Ernest Torrence

Ernest Torrence (June 26, 1878 - May 13, 1933) was a Scottish film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including Broken Chains (1922) with Colleen Moore, Mantrap (1926) with Clara Bow, and Fighting Caravans (1931) with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. A towering (6' 4") figure, Torrence frequently played cold-eyed and imposing villains.

Biography

Education and early work

He was born Ernest Torrance-Thomson to Colonel Henry Torrence Thayson and Jessie (née Bryce) on June 26, 1878, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and as a child was an exceptional pianist and operatic baritone and graduated from the Stuttgart Conservatory, Edinburgh Academy before earning a scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Music. He toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in such productions as The Emerald Isle (1901) and The Talk of the Town (1905) before disarming vocal problems set in and he was forced to abandon this career path.

Sometime prior to 1900, he changed the spelling of Torrance to Torrence and dropped the name Thomson. Both Ernest and his actor brother David Torrence went to America, in March 1911, directly from Scotland prior to World War I. Focusing instead on a purely acting career, Ernest and his brother developed into experienced players on the Broadway New York stage. Ernest received significant acclaim with Modest Suzanne in 1912 and a prominent role in The Night Boat in 1920 brought him to the attention of the early Hollywood filmmakers.

Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, director, producer, writer, and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Keaton was recognized as the seventh-greatest film director by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies". His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by MGM, which resulted in a crippling alcoholism that ruined his family life. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959.

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances. His career spanned thirty-five years, from 1925 to 1960, and included leading roles in eighty-four feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. Cooper's ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his appearing natural and authentic on screen. The screen persona he sustained throughout his career represented the ideal American hero.

Cooper began his career as a film extra and stunt rider and soon landed acting roles. After establishing himself as a Western hero in his early silent films, Cooper became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound picture, The Virginian. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the post-war years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952). In his final films, Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Man of the West (1958).

Lili Damita

Lili Damita (10 July 1904 – 21 March 1994) was a French-American actress and singer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.

Early life and education

Born Liliane Marie-Madeleine Carré in Blaye, France, she was educated in convents and ballet schools in several European countries, including France, Spain and Portugal. At 14, she was enrolled as a dancer at the Opera de Paris.

As a teenager, she was performing in popular music halls, eventually appearing in the Revue at the Casino de Paris. She worked as a photographic model. Offered a role in film as a prize for winning a magazine beauty competition in 1921, she appeared in several silent films before being offered her first leading role in Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925) by Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz. She was an instant success, and Curtiz directed her in two more films: Fiaker Nr 13 (1926) and Der Goldene Schmetterling (1926). Damita continued appearing in German productions directed by Robert Wiene (Die Grosse Abenteuerin; 1927), G.W. Pabst (Man Spielt nicht mit der Liebe; 1926) and British director Graham Cutts (The Queen Was in the Parlour; 1927).

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1930, role: actor , character name: Lord Porteous
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1930, role: actor , character name: John P. O'Brien
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1930, role: actor , character name: Esteban
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1929, role: actor , character name: Dr. Ballou
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1929, role: actor , character name: Jim MacDonald
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1929, role: actor , character name: Uncle Pio
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1929, role: actor , character name: Lord Stonehill
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1929, role: actor , character name: Ben Murchison
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1928, role: actor , character name: Captain Mark Shore
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1928, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1928, role: actor , character name: William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield
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1928, role: actor , character name: Ivan
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1927, role: actor , character name: Red McCue
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1927, role: actor , character name: Peter
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1926, role: actor , character name: Mike
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1926, role: actor , character name: Joe Easter
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1926, role: actor , character name: Hassan
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1926, role: actor , character name: King Neptune
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1926, role: actor , character name: Ernest Torrence
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1925, role: actor , character name: Angus McGregor
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1925, role: actor , character name: 'Ascension' Jones
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1925, role: actor , character name: Tola
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1925, role: actor , character name: John Bentley
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1924, role: actor , character name: Jim Nabours
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1924, role: actor , character name: August Naab
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1924, role: actor , character name: Andrew Lackaday
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1924, role: actor , character name: General Orlando Jackson
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1924, role: actor , character name: Captain James Hook
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1923, role: actor , character name: 'Devil' Jud Tolliver
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1923, role: actor , character name: Rev. Adrian Plummer
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1923, role: actor , character name: William Jackson
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Doctors find ‘hard mass’ of lenses stuck together in 67-year-old’s eye during routine cataract surgery. Health. Surgeons remove 27 contact lenses from woman’s eye. Doctors find ‘hard mass’ of lenses stuck together in 67-year-old’s eye during routine cataract surgery ... The experts wrote ... ....

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Saudi authorities have identified and arrested a young woman who caused a clothing controversy in Saudi Arabia after she posted videos of herself visiting one of the nation’s most conservative provinces wearing a short skirt and cropped top, The Washington Post reported. Riyadh police have arrested the woman for wearing “suggestive clothing,” Saudi state television station Al Ekhbariya reported Tuesday....

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The pro-Russian rebel leader in eastern Ukraine said they plan to propose an abolishment of Ukraine and a new state to replace it on Tuesday, in comments that further exacerbate tensions in the area since a 2015 peace deal, according to Reuters ... Ukranian officials said Russia wanted to show the European Union and the United States that they could keep the crisis ongoing or even worsen the situation. A new envoy from the U.S....

