Richard Ney
Also Known As: Richard Maximilian Ney
Biography: Richard Maximilian Ney (November 12, 1916 – July 18, 2004) was an American actor, author, and investment counselor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 13, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 18, 2004
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Midnight Lace
Overview: Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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The Premature Burial
Overview: An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Ivy
Overview: When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-26
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The Lovable Cheat
Overview: Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-11
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A Smile in the Storm
Overview: In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an adventurer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Ein Lächeln im Sturm
Overview: Katrina Mercier and her husband arrive in Canada's far north to run a trading post. Another trading post owner, Langrand, and police sergeant Spenlow, the only two civilized people in the area, fall in love with Katrina. They follow the husband and wife as they head further north for a chance that, until now, the husband has been reluctant to take. One day, Mercier catches his partner, an adventurer, trying to take advantage of Katrina; he kills him but is wounded. The couple and the two other whites attempt to return south, but Mercier dies of his wound along the way. Caught in a storm, the three survivors get lost; the dogs abandon them. Spenlow, realizing that Katrina loves Langrand, sacrifices himself to leave them his supplies; he is devoured by wolves. Langrand and Katrina are saved in extremis by a hunter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Overview: Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Overview: A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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The Fan
Overview: Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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Babes in Bagdad
Overview: The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-07
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Joan of Arc
Overview: In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Ghostbreakers
Overview: A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-08
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Miss Italia
Overview: Journalist decides to report on Miss Italy candidates, in which detective intrigue is added.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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The Late George Apley
Overview: George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-19
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Personalities
Overview: In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. The narrator says that moviegoers will have to decide whether these fledgling actors and actresses have that certain quality that made superstars out of MGM players Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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