Esme Percy
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 8, 1887
Place of Birth: Londres, Reino Unido
Known For
Disclosure
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
Love, Life and Laughter
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
Dead of Night
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Pygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Death in the Hand
A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.
Bitter Sweet
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love. As a young girl Sarah falls in love with Carl, a musician, and runs off with him to Vienna. They are happily wed and Carl earns a living conducting a small orchestra. Enter a certain Captain who sets his eye on Sarah and proceeds to shower her with his attentions, much to her dismay.
On Secret Service
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
21 Days Together
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Filmography
as Handel Fane (archive footage)
as Self
as Blind Man
as Cosmo Vaughan
as Vizier
as Mariot
as Major Domo
as Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
as Lord Chamberlain
as Henry Wallen
as Count Aristid Karpathy
as Diego de Costa
as Philo Johnson
as Robinson
as Morel
as Austrian Ambassador
as Gabriel Donozetti
as John Townsend
as Jose
as Napoleon Bonaparte
as Ali, the Grand Eunuch
as Pommier
as Lloyd George
as Samuel Pepys
as Goebschen
as Bleuntzli - Reporter
as Hugh Devon
as Chairman
as Handel Fane