Albert Gran
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 3, 1862
Place of Birth: Bergen, Norway
Known For
Fast Life
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Follow Thru
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
7th Heaven
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Four Sons
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
Her Night of Romance
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Employees' Entrance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Kiss Me Again
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
The Man from Blankley's
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Hula
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Filmography
as Denton Ross
as Van Vrinken
as Burke
as Bishop
as Lionel Reich
as King Nicholas
as General de Villafranche
as Martin Bascomb
as Mr. Overbeck
as Uncle Gabriel Gilwattle
as James Livingston
as Mr. Reynolds
as B. Bickering Brown
as James Blake
as Nathan Fairchild
as Mr. Wygate
as Willoughby Quimby
as Mr. Schmidt
as Herr Boursch
as The Postman
as Champignol
as Boul
as Old Bill Calhoun
as The Sultan
as Mr. Seymour
as Cappy Ricks
as Cassius Hayden
as Duke Travina
as Count Halfont
as Samuel C. Adams (Dorothy's father)
as Adolph Tevis
as Dodson
as Col. Harding
as Father Benedict