Alphonse Martell

Born: 1890-03-27

Alphonse Martell (born March 27, 1890 in Strasbourg, German Empire, died March 18, 1976 in San Diego, California, United States) was a screen and television actor. Martell performed many French roles in American cinema and directed a film, Gigolettes of Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alphonse Martell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Rebecca

as Hotel Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-23

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in...

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-14

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the...

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Gilda

as Roulette Croupier (uncredited)
Released: 1946-04-25

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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Phantom of the Opera

as Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-12

Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-09

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies...

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Valet (uncredited)
Released: 1952-10-08

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in...

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Another Thin Man

as West Indies Club Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-17

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from...

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Marked Woman

as Club Intimate Doorman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-10

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful...

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Dodsworth

as Ship Passenger (Uncredited)
Released: 1936-09-23

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that...

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Shall We Dance

as Doorman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-07

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical...

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Libeled Lady

as Steward from 'S.S. Queen Ann' on Dock (uncredited)
Released: 1936-10-09

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and...

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Noah's Ark

as French Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1928-11-01

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First...

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Bathing Beauty

as Doorman (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-27

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a...

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The Mask of Dimitrios

as Roulette Croupier (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-23

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose...

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North West Mounted Police

as Marcel
Released: 1940-10-22

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...

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A Woman's Secret

as Algerian Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: 1949-01-13

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a...

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A New Kind of Love

as Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1963-10-10

A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.

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Can-Can

as Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1960-03-09

Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which...

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Broadway Melody of 1940

as French Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-09

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers...

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Broadway Hostess

as Bartender in 'Playboy of Paree' Number (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-07

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

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Seven Thieves

as Governor (uncredited)
Released: 1960-03-11

A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to...

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Phffft

as Maitre D' (uncredited)
Released: 1954-11-10

Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves...

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One Night of Love

as Headwaiter
Released: 1934-07-16

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic...

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Suez

as General St. Arnaud
Released: 1938-10-28

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez,...

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Convicted

as Convict Melreau (uncredited)
Released: 1950-08-01

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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City in Darkness

as Gendarme
Released: 1939-11-15

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating...

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My Sister Eileen

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1955-09-22

Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame,...

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Letter of Introduction

as Park Plaza Maitre'd (uncredited)
Released: 1938-08-05

An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter...

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Arise, My Love

as French Correspondent (Uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-08

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as...

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Private Lives

as Hotel Concierge (uncredited)
Released: 1931-12-12

Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married...

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The Bride Wore Red

as Hotel Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-08

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

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Judge Hardy's Children

as Maitre d'Hotel (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-26

Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French...

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Seventh Heaven

as Frenchman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-03-25

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from...

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Wells Fargo

as Headwaiter
Released: 1937-12-31

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...

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The Match King

as Frenchman Lighting Match (uncredited)
Released: 1932-12-31

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of...

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Pilgrimage

as uncredited
Released: 1933-07-12

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married...

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The Mystery of Marie Roget

as Vegetable cart driver
Released: 1942-04-23

A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

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The Three Musketeers

as Carriage Driver
Released: 1939-02-17

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart...

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Gold Diggers in Paris

as Mons. Galledet
Released: 1938-06-11

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to...

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Miracles for Sale

as Nightclub Headwaiter
Released: 1939-08-10

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

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Let's Do It Again

as Pierre, Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Released: 1953-06-16

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her...

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The Wedding Night

as Waiter
Released: 1935-03-08

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett...

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The Man Who Understood Women

as Paul – Headwater (uncredited)
Released: 1959-10-02

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

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Enter Arsène Lupin

as Conductor
Released: 1944-11-24

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know...

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The Notorious Sophie Lang

as Jewelry Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1934-07-20

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful,...

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Cocktail Hour

as French Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-05

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist,...

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Sin Takes a Holiday

as Man at Roulette Table
Released: 1930-11-10

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid...

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The Buccaneer

as Major Latour
Released: 1938-02-04

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

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Confession

as Maitre d'Hotel (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-19

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is...

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Dick Tracy

as Jules (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-01

Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer...

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Beg, Borrow or Steal

as French Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-12-03

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to...

