John Loder

John Loder

Date of Birth: 03 Jan 1898

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 56 (Actor)

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    Sabotage
    A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. (iMDB)
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    Now, Voyager
    Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance. (imdb)
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    How Green Was My Valley
    At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental view of pre-union miners' lives (imdb)
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    Old Acquaintance
    Established serious author Kit inspires hometown pal Millie who writes a trashy novel published with Kit's help. Millie's husband Preston leaves her. Ten years of trashy novels later Millie tries to reconcile, but Preston is marrying another. (imdb)
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    The Man Who Changed His Mind
    Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable... (imdb)
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    The Private Life of Henry VIII.
    This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal castle, it begins just before the death of his second wife (Anne Boleyn) and ends just after his sixth wedding (to Catherine or Katherine Parr). (imdb)
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    Passage to Marseille
    As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devil's Island, he and four others escape. They are on a ship bound for Marseilles when France surrenders and fascist sympathizer Major Duval tries to seize the ship for Vichy. (imdb)
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    Alraune
    Following the tradition of Frankenstein Alraune is the story of a girl -- the fruit of a sordid experiment. Created by a scientist, who inseminated a prostitute with the 'seed' of a hanged criminal. Proferssor Brinken is interested in whether it is our genes or our enviroment which governs our personalities -- he adopts Alraune as his own and sends her to a convent school. Sure she will be safe from any wicked influence, he observes her maturation... what will the results of his experiment be? (YouTube)
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    Gentleman Jim
    As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world. (imdb)
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    King Solomon\
    White hunter Allan Quatermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa. (IMDd)
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    The Brighton Strangler
    During WW II, one of the hits of the London stage is a play about a murderer who strangles his victims. The actor who plays the strangler identifies so strongly with his part that when he receives a blow to the head during a bombing raid, he believes that he actually is the strangler. (imdb)
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    Dishonored Lady
    Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine by day and a lively party girl by night. The pressures of her job, including kowtowing to a hefty advertiser and her bad luck with men are driving her to a breakdown. She seeks the help of a psychiatrist and under his orders, quits her job and moves into a smaller flat under a new identity. She becomes interested in painting and a handsome neighbor. He soon finds out about her past when an ex-suitor implicates her in a murder. (imdb)
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    Abroad with Two Yanks
    Two Marines are let loose in Australia. (imdb)
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    Her Private Affair
    A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be blackmailer and suffers a crisis of conscious when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime. Even after his acquittal, however, the woman suffers guilt and paranoia.
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    The Hairy Ape
    Hank Smith, a brutish stoker on board a freighter, is appalled when Mildred Douglas, a society girl forced by circumstance to travel as a passenger, visits the stokehold and recoils at the filthy, sweating Hank. A powerhouse of a man with a primitive confidence, Hank has never been looked down on before nor suffered the insult "hairy ape" flung at him by the rich girl. At first he seeks vengeance for the insult, but broods over it until more than anything, he desires to understand it... (imdb)
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    The Woman Who Came Back
    After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch. (imdb)
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    Dr. Syn
    When customs and excise men arrive at the village of Dymchurch in Kent, they uncover an intricate smuggling network being coordinated by the local parson, Dr Syn. Unknown to all but a few locals Dr Syn also hides a secret past, that he was once the notorious pirate Captain Clegg. (imdb)
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    One Night in Lisbon
    While transporting American warplanes to the beleagured RAF, Texas flyboy Dwight Houston (Fred MacMurray) is caught in a London air raid. Scurrying to a shelter, Dwight meets icy, well-bred Briton Leonora Perrycoate (Madeleine Carroll), with whom he falls in love -- a feeling that is far from mutual at first. Eventually responding to Dwight's charms, Leonora agrees to join him for a night's revelries... (allmovie.com)
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    A Game of Death
    A remake of Richard Connell's famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," about a madman who hunts human prey on his personal island habitat. (imdb)
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    Threats
    "Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel: the fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.The Munich agreement, Poland invasion, Danzig ,and the calling up provide a good background. (imdb)
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    The First Born
    A beautiful young woman marries a wealthy