Richard Talmadge
Biography: From Wikipedia Richard Talmadge (Sylvester Alphonse Metz, Camburg, Germany, December 3, 1892 – January 25, 1981) was a German-born American actor, stuntman and film director. Alberta Vaughn and Richard Talmadge share a cigar in The Live Wire (1935) When he arrived in Hollywood in 1910, he began his career as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks, before becoming an actor himself. His films include American Manners, Dancing Dynamite, Speed Madness, and the Pirate Treasure series. He was the lead in The Cavalier (1928), film released by Tiffany Pictures with only a music and sound effects soundtrack. He never got rid of his German accent, so with the advent of the talkies, he started working behind the cameras - as assistant director, stunt coordinator and director. His later work included How the West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told and Casino Royale. He was also the stepfather of legendary polo player Sue Sally Hale.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 03, 1892
Deathday: January 25, 1981
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The Prince of Pep
1925-12-20
The Prince of Pep
Overview: Doctor James Leland is a successful doctor engaged to nurse Marion Nord. Working late one night he discovers his assistant stealing the supply of cocaine. The doctor is knocked unconscious and his body is dump assuming, incorrectly, that the good doctor is dead.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-20
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Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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The Live Wire
1935-11-01
The Live Wire
Overview: A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also stars Alberta Vaughn, Charles K. French and Martin Turner.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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On Your Guard
1933-01-31
On Your Guard
Overview: An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-31
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The Speed Reporter
1936-05-13
The Speed Reporter
Overview: Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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Pirate Treasure
1934-01-29
Pirate Treasure
Overview: An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-29
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Now or Never
1935-07-08
Now or Never
Overview: A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-08
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Never Too Late
1935-11-27
Never Too Late
Overview: A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-27
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The Fighting Pilot
1935-02-12
The Fighting Pilot
Overview: An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-12
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Get That Girl
1932-04-15
Get That Girl
Overview: A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-15
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Speed King
1923-01-01
Speed King
Overview: Jimmy Martin, king of the motorcycle speedsters, visits the Kingdom of Mandavia for a race. There he is persuaded to impersonate the king by a traitor, Rodolph D'Henri, who intends to annex part of Mandavia for neighboring Selmarnia. The real king is in jail. D'Henri's plot is successful until Martin falls in love with Princess Margaret of Alvernia. Then he discloses his true identity, releases the real king, exposes the traitor, earns knighthood, and marries Margaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Yankee Don
1931-05-17
Yankee Don
Overview: A crook on the run from the law in New York flees to Mexico, where he falls for a beautiful young Mexican girl and tries to help her father save the family estate from a gang of criminals.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-17
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The Mysterious Stranger
1925-07-05
The Mysterious Stranger
Overview: Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-05
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The Isle of Hope
1925-08-16
The Isle of Hope
Overview: A ship captain's beautiful daughter and a wealthy playboy who is searching for buried treasure find themselves stranded on a desert island.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-16
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Speed Madness
1932-07-29
Speed Madness
Overview: More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-29
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The Blue Streak
1926-01-31
The Blue Streak
Overview: A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, whose life he has already once saved, who is traveling to the same place. He is kidnapped by some men who are misdirecting the mine shipments, and escapes in time to save the girl from death
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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Redhead from Manhattan
1943-05-06
Redhead from Manhattan
Overview: Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-06
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Lucky Legs
1942-10-01
Lucky Legs
Overview: Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Black Eagle
1948-09-16
Black Eagle
Overview: Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end up fleecing our hero in one way or another. Even so, Jason manages to enjoy a brief romance with pretty Ginny Long (Virginia Patton) before returning to his life of carefree vagabondage. A very minor film, The Black Eagle makes the most of its excellent supporting cast, including Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette, Will Wright and stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-16
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Let's Go
1923-10-31
Let's Go
Overview: The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-31
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The Cavalier
1928-11-01
The Cavalier
Overview: In old Mexico a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes. When she leaves with him, her father sends his gang in a chase after the two lovers. Drama ensues!
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Danger Ahead
1923-09-21
Danger Ahead
Overview: Produced by low-budget entrepreneur Phil Goldstone, this silent action melodrama starred Richard Talmadge, a German-born former stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks.Talmadge played Bruce Randall, a wealthy young man supposedly killed during a robbery in his home. But Bruce has survived and is instead wandering about in a state of amnesia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-21
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The Better Man
1926-06-06
The Better Man
Overview: Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested in Nancy, Lord Hugh obtains passage as valet to her nouveau riche uncle, Phineas Ward.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-06
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The Fighting Demon
1925-05-24
The Fighting Demon
Overview: Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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In Fast Company
1924-07-15
In Fast Company
Overview: Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangsters. There's always something.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-15
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Tearing Through
1925-04-12
Tearing Through
Overview: Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Step on It
1936-01-01
Step on It
Overview: A cop is fired from the force and attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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On Time
1924-03-01
On Time
Overview: A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Laughing at Danger
1924-11-23
Laughing at Danger
Overview: A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up staged escapades and dangers in an attempt to get him out of his rut. His father isn't, and the dangers-- a cadre of hoods, car chases, a death ray-- are real!
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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