Charles Waldron
Actor · 1874 – 1946 · Waterford, New York, USA
Movies24
Movie7.6MysteryCrimePrivate Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
The Big Sleep
1946 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceA simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Dragonwyck
1946 · 126 votes
Movie6.3DramaWarFort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
The Real Glory
1939 · 23 votes
Movie7.1DramaIn 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.
The Song of Bernadette
1943 · 134 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceThe star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
The Garden of Allah
1936 · 35 votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryThe young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Marie Antoinette
1938 · 37 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · 109 votes
Movie7.6ComedyRomanceThe wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · 66 votes
Movie7.6ComedyDramaYoung Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
On Borrowed Time
1939 · 31 votes
Movie6.8HistoryDramaIn flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Edison, the Man
1940 · 27 votes
Movie7.3RomanceDramaWandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Random Harvest
1942 · 118 votes
Movie7.0AdventureDramaA dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944 · 11 votes
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceUnexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Remember the Night
1940 · 129 votes
Movie6.2ActionAdventureRightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · 13 votes
Movie5.7DramaThree Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
Navy Blue and Gold
1937 · 11 votes
Movie4.9DramaHistorySpies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937 · 9 votes
Movie6.6MusicRomanceFictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · 18 votes
Movie6.0AdventureActionAdam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935 · 2 votes
MovieDramaAudrey, an orphan, becomes the ward of a wealthy man, but when he travels to England, she is turned over to an unscrupulous couple who usurp her money and turn her into a slave.
Audrey
1916
Movie5.7DramaRomanceViennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Three Faces West
1940 · 19 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarIn occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.
Mademoiselle Fifi
1944 · 8 votes
Movie4.8ActionComedySoon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Blonde Alibi
1946 · 6 votes
Movie4.8DramaKildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940 · 15 votes
Movie5.6MysteryCrimeAn apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
The Nurse's Secret
1941 · 5 votes