Marc McDermott
Acting
Biography
Marc McDermott was an Australian actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death.
Born: July 24, 1881
Place of Birth: Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Known For
He Who Gets Slapped
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Kiki
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
Flesh and the Devil
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
The Sea Hawk
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
The Temptress
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
The Taxi Dancer
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
The Spanish Jade
When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
The Goose Woman
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
Glorious Betsy
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Filmography
as Archduke Peter
as Col. Patterson
as Bancroft
as Drachano
as Major Schoenboch
as Henry Brierhalter
as Count von Rhaden
as M. Fontenoy
as Prince Karl
as Franz Garletz
as Baron Rapp
as Prince Gabriel
as Amos Ethridge
as Mr. Wendover
as Baron Regnard
as Stratini
as Count Coti Desanges
as Sir John Killigrew
as Sir Malcolm Vernon
as Luis Riccardi
as John Linden
as Sir Allen Lombard
as Fargo
as Charles Redding
as Don Luis Ramónez de Alavia
as Oswald Kane
as Prof. John Breede
as Strange Visitor / The Man / The Paralytic
as O'Hara
as Stephen Lee
as Vasili Lazoff
as Herbert Buchanan
as Dr. Wolff
as John Drene
as Hiram Perkins
as Kadir El Raschid
as Richard Carr
as George Crosby
as The Gentleman
as Lt. Straker
as The Widower
as Ebenezer Scrooge
as Tom Crawford