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Leigh Whipper is a Actor American born on 29 october 1876
Leigh Whipper est un acteur américain né le 29 octobre 1876 à Charleston (États-Unis), et mort le 26 juillet 1975 à New York.
Formé à l'Université de droit de Howard (qu'il a quitté en 1895), il n'a jamais pratiqué comme avocat. Sans aucune formation dramatique, il a fait sa première apparition à Broadway dans Georgie Minstrels. Il a tenu son premier rôle au cinéma dans les années 1920, dans le film muet The Symbol of the Unconquered (ou The Wilderness Trail).
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Leigh Whipper est le premier afro-américain à se joindre à l'Association Actors 'Equity, et l'un des fondateurs de l'Actors Negro Guild of America. Il est surtout connu pour le rôle de Crooks dans le film Des souris et des hommes, un rôle qu'il a repris à Broadway.Formé à l'Université de droit de Howard (qu'il a quitté en 1895), il n'a jamais pratiqué comme avocat. Sans aucune formation dramatique, il a fait sa première apparition à Broadway dans Georgie Minstrels. Il a tenu son premier rôle au cinéma dans les années 1920, dans le film muet The Symbol of the Unconquered (ou The Wilderness Trail).
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The Young Don't Cry (1957)
, 1h29Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish, Gene Lyons, Paul Carr, Stefan Gierasch
Roles Doosy
Rating60%
Un adolescent solitaire, pensionnaire d'un orphelinat, aide un prisonnier évadé condamné à tort à retrouver sa dignité.
The Shrike (1955)
, 1h28Directed by José Ferrer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors José Ferrer, June Allyson, Edward Platt, Joy Page, Mary Hayley Bell, Leigh Whipper
Roles Mr. Carlisle
Rating64%
Successful stage director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering wife Ann (June Allyson). Institutionalized, he confides in Dr. Bellman (Kendall Clark) and Dr. Barrow (Isabel Bonner), and he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte Moore (Joy Page).
Lost Boundaries (1949)
, 1h37Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas Rubes, Peter Hobbs, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Leigh Whipper
Roles le concierge
Rating69%
In 1922, Scott Mason Carter (Mel Ferrer) graduates from Chase Medical School in Chicago and promptly marries Marcia (Beatrice Pearson). Both are light-skinned enough to be mistaken for whites. Scott has found an internship for himself, but his fellow graduate, the dark-skinned Jesse Pridham (Ray Saunders), wonders if he will have to work as a Pullman porter until there is an opening in a black hospital.
Undercurrent (1946)
, 1h56Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, Clinton Sundberg
Roles George
Rating64%
Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn) is a middle-aged bride who begins to suspect that her charming husband Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor) plans to murder her. Nor can she ignore the shadow of her brother-in-law Michael Garroway (Robert Mitchum), whom she's never met but has been told so much about.
Young Widow (1946)
, 1h40Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Melodrama
Themes Political films
Actors Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson, Kent Taylor, Louise Beavers
Roles Nate (Uncredited)
Rating59%
Set during WWII, journalist Joan Kenwood (Jane Russell), whose Air Corps photographer husband was killed on an air mission, returns to New York City from England. The managing editor of the newspaper for which she worked, Peter Waring (Kent Taylor), offers Joan work, but she despondently rejects it and instead stays with two aunts on their farm in Virginia. Unable to stop thinking about the death, however, she decides to return to New York.
The Impostor (1944)
, 1h30Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Ellen Drew, Richard Whorf, Dennis Moore, Ralph Morgan, Peter van Eyck
Roles Toba
Rating62%
Clement (Gabin), a condemned murderer literally minutes away from the guillotine, is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape he steals the uniform and identification papers of a dead French soldier. He then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reform him. In the end he sacrifices himself in service of his country.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
, 1h15Directed by James Tinling, William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, William Eythe
Roles Sparks (uncredited)
Rating79%
In Bridger's Wells, Nevada in 1885, Art Croft (Harry Morgan) and Gil Carter (Henry Fonda) ride into town and enter Darby's Saloon. The atmosphere is subdued due to recent incidents of cattle-rustling. Art and Gil are suspected to be rustlers because they are rarely seen in town.
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 Haile Selassie (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.
Happy Land (1943)
, 1h15Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Cara Williams, Harry Morgan
Roles Old Ben (uncredited)
Rating66%
While at a luncheon with his wife, Lew Marsh receives a message that his only beloved son Rusty has been killed in action. Lew, a third generation pharmacist in the small town of Hartfield, Iowa, is beside himself with grief, and beyond consolation from reverend Wood and his wife, Agnes. Because of the grief he neglects his duties at the pharmacy and isolates himself.
The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
, 1h35Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Rita Quigley, Elizabeth Patterson, Juanita Quigley
Roles Uncle Josh
Rating67%
Based on the true story of turn-of-the-century Robert Yancey, lawyer and ever-popular politician in Virginia. The film starts with the statement, "This is the story of a vanishing era when simple men so loved their country, their families and their friends that America became a better place in which to live. Such a man was Cap'n Bob Yancey."
Heart of the Golden West (1942)
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ruth Terry, Walter Catlett, Paul Harvey
Roles Rango
Rating60%
White Cargo (1942)
, 1h28Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Henry O'Neill, Reginald Owen
Roles Jim Fish
Rating60%
Arriving by seaplane to inspect an isolated, but thriving rubber plantation in the African jungle during World War II, Worthing (Richard Ainley) reminisces about the old days, when conditions were much harsher. The film then flashes back to 1910.
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
, 1h31Directed by Victor Schertzinger, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Douglass Dumbrille, Una Merkel, Iris Adrian
Roles Scarface
Rating66%
The film starts with con-artist Chuck Reardon (Bing Crosby) as a side-show caller at a circus advertising an act featuring his friend Hubert "Fearless" Frazier (Bob Hope), as a human cannonball, with 'Fearless' quickly substituting a dummy at the last minute and hiding in a secret compartment. The flaming dummy sets the big tent on fire and everyone into a panic and the two of them flee. Their subsequent acts show 'Fearless' doing more dangerous acts, usually getting injured. When Chuck brings the next 'great idea', wrestling a live octopus, 'Fearless' finally balks and wants to go back to the states. At a fancy restaurant, they're sent champagne by a wealthy man, diamond baron Charles Kimble (Eric Blore). The festive mood turns sour when the police show up, but Kimble bails them out. They decide to go home to the United States, but when Chuck goes to get the tickets Kimble invites him onto his yacht for a drink.
Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
, 59minutesDirected by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Roscoe Ates, Cy Kendall, Jay Novello, Marjorie Reynolds
Roles Kezeye
Rating58%
Bahama Passage (1941)
, 1h22Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll, Mary Anderson, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Morales
Rating58%
When his father dies in an accident, Adrian Ainsworth is forced to get a replacement as head of the family salt company on an island in the Caribbean.