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Niles Welch is a Actor American born on 28 july 1888 at Hartford (USA)

Niles Welch

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Birth name Niles Eugene Welch
Nationality USA
Birth 28 july 1888 at Hartford (USA)
Death 21 november 1976 (at 88 years) at Laguna Niguel (USA)

Niles Welch, (Niles Eugene Welch) also known as Niles Welsh, (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s.

Biography

Au cinéma, Niles Welch tourne soixante-cinq films muets américains sortis entre 1913 et 1927 (avant un ultime film muet canadien sorti en 1928).

Parmi eux, mentionnons The Gulf Between de Wray Bartlett Physioc (le premier en Technicolor, 1917, avec Grace Darmond), Stepping Out de Fred Niblo (1919, avec Enid Bennett), The Sin of Martha Queed d'Allan Dwan (1921, avec Mary Thurman et Joseph J. Dowling) et Wine of Youth de King Vidor (1924, avec Eleanor Boardman).

Après le passage au parlant, il apparaît — souvent non crédité — dans soixante autres films américains entre 1931 et 1940, dont Révolte au zoo de Rowland V. Lee (1933, avec Loretta Young et Gene Raymond) et le serial Le Cavalier miracle de B. Reeves Eason et Armand Schaefer (1935, avec Tom Mix).

Au théâtre, Niles Welch joue notamment une fois à Broadway (New York) en 1926, dans la pièce The Donovan Affair d'Owen Davis (avec Ray Collins et Paul Harvey).

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Filmography of Niles Welch (51 films)

