John Vosper
Also Known As: John Vosbough, John Vosburgh, John Wosper, Jack Vosburgh
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: July 03, 1894
Deathday: April 06, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Overview: During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
Genres: Drama Action Family War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-01
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Honor Thy Name
Overview: The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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Flight for Freedom
Overview: A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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Edge of Hell
Overview: In this heart-warming drama, a beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle to eke out a living upon the cruel streets. He is hired to perform at a rich kid's birthday party. There, the beggar is offered $500 for his beloved dog. He refuses and again hits the streets. Soon he becomes so impoverished that he can no longer provide food for his four-legged friend; he sells him for $20. The beggar is then beaten and robbed. Later he learns that Flip died. The man soon follows the dog to heaven where they begin performing for God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Overview: The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-16
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Dark Shadows
Overview: A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-16
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Dead Man's Gulch
Overview: When the Pony Express disbands, riders Tennessee and Johnny head for Adobe Wells. Tennessee becomes the Deputy Marshal while Johnny joins an outlaw gang. It's not long before Tennessee catches Johny attempting murder. As Johhnny is his best friend, he gives him another chance. But to no avail as Johnny murders a man and this time Tennessee must do his duty.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-12
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The Lady in the Library
Overview: Mildred Vandeburg, an heiress who devotes her time to a hospital that she has built in the slums, breaks her engagement to her fiancé, T. Huntington Forbes, because Forbes is only interested in horses and sports. Meeda Jones, a nurse employed in Mildred's hospital, is married to a criminal named Spike, who steals some jewels and convinces his brother Dan to fence them for him. When Dan is killed as the police try to arrest him, his wife dies of shock, leaving their baby girl homeless. To help the baby, Mildred decides to take her to Forbes's home, where she informs her former fiancé that there is a "lady in the library" waiting for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-19
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Notorious
Overview: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Miss V from Moscow
Overview: Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
Genres: War Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-23
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The Sea of Grass
Overview: On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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Mr. Skeffington
Overview: A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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The Magnificent Rogue
Overview: A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Undercover Man
Overview: A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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The Magnetic Monster
Overview: The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-18
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Black Hills Ambush
Overview: U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to help his friend Nugget whose shipments are being robbed. Learning the gang only goes for incoming shipments, he figures they are repacking the loot and having Nugget ship it out. So he hijacks the next outgoing shipment finding a box labeled tools contains gold bars. Then posing as an outlaw he makes a deal with the gang hoping to round them up. But the boss learns he is a Marshal and he is made a prisoner.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-20
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Tales of Robin Hood
Overview: The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Overview: Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-28
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Taking the Count
Overview: Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-24
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Hearts of Humanity
Overview: Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-31
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Convicted
Overview: A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Red Haired Alibi
Overview: A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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Breakdown
Overview: A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-16
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The Unfaithful
Overview: Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Princess Virtue
Overview: The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-12
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A Gamble in Souls
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-09
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High Conquest
Overview: Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-21
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Western Limited
Overview: A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-05
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Environment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-16
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The Man I Love
Overview: Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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