Carl Esmond
Also Known As: Willy Eichberger, Charles Esmond, Willy Eichberger-Esmond, Карл Эсмонд, Karl Simon
Biography: Carl Esmond (born Karl Simon June 14, 1902 – December 4, 2004) was an Austrian-born American film and stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Although his age was given as 33 in the passenger list when he arrived in the USA in January 1938, in his naturalization petition his birth year is stated as 1902. His stage names were Willy Eichberger and Charles Esmond and finally Carl Esmond. He trained at Vienna's State Academy of Dramatic Arts, and made his film debut in the operetta The Emperor's Waltz (1933).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Birthday: June 14, 1902
Deathday: December 04, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ministry of Fear
Overview: Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-19
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Experiment Perilous
Overview: In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Agent for H.A.R.M.
Overview: The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-05
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Without Love
Overview: In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Walk a Crooked Mile
Overview: A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-02
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Margin for Error
Overview: When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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Liebelei
Overview: Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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From the Earth to the Moon
Overview: Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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The Dawn Patrol
Overview: In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Overview: A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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All for Veronica
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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Burg Theatre
Overview: In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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The World in His Arms
Overview: A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
Overview: As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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Sundown
Overview: Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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The Catman of Paris
Overview: When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour Marie and best friend Henry, believe he's innocent... until the creature begins to stalk Marie.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-20
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Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Hitler
Overview: Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire western world--at the cost of millions of lives--Hitler.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Pacific Rendezvous
Overview: A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Genres: Comedy Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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First Comes Courage
Overview: Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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The Navy Comes Through
Overview: A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Address Unknown
Overview: When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Overview: The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Overview: A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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Thunder in the Sun
Overview: A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's leader dies, his widow Gabrielle marries his brother in accordance with Basque tradition. But it's a loveless union; Gabrielle is smitten with Lon Bennett, the scout who's been hired to guide them on their journey.
Genres: History Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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Mystery Submarine
Overview: Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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Slave Girl
Overview: Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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This Love of Ours
Overview: At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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Lover Come Back
Overview: A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-21
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The Master Race
Overview: When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet. There are mental and physical wounds to heal, fields to plough, the church to rebuild. But a top Nazi, knowing the War is lost, has infiltrated the town and is fostering dissent and disunity.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Blossom Time
Overview: World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Evensong
Overview: Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
Genres: War Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-03
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Kleines Mädel, großes Glück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-10-23
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Die Liebe siegt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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The Postman from Longjumeau
Overview: La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in France for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his bride-of-an-hour to go to Paris. Alfer seeing the handsome tenor, the Marquise decides not to let his bride, Madeliane, join him in Paris. Graf de Latour, banished from the court for his bawdy song about La Pompadour, goes to the town where Chapelou has left his bride and sees an opportunity to get even. He takes Madeleine in hand and after exhaustive grooming and make-over he returns to court with her as his banishment has been lifted, and Chepelou, failing to recognize hie own wife, falls in love with her.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-14
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Brushfire
Overview: Group of farmers go to the rescue of a couple kidnapped by rebels, who want to exchange them for weapons and ammunition.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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The Empress's Favourite
Overview: Comedy about the love life of the Russian emperor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Prater
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-09-10
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Invitation To The Waltz
Overview: As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Little Men
Overview: Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Blood Brothers
Overview: An enhanced and sentimentalized story of love, honor, rivalry, and retreat. The traditional laws of the patriarchal environment and severe conflicts of the heart. The action takes place in Herzegovina and Stolac, Bosnia. The film depicts the Bosnjak from a German point of view.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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Romance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-12-09
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Morituri
Overview: A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-24
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Liebeserwachen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-11-22
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Inge and the Millions
Overview: A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Kaiserwalzer
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-24
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Regina Amstetten
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Panama Hattie
Overview: Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-30
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Lola Montès
Overview: Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
Overview: In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-11
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Seven Sweethearts
Overview: Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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