Lionel Royce
Also Known As: Leon Moriz Reiss, Leo Reuss, Leo Reuß, Kaspar Brandhofer
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dolina, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Dolyna, Ukraine]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 29, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 01, 1946
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Road to Zanzibar
Overview: Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Overview: A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Overview: Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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White Pongo
Overview: Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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The Son of Monte Cristo
Overview: Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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My Favorite Blonde
Overview: Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Four Sons
Overview: Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
Overview: From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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What Price Safety!
Overview: Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Passport to Destiny
Overview: An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-31
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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6,000 Enemies
Overview: A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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Conspiracy
Overview: American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Heavenly Music
Overview: Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-01
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The Pursuit of Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-26
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Let Freedom Ring
Overview: A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Overview: FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Overview: British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Victory
Overview: A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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Unseen Enemy
Overview: The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-10
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South of Panama
Overview: Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-02
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The Man I Married
Overview: An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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My Favorite Spy
Overview: The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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The Lady Has Plans
Overview: Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
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Underground
Overview: A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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So Ends Our Night
Overview: An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Half Way to Shanghai
Overview: A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Overview: Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Above Suspicion
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Crash Dive
Overview: A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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December 7th
Overview: "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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Tarzan and the Amazons
Overview: A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-29
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Overview: An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-24
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