Known for Sound
Born
October 25, 1892
Died
August 20, 1962 (age 69)
Birthplace
Leipzig, Germany
Filmography
59 films


The Guns of Navarone
1961 · 2h 40m
country: United Kingdom
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.


Five
1951 · 1h 33m
country: United States
The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.


Highway 301
1950 · 1h 23m
country: United States
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.


This Side of the Law
1950 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.


Colt .45
1950 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.


Barricade
1950 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.


The House Across the Street
1949 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.


Homicide
1949 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?


Flaxy Martin
1949 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.


The Big Punch
1948 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.


Hitler Lives
1945 · 17m
country: United States
This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.


Crime by Night
1944 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.


The Mysterious Doctor
1943 · 57m
country: United States
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.


Spy Ship
1942 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.


The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.


Steel Against the Sky
1941 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.


Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.


Highway West
1941 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.


The Wild Man of Borneo
1941 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.


Rulers of the Sea
1939 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.


The Women
1939 · 2h 13m
country: United States
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.


Captains Courageous
1937 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.


Three Godfathers
1936 · 1h 21m
country: United States
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).


Wife vs. Secretary
1936 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.


Kind Lady
1935 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.


Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · 2h 12m
country: United States
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.


Anna Karenina
1935 · 1h 35m
country: United States
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.


China Seas
1935 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!


Mad Love
1935 · 1h 8m
country: United States
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.


The Night Is Young
1935 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.


What Every Woman Knows
1934 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.


Chained
1934 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.


The Cat and the Fiddle
1934 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.


Midnight Mary
1933 · 1h 14m
country: United States
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.


The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.


The Cuban Love Song
1931 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.