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Vernon Steele is a Actor Chilien born on 16 september 1882 at Santiago (Chili)

Vernon Steele

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Birth name Arturo Romeo Antonietti
Nationality Chili
Birth 16 september 1882 at Santiago (Chili)
Death 23 july 1955 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Vernon Steele (18 September 1882 – 23 July 1955) was a Chilean-born British actor known for his appearances on the Broadway stage and in American films. He often played patrician young men in silent films. Steel was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of Daniel Antonietti, a professor of music, and his English wife, the former Grace Emma Bolton. Vernon Steel was christened Arturo Romeo Antonietti and his family eventually settled in London, England.

Biography

Entamant sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre en Angleterre, il joue notamment à Londres au cours des années 1900 et 1910 dans des pièces, dont Comme il vous plaira de William Shakespeare (1910-1911, avec Maurice Elvey et Philip Merivale).

Puis, installé aux États-Unis, il apparaît à Broadway (New York) — où il s'était déjà produit dès 1906 — entre 1914 et 1931, entre autres dans L'Importance d'être Constant d'Oscar Wilde (1926, avec Reginald Owen et Lucile Watson).

Au cinéma, Vernon Steele contribue à trente-cinq films muets américains, les quatre premiers sortis en 1915 (dont Hearts in Exile de James Young, avec Clara Kimball Young et Montagu Love). Citons également The Highest Bidder de Wallace Worsley (1921, avec Madge Kennedy et Lionel Atwill) et The Wanters de John M. Stahl (1923, avec Marie Prevost et Robert Ellis).

Après deux derniers films muets sortis en 1924, son premier film parlant est Big News de Gregory La Cava (1929, avec Robert Armstrong et Carole Lombard). Suivent vingt-sept autres films parlants américains, dont Capitaine Blood de Michael Curtiz (1935, avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland), Le Pacte d'Henry King (1936, avec Madeleine Carroll et Tyrone Power) et Les Sacrifiés de John Ford et Robert Montgomery (1945, avec Robert Montgomery, John Wayne et Donna Reed).

Son ultime film est Madame Bovary de Vincente Minnelli (avec Jennifer Jones et Van Heflin), sorti en 1949.

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Colin Kenny
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Filmography of Vernon Steele (34 films)

