John Roche
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Roche (February 6, 1893 – November 10, 1952) was an American actor of the stage and screen. Roche was born in the small village of Penn Yan, New York, on February 6, 1893. He graduated from the University of Rochester, after which he began his acting career touring with stock companies during the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1922, he broke into the film industry with a featured role in The Good Provider. During the 1920s, he acted in both films and on stage, including several roles in Broadway productions. He acted steadily in films until 1936, in both featured and supporting roles. In the mid-1930s he took a break from films, focusing on the stage, including directing the play, Mackerel Skies, which had a short run at the Playhouse Theatre in New York in 1936. Roche returned to films in 1941, with a small role in the Norma Shearer vehicle, We Were Dancing (1942), based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. Over the course of his career he was involved in over half a dozen Broadway productions and appeared in over 50 films. His final screen appearance was in 1946's The Brute Man. Roche died on November 10, 1952, in Los Angeles, California.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 06, 1893
Deathday: November 10, 1952
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The Donovan Affair
1929-04-11
The Donovan Affair
Overview: Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-11
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The Awful Truth
1929-08-10
The Awful Truth
Overview: Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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Winner Take All
1932-07-16
Winner Take All
Overview: Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-16
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927-11-04
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Overview: In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-04
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Monte Carlo
1930-08-27
Monte Carlo
Overview: A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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This Thing Called Love
1929-12-13
This Thing Called Love
Overview: A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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Kid Galahad
1937-05-29
Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Flowing Gold
1924-03-01
Flowing Gold
Overview: The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Just My Luck
1935-12-30
Just My Luck
Overview: Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Lucretia Lombard
1923-12-08
Lucretia Lombard
Overview: Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-08
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The Dream Melody
1929-01-25
The Dream Melody
Overview: Richard Gordon is an aspiring composer who can't get arrested in his field of endeavor. Upon meeting nightclub singer Mary Talbot, Gordon is inspired to write his greatest melody. The song catches the ear of impresario George Monroe and before long Gordon has scaled the heights of fame and fortune. Mary despairs that she's been forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-25
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Beauty for Sale
1933-09-01
Beauty for Sale
Overview: A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Prosperity
1932-11-18
Prosperity
Overview: Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Kiss Me Again
1925-08-01
Kiss Me Again
Overview: Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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The Tenth Woman
1924-08-24
The Tenth Woman
Overview: A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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The Return of Peter Grimm
1926-12-07
The Return of Peter Grimm
Overview: "Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-07
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Lady with a Past
1932-02-19
Lady with a Past
Overview: A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Don Juan
1926-08-06
Don Juan
Overview: If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-06
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Midnight Lovers
1926-10-25
Midnight Lovers
Overview: During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-25
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The Clinging Vine
1926-09-06
The Clinging Vine
Overview: When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that no matter how she looks she’s still the smartest person in any room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-06
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Bobbed Hair
1925-10-25
Bobbed Hair
Overview: Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Diamond Handcuffs
1928-05-05
Diamond Handcuffs
Overview: German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-05
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The Spider Woman
1943-12-24
The Spider Woman
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Unholy Night
1929-09-13
The Unholy Night
Overview: When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-13
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Recompense
1925-04-26
Recompense
Overview: A black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn, a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-26
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A Broadway Butterfly
1925-03-29
A Broadway Butterfly
Overview: Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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K - The Unknown
1924-11-17
K - The Unknown
Overview: Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-17
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Bag and Baggage
1923-11-01
Bag and Baggage
Overview: Country girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft after a criminal named Jathrow Billings mistakes her handbag for a satchel of jewels he stole from the wealthy Mrs. Marian Cooper. Hal solves the mystery and keeps Hope out of jail.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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Cornered
1924-08-01
Cornered
Overview: A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring. They wait until Margaret is absent from the house, then place Mary there to make their heist easier. Unfortunately, Margaret returns before they've finished the job and gets shot. When the police get there, both women claim to be Margaret Waring and accuse the other of being the thief--and they look so much alike that no one can tell the difference.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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My Wife and I
1925-05-16
My Wife and I
Overview: In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-16
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The Falcon Takes Over
1942-05-29
The Falcon Takes Over
Overview: While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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The Man Upstairs
1926-01-22
The Man Upstairs
Overview: The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-22
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
1932-03-27
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-27
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The Good Provider
1922-04-02
The Good Provider
Overview: A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves fruitless and eventually his kin sees the error of their ways and return to their true home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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Sin Takes a Holiday
1930-11-10
Sin Takes a Holiday
Overview: Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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A Lost Lady
1924-12-18
A Lost Lady
Overview: A spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband but soon becomes bored. She finally leaves him but doesn't really know what she wants. A young man who is a friend--and, unbeknownst to her, an admirer--takes her in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-18
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