Ernest Cossart

AKA: Emil Gottfried von Holst
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1876-09-24

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {39}

Father McGee

1946-10-10 6.6

The Jolson Story

At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Tom Clink

1939-11-17 6

Tower of London

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of Eng ...
Genre :Drama, History, Horror

Sidney

1936-04-08 6.274

The Great Ziegfeld

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their live ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

Jimmy Clay

1935-04-30 6.2

The Scoundrel

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for h ...
Genre :Drama

Sam Royce

1945-01-09 5.441

Tonight and Every Night

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall. ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Drama

Squire Brown

1940-06-26 7.2

Tom Brown's School Days

When private tutor Thomas Arnold becomes headmaster at an English preparatory school for boys, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment against unruliness and bullying. Arnold finds an ally in ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Christopher 'Chris' Wilton

1937-10-29 6.8

Angel

While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Comedy

Binns

1939-03-24 7.1

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music

Syrette

1946-06-02 7.2

Cluny Brown

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Billings

1947-11-15 5.7

Love from a Stranger

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent he ...
Genre :Drama

Pa Monaghan

1942-02-02 7.232

Kings Row

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Mystery

Theodore

1941-11-21 6.5

Skylark

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide wha ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Aristide Duvalle

1936-04-11 6.9

Desire

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Comedy, Drama

Rev. Dr. Pumphrey

1940-05-31 7

A Bill of Divorcement

Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family. ...
Genre :Drama

Bishop

1945-10-26 6.478

Love Letters

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write th ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Romance

Jeepers

1939-03-08 6.8

Never Say Die

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determ ...
Genre :Comedy

Duval

1939-07-19 0

The Magnificent Fraud

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator. ...
Genre :Drama

Adolphe

1936-08-06 0

My American Wife

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social ...
Genre :Comedy

Stanley Redfield

1936-09-24 5.1

Murder with Pictures

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Beeton

1939-12-24 6

The Light That Failed

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind. ...
Genre :Drama

Homps

1935-09-12 6.5

Two for Tonight

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Marchand

1938-12-29 4.8

Zaza

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tienhoven

1944-03-17 5

Knickerbocker Holiday

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, History

Pop

1940-12-27 6.565

Kitty Foyle

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Starkey

1936-06-05 0

Palm Springs

A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Andrews, the Butler

1938-08-05 5.7

Letter of Introduction

An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-esta ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Commissioner Allan

1937-10-01 6

The Lady Fights Back

Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains th ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Drama

Oscar Dugan

1949-02-04 4.8

John Loves Mary

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's m ...
Genre :Comedy

Father Antoine

1939-08-11 6.111

Lady of the Tropics

American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Binns

1936-12-20 6.381

Three Smart Girls

The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him with their mother. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Spaulding

1937-10-02 0

Carnival Queen

A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and join ...
Genre :Romance, Crime

Waiter

1937-02-05 0

Champagne Waltz

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitt ...
Genre :Comedy

Augustus Borden

1937-04-17 5.2

Top of the Town

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until som ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Flogdell

1935-08-23 5.5

Accent on Youth

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Roger Henley

1945-10-11 0

The Girl of the Limberlost

Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the gir ...
Genre :Drama

English Pub Proprietor (uncredited)

1946-07-25 6.5

It's Your America

This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War II, showing them what their responsibilities as c ...
Genre :Drama, War, Documentary

Brassett

1941-08-01 5.8

Charley's Aunt

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from. ...
Genre :Comedy

Quinn

1937-05-09 7

As Good as Married

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes. ...
Genre :Comedy

John E. Morris

1941-11-01 6.6

One Foot in Heaven

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another. ...
Genre :Drama