Frederick Sullivan
Also Known As: Frederic Richard "Dickie" Sullivan, Frederic Richard Sullivan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: July 17, 1872
Deathday: July 24, 1937
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Match King
Overview: Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: As a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks: Robert Stevens, an artist engaged to marry Marion, a society girl, becomes charmed with a fisherman's daughter who poses for him. The society girl's brother brings dishonor upon the fisherman's daughter, and when she commits suicide the artist shields the brother. Stevens is blamed by his fiancée, who terminates their engagement. The artist becomes a derelict and is wrongfully imprisoned. Eventually Stevens is exonerated and reunited with Marion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Blind Adventure
Overview: Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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The Vice Squad
Overview: A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-29
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Beggar on Horseback
Overview: Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-05
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Hot Saturday
Overview: A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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Scandal Sheet
Overview: Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Doomsday
Overview: A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-19
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Trouble in Paradise
Overview: Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-30
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Hat, Coat and Glove
Overview: A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-26
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Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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A Lady's Profession
Overview: A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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I Sell Anything
Overview: Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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The Florentine Dagger
Overview: A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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Here Is My Heart
Overview: A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Once a Gentleman
Overview: A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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The Road to Reno
Overview: Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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Prince of Diamonds
Overview: Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
Genres: Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-26
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Murder by the Clock
Overview: A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-21
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Along Came Youth
Overview: Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-20
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Around the Corner
Overview: 18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-25
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The White Terror
Overview: Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Crooked politician David Duncan, the mills's general manager, misinforms Boyd about factory conditions. After Boyd's beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand, an unambitious rich young man, until he does something for humanity, Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole. He buys Cole's newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Society's proposal to build a sanitarium in Every-town to combat the rise of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-18
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-05
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