John S. Peters
Also Known As: Captain John S. Peters, Captain John Peters, John Peters, Capt. John S. Peters U.S.A. Ret., Capt. J.S. Peters USA Retired, Capt. John S. Peters USA, Capt. John S. Peters - U.S.A. retired, John Sylvester Peters
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: December 29, 1894
Deathday: November 07, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Divine Sinner
Overview: Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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Double Whoopee
Overview: Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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Under Western Skies
Overview: Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter of an Oregon rancher. Bob goes to work as a fieldhand for the elder Parkhurst and discovers that the Oregon crops may fail because eastern bankers, led by Bob's father, refuse to advance the farmers credit. Bob intercedes with his father, who promises to help the ranchers if Bob wins the steeplechase in the Pendleton rodeo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-07
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The Reckless Way
Overview: The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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Border Phantom
Overview: Cowboy Larry O'Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith happen upon a distraught Barbara Hartwell, who is about to be arrested for the murder of her uncle. With Barbara behind bars, Larry is determined to find the real killer and soon finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving crazed German entomologists and a smuggling ring bringing Chinese "picture girls" across the Mexican border for sale to wealthy Chinese bachelors.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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Café Metropole
Overview: An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-28
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Mystery Plane
Overview: An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Sky Patrol
Overview: "Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and coast-lines, on the lookout for smugglers. Carter Meade, whose father is the Colonel in charge of the patrol, has a terror of firing guns and his father insists he conquer this fear. Tommy sends him out on patrol, on orders from Washington D. C., to stop any unfamiliar aircraft. Carter challenges an unmarked amphibian plane, which opens fire on him. Carter, afraid to shoot, bails out as his plane is shot down. Carter is missing, and Tommy and Skeeter are searching for him and the mysterious airplane.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-11
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The Beast of Borneo
Overview: A crazed scientist needs primates to conduct experiments to prove his own theory of evolution, so he organizes an expedition into the jungles of Borneo to capture the animals he needs.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-13
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Overview: Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-28
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Overview: A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-30
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Overview: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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The Amateur Gentleman
Overview: Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-14
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The Enemy
Overview: Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-08
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Pilot X
Overview: Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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