George Lessey

Born: 1875-06-08


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The Pride of the Yankees

as Mayor of New Rochelle
Released: 1942-07-14

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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Now, Voyager

as Uncle Herbert (uncredited)
Released: 1942-10-22

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a...

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Go West

as Railroad President
Released: 1940-12-06

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his...

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Blossoms in the Dust

as Mr. Keats
Released: 1941-08-15

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when...

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Boom Town

as Judge
Released: 1940-08-30

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both...

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Edison, the Man

as Toastmaster
Released: 1940-05-10

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story...

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Gallant Sons

as Judge
Released: 1940-11-15

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to...

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One Third of a Nation

as Doctor (uncredited)
Released: 1939-02-10

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's...

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Strike Up the Band

as Mr. Morgan
Released: 1940-09-27

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest...

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None Shall Escape

as Presiding Judge
Released: 1944-02-03

Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.

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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

as Underwood
Released: 1940-07-05

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a...

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Buffalo Bill

as Mr. Schyler Vandervere
Released: 1944-04-02

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights...

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The Golden Fleecing

as Buckley Sloan
Released: 1940-08-16

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

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Mission to Moscow

as Bill - Well-wisher (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-29

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns...

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Men of Boys Town

as Bradford Stone
Released: 1941-04-11

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

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Roxie Hart

as Judge
Released: 1942-02-20

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing...

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Sky Murder

as Senator Monrose
Released: 1940-09-27

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of...

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Moon Over Miami

as William 'Willie' Boulton
Released: 1941-07-04

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses...

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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

as Rufus Ingersoll
Released: 1940-04-12

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

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Adventure in Washington

as U.S. Vice President
Released: 1941-05-29

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

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Bride by Mistake

as Business Man
Released: 1944-07-26

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic...

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Dixie Dugan

as Sen. Patterson
Released: 1943-03-12

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a...

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Forbidden Passage

as American Consul in Lisbon
Released: 1941-02-08

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts...

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The Gay Sisters

as Judge Barrows
Released: 1942-08-01

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

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Patria

as uncredited
Released: 1917-01-14

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United...

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Rings on Her Fingers

as Fenwick Sr.
Released: 1942-03-20

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the...

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We Go Fast

as J.P. Hempstead
Released: 1941-09-19

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of...

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Good Bad Boys

as Judge Kincaid
Released: 1940-09-07

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a...

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At Bear Track Gulch

as Jack Turner
Released: 1913-01-14

This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements...

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World

as Mary's Father
Released: 1940-05-29

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them....

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Hullabaloo

as Mr. Arthur Jay Norton
Released: 1940-10-25

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

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A Divorce of Convenience

as Senator Wakefield
Released: 1921-01-01

Spanish coquette Tula Moliana finds herself encumbered with two husbands, and to get a divorce...

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Birthright

as uncredited
Released: 1938-01-01

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown,...

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How to Eat

as Toastmaster at Dinner
Released: 1939-06-10

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect...

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Soak the Old

as William Bowen, Narrator
Released: 1940-08-24

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around...

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Blonde Inspiration

as C. V. Hutchins
Released: 1941-02-07

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout

as Mr. Towers
Released: 1944-01-13

Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly...

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The Ambassador's Daughter

as Richard Farnsworth, an attaché at the embassy
Released: 1913-01-21

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to...

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Laugh Your Blues Away

as Mr. Westerly
Released: 1942-11-12

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up...

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Sporting Blood

as Banker Cobb
Released: 1940-07-11

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing...

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Sweetheart of the Campus

as Dr. Hale
Released: 1941-06-26

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The...

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The Big Boss

as Sen. Williams
Released: 1941-04-28

Why did the Governor want to resign?

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His Mother's Hope

as The Father
Released: 1912-12-07

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Romeo and Juliet

as Romeo
Released: 1911-09-01

Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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Durand of the Bad Lands

as John Boyd
Released: 1925-11-01

A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely...

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Pistol Packin' Mama

as Mr. Burton
Released: 1943-12-15

Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run...

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The Passer-by

as Hamilton Crawford, the Bridegroom
Released: 1912-06-21

A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to...

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A Soldier's Duty

as Commanding General
Released: 1912-10-18

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not...

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A Romance of the Rails

as uncredited
Released: 1912-11-05

For years, William West has been living in a little house owned by the railroad. He has never...

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The Harvest Moon

as Jacques Vavin
Released: 1920-04-25

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At the Masquerade Ball

as Jack Van Rensellaer
Released: 1912-10-21

A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of...

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White Thunder

as Sheriff Richards
Released: 1925-05-23

The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.

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Why Girls Leave Home

as Mr. Hedder
Released: 1921-09-04

Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but...

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School Days

as His Guardian - the Deacon
Released: 1921-12-25

A naive young man raised poor in a small town, comes to New York City to make his fortune....

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