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The Princess Comes Across

as Official at Le Havre Pier (uncredited)
Released: 1936-05-22

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and...

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Only Yesterday

as Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-01

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....

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One More River

as Headwaiter (Uncredited)
Released: 1934-08-06

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up

as Headwaiter
Released: 1939-03-24

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together,...

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A Woman of Affairs

as French Hotel Concierge (uncredited)
Released: 1928-12-15

Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and...

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I Was an Adventuress

as Frenchman at Exhibit (uncredited)
Released: 1940-05-10

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her...

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Alias Mary Dow

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1935-05-01

A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.

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A Dispatch from Reuters

as Board Member (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-19

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news...

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Satan Met a Lady

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1936-07-22

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying...

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This Side of Heaven

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1934-02-02

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

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I'll Give a Million

as Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: 1938-07-27

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out...

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Love Before Breakfast

as Headwaiter at Dubin's (uncredited)
Released: 1936-03-09

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots...

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Coney Island

as Jerry - Headwaiter
Released: 1943-06-18

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job...

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The Widow from Monte Carlo

as Emil
Released: 1935-12-19

In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she...

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They Gave Him a Gun

as French Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-07

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

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Fort Ti

as Gen. Montcalm
Released: 1953-04-30

Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in...

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Paris Playboys

as Pierre
Released: 1954-03-07

Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel....

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Hired Wife

as Waiter
Released: 1940-09-13

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect...

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Confidential

as Jeweller
Released: 1935-10-16

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime...

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Give Me Your Heart

as Dining Room Captain (uncredited)
Released: 1936-09-17

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

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The Cowboy and the Bandit

as Larkin
Released: 1935-04-02

Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes...

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I'll Take Romance

as Waiter
Released: 1937-11-17

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry...

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Honeymoon Lodge

as Headwaiter
Released: 1943-07-23

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and...

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The Emperor's Candlesticks

as Marcel Garnier (uncredited)
Released: 1937-07-02

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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The Catman of Paris

as Maurice Cocaignac
Released: 1946-04-20

When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the...

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Club Havana

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1945-11-23

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a...

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Colleen

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1936-03-21

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

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Artists & Models

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-04

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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We Have Our Moments

as Headwaiter
Released: 1937-03-28

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in...

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Naughty Nanette

as Carlton (as Alphonse Martel)
Released: 1927-04-15

The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly...

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The Prairie Wife

as Count de Chateaunois (uncredited)
Released: 1925-02-23

While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She...

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Man About Town

as Waiter in Show (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-29

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she...

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Dream of Love

as Michonet
Released: 1928-12-01

A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a...

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God's Gift to Women

as Alphonse, the Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1931-04-13

A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his...

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Let Them Live

as Headwaiter
Released: 1937-04-25

A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.

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The Girl from Scotland Yard

as Valet #2
Released: 1937-05-30

A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.

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Tovarich

as Mr. Pierre
Released: 1937-12-25

When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants,...

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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

as Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1944-11-02

In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and...

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Stronger Than Desire

as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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Zamba

as Gaston
Released: 1949-09-01

Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to...

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Doctor Rhythm

as Marvelous Marko (uncredited)
Released: 1938-05-06

Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe....

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The Night Bird

as Pete (as Alphonse Martel)
Released: 1928-09-16

A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.

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Let's Live Tonight

as French Cashier
Released: 1935-03-16

Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over...

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Maid in Hollywood

as Director
Released: 1934-05-19

Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal...

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The Gigolo Racket

as Alphonse - the Headwaiter
Released: 1931-06-15

As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes...

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The Divine Sinner

as Paul Coudert
Released: 1928-07-15

Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police...

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The Love Thief

as Berzoff
Released: 1926-06-13

To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris...

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Soup and Fish

as Hemingway, Third Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1934-03-30

At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and...

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Scarlet Youth

as uncredited
Released: 1928-01-01

A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him...

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The Strings of Steel

as Alexander Graham Bell
Released: 1926-06-28

The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial. Episode titles: 1. The Voice on the Wire 2. The...

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Mission: Impossible

as Dr. Vachtel
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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