Lionel Belmore
Birthday: 1867-05-12
Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Synopsis
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Lionel Belmore (12 May 1867, Wimbledon, Surrey, England - 30 January 1953, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century.
Onstage, Belmore appeared with Wilson Barrett, Sir Henry Irving, William Faversham, Lily Langtry, and other famous actors. He entered in films from 1911. In total, he had some 200 titles to his film credit. He was notable as the huffy-puffy Herr Vogel the Burgomaster in Frankenstein (1931). Belmore played bit parts in several 1930s film classics. Unusually, he was a director before he became a prolific actor. He directed from 1914 to 1920, only acting in a limited number of films, until concentrating as an actor from then on.
He was the brother of the actress Daisy Belmore (Mrs. Samuel Waxman) (1874-1954) and the actor Paul Belmore. He was married to stage actress Emmeline Florence Carder and they had two daughters. Their daughter Violet had decided to follow in her father's footsteps and go into acting.
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Acting
Design for Living
as Theatre Patron (uncredited)
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
The Vampire Bat
as Bürgermeister Gustave Schoen
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
The Constant Woman
as Character Man
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
I Am Suzanne!
as Puppeteer / Satan
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Frankenstein
as Herr Vogel, the Burgomaster
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
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One Heavenly Night
as Baron Zagon
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
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Love Comes Along
as Brownie
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her feelings toward the local dictator threatens their happiness.
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Colonel Villiers
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
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Captain of the Guard
as Colonel of Hussars
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's symbolic leader.
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Monte Carlo
as Duke Gustav von Liebenheim
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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Playing Around
as Morgan
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
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River's End
as Mountie
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung.
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The Rogue Song
as Ossman
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
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The Love Parade
as Prime Minister
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
as Gov. Dinwiddie of Virginia
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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The Return of Peter Grimm
as Rev. Bartholomey
"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.
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The Sea Hawk
as Justice Anthony Baine
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
