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La Blanca Paloma (1942)
Character: Alberto
Widow Martina runs her late husband's shop with a new partner, Fernando, also a widow. They're about the same age, and their sons could not be more different. Alberto, Martina's son, is spoiled and aloof, and takes badly that Fernando's beautiful daughter, Esperanza, a coy and respectful girl, rejects his advances
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Soul Mates (1925)
Character: Velma's brother
A man decides to live his life to the fullest in memory of his dead wife.
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Papá Chirola (1937)
Character: N/A
In a pension, a good-hearted student falls in love with a young woman seduced by a Don Juan.
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Le Ruisseau (1930)
Character: Briet
A famous painter loves Madeleine Granval, a rich and divorced society woman, who cheats on him. To console himself, he goes to Montmartre where he meets Denise Fleury, a young woman who has fallen into poverty.
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Mateo (1937)
Character: Atilio
Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
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Figaro (1929)
Character: Le Comte Almaviva
A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.
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Toda una vida (1930)
Character: Paul Vanning
After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him. Spanish language version of the 1930 film "Sarah and Son".
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La fiesta del diablo (1931)
Character: David Stone
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart. Spanish language version of the 1930 Nancy Carroll vehicle "The Devil's Holiday".
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Meddling Women (1924)
Character: Vincente
Grace Ainsworth wants to return to her career as an opera singer, and her mother-in-law supports her. Grace's husband, Edwin, wants her to stay at home and to convince her, he relates the story of his latest play about a man who allows his wife to return to the stage. Edwin comes to believe that Grace is in love with Harold Chase, a manager, and the couple separates. Edwin has an affair with a dancer, Madeline, and he winds up in a fight with her dancing partner, Vincenti, which causes him to lose his memory.
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Torbellino (1941)
Character: Carlos Miranda
Carmen, a young Sevillian woman who wants to succeed on the radio, arrives at a decrepit station that goes through bad times. Thanks to her, the radio station will get a much quoted prize.
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Café de París (1943)
Character: Franz
After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)
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La nascita di Salomè (1940)
Character: N/A
Comedy freely inspired by the Gospel story of Salome's dance before King Herod, here it is the king of Prati who offers 4 provinces of his kingdom to another monarch, in exchange for the seductive dancer.
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Monte Carlo (1926)
Character: Varo
Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
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La casa de la Troya (1936)
Character: N/A
One of the earliest versions of the popular novel by Alejandro Pérez Lugín, which tells the life of a student who stays in a pension.
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Sombras del circo (1931)
Character: Ned Lee
Nick, the "swing" man in a trapeze troupe, loves Greta Nelson, the girl in the act; and Tony, the "flyer," incurs his enmity as Greta seems to favor him; thus Nick fails to catch Tony, and Tony is killed. Ned Lee, a novice, reports for the next engagement. Meanwhile, Greta discovers that Nick purposely dropped Tony, and, frightened, she seeks refuge with Ned, with whom she falls in love. Greta remains with the act to protect Ned, and when the jealous Nick plots to kill him in a similar manner, Ned swings past him and hangs by his feet. After the show, a fight results in Nick's dismissal and the reunion of the lovers. Spanish language version to 1929's Halfway to Heaven.
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Misterio en la marisma (1943)
Character: José Luis Almenares
In the Almenares family there is a story involving a mysterious woman and a pearl necklace that obsesses the young heir. He meets Vera, a Polish woman, and invites her and some relations to a hunting weekend, where the necklace disappears.
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La Femme rêvée (1929)
Character: Mariano
Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks to the dedicated care of Mercédès, intended for the convent. They fall in love and Mercedes soon discovers the temptations of Paris.
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The Rejected Woman (1924)
Character: Craig Burnett
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
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O Leão da Estrela (1947)
Character: Comandante
Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting CP, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
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Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (1947)
Character: Sousa Morais, the manager
Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.
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The Boob (1926)
Character: Harry Benson
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
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A Sainted Devil (1924)
Character: Don Luis (as Antonio D'Algy)
A nobleman seeks to rescue his bride, who has been kidnapped by his former lover and a bandit.
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Boda en el infierno (1942)
Character: N/A
Blanca, a young woman living in Odesa, is forced to kill a communist commissar to defend her honor. To escape persecution, she marries Carlos, captain of the Spanish steamship Campuzano, and leaves Russia. While Carlos returns to Madrid with his girlfriend Mary Lis, Blanca heads to Paris to annul her marriage. Some time later, in 1936, Carlos manages to impose his authority on the Campuzano's crew and ensure that the ship remains loyal to Franco's rebels. On one of his voyages, he encounters Blanca and tells her that Mary Lis is being held prisoner in a Cheka prison in Madrid.
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