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Carry on, Sergeant!, 1h57
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Hugh Buckler, Niles Welch, Monroe Owsley
Roles Donald Cameron
Rating59% 2.981342.981342.981342.981342.98134
Carry On, Sergeant! is the story of four friends who join the army to fight in the First World War. After years of trench warfare, one of the men (Hugh Buckler) meets a French woman working the taverns. He sleeps with her, but is overcome with guilt and is later killed in battle. His wife (Nancy Ann Hargreaves) back home believes he died a hero and remembers him with love.
The Story of Louis Pasteur, 1h27
Directed by William Dieterle, Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fritz Leiber, Akim Tamiroff
Roles Un messager
Rating72% 3.6439353.6439353.6439353.6439353.643935
In nineteenth century chemist Louis Pasteur (Paul Muni) believes that diseases are caused by unseen microbes. His radical theory is dismissed by most doctors, particularly his most vocal critic, Dr. Charbonnet (Fritz Leiber, Sr.). Nonetheless, Pasteur carries on, with the assistance of a small group of loyal researchers, and finds a cure for anthrax. He also campaigns to have doctors wash their hands and sterilize their instruments before operating.
Wife vs. Secretary, 1h28
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, James Stewart, Gilbert Emery
Roles Tom Axel
Rating69% 3.4968653.4968653.4968653.4968653.496865
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope (Clark Gable) and his wife, Linda, (Myrna Loy) are celebrating their third wedding anniversary. They are very much in love and Van gives Linda a diamond bracelet. However, Van's secretary, the beautiful Helen "Whitey" Wilson (Jean Harlow), is thought by Van's mother (May Robson) to be a temptation to Van. Linda refuses to listen to all of her friends and Van's mother as she trusts Van. In truth, she has all the reason in the world to trust him, as his relationship with Whitey is strictly business.
Empty Saddles, 1h7
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buck Jones, Louise Brooks, Harvey Clark, Charles Middleton, Lloyd Ingraham, Frank Campeau
Roles Jasper Kade
Rating61% 3.0904553.0904553.0904553.0904553.090455
This script must be run from the command line
What Becomes of the Children?, 1h5
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Joan Marsh, Robert Frazer, Natalie Moorhead, Claudia Dell, Barbara Pepper, Niles Welch
Roles Thomas Scott
Rating52% 2.620172.620172.620172.620172.62017
Differences from novel
Shipmates Forever, 1h48
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dick Powell, Bess Flowers, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone, Ross Alexander, Eddie Acuff
Roles Examiner (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0017753.0017753.0017753.0017753.001775
Dick Melville (Powell) and June Blackburn (Keeler) meet during a naval review in New York Harbor. Though both come from Navy families, Dick aspires for a singing career and June, her father and brother both having been killed in the war, has vowed never to marry a Navy man. Admiral Melville (Stone), Dick's father, is the new superintendent of the Naval Academy and his dearest wish is that his son follow in his footsteps as a naval officer. He maneuvers Dick into enrolling as a midshipman by accusing him of being afraid of failing the entrance exams.
Stranded
Stranded (1935)
, 1h15
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis, Barton MacLane, Donald Woods, Robert Barrat
Roles Safety Engineer (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.244753.244753.244753.244753.24475
Un mélodrame de 1935, tourné à San Francisco, mettant en vedette Kay Francis en tant qu'assistante de voyageurs qui s'implique dans la vie personnelle de ses clients.
The Miracle Rider, 5h6
Directed by B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Western
Actors Tom Mix, Charles Middleton, Robert Frazer, Niles Welch, Jason Robards Sr., Bob Kortman
Roles Metzger
Rating66% 3.3238053.3238053.3238053.3238053.323805
Dans les années 1930 au Texas, Tom Morgan s’engage dans les Texas Rangers pour venger la mort de son père et défendre les droits des Indiens. Il doit lutter contre une bande de trafiquants qui tentent par tous les moyens de les faire fuir afin de s’approprier leur réserve dont le sol recèle un fort gisement de X.94, un puissant explosif.
Living on Velvet, 1h20
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Kay Francis, Warren William, George Brent, Henry O'Neill, Helen Lowell, Russell Hicks
Roles Aide du major
Rating58% 2.9031652.9031652.9031652.9031652.903165
One day, Terry Parker, an airplane pilot is in a plane crash that kills his family. He feels guilty for their death and feels like he should have died in the crash as well. Terry continues to get into trouble until his friend, Walter Pritcham, known as Gibraltar for his steady nature, brings him to a party. Terry meets the beautiful Amy Prentiss and they both fall in love.
Air Hawks
Air Hawks (1935)
, 1h4
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Ralph Bellamy, Douglass Dumbrille, Tala Birell, Edward Van Sloan, Robert (Tex) Allen, Billie Seward
Roles "Marconi"
Rating59% 2.954912.954912.954912.954912.95491
Pilot Barry Eldon (Ralph Bellamy) is the owner of Independent Transcontinental Lines whose airline is in direct competition with Martin Drewen (Robert Middlemass), owner of Consolidated Airlines. With Renee Dupont (Tala Birell), a singer at a nightclub owned by Victor Arnold (Douglas Dumbrille), he believes that his airline's air mail routes will ensure success against his rival.
The Singing Vagabond, 56minutes
Directed by Betty Burbridge, Nat Levine, Carl Pierson, Oliver Drake
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Warner Richmond, Barbara Pepper, Niles Welch
Roles Judge Forsythe Lane
Rating62% 3.1360653.1360653.1360653.1360653.136065
At a St. Louis opera house in 1860, a singer in blackface named Jerry Barton, known as "King of the Minstrels", comes backstage and asks his sweetheart, Lettie Morgan (Ann Rutherford), to elope. Lettie's Aunt Hortense, fearing that Barton is a fortune hunter, tells Lettie she is not the heiress she thought she was and that she has been living off her aunt's charity. With no fortune to hunt, Barton informs Lettie that an artist cannot be burdened with the responsibility of a wife.
Music Is Magic, 1h6
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Alice Faye, Bebe Daniels, Ray Walker, Frank Mitchell, Rosina Lawrence, Andrew Tombes
Roles Film Director (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.094273.094273.094273.094273.09427
Diane De Valle (Bebe Daniels) is an aging theatre actress who can't deal with getting older. Trying to hide it, she has to come to terms she is being replaced by a younger actress. She has to defeat the much younger Peggy Harper (Alice Faye) for a role of a young woman in an upcoming stage production.
The Count of Monte Cristo, 1h53
Directed by Rowland V. Lee, Philip Dunne, Edward Small
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Lionel Belmore, William Farnum
Roles un agent de Villefort
Rating73% 3.691383.691383.691383.691383.69138
In 1815, a French merchant ship stops at the island of Elba. A letter from the exiled Napoleon is given to the ship's captain to deliver to a man in Marseille. Before he dies of a sickness, the captain entrusts the task to his first officer, Edmond Dantès (Donat). However, the city magistrate, Raymond de Villefort, Jr. (Calhern), is tipped off by an informer, the second officer, Danglars (Raymond Walburn), and has both men arrested after the exchange.
Here Comes the Navy, 1h27
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Buddy films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh, Dorothy Tree, Robert Barrat
Roles Officer
Rating61% 3.097423.097423.097423.097423.09742
Riveter "Chesty" O'Conner (James Cagney) and his best friend, "Droopy" (Frank McHugh), join the US Navy to annoy O'Connor's nemesis, Chief Petty Officer "Biff" Martin (Pat O'Brien). O'Conner gets himself court-martialled for being AWOL while visiting Martin's sister Dorothy (Gloria Stuart). Disgruntled at his treatment, O'Connor angrily derides the Navy and finds himself ostracized by his fellow sailors.
The Show-Off
Directed by Charles Reisner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Madge Evans, Claude Gillingwater, Lois Wilson, Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick
Rating60% 3.0013053.0013053.0013053.0013053.001305
Out sailing one day, J. Aubrey Piper saves a man from drowning. He overhears an impressed Amy Fisher's remark and looks her up in New Jersey, irritating her family with his constant bragging but winning Amy, who marries him.