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Indian security force personnel stand guard at the site of a militant attack in Batengo village, around 40 kilometers south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 11 July 2017. According to reports, seven Amarnath pilgrims were killed and 19 injured in a suspected militant attack in Batengo area of Anantnag. The pilgrims were returning from the Hindu pilgrimage cave shrine of Amarnath in the Himalayas on 10 July 2017 evening.

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Beijing, July 18 (IANS) China is battle ready and not afraid to go to war with India which will face "all-out confrontation" along the entire disputed border, a Chinese daily warned on Tuesday. An article in the state-run Global Times said China must deploy more troops along the border with India and speed up road construction in Doklam where the two sides have been engaged in a month-long standoff ... --IANS. gsh/mr. ....

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After sat 1, heroic trio aim at GhanaSat 2 to protect oil resources

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On July 7, when Ernest Teye Martey woke from bed, he had goose bumps; a feeling he cannot remember ever having but can now describe vividly ... But even before the country’s maiden satellite settles in orbit, Ernest said the team was looking at developing GhanaSat Two soon that can tackle water pollution, illegal mining and protection of the environment....

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A group calling itself Concerned Assembly Members of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) and some traders at Kotokuraba Market are up in arms against the Central Regional Minister, Mr Kwamena Duncan and the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Ernest Arthur, accusing them of irregularities in the allocation of stores at the market....

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Ernest Asante scores for FC Nordsjaelland in win over Odense

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On tonight’s incredible journey to Cuba on Weekend in Havana, PBS host Geoffrey Baer gives us an extended tour of famed writer Ernest Hemingway’s stunning home in a charming Cuban town. Cojimar is the picturesque fishing village where Hemingway lived until a year before his death, fishing on his beloved boat El Pilar ... ....

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Ernest Torrence

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Buster Keaton

Gary Cooper

Lili Damita

Early life and education

Fighting Caravans Western 1931 Gary Cooper, Lily Damita & Ernest Torrence

1930 Officer O'Brien [Bill Boyd, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian]

I Cover The Waterfront (1933) CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Gary Cooper, Lily Damita and Ernest Torrence Western Movie

Two Steamboat Bills

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928) -- Buster Keaton

Clara Bow- "Trapping The Trapper!" - From MANTRAP (1926)

Untamed (Preview Clip)

Plavčík na sladké vodě (1928) - holící scéna

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The Blind Goddess (1926)

Torrence, Ernest Filmography

Fighting Caravans Western 1931 Gary Cooper, Lily Damita & Ernest Torrence

1930 Officer O'Brien [Bill Boyd, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian]

I Cover The Waterfront (1933) CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Gary Cooper, Lily Damita and Ernest Torrence Western Movie

Two Steamboat Bills

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928) -- Buster Keaton

Clara Bow- "Trapping The Trapper!" - From MANTRAP (1926)

Untamed (Preview Clip)

Plavčík na sladké vodě (1928) - holící scéna

Fighting Caravans Western 1931 Gary Cooper, Lily Damita & Ernest Torrence

1930 Officer O'Brien [Bill Boyd, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian]

I Cover The Waterfront (1933) CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Gary Cooper, Lily Damita and Ernest Torrence Western Movie

Two Steamboat Bills

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928) -- Buster Keaton

Clara Bow- "Trapping The Trapper!" - From MANTRAP (1926)

Untamed (Preview Clip)

Plavčík na sladké vodě (1928) - holící scéna

THE PONY EXPRESS (1926) - Ricardo Cortez, Dir. by James Cruze

Loretta Lynn's Haunted Plantation

Joan Crawford In 1928's "Across To Singapore" [Very Rare!]

"Peter Pan" (1924) Betty Bronson

Untamed (Preview Clip)

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Lili Damita Gary Cooper In Fighting Caravans

To fast for the camera, Torrence Hunt 10.36

George Montgomery, Nancy Gates and James Griffith Western Movie

Peter Pan w/ Leslie McMichael

THE PONY EXPRESS (1926) - Ricardo Cortez, Dir. by James Cruze

Loretta Lynn's Haunted Plantation

Joan Crawford In 1928's "Across To Singapore" [Very Rare!]

"Peter Pan" (1924) Betty Bronson

Untamed (Preview Clip)

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Lili Damita Gary Cooper In Fighting Caravans

To fast for the camera, Torrence Hunt 10.36

George Montgomery, Nancy Gates and James Griffith Western Movie

Peter Pan w/ Leslie McMichael

Fighting Caravans Western 1931 Gary Cooper, Lily Damita & Ernest Torrence

1930 Officer O'Brien [Bill Boyd, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian]

I Cover The Waterfront (1933) CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Gary Cooper, Lily Damita and Ernest Torrence Western Movie

Two Steamboat Bills

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928) -- Buster Keaton

Clara Bow- "Trapping The Trapper!" - From MANTRAP (1926)

Untamed (Preview Clip)

Plavčík na sladké vodě (1928) - holící scéna

Fighting Caravans Western 1931 Gary Cooper, Lily Damita & Ernest Torrence

1930 Officer O'Brien [Bill Boyd, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian]

I Cover The Waterfront (1933) CLAUDETTE COLBERT

Gary Cooper, Lily Damita and Ernest Torrence Western Movie

Two Steamboat Bills

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928) -- Buster Keaton

Clara Bow- "Trapping The Trapper!" - From MANTRAP (1926)

Untamed (Preview Clip)

Plavčík na sladké vodě (1928) - holící scéna