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Lester Vail is a Actor American born on 29 june 1899 at Denver (USA)

Lester Vail

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Nationality USA
Birth 29 june 1899 at Denver (USA)
Death 28 november 1959 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Lester Vail was an American actor of the stage, screen and radio from the 1920s through the 1940s. In addition to acting in all three mediums, Vail also saw success as director on the Broadway stage, as well also being a producer of radio programs.

Biography

Né en 1959 à Denver Colorado, Lester Vail a commencé sa carrière dans le théâtre dans les années 1920.

Il a travaillé comme acteur et metteur en scène à Broadway entre 1925 et 1945.

En tant qu'acteur, il est connu pour son rôle dans Beau Ideal (1931) ou encore Consolation Marriage (1931).

Il est mort en novembre 1959 à l'âge de 60 ans.

Usually with

J. Roy Hunt
J. Roy Hunt
(3 films)
Max Rée
Max Rée
(3 films)
William LeBaron
William LeBaron
(3 films)
Charles Rosher
Charles Rosher
(1 films)
Blanche Friderici
Blanche Friderici
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lester Vail (7 films)

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Consolation Marriage
Consolation Marriage (1931)
, 1h21
Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday, Myrna Loy, Matt Moore, Lester Vail
Roles Aubrey
Rating60% 3.0015553.0015553.0015553.0015553.001555
In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also married another. Mary and Steve become friends, and make a marriage of convenience, based on a shared sense of whimsical humor as well as their mutual losses. When their old loves re-enter their lives a few years later, Mary and Steve must decide what is really important to them.
I Take This Woman
I Take This Woman (1931)
, 1h12
Directed by Marion Gering
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware, Charles Trowbridge, Lester Vail, Clara Blandick
Roles Herbert Forrest
Rating60% 3.047793.047793.047793.047793.04779
Kay Dowling (Carole Lombard), the spoiled daughter of wealthy New York parents, is sent by her father (Charles Trowbridge) to his ranch in Ursula, Wyoming, fearing she will be named a co-respondent in a divorce case. Before she leaves, Kay's suitor, Herbert Forrest (Lester Vail), proposes marriage, but she chooses the ranch in Wyoming over a honeymoon cruise. Later, while spending her days on the ranch with her good-humored aunt Bessie, Kay falls reluctantly in love with one of her father's cowhands, Tom McNair (Gary Cooper), and impulsively marries him. When her father learns of the union, he disowns her. Kay and Tom are forced to live in a one-room shack while Tom tries to expand his cattle herd.
Dance, Fools, Dance
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
, 1h20
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden
Roles Bob
Rating62% 3.1489653.1489653.1489653.1489653.148965
Former socialite, Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) is a cub reporter whose brother Rodney (William Bakewell) is involved with a beer-running gang. On one caper, he drives the car that guns down a rival gang. Bonnie's journalist colleague Bert Scranton (Cliff Edwards) is murdered when he finds out too much. Gang chief Jake Luva (Clark Gable) is suspected of plotting Scranton's murder and Bonnie investigates, barely escaping with her life after learning the details of the gang's operations. The criminals are brought to justice.
Beau Ideal
Beau Ideal (1931)
, 1h19
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure, Romance
Themes French war films
Actors Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Bernard Siegel, Otto Matieson
Roles Otis Madison
Rating50% 2.523372.523372.523372.523372.52337
The last two surviving members of a French Foreign Legion detachment, who know each other as Smith and Brown, are consigned to a grain pit in the desert to die slowly. As they await death the two soldiers eventually realize that they were childhood friends, John Geste (Ralph Forbes) and Otis Madison (Lester Vail), respectively.
Murder by the Clock
Murder by the Clock (1931)

Directed by Edward Sloman
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Irving Pichel, Lilyan Tashman, Regis Toomey, Sally O'Neil, Blanche Friderici, Walter McGrail
Roles Thomas Hollander
Rating60% 3.048543.048543.048543.048543.04854
When a wealthy woman dies, she is buried with a loud horn in her crypt due to her fear of premature burial. Before her will can be read, her heirs start to die mysteriously.
The Woman Between
The Woman Between (1931)
, 1h13
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lili Damita, O. P. Heggie, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, Anita Louise, Lincoln Stedman
Roles Victor Whitcomb
Rating53% 2.6807952.6807952.6807952.6807952.680795
A young man returns from Europe after several years' estrangement from his family caused by his disapproval of his father's remarrying after his mother's death. At the family reunion he learns that his stepmother is the woman with whom he had a shipboard romance on the voyage home.