Léon Bary
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 06, 1880
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 07, 1954
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L'enfant du carnaval
Overview: A desperate mother abandons her child on the door step of a playboy.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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The Temple of Venus
Overview: Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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The King of the Wild Horses
Overview: A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-06
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In the Service of the Tsar
Overview: At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Tamara la complaisante
Overview: A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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Ceux De Demain
Overview: Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief who blesses him. His parents reconcile at the foot of his hospital bed.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-24
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The Stream
Overview: When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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The White Flower
Overview: Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flower will be her true love. When Bob Rutherford offers a gardenia to Konia at a banquet, David Panuahi, a rejected suitor, becomes even more jealous and persuades Konia to have the kahuna put a death curse on Bob's fiancee, Ethel Granville. Bob's devotion to a failing Ethel softens Konia, however, and she has the curse removed. She is about to jump into a volcano when Bob, now released by Ethel from their engagement, finds her and declares his love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-04
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Le brigand gentilhomme
Overview: A gentleman, falsely accused of an assassination, becomes a formidable bandit. Condemned by the king, he will be rehabilitated thanks to the intervention of a young girl whom he will marry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-22
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Coup de tête
Overview: A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Overview: France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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The Last Metro
Overview: Leaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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Loves of Casanova
Overview: On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.
Genres: Adventure History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Cité de l'espérance
Overview: The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-27
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
Overview: Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-30
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Cartouche, King of Paris
Overview: The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-02
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Paris Incident
Overview: Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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Du Guesclin
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-26
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The Galloping Kid
Overview: Cowboy Simplex Cox, now a drifter and odd-job seeker, lands the assignment of chaperoning the pretty daughter of cattleman "Five-Notch" Arnett. Laura Arnett has a weakness of falling in love with every man she meets---Simplex Cox the exception---and it is Simp's job to keep her from meeting any. However, too late, as she has succumbed to the polished, oily charms of Hubert Bolston, who has dastardly designs upon Arnett's land and intends getting them by marrying the daughter.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-11
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77, rue Chalgrin
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-17
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Suzanna
Overview: Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ramón and Dolores, although Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranch, and Dolores is interested in Pancho, a toreador. When Suzanna learns that she was kidnapped in infancy and is really Don Diego's daughter, she keeps silent; but Ramón finally rebels and steals Suzanna from the altar as she is about to marry Pancho. There are explanations, Ramón marries Suzanna, and Dolores marries Pancho. Suzanna (1923) has been mastered from a good quality but incomplete 35mm print.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-16
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The Iron Mask
Overview: King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-21
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Palaces
Overview: Nadia de Hock breaks her engagement to another man because of her love to the marquis d'Areghi. She lives a life of pleasure until Areghi reveals he is just an adventurer who has just killed his brother. He asks her to sign a letter so he can use her as his alibi. Some time later, Areghi is attacked by Nadia's guard dogs as he tries to see her. He dies as she forgives him for the pain he caused her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-17
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Casque d'Or
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-13
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La Ronde de Nuit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-20
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The Puritan
Overview: A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-13
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-14
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The Maelstrom of Paris
Overview: Story of a woman who thinks she prefers a life of glory on stage in Paris to life with her Scottish lord of a husband in his castle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-03-29
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The Mystery of the Double Cross
Overview: Originally written for Pearl White, this silent serial is a great action-packed adventure starring Molly King and Leon Bary. This serial had fifteen chapters, each one two reels in length. The chapters were: 1. The Lady in Number '7' 2. The Masked Stranger 3. An Hour to Live 4. Kidnapped 5. The Life Current 6. The Dead Come Back 7. Into Thin Air 8. The Stranger Disposes 9. When Jail Birds Fly 10. The Hole-in-the-Wall 11. Love's Sacrifice 12. Riddle of the Double Cross 13. The Face of the Stranger 14. The Hidden Brand 15. Mystery of the Double Cross.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-17
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The House Under the Sea
Overview: A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Sur le plancher des vaches
Overview: A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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The Road Is Fine
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-12-20
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The Shielding Shadow
Overview: The 15 chapter story involves the heroine being protected by a shadow with burning eyes. There's also a cloak of invisibility, some hypnotism and a giant octopus added to the mix.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Midnight Molly
Overview: Midnight Molly' is hit by a car while evading the police, and mistakenly identified as the wife of John Warren, candidate for mayor, whom she resembles. The real Mrs Warren has run off with another man, George Calvin, and John Warren is happy to recognise Molly as his wife. Molly continues to impersonate his wife on her recovery, saving Warren from the consequences of a divorce scandal. Calvin learns of the deception and tries to blackmail Warren, without success. A detective pursues Molly, but only gains fingerprints of the real Mrs Warren. Mrs Warren and Calvin are killed in a motor car accident, leaving Warren and Molly free to marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-11
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The Lightning Rider
Overview: A bandit known as The Black Mask is terrorizing the countryside around the California border town of Caliboro. When word spreads that the Mask's gang is going to hit town, the town priest turns over the church's money to the local sheriff for safekeeping.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-18
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À minuit, le 7
Overview: A young journalist hungry for scoop lets himself be suspected of a crime to write a report.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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June Madness
Overview: Clytie Whitmore (Viola Dana) finally consents to marry Cadbury Todd (Gerald Pring), but while walking down the aisle she runs out of the church and into the passing car of Ken Pauling (Bryant Washburn), a well-known jazz musician. Shortly after returning home, Clytie escapes from her locked room and goes to Pennetti's roadhouse, where Ken is appearing, closely pursued by gossip columnist Hamilton Peeke (Leon Barry). She dances in the show in place of Sonora, then escapes with Ken when the roadhouse is raided. They elope but eventually her family accepts the couple.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-23
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The Seven Pearls
Overview: 15 part serial: CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Sultan's Necklace; 2. The Bowstring; 3. The Air Peril; 4. Amid the Clouds; 5. Between Fire and Water; 6. The Abandoned Mine; 7. The False Pearl; 8. The Man Trap; 9. The Message on the Wire; 10. The Hold-Up; 11. Gems of Jeopardy; 12. Buried Alive; 13. Over the Falls; 14. The Tower of Death; 15. The Seventh Pearl.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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Antoine & Antoinette
Overview: 1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-08-28
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Frou-Frou
Overview: A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
Overview: Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabeth 's sister, to save the situation, claims that Simon is actually in love with her and came to see her. They have to get engaged and Simon breaks up with his lover. But Elisabeth is not prepared to accept it, and she becomes the head of a gang of "drivers" in order to kidnap her husband. Famous Vidocq intervenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-14
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The Lure of Jade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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Le secret du docteur
Overview: A young woman is married to a cad. She writes him a break-up letter and decides to run away with her lover to Egypt. But her lover is run over by a car and a doctor friend advises her to go back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-26
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