Victor Jory

Victor Jory

November 23, 1902 · 123 years old

Victor Jory was a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for his role as Jonas Wilkerson, the brutal and opportunistic overseer, in "Gone with the Wind", and as Lamont Cranston, aka 'The Shadow', in the 1942 serial film "The Shadow".

Known For

26 titles
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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

1939 · 3h 58m · Movie

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

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Papillon

Papillon

1973 · 2h 31m · Movie

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

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The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker

1962 · 1h 46m · Movie

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind, deaf and mute child Helen Keller how to understand and communicate.

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The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

1960 · 1h 59m · Movie

A guitar-playing drifter wanders into a small Mississippi town and inflames two troubled women.

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Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · 2h 34m · Movie

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

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Dodge City

Dodge City

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

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Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

1939 · 1h 32m · Movie

A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938 · 1h 31m · Movie

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

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9
The Man from the Alamo

The Man from the Alamo

1953 · 1h 19m · Movie

During the Alamo siege, John Stroud is sent to Ox Bow to protect the townsfolk but, following a massacre, he infiltrates Jess Wade's gang of turncoat renegades supporting the Mexicans.

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10
A Woman's Secret

A Woman's Secret

1949 · 1h 24m · Movie

Failed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive.

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11
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

1978 · 1h 35m · Movie

A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.

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12
The Loves of Carmen

The Loves of Carmen

1948 · 1h 39m · Movie

A beautiful but amoral gypsy girl entices a young dragoon to betray his honor and get cashiered from the service, and for her sake he soon turns to a life of crime.

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Canadian Pacific

Canadian Pacific

1949 · 1h 35m · Movie

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

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14
The Cariboo Trail

The Cariboo Trail

1950 · 1h 21m · Movie

Montanans Jim Redfern and Mike Evans head into Canada's British Columbia via the Cariboo Trail intent to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble instead.

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Son of Ali Baba

Son of Ali Baba

1952 · 1h 15m · Movie

Kashma Baba, the son of the famed Baghdad thief Ali Baba is a cadet in a medieval Persian military academy where he runs afoul of his rival Hussein, the evil Caliph's son.

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A Time for Dying

A Time for Dying

1969 · 1h 12m · Movie

In Silver City, naive farm boy Cass and newcomer saloon girl Nellie are married by Judge Roy Bean in a shotgun wedding but their honeymoon is marred by outlaws.

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The Capture

The Capture

1950 · 1h 31m · Movie

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

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South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis

1949 · 1h 28m · Movie

The friendship of three Texas ranchers whose ranch is destroyed by Cottrell, of the Union army, and his band of outlaw raiders. The working title was "Distant Drums", and south of St. Louis was a term used to describe Civil War de...

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Fighting Man of the Plains

Fighting Man of the Plains

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element--with help from an old pal, Jesse James.

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Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

1937 · 59m · Movie

Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

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21
Power of the Press

Power of the Press

1943 · 1h 4m · Movie

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culp...

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22
Cave of Outlaws

Cave of Outlaws

1951 · 1h 16m · Movie

Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.

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23
Wings of the Navy

Wings of the Navy

1939 · 1h 29m · Movie

Biplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic.

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24
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

1942 · 1h 19m · Movie

Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.

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Rangle River

Rangle River

1936 · 1h 26m · Movie

Marion Hastings, absent from her Australian home, Rangle River Station, for many years while completing her education in Europe, receives a letter from Dick Drake, her father's ranch foreman, demanding she return home immediately....

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Bonanza: Ride the Wind

Bonanza: Ride the Wind

1966 · 1h 40m · Movie

The international theatrical release of the 1966 William Witney feature cowboy western movie made from two 1966 episodes of the television series "Bonanza", entitled "Ride the Wind"

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