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Rockliffe Fellowes is a Actor American born on 16 march 1883 at Ottawa (Canada)

Rockliffe Fellowes

Rockliffe Fellowes
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 march 1883 at Ottawa (Canada)
Death 28 january 1950 (at 66 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Rockliffe Fellowes (March 17, 1883 - January 28, 1950) was a Canadian actor born in Ottawa, Ontario. He appeared mostly in silent films and is probably best known today for his role as gangster Joe Helton in Monkey Business (1931) starring the Marx Brothers.

After following a business career for some years, he gave it up to go onto the stage in 1907 and later made his entry into films as the redemptive hero of Raoul Walsh's 1915 silent gangster film Regeneration.

At one time he was married to the stage actress Lucile Watson. He retired from acting in 1934. Fellowes died in Los Angeles, California in 1950 at the age of 66.

Biography

Rockliffe Fellowes est apparu principalement dans les films muets et est probablement mieux connu aujourd'hui pour son rôle du gangster Joe Helton dans Monnaie de singe (Monkey Business, 1931) de et mettant en vedette les Marx Brothers.

Après avoir suivi une carrière quelques années dans les affaires, il l'abandonne pour le théâtre en 1907 puis pour le cinéma où il est notamment le héros rédempteur dans le film de gangsters Regeneration (1915) de Raoul Walsh.

Il a été marié à l'actrice de théâtre Lucile Watson et a pris sa retraite d'acteur en 1934.

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Filmography of Rockliffe Fellowes (30 films)

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Actor

Rusty Rides Alone, 58minutes
Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim McCoy, Barbara Weeks, Dorothy Burgess, Wheeler Oakman, Rockliffe Fellowes, Edmund Burns
Roles Bart Quillan (as Rockcliffe Fellows)

Tim McCoy et son chien Silver King viennent au secours de Molly Martin dont le frère, Tom, a été enlevé par Bart Quillan, un éleveur de moutons qui veut s'emparer, avec ses frères, de toute la vallée. En chemin Tom se lie d'amitié avec Poe Powers, un pistoléro. tous deux, avec l'aide de Silver, font face au clan Quillan.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing, 1h18
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Louis Calhern, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Warren Hymer
Roles Friend Helping Tommy (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3960053.3960053.3960053.3960053.396005
Cocky Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) is sentenced from 5 to 30 years in Sing Sing for robbery and assault with an automatic weapon. His associate, Joe Finn (Louis Calhern), promises to use his contacts and influence to get him freed long before that, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provide special treatment is met with disdain and failure.
Huddle
Huddle (1932)
, 1h43
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ramón Novarro, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Ralph Graves, John Arledge, Frank Albertson
Roles Mr. Stone
Rating57% 2.862612.862612.862612.862612.86261
Tony Ametto, a young steel-worker with immigrant parents, gets a scholarship to Yale, where he becomes a football star and finds romance with a young heiress.
Renegades of the West, 55minutes
Directed by Casey Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates, Jim Mason, Carl Miller, Max Wagner, Rockliffe Fellowes
Roles Curly Bogard
Rating54% 2.7367852.7367852.7367852.7367852.736785
This script must be run from the command line
Monkey Business, 1h17
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Rockliffe Fellowes
Roles J.J. 'Big Joe' Helton
Rating73% 3.69683.69683.69683.69683.6968
While stowing away on a ship to America, four brothers get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters while trying desperately to evade the ship's crew. After arriving stateside one of the gangsters kidnaps the other's daughter, leaving it up to the brothers to save the day.
The Vice Squad, 1h21
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, William B. Davidson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Esther Howard, Monte Carter
Roles Detective-Sergeant Mather
Rating66% 3.323833.323833.323833.323833.32383
Outside the Law, 1h10
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Mary Nolan, Owen Moore, Eddie Sturgis, John George, Delmar Watson
Roles Police Captain Fred O'Reilly
Rating56% 2.8112152.8112152.8112152.8112152.811215
Robinson plays the ruthless boss of a criminal gang, willing to do anything to prevent a rivial gangster from pulling off a bank robbery on 'his' patch.
The Understanding Heart, 1h7
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Joan Crawford, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Rockliffe Fellowes, Carmel Myers, Richard Carle, Harvey Clark
Roles Bob Mason
Rating28% 1.4062951.4062951.4062951.4062951.406295
Forest ranger Bob Mason (Fellowes) kills a man in self-defense. Kelcey Dale (Carmel Myers), to whom Bob is attracted, commits perjury and causes him to be convicted for murder. Bob escapes and is sheltered by Kelcey's sister, Monica Dale (Crawford).
East of Suez, 1h10
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Pola Negri, Edmund Lowe, Rockliffe Fellowes, Noah Beery Sr., Sōjin Kamiyama, E. H. Calvert
Roles Harry Anderson
Rating25% 1.2637851.2637851.2637851.2637851.263785
Après avoir fait des études en Angleterre, Daisy Forbes retourne en Chine, son pays d'origine, et découvre que son père est mort récemment. Elle apprend que l'infirmière qui l'a élevée était sa mère. Daisy est amoureuse de George Tevis, le neveu du consul britannique, mais celui-ci se laisse influencer par son oncle, avec pour but un poste dans la carrière diplomatique…