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Dolores Claiborne, 2h12
Directed by Taylor Hackford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Films about domestic violence, Films about school violence, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, Judy Parfitt, Eric Bogosian
Roles Ferry Vendor
Rating73% 3.698583.698583.698583.698583.69858
Dolores Claiborne (Bates) works as a domestic servant on a Maine island. The film opens with Dolores having a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) in her mansion, after which Vera falls down the staircase. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill her. Vera dies and the police begin a murder investigation.
Madame Bovary, 1h54
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Madame Bovary
Actors Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart
Roles Priest
Rating69% 3.495293.495293.495293.495293.49529
The film opens with Gustave Flaubert (James Mason) in court to defend his novel, which has been accused of being a "disgrace to France and an insult to womanhood". In order to keep it from being banned, Flaubert tells the story of Madame Bovary from his perspective.
To the Ends of the Earth, 1h49
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films
Actors Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Ludwig Donath, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Edgar Barrier, John Hoyt
Roles Commissioner Lionel Hadley (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.435563.435563.435563.435563.43556
In 1935, United States Narcotics Agent Michael Barrows (Powell) is assigned to find an unidentified freighter suspected of smuggling drugs. When he and the Coast Guard spot it along the California coast, they give chase. Barrows watches helplessly through binoculars as the freighter captain has about a hundred chained slave laborers thrown overboard to drown. The ship escapes by passing beyond the 12 mile limit and entering international waters. Horrified by what he has seen, Barrows determines to smash the narcotics ring - traveling "to the ends of the Earth" if need be - without first clearing it with his boss, Commissioner H. J. Anslinger (played by the real Harry J. Anslinger).
Joan of Arc, 2h25
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Père d'un enfant
Rating63% 3.1975853.1975853.1975853.1975853.197585
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
The Lone Wolf in London, 1h8
Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Gerald Mohr, Eric Blore, Nancy Saunders, Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, Queenie Leonard
Roles Sir John Klemscott
Rating58% 2.9062152.9062152.9062152.9062152.906215
This script must be run from the command line
They Were Expendable, 2h15
Directed by Robert Montgomery, John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Paul Langton
Roles Army Doctor
Rating71% 3.5951553.5951553.5951553.5951553.595155
In December, 1941, a squadron of PT Boats under the command of Lt. John "Brick" Brickley (Robert Montgomery) is sent to Manila to help defend the Philippines against a potential Japanese invasion. However, upon their arrival, instead of a welcome, they are ridiculed by the local military commanders. One of Brick's men, Lt., J.G. "Rusty" Ryan (John Wayne) becomes disgusted when his superiors refuse to see the small boats as viable naval craft and is in the process of writing his request for a transfer to destroyers when news arrives of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which makes transfer at that time impossible.
Mrs. Miniver, 2h14
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about families, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Richard Ney, May Whitty, Reginald Owen
Roles Glee Club Member (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.7957453.7957453.7957453.7957453.795745
Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) and her family live a comfortable life at a house called 'Starlings' in Belham, a fictional village outside London. The house has a large garden, with a private landing stage on the River Thames at which is moored a motorboat belonging to her devoted husband Clem (Walter Pidgeon), a successful architect. They have three children: the youngsters Toby (Christopher Severn) and Judy (Clare Sandars) and an older son Vin (Richard Ney) a student at a university. They have live-in staff: Gladys (Brenda Forbes) the housemaid and Ada (Marie De Becker) the cook.
Kidnapped
Kidnapped (1938)
, 1h30
Directed by Otto Preminger, Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Nigel Bruce, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen
Roles Captain
Rating65% 3.290553.290553.290553.290553.29055
In the late eighteenth century David Balfour's evil uncle arranges for him to be kidnapped and sent to sea where he meets exiled Alan Breck. The two make their way back to Scotland and justice.
Lloyd's of London, 1h52
Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Thomas Lawrence
Rating68% 3.445863.445863.445863.445863.44586
On the last day of 1770, youngster Jonathan Blake (Freddie Bartholomew) overhears two sailors discussing something suspicious in his aunt's ale-house in a Norfolk fishing village. He persuades his more respectable best friend, Horatio Nelson (Douglas Scott), to sneak aboard the sailors' ship with him. They overhear a plot involving insurance fraud. When Jonathan decides to warn the insurers, Horatio cannot accompany him, because that same day he is invited to join the Royal Navy as a midshipman. Jonathan walks all the way to London to Lloyd's Coffee House, where the insurers conduct their business. Mr. Angerstein (Guy Standing), the head of one of the syndicates that make up Lloyd's of London, listens to him. Instead of a monetary reward, Jonathan asks to work at Lloyd's as a waiter. Angerstein teaches him that news, "honestly acquired and honestly shared," is the lifeblood of the insurance industry.
Step Lively, Jeeves!, 1h9
Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Arthur Treacher, Patricia Ellis, Robert Kent, Alan Dinehart, Sr., George Givot, Helen Flint
Roles Lord Fenton (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.859672.859672.859672.859672.85967
Dracula's Daughter, 1h11
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Dracula films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, Gilbert Emery, Irving Pichel
Roles Detective Orderly Squires
Rating62% 3.1456253.1456253.1456253.1456253.145625
Dracula's Daughter begins a few moments after Dracula ends. Count Dracula has just been destroyed by Professor Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Von Helsing is taken by police to Scotland Yard, where he explains that he indeed did destroy Count Dracula, but because he had already been dead for over 500 years, it cannot be considered murder. Instead of hiring a lawyer, he enlists the aid of a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), who was once one of his star students.
Bonnie Scotland, 1h20
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, June Lang, Anne Grey, Lionel Belmore, Vernon Steele
Roles Col. Gregor McGregor
Rating66% 3.3461453.3461453.3461453.3461453.346145
After escaping from jail where they had "one more week to serve," Laurel and Hardy travel to Scotland as stowaways on a cattle boat, where Laurel (as "Stanley McLaurel") believes he is heir to his grandfather's fortune. As it turns out, Laurel has only been bequeathed a set of bagpipes and a snuff container).Use of the latter causes Hardy, trying to demonstrate to Laurel the proper way to use snuff, to fly off an old bridge. His clothes are soaked.
Captain Blood, 1h59
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Lionel Atwill, Donald Meek
Roles King James
Rating76% 3.845883.845883.845883.845883.84588
In 17th century England, an Irish doctor named Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who had participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. Arrested while performing his duties as a physician, he is convicted of treason against the King and sentenced to death by the infamous Judge Jeffreys. By the whim of King James II, who sees an opportunity for profit, Blood and the surviving rebels are transported to the West Indies to be sold into slavery.
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, 1h23
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Warner Oland
Roles Wedding Guest
Rating68% 3.4286553.4286553.4286553.4286553.428655
Bulldog Drummond's partner Algy is set to wed. Bulldog attends the wedding but on his return home in the deep foggy night he wanders into an old mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a telephone. To his shock he finds the corpse of an old man. Bodies keep disappearing as Drummond attempts to contact the authorities, including neighbour Captain Nielsen. But a woman is on the case, Gwen, who is the daughter of the dead man.