Ross Alexander
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 27, 1907
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Shipmates Forever
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Going Highbrow
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy.
Maybe It's Love
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
The Wiser Sex
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Flirtation Walk
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
China Clipper
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
We're in the Money
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Barry Granville
as Self
as Kent Carter
as Tom Collins
as Chick Randall
as Erik Valborg
as Bill McAllister
as Rusty Noonan
as Himself (uncredited)
as Jeremy Pitt
as Lafayette 'Sparks' Brown
as Demetrius
as C. Richard Courtney
as Harley Marsh
as Rims O'Neil
as Oskie Berry
as Tom Martin
as Lester Trout
as Jimmy O'Neill