Forrest Stanley
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 20, 1889
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Rider of Death Valley
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An accident with a runaway horse carrying supplies leaves them stranded in the desert with very little water.
The Cat and the Canary
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Forbidden Fruit
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.
Eve's Love Letters
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the comic mind and performing talents of Stan Laurel, who plays her butler, that make this two-reel short shine.
The Pride of Palomar
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
Madame la Presidente
Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
Beauty's Worth
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Filmography
as Dan's Caretaker (uncredited)
as Hubka
as Griffin
as Charles Grant
as District Attorney
as Doc Larribee
as James Markey
as Sanford
as Colonel Frank Bonham
as District Attorney
as Hamilton Pew
as Gavin Murdock
as Sir Walter Raleigh
as Dunbarton
as John Longworth
as Charles Wilder
as Adam, her husband
as Duke Córdova / El Blanco
as James Reynolds
as Sir James Gilbert
as Henry Gilbert
as John Wendell
as William Norworth
as James Van Clinton
as Madoc Bill
as Gregg Mowbry
as Carl Graham
as Boston Blackie
as Michael Devlin
as Mischa Vleck
as Gordon Gray
as Don Mike Farrell
as Charles Brandon
as Commander Cleeve
as Cheyne Rovein
as Ernest Eddison
as Larry Winthrop
as Samson
as Frank Rodham
as Nelson Rogers
as Ronald Cliffe
as Robert Knight
as Spencer Vail
as James Gordon
as Philip Belden
as George Hale
as Bruce McLean
as James Holcroft
as Cyprian Gaudet
as Jack Lawrence
as Robert Van Buren
as Norrie Ford
as Mr. Smith No. 2, Forrest