Nicholas Soussanin
Actor · 1889 – 1975 · Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Crimea, Ukraine]
Nicholas Soussanin (born 16 January 1889, Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [present-day Crimea, Ukraine] – 27 April 1975, New York City, New York) was a Russian actor who settled and worked in the United States. He was married to the film star Olga Baclanova from 1929-39, and was the grandfather of actress Lanna Saunders. He had at least two children (a son born from a previous relationship before his marriage to Olga Baclanova), and a son, Nicholas Soussanin Jr., born with Baclanova in 1930.
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Movie6.4DramaHistoryA hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Black Magic
1949 · 25 votes
Movie7.0MysteryRomanceA charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Arsène Lupin
1932 · 22 votes
Movie7.4DramaHistoryA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
The Last Command
1928 · 94 votes
Movie5.3CrimeDramaAt her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Daughter of the Dragon
1931 · 23 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarThe story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
The Road to Glory
1936 · 9 votes
Movie6.4ActionCrimeDr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Those High Grey Walls
1939 · 4 votes
Movie5.9DramaWarDuring World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
Hotel Imperial
1927 · 9 votes
Movie5.6AdventureActionAn Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Captain Fury
1939 · 9 votes
- Movie4.6Drama
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
A Parisian Romance
1932 · 5 votes
Movie7.1HistoryDramaAn adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
The Woman Disputed
1928 · 4 votes
Movie4.0DramaA feisty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
The Squall
1929 · 7 votes
Movie8.0ComedyLe Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't enough to keep him busy, the Marquis also has to cope with an unexpected visit from his fiancée and her father.
A Gentleman of Paris
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0RomanceComedyThe Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
The Swan
1925 · 2 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaAfter young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
The Criminal Code
1931 · 33 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceArchduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
The Yellow Lily
1928 · 2 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaBillie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
Adoration
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaStars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
One Increasing Purpose
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.6DramaIn the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
Downstairs
1932 · 18 votes
Movie6.7DramaA race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
The Yankee Clipper
1927 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe Midnight Sun
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ActionComedyBeatrice Lillie shines in disguise as a private detective.
Are You There?
1930 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyLizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical producer. As Olga Rostova, an exotic Russian, she meets Norman Brooke, whose infatuation turns to love. Hoffman suggests that Norman could never care for Lizzie and proves his point. Heartbroken, Lizzie decides to see no more of him. On closing night, when he proposes to her in her dressing room and she refuses, Norman declares he must believe all the lurid details of her past; in desperation, she bares her true identity, only to find it is not her glamorous image but rather her real self that he loves.
The Spotlight
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0CrimeMysteryWho killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
Trent's Last Case
1929 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
Service for Ladies
1927 · 1 votes