Gaston Glass
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 30, 1899
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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 difficult without falling in love.
Espionage
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Jewish Prudence
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
The Call of the Klondike
A desert prospecter, Dick Norton, decides to head to the Klondike in search of gold. In the Klondike, Norton becomes a mining engineer whose honesty upsets a crooked Mortimer Pearson. Norton's girlfriend, Violet Winter and her father suddenly arrive in town.
Monte Cristo
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
The Princess Comes Across
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Two in the Dark
When Mr. X (Walter Able) wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to a murder of a well-known producer. Fast talking Marie Smith (Margot Grahame) takes pity on him, they solve the case and discover his identity.
Just Like Heaven
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
Becky Sharp
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor.
Filmography
as La Forge
as Lieut. Rene La Rue
as Drunk Man in Bar
as Photographer (uncredited)
as Brazilian Opera Troupe (uncredited)
as Louis Bouchard
as Second Jewelry Clerk (uncredited)
as Usher
as Lt. Bacalenakoff
as Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
as Joe - Bartender
as British Officer (uncredited)
as Pierre Calmine
as Jean
as Robert
as Pierre
as Fred Baher
as Bell Cameron
as Frank Clayton
as Bibi-Ri
as Joe Arnold
as Arthur Reade
as Tom Powers
as Marsden
as Himself
as Aaron
as Robert McNeil Jr.
as Billy Barton
as Francis Wainfield
as Fred Perry
as West MacDonald
as Dick Norton
as Sam Berkowitz
as Alan Bennett aka Alan Morse
as Ralph Browning
as Jacques
as Dick Manning
as Wally
as Capt. Howard
as Hal Owen
as District Attorney
as Robert Cartwright
as Andy Owens
as Arthur Trevelyan
as Rev. Roy Allen
as David Wingate
as Gerald Welden
as Ray Underhill
as Don Marcello
as Clinton Ferris
as Oswald Lane
as Juan Camillo
as Albert de Morcerf
as Ralph Fitzgerald
as Billy Norton
as David Tilden
as Dr. Jack Washton
as Cpl. Cameron
as John King
as Harold Hargrave
as William Whitlock
as Ernesto
as Leon Kantor (adult)
as Lt. Gerome De La Motte
as Harry Merwin
as Jimmy Johnson
as Darrell McKnight