John Picorri
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 4, 1895
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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.
Miracles for Sale
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Seventh Heaven
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Big Brown Eyes
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
So Ends Our Night
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Filmography
as Vice President Piño Suarez (uncredited)
as Waiter
as Card Player (uncredited)
as World Press Attendee Standing Next to Von Hofer
as Prof. Krantz
as Colonel in Demo
as Juror (uncredited)
as Professor Gould
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
as G.A. Rackerby [Chs. 2-12]
as Ernest - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
as Italian Ambassador (uncredited)
as 1st Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
as Proprietor (uncredited)
as Moloch
as Porotu
as Clerk (uncredited)
as Board Member (uncredited)
as Defense Attorney (Uncredited)
as Fisherman
as Mexican Officer
as Soutar