Richard L'Estrange
Also Known As: Gunther Van Strensch, Richard Lestrange, Richard La Strang, Dick L'Estrange, Dick L'Strange, Dick La Strange, Dick Le Strange, Dick Le Strenge
Biography: Richard L'Estrange (born Gunther Van Strensch) was an American actor, associate producer / producer, assistant director / director, and production manager. His screen acting career took place during the years 1913 to 1929.
Department: Production
Place of Birth: Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Birthday: December 28, 1889
Deathday: November 19, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Madame la Presidente
Overview: Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-06
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Blazing Days
Overview: While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-27
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The Silent Rider
Overview: Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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The Devil Bear
Overview: A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and the gorilla saves him by hiding him in a cave. As others try to get close things get heated.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-19
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How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell
Overview: When Jimmie Collins, a pickpocket, is arrested and brought before Captain Callahan of the Tenth, he is surprised because he is lodged in a cell. Jimmie claims acquaintanceship with Bill McFarlin, a corrupt political boss, and he sneers at Captain Callahan when he is ordered to be placed behind the cell bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-03
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Desert Dust
Overview: Frank Fortune, a young rancher, is jailed along with two of his men for fighting with rival ranchers. Helen Marsden, daughter of a wealthy senator who is interested in prison reform, prevails on the judge to parole them into her custody and work at her ranch. Frank falls in love and, so as to stay on at the ranch, convinces her he is a notorious criminal. When the senator visits her with a large sum of money belonging to the state, three "reformed" crooks on the premises plan to steal it. Fortune's friends learn of the plot and decide to take the money for safekeeping, but Fortune intervenes; the real crooks do steal the funds, however, and depart with Helen in an automobile. Fortune overtakes the speeding car and rescues Helen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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The Right to Be Happy
Overview: Considered to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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The Hidden Code
Overview: Quirky chemist Eben Lamont has discovered a powerful new explosive and plans to turn it over to the government. Richard Leslie, the head of an explosives manufacturing company, offers to buy his new discovery, but Lamont turns him down. Afraid that his formula will be stolen by Leslie, Lamont uses invisible ink to tattoo part of the formula on his daughter Grace's shoulder. A spy for a foreign government finds out about it, kills Lamont and kidnaps Grace, hypnotizing her so she'll tell him where the formula is. She is rescued by Leslie in the nick of time, but her troubles, as it turns out, are not yet over.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-04
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The Call of the Cumberlands
Overview: An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-23
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A Made-To-Order Hero
Overview: Bert Lane and Margery Murray are in love, but her aunt insists she marry either a society man or a hero, so his hands decide that he will be a made-to-order hero - but society man Fred Van Ralt keeps getting the credit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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The Squaw Man
Overview: Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-15
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Thunder Riders
Overview: As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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The Border Cavalier
Overview: American Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-18
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What's His Name
Overview: Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie. After a musical comedy troupe comes through, Nellie becomes an actress. When she then falls for a millionaire and goes to Reno for a divorce, Harvey takes their child Phoebe home where her later illness brings her parents back together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-22
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The Ghost Breaker
Overview: Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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