Sydney Jarvis

AKA:

1.5986

1878-01-11

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {35}

The Director

1932-09-23 6.25

Movie Crazy

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family, Romance

Obediah

1932-02-20 5.5

A Fool's Advice

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election. ...

Genre :Comedy

Gendarme (uncredited)

1936-07-10 6.8

The Devil-Doll

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduc ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Sayre

1928-02-19 0

The Wagon Show

Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tar ...

Genre :Western

Ross Cheswick

1928-06-03 0

The Upland Rider

The honest John Graham and the crooked Ross Cheswick battle for supremacy. Despite Cheswick's unscrupulous methods, Dan and his handsome bronco Tarzan win the Big Race for Graham. Dan's prize: Graham ...

Genre :Western

The Butler

1929-09-13 5.3

The Unholy Night

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

McGraw

1927-03-08 6

Casey at the Bat

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest ...

Genre :Comedy

Furniture Man (uncredited)

1933-03-04 1

Maids a la Mode

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party. ...

Genre :Comedy

Man in Audience Next to Elmer

1929-03-24 6.695

Spite Marriage

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' o ...

Genre :Comedy

Party Guest (uncredited)

1931-10-03 7

The Pajama Party

After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion. ...

Genre :Comedy

Radio Station Technician (uncredited)

1935-09-07 0

Slightly Static

Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ship's Passenger at Party (uncredited)

1934-12-15 6

Bum Voyage

The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Jarvis - Lonely Hearts Advisor (uncredited)

1932-02-06 5.5

Sealskins

In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion. ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

Passenger (uncredited)

1933-12-23 5.5

Air Fright

The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight. ...

Genre :Comedy

Townsman

1939-04-21 4.6

Zenobia

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ...

Genre :Comedy

Card Player (Uncredited)

1934-12-30 5

Caravan

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary. ...

Genre :Music

Santa Claus (uncredited)

1939-04-07 6.2

Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, Music

Museum Exhibit Attendee (uncredited)

1939-07-07 6.6

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against tim ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Court Bailiff (uncredited)

1936-06-05 7.446

Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Bartender (uncredited)

1935-11-20 5

Timber War

The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill. ...

Genre :Western

Witness (uncredited)

1934-05-25 7.503

The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Townsman Investor

1937-06-18 5

Big Business

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ship Passenger

1932-12-24 5.5

Mr. Bride

Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley. ...

Genre :Comedy

Stage manager

1929-11-08 0

Footlights and Fools

Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona. ...

Genre :Music, Drama

Gendarme at Trial (uncredited)

1929-08-17 6.1

Madame X

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest atte ...

Genre :Drama

Bailiff (uncredited)

1931-06-06 0

Young Donovan's Kid

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Gendarme (uncredited)

1928-12-15 6.438

A Woman of Affairs

Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Circus Cafe Ringmaster

1930-02-02 3.833

Loose Ankles

A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mr. Smythe (uncredited)

1938-06-09 5.789

The Rage of Paris

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New Yo ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Movie director

1933-12-01 0

Signing 'em Up

An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act. ...

Genre :

Bartender (uncredited)

1932-04-09 7.419

Scarface

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Doorman (uncredited)

1937-11-19 3.667

Blossoms On Broadway

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Referee (uncredited)

1937-07-19 0

Wild and Woolly

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Western

Mr. Magoo

1928-03-31 0

Circus Rookies

Francis Byrd is in love with circus acrobat, and daughter of the show's owner, La Belle, and tries to join the show to be near her. However, his rival Oscar Thrust is the keeper of a "Man-Eating Goril ...

Genre :Comedy

Siberian Guard (uncredited)

1934-11-01 6.6

We Live Again

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to ...