David Torrence
Actor · 1864 – 1951 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
David Torrence (born David Tayson; 17 January 1864 – 26 December 1951) was a Scottish film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1913 to 1939. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the brother of actor Ernest Torrence. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and died in Los Angeles.
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Movie7.4AdventureDramaFletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · 407 votes
Movie6.9RomanceHistoryPopular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Queen Christina
1934 · 145 votes
Movie7.2AdventureDr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Captain Blood
1935 · 283 votes
Movie6.7ComedyStan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Bonnie Scotland
1935 · 73 votes
Movie6.9AdventureFantasyBritish diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Lost Horizon
1937 · 252 votes
Movie5.5DramaWarA cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Cavalcade
1933 · 137 votes
Movie5.4AdventureHorrorThe villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932 · 89 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryThe recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Mary of Scotland
1936 · 43 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceSpendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
The Devil to Pay!
1930 · 23 votes
Movie6.4AdventureHistoryWhen American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Stanley and Livingstone
1939 · 24 votes
Movie7.5DramaRomanceA waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
City Girl
1930 · 106 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceThough billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Rolled Stockings
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.2DramaHistoryPrime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Disraeli
1929 · 31 votes
Movie6.7DramaThe struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Rulers of the Sea
1939 · 3 votes
Movie6.9CrimeMysteryCharlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
Charlie Chan in London
1934 · 37 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceOn the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
Smilin' Through
1932 · 29 votes
Movie6.0HistoryDocumentaryThis short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943 · 5 votes
Movie5.9FantasyRomanceA young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Berkeley Square
1933 · 16 votes
Movie6.3ActionThrillerHugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1939 · 15 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaSearching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Five Star Final
1931 · 48 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Wealthy miser Martin Stanley forces his family into desperate financial measures. His daughter Diana secretly works as an artist's model for Paul Howard, sparking jealousy from her sister Marjorie—who loves Paul—and fury from their mother. To sabotage Diana's relationship with her boyfriend Bobby, Paul maliciously alters the painting to look scandalous. Marjorie discovers the plot and attacks Paul, leaving him for dead. When Paul unexpectedly revives, murder charges are avoided, and Martin finally realizes the toxic cost of his cheapness, allowing the family to find peace and reconcile.
Undressed
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaA doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
The Country Doctor
1936 · 4 votes
Movie4.5DramaThe life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Harmony Lane
1935 · 6 votes
Movie5.8DramaAbandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Mandalay
1934 · 18 votes