Owen Nares
Also Known As: Owen Ramsay Nares
Biography: From Wikipedia Owen Ramsay Nares (11 August 1888 in Maiden Erlegh, Berkshire, England – 30 July 1943 in Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales) had a long stage and film career. Besides his acting career, he was the author of Myself, and Some Others (1925). In 1914, Nares appeared in Dandy Donovan, the first of the 25 silent films in which he appeared. The early 1920s was his golden period and he was the male lead opposite such actresses as Gladys Cooper, Fay Compton, Madge Titheradge and Daisy Burrell. His stage career also continued to flourish. With the advent of talkies, his considerable stage experience meant that, in the early days, he was still much in demand and starred in four films. He was, however, too mature to be the handsome star he had been a decade earlier. In the last six films he made, he played supporting roles. In 1942, he appeared in a revival of Robert E. Sherwood’s The Petrified Forrest, and afterwards he went on tour with the play to Northern England and Wales. During a tour through Wales Nares had a heart attack and died shortly afterwards. He was 54.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Maiden Erlegh, Berks, England, UK
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Birthday: August 11, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 30, 1943
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Overview: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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One Precious Year
Overview: A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-01
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This Marriage Business
Overview: 'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
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There Goes the Bride
Overview: A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-25
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The Impassive Footman
Overview: A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-28
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The Show Goes On
Overview: A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-31
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The Man Who Won
Overview: A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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The Prime Minister
Overview: Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-04
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Frail Women
Overview: Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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Loose Ends
Overview: 'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-22
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The Middle Watch
Overview: 'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-27
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The Woman Between
Overview: An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-22
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Aren't We All?
Overview: Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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Discord
Overview: A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Milestones
Overview: Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Sunshine Susie
Overview: Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. She takes a secretarial job at a bank, and sets about catching the heart of her boss, Herr Hasel.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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I Give My Heart
Overview: The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th century Parisian milliner who sleeps her way to the uppermost rungs of French aristocracy, emerging at last as the glamorous Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV (Owen Nares). Refusing to gloss over du Barry's sexual peccadilloes (as previous films with Norma Talmadge and Dolores del Rio had done), the film presents the "heroine" as a whore, pure and simple-or, on second thought, not so pure and simple! Particularly troublesome for American censors was a scene in which du Barry is depicted as a resident of a bawdy house. Otherwise, The Loves of Madame du Barry is standard historical-drama fare, allowing dozens of top European actors to play "dress-up" for 90 minutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-24
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Young Lochinvar
Overview: In Scotland, a young man, Lochinvar insists on marrying Ellen, the woman he loves in spite of the fact that she is betrothed to another.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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Miriam Rozella
Overview: A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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The Love Contract
Overview: A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-27
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Where Is This Lady?
Overview: A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-17
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The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Overview: A educational drama about Tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-26
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
Overview: '1860-1910. Life of a mayor's daughter if she married (a) a rich baronet; (b) a poor shopkeeper; (c) nobody.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-01
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The Indian Love Lyrics
Overview: In India, a princess disguises herself as a commoner to escape an arranged marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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A Temporary Gentleman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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Gamblers All
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-01
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The Edge o' Beyond
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-01
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The Elder Miss Blossom
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Sorrows Of Satan
Overview: The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Made at Isleworth Studios, and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-stricken author so depressed that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-02
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