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Chester Morris est un Acteur Américain né le 16 février 1901 à New York (Etats-Unis)

Chester Morris

Chester Morris
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Nom de naissance John Chester Brooks Morris
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 16 février 1901 à New York (Etats-Unis)
Mort 11 septembre 1970 (à 69 ans) à Pennsylvanie (Etats-Unis)

John Chester Brooks Morris (16 février 1901 - 11 septembre 1970) était un acteur américain.

Chester Morris est surtout connu pour son rôle dans les séries de détective Boston Blackie des années 1940. C'était un acteur beau et ténébreux qui attirait la confiance des hommes autant que des femmes par son humour.

Biographie

Morris was married twice. He first married Suzanne Kilbourne on November 8, 1926. They had two children, John Brooks and Cynthia. Kibourne was granted an interlocutory divorce in November 1939 which was finalized on November 26, 1940. On November 30, 1940, Morris married socialite Lillian Kenton Barker at the home of actor Frank Morgan. They had a son, Kenton, born in 1944. The couple remained married until Morris' death in 1970.

Ses meilleurs films

The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
(Acteur)
La Divorcée (1930)
(Acteur)
Les saboteurs (1944)
(Acteur)
Big House (1930)
(Acteur)
Alibi (1929)
(Acteur)

Le plus souvent avec

George E. Stone
George E. Stone
(12 films)
Richard Lane
Richard Lane
(12 films)
Maxwell Shane
Maxwell Shane
(8 films)
Lew Landers
Lew Landers
(8 films)
Roland West
Roland West
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Chester Morris (67 films)

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Acteur

L'Insurgé
L'Insurgé (1970)
, 1h43
Réalisé par Martin Ritt
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Biographie, Romance
Thèmes Sport, Théâtre, Arts martiaux, La boxe, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, Le boxe anglaise, Films pour enfants
Acteurs James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Moses Gunn, R.G. Armstrong
Rôle Pop Weaver
Note68% 3.444143.444143.444143.444143.44414
The Great White Hope (pièce de théâtre) s'inspire de la vraie histoire du champion de boxe noir Jack Johnson et sa petite amie "blanche" à l'époque de l'Amérique ségrégationniste.
The She-Creature, 1h17
Réalisé par Edward L. Cahn
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Fantastique, Fantasy, Horreur, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique
Acteurs Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Frieda Inescort
Rôle Dr Carlo Lombardi
Note38% 1.909851.909851.909851.909851.90985
The plot concerns an oily carnival hypnotist (Chester Morris), whose experiments in hypnotic regression take his unwitting female subject (Marla English) to a past life as a prehistoric humanoid form of sea life. He uses the physical manifestation of the prehistoric creature to commit murders. The hypnotist's motives are never explicitly described, and the murders happen, apparently, either for revenge or notoriety.
Prisons sans chaînes, 1h15
Réalisé par Hall Bartlett
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Thèmes La prison
Acteurs Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, Peggy Knudsen, Jerry Paris, John Qualen
Rôle Kenyon J. Scudder
Note61% 3.097173.097173.097173.097173.09717
Steve Davitt décide de ne pas attendre le terme de la peine qu'il purge en prison et de s'évader, afin de retrouver sa femme Mary et son fils Win. Bill Howard, un autre prisonnier, le dissuade de passer à l'acte...
Blind Spot
Blind Spot (1947)
, 1h13
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Noir, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell, William Forrest, Harry Strang
Rôle Jeffrey Andrews
Note66% 3.3074253.3074253.3074253.3074253.307425
A mystery writer hates his publisher and during the same night he get blind drunk the same publisher is murdered. The writer is the key suspect.
Boston Blackie and the Law, 1h9
Réalisé par D. Ross Lederman
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully
Rôle Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Note62% 3.145153.145153.145153.145153.14515
When Boston Blackie performs magic tricks at a Thanksgiving Day party for the inmates of a women's prison, Dinah Moran (Constance Dowling) volunteers to enter a booth. She disappears after he draws the curtain, but as a former magician's assistant, uses the opportunity to escape. Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) takes Blackie into custody as an accomplice, but Blackie easily gets away himself.
A Close Call for Boston Blackie, 1h
Réalisé par Lew Landers
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Frank Sully, Claire Carleton
Rôle Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black / Cyrus Peyton
Note59% 2.997182.997182.997182.997182.99718
Ignoring Inspector Farraday's (Richard Lane) friendly advice to stop helping women, Boston Blackie goes to the rescue of a female being attacked by two men. She turns out to be Geraldine "Gerry" Peyton (Lynn Merrick), an old flame of his. She begs him to help protect her baby from her husband John (an uncredited Mark Roberts), who has just been paroled.
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion, 1h6
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Lynn Merrick, Frank Sully, Steve Cochran, George E. Stone
Rôle Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Note63% 3.19293.19293.19293.19293.1929
Boston Blackie's wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), purchases an upscale bookstore from aged Wilfred Kittredge (George M. Carleton), but retains his services as a book expert. However, when Kittredge becomes ill just before an important auction he was to conduct, Blackie proves that he can impersonate him, fooling everyone, including Police Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane).
Double Exposure, 1h3
Réalisé par William Berke
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Phillip Terry, Richard Gaines, Charles Arnt, Dewey Robinson
Rôle Larry Burke
Note60% 3.048073.048073.048073.048073.04807
Pat Marvin (Nancy Kelly) is a small town photographer from Iowa Falls who gets a job offer in New York City for a magazine. She was hired due to a misunderstanding from the magazine's publisher, and sports fanatic James R. Tarlock (Richard Gaines) that she was a man. Larry Burke (Chester Morris), the magazine's editor, is thrilled that his new co-worker is a female, and takes an immediate interest in her. Pat's boyfriend Ben Scribner (Phillip Terry) is less enthusiastic about the girl who he is intending on marrying, leaving him for a job in the big city, and goes as far as following her to make sure that she is not unfaithful to him. Pat, meanwhile, quickly impresses Larry by providing him photographs of Dolores Tucker (Jane Farrar), as she is lying on the ground in a restaurant's toilet after a failed suicide attempt. The publishing of the photo unleashes some controversy, because Dolores is the estranged wife of millionaire Sonny Tucker (Charles Arnt). To deliver him a successful follow-up, Pat travels to Sonny's apartment to photograph him, and disguises herself as a chorus girl to seek entrance. Inside, she quickly flatters him, enabling herself to take as many photos as she wants. Dolores walks in minutes later, and grows convinced that Pat is Sonny's mistress.
Gambler's Choice, 1h6
Réalisé par Frank McDonald
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Lee Patrick, Lloyd Corrigan, Sheldon Leonard
Rôle Ross Hadley
Note60% 3.0024253.0024253.0024253.0024253.002425
The year is 1896, and the three young friends Ross Hadley, Mary Hayes and Michael McGlennon play in the streets of the Tenderloin District in New York, and they are totally oblivious to what surrounds them.
One Mysterious Night, 1h1
Réalisé par Budd Boetticher
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Janis Carter, Richard Lane, William Wright, George E. Stone, Mark Roberts
Rôle Boston Blackie
Note60% 3.048893.048893.048893.048893.04889
Un voleur repenti aide la police à retrouver un diamant égyptien.
Les saboteurs, 1h22
Réalisé par A. Edward Sutherland
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Action
Thèmes Espionnage, Politique
Acteurs Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Barton MacLane, Tom Tully
Rôle Jeff Gallagher
Note63% 3.1947653.1947653.1947653.1947653.194765
Deux frères se rencontrent sur un chantier naval travaillant pour la guerre, après plusieurs années de séparation. L'aîné a tout lieu de se méfier de son cadet, dont la conduite lui paraît suspecte ; mais c'est grâce à ce dernier, qui appartient au service du contre-espionnage, que le chantier échappera aux projets des saboteurs allemands...
Aerial Gunner, 1h18
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Action, Aventure
Thèmes La mer, Transport, Aviation, Politique, Forces armées des États-Unis
Acteurs Chester Morris, Richard Arlen, Jimmy Lydon, Ralph Sanford, Amelita Ward, Dick Purcell
Rôle Foxy Pattis
Note56% 2.80582.80582.80582.80582.8058
Policeman Jon Davis (Richard Arlen) informs "Foxy" Pattis (Chester Morris) at his shooting gallery, that his criminal father has died. Foxy blames all policemen, feeling they harassed him all his life and were responsible for his death. Both men enlist in the United States Army Air Forces where Foxy becomes the instructor at an aerial gunnery school. He makes life miserable for Jon, now a "Flying Sergeant" student, trying to force the former policeman to resign.
After Midnight with Boston Blackie, 1h5
Réalisé par Lew Landers
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall
Rôle Boston Blackie
Note63% 3.1928253.1928253.1928253.1928253.192825
When "Diamond" Ed Barnaby (an uncredited Walter Baldwin) is paroled, he sets out to give $100,000 worth of diamonds to his daughter, Betty (Ann Savage). Aware that several shady characters know he has the jewels, he stashes them in a safe deposit box in the Arcade Building. Betty later receives a call asking her to meet him there, but he never shows up. She contacts her father's only real friend: Horatio Black, better known as Boston Blackie. He agrees to help and drops Betty off at the apartment of his wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), for safekeeping. His sidekick, "the Runt" (George E. Stone), has to postpone his wedding to statuesque bubble dancer Dixy Rose Blossom.
The Chance of a Lifetime, 1h5
Réalisé par William Castle
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs Chester Morris, Jeanne Bates, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Arthur Hunnicutt
Rôle Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black
Note60% 3.0022353.0022353.0022353.0022353.002235
Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's apartment, all except robber Dooley Watson. Blackie allows him to see his wife and son.