Arthur Blake
Arthur Blake (February 24, 1914 – March 24, 1985) was an American actor and nightclub entertainer who was famous for his female impersonations; particularly those of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt. He performed in nightclubs in cities throughout the United States and United Kingdom in the 1940s and the 1950s. Although he achieved fame for playing women, he impersonated men as well in his act. Also a film actor, he is best remembered for the films Port of New York (1949, as Dolly Carney), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950, as Montfleury), Harem Girl (1952, as Abdul Nassib), and Diplomatic Courier (1952, as Max Ralli). In the latter film, his impersonations of Davis and Miranda were featured. In the 1960s and 1970s he was the headliner at the LGBTQ nightclub Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Gaslight
as Butler (uncredited)A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
as MontfleuryFrance, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the...
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Diplomatic Courier
as MaximilianDuring the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing...
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Port of New York
as Dolly CarneyTwo narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New...
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Madame X
as FergusonAn alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that...
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The Man in Half Moon Street
as ManA British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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The Lion Man
as uncreditedA young British boy whose father was murdered by a treacherous Aran sheik finds himself in a...
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Fothergill
as PolicemanJohn Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame,...
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Harem Girl
as Abdul NassibThe palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
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