Ed at home in their apartment, with Mr. and Mrs. Cohen visiting, and reporter Anne Merrit sneaking into Mark's hotel room for an exclusive interview. Mark agrees to give her the interview she needs over a dinner table. She break the date she already has for the night with her boss Larry Winston and goes out with Mark. Larry Winston walks into the same restaurant Mark and Anne are dining at, and sees them. Larry walks over to their table and has Anne introduce him to Mark. The two men become rivals.
Son of a Sailor, 1h13
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Thelma Todd, John Mack Brown, Sheila Terry
Roles Non-Commissioned Officer
Rating58% 2.9071552.9071552.9071552.9071552.907155
The Death Kiss, 1h15
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about television
Actors David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Lee Moran, John Wray
Roles Todd
Rating59% 2.9953952.9953952.9953952.9953952.995395
During the filming of a death scene of The Death Kiss, leading man Myles Brent is really shot and killed. Tonart Studios manager Joseph Steiner (Lugosi) is assigned to handle the situation. The studio wants to pass it off as a simple accident, but screenwriter Franklyn Drew (Manners) digs a bullet out of a wall and tells Homicide Detective Lieutenant Sheehan that it is a .38 caliber, while the guns used in the film are all .45s.
Uptown New York, 1h20
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Ames, George Cooper, Lee Moran, Raymond Hatton
Roles Hotel Clerk
Rating63% 3.1853953.1853953.1853953.1853953.185395
Pat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background. He marries that woman but occasionally bumps into Pat, explaining how he actually loves her instead of his wife. Pat dislikes the idea of him seeing her on the side. Heartbroken, Pat later meets Eddie (a gumball machine salesman), who proposes marriage, which she accepts. In a hotel bridal suite, Pat mentions her previous relationship to Eddie, and mentions that he can walk out on her if he wants, he is OK with it. Later, While attempting to stop two teenagers from robbing one of Eddie's gumball machine, she runs across the street without looking and is struck by a truck. She is in the hospital awaiting surgery. Eddie, chooses Max as the surgeon and, later while Pat is in her hospital bed, overhears Max's conversation with Pat about their love, and his decision to divorce his wife, he will take Pat to Vienna to get well, and they will get married. Eddie decides to walk out on Pat as he believes that she is going to run off with Max. Through complications (and a fight) over Eddie's attempt to pay Pat's hospital bill by selling his company which he only owns half of (Pat owns the other half), he ends up in jail. Pat runs to the jail and explains the misunderstanding and proclaims her love for Eddie.
The Mad Genius, 1h21
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Dance films, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, Luis Alberni, Carmel Myers
Roles Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.147283.147283.147283.147283.14728
A crippled puppeteer, Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore), is frustrated that he will never dance ballet. He adopts a protegé, Fedor Ivanoff (Cook), whom he makes into the greatest dancer in the world. Fedor falls in love with a dancer, Nana Carlova (Marsh), but Tsarakov fears that she will ruin Fedor as a dancer. He tries to separate them and ultimately fires Nana from the ballet troupe. Fedor runs away with Nana to Paris, but Tsarakov has blacklisted him, and he cannot get ballet jobs and is reduced to working in a cabaret. Nana begs Tsarakov to give Fedor his job back. Tsarakov agrees, if Nana will leave Fedor and marry another man; she agrees. Fedor returns embittered; he sees Nana on opening night and realizes that she still loves him; he refuses to dance. Tsarakov threatens to kill him, but the ballet master, under the influence of drugs that Tsarakov has given him, kills Tsarakov. Fedor is reunited with Nana.
Caught Plastered, 1h8
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Lucy Beaumont, Jason Robards, Jason Robards Sr.
Roles Second Drunk Customer (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0974753.0974753.0974753.0974753.097475
Tommy Tanner (Wheeler) and Egbert G. Higginbotham (Woolsey) are two vaudevillians who were kicked out of the last town they performed in. After fleeing to the town of Lockville, the duo befriend elderly widow Mother Talley (Lucy Beaumont). Mother is upset because she is unable to get customers into her drug store. In addition, Mother owes a payment on a bank note to Harry Watters (Jason Robards). Tommy and Egbert decide to turn Mother's drugstore into a money-making venture, even producing their own afternoon radio program right in the store. Harry, who wants to buy the store as part of a bootlegging operation, attempts to sell the duo an alcohol-laced drink, referring to it as "lemon-syrup". The "syrup" gains praise from everybody in town, until the police show up to close down the operation. Tommy and Egbert are suspicious of Harry, and it's up to them to find Harry, clear their name, and save Mother's store.