Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Roy D'Arcy is a Actor American born on 10 february 1894 at San Francisco (USA)

Roy D'Arcy

Roy D'Arcy
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name Roy Francis Giusti
Nationality USA
Birth 10 february 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 15 november 1969 (at 75 years) at Redlands (USA)

Roy D'Arcy (February 10, 1894 – November 15, 1969) was an American film actor of the silent film and early sound period of the 1930s noted for his portrayal of flamboyant villains. He appeared in 50 different films between 1925 and 1939, such as The Temptress in 1926 with actresses such as Greta Garbo.

Biography

Roy D'Arcy was born as Roy Francis Giusti in San Francisco but educated in Europe and studied painting in Paris. After several years of traveling and various business ventures in South America and Asia he returned to the United States and decided to become involved in the theater. He was hired as a singer in several touring theatrical companies. In the early 1920s, he spent some time in vaudeville.

D'Arcy was performing his show on a Los Angeles stage when he was spotted by director Erich von Stroheim, who thought D'Arcy was just right for the part of the villainous, arrogant Prince Mirko in The Merry Widow. Von Stroheim had wanted to play the part himself, but was forbidden from doing so by MGM production head Irving Thalberg. It was a troubled production - from which von Stroheim was fired, brought back, then fired again - but the film was a great critical and financial success.

With the success of film he was cast in several other MGM productions as the head villain, such as Beverly of Graustark (1925), La Bohème (1926) and The Temptress (1926) alongside Greta Garbo, but he soon appeared in such comedies as Adam and Evil (1927), Frisco Sally Levy (1927) and On Ze Boulevard (1927). He developed a revue he took to Broadway in 1928, called "The Greatest Array of Talent Ever Assembled on Any Bill in This Country", which consisted of singers, dancers, and D'Arcy himself walking out into the audience and telling stories of his travels around the world.

D'Arcy made the transition from silent film very well, and played a succession of foreigners, both villainous and otherwise, in films of the early 1930s. However, as acting styles changed because of the introduction of sound, D'Arcy's unique florid style went out of fashion, and in a few years he was reduced to doing small, low-budget pictures for lower independent studios, such as Broadway to Cheyenne (1932) for Monogram Pictures and Discarded Lovers (1932) for Tower Pictures. He did though have noted roles in a serial for Mascot Pictures Corporation, The Shadow of the Eagle (1932), starring a young John Wayne, and in his second serial, The Whispering Shadow (1933) with Bela Lugosi.

By the mid-1930s D'Arcy continued playing villainous roles in a number of low-budget productions including Revolt of the Zombies (1936), Captain Calamity (1936) and Under Strange Flags (1937). His final film was to be a major one, in the Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire musical The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle in 1939 which received widespread acclaim.

Finishing his film career around the age of 45, D'Arcy retired to his own real estate business. He died in 1969 and was buried at Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, California.

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Roy D'Arcy (42 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1h33
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Victor Varconi
Roles Actor in "Patria" (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.447893.447893.447893.447893.44789
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.
The Legion of Missing Men, 1h2
Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Roy D'Arcy, Paul Hurst, Jimmy Aubrey, George Regas
Roles Shiek Ibrahim-Ul-Ahmed
Rating51% 2.5976452.5976452.5976452.5976452.597645
Bob Carter is a professional soldier of fortune whose expertise is in the use of the machine gun. He has plied his trade for Sun Yat-Sen in the Xinhai Revolution, the Mexican Revolution and with the Spanish in the Rif War for de Rivera. Now he is content to be a Legionnaire in the 20th Marching Company of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment with his comrades in arms the American Muggsy and the Englishman Bilgey.
Captain Calamity, 1h6
Directed by John Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors George F. Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Juan Torena, Movita Castaneda, Crane Wilbur
Roles Samson
Rating44% 2.212852.212852.212852.212852.21285
A penniless ship's captain is taking a passenger ashore after their voyage. The passenger throws a gold coin in the ocean that he says has been bad luck to him as it was a gift from his ex-fiancee. The Captain sends one of his men, an experienced underwater diver, to successfully retrieve it. The passenger explains that is a gold Spanish doubloon and the Captain is more than welcome to it.
Hollywood Boulevard, 1h15
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Cooper, John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon, Esther Ralston
Roles The Sheik
Rating64% 3.2263353.2263353.2263353.2263353.226335
The film portrays, in a comic expose of gossip magazines of the time, has-been actor John Blakeford (Halliday) agreeing to write his memoirs for magazine publisher Jordan Winston (Gordon).
Revolt of the Zombies, 1h5
Directed by Victor Halperin, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, George Cleveland, Carl Stockdale, E. Alyn Warren, John Archer
Roles Col. Mazovia
Rating34% 1.7108351.7108351.7108351.7108351.710835
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an Oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula. Gen. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) kills the priest and takes the partially burned parchment. After the war, an expedition of representatives from the Allied countries with colonial interests are sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the so-called "Secret of the Zombies". The group includes Colonel Mazovia; a student of dead languages, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger); Englishman Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland); General Duval (George Cleveland); and his daughter Claire (Dorothy Stone).
Sing and Like it, 1h12
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, Edward Everett Horton, Nat Pendleton, Ned Sparks, Richard Carle
Roles Mr. Gregory - Leading Man in Show
Rating65% 3.2923153.2923153.2923153.2923153.292315
Flying Down to Rio, 1h29
Directed by Wallace MacDonald, Mark Sandrich, Thornton Freeland, George Nicholls, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Dolores del Río, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Fred Astaire, Roy D'Arcy
Roles Greek #1
Rating65% 3.295773.295773.295773.295773.29577
Composer Roger Bond (Gene Raymond) and his orchestra are appearing in Miami, with vocalist Honey Hales (Rogers). Despite the warnings of accordionist and assistant band leader Fred Ayres (Astaire), Roger is attracted to the beautiful and flirtatious Belinha (Dolores del Río) in the audience, he leaves the bandstand to pursue her.
The Whispering Shadow
Directed by Albert Herman, Colbert Clark
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Bela Lugosi, Robert Warwick, Roy D'Arcy, Karl Dane, Henry B. Walthall, Lafe McKee
Roles Steinbeck
Rating54% 2.714222.714222.714222.714222.71422
The Shadow in The Whispering Shadow is the underworld mastermind. He has invented a device that allows him to kill by radio control. He, along with several other persons, seeks the Czar's jewels. The series is notable for the constant false clues and decoy actions that make nearly everybody a suspect. Despite being the voice of The Shadow, Lugosi is a red herring.
Sherlock Holmes, 1h8
Directed by William K. Howard, Philip Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Clive Brook, Alan Mowbray, Reginald Owen, Ernest Torrence, Roy D'Arcy, Herbert Mundin
Roles Manuel Lopez (uncredited)
Rating56% 2.809822.809822.809822.809822.80982
Le film débute à Londres, où le professeur Moriarty (Ernest Torrence) vient d'être arrêté grâce à la perspicacité de Sherlock Holmes (Clive Brook). Au tribunal, Moriarty prononce un discours dans lequel il promet que les trois personnes impliquées dans sa condamnation mourront avant lui : le juge Erskin, le colonel Gore-King et Sherlock Holmes. Pendant ce temps, Holmes prévoit de commencer une nouvelle vie à la ferme avec sa fiancée Alice Faulkner.
Broadway to Cheyenne, 1h
Directed by Harry L. Fraser
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Rex Bell, Marceline Day, Matthew Betz, Huntley Gordon, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Ellis
Roles Jess Harvey
Rating48% 2.402422.402422.402422.402422.40242
A young and honest New York Police Department detective "Breezy" Kildare is attempting to arrest B.H. "Butch" Owens, the leader of a gang of criminals who attempted to bribe him. He is wounded in a shootout between Owens gang and another gang in a Broadway night club.
Discarded Lovers, 1h
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Natalie Moorhead, Russell Hopton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Barbara Weeks, Jason Robards Sr., Roy D'Arcy
Roles Andre Leighton
Rating48% 2.410292.410292.410292.410292.41029
This script must be run from the command line
Love Bound
Love Bound (1932)
, 1h
Directed by Robert Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Mulhall, Natalie Moorhead, Clara Kimball Young, Edmund Breese, Tom Ricketts, Alice Day
Roles Juan de Leon
Rating52% 2.630522.630522.630522.630522.63052
This script must be run from the command line
The Shadow of the Eagle, 3h38
Directed by B. Reeves Eason, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors John Wayne, Edward Hearn, Dorothy Gulliver, Richard Tucker, Walter Miller, Lloyd Whitlock
Roles Gardner
Rating55% 2.758542.758542.758542.758542.75854
A mysterious pilot, The Eagle, attempts to sabotage a local company and sends threatening messages via skywriting.