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Ralph Forbes
Born: 29th Sep 1904 Wandsworth, London, England, UK - Died 31st Mar 1951
Dept: Acting
Ralph Forbes (born Ralph Forbes Taylor, 30 September 1904 – 31 March 1951) was an English film and stage actor in the UK and the United States.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 74
Film: 74 (100%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Western, Documentary
Filmography
1944
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet i ... view
Character:
Harry St. Columb
1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find. ... view
Character:
Leslie Barrivale
1940
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa. ... view
Character:
Mr. Perrins
1940
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's ... view
Character:
Tom McDonald
1939
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, ... view
Character:
Henry Tudor
1939
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England. ... view
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Lord Knollys
1939
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator. ... view
Character:
Harrison Todd
1939
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. ... view
Character:
Sir Hugo Baskerville
1938
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict. ... view
Character:
David Brent
1938
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head ... view
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Viscount Ronald River-Clyde
1938
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash ... view
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Oliver le Dain
1938
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland. ... view
Character:
James
1938
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her ... view
Character:
Martin Brush
1937
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought ... view
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Cast of Stage Play
1937
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest ope ... view
Character:
Walter Mays
1937
A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies. ... view
Character:
Larry Steele
1937
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legi ... view
Character:
Bob Carter
1937
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance. ... view
Character:
Major Lionel Trent
1937
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord. ... view
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Cousin John Clayborn
1937
A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her. ... view
Character:
Dave Walton
1936
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to m ... view
Character:
Meredith Landers
1936
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites. ... view
Character:
Stephen Marlowe
1936
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families. ... view
Character:
Paris
1936
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with L ... view
Character:
Lord Frederick 'Freddie' Priory
1936
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords. ... view
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Randolph
1936
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer. ... view
Character:
Tommy Tilton
1935
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awar ... view
Character:
Self
1935
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and ... view
Character:
Duke of Buckingham
1935
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot ... view
Character:
Ralph Summers
1935
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he in ... view
Character:
Fred Arnold
1935
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian ... view
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DeWitt Porter
1935
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with t ... view
Character:
Felix Shaw
1935
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in he ... view
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Peppo Briggs
1934
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family. ... view
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Paul
1934
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry. ... view
Character:
Boy Fenwick
1934
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henriet ... view
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Captain Surtees Cook
1934
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von ... view
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Ballater
1934
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob H ... view
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Derek Marbury
1934
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him. ... view
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George Smith
1934
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer ... view
Character:
David Fenwick
1934
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders. ... view
Character:
Sir Christopher Marche
1934
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay. ... view
Character:
William Luke-Patson
1933
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen ... view
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Bascom
1933
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison. ... view
Character:
Norman Craig
1933
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker ... view
Character:
Richard Orloff / Taversham
1933
A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually ... view
Character:
Norman Wilder
1933
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix. ... view
Character:
Harry Rawlinson
1932
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Cart ... view
Character:
Willie Ainley
1932
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps ... view
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Davis
1931
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend. ... view
Character:
John Geste
1931
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses ... view
Character:
John Ashley
1930
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself " ... view
Character:
Larry Charters
1930
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar. ... view
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Eric Woodhouse
1930
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires. ... view
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John
1930
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the na ... view
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Karl von Reiden
1930
An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three ... view
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Dr. Traherne
1930
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a cr ... view
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Ted Willing
1928
Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney ... view
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Bruce Neil
1928
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best ... view
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Manfred
1928
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with th ... view
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Lord Brancaster
1928
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The re ... view
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Arthur Gower
1928
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One. ... view
Character:
Karl von Zorn
1928
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey. ... view
Character:
Larry
1928
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In ... view
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Joe Adams
1928
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'. ... view
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Self
1927
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 ... view
Character:
Carl Behrend
1927
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance. ... view
Character:
Basil Gregory
1926
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned ... view
Character:
John Geste
Original title: Charleys tant
1926
Two Oxford University students, Jack and Charles, find themselves in a predicament. They enlist a friend to impersonate Charley's aunt from Brazil as ... view
Character:
Jack Chesney
Character:
The Kid
1924
An old farmer's sheepdog is saved when a rival's dog is proved to be a sheep killer. ... view
Character:
David McAdam
1923
A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement. ... view
Character:
George Tempest
1922
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London. ... view
Character:
Courtier (uncredited)
Character:
Master of Darrock