Gordon De Main
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 27, 1886
Place of Birth: Washington, Iowa, USA
Known For
The Wolf Dog
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
I Married a Witch
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true 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.
Chained
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
What Price Hollywood?
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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 crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Street of Chance
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
Across the Pacific
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Filmography
as Col. Duval
as Man with Masterson on Radio (uncredited)
as George Bullock
as Dock Official (uncredited)
as Dave Underwood
as Professor Fitzgerald
as Superintendent (uncredited)
as Wilfred Barnet
as Jason (uncredited)
as Denby
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Immigration Guard (uncredited)
as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
as Captain Bates
as Gonzalez (uncredited)
as Kronsky Aide
as Salvage Boss
as Assayer
as Bartender Jake
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
as Deputy Miller
as Jury forman
as Self - Spectator (uncredited)
as Gambling House Proprietor (Uncredited)
as S.S. Official (uncredited)
as Commander Bryson (uncredited)
as Police Captain
as Banker Williams
as Roulette Table Staff
as Murphy
as (uncredited)
as Butler
as Sheriff
as Nicholson
as First Detective
as Julian Nash
as Sheriff
as Ike MacFarland (as G. D. Wood)
as Doctor (uncredited)
as Policeman
as Colonel Duval
as Dad Mason
as Doctor
as Doctor
as Narcotics Squad (uncredited)
as Sheriff Jim
as Rancher (uncredited)
as Jed Hawkins (as Gordon Wood)
as State's Attorney
as Fred Purdy
as The 'Yes' Man (uncredited)
as Corporal McCarty
as Coroner
as Eye Specialist (uncredited)
as Judge Parker
as (as Bud Wood) Granger, rancher
as Cliff Warren
as Walrus
as Doctor
as Marshal Houston
as The Croupier
as Marshal Jack Moore
as Joe Connors
as The Governor of Nevada
as First Mate
as Detective (uncredited)
as Sheriff John Andrews
as Sheriff John Evans
as Red - Foreman
as Major Lewis
as Gambler (uncredited)
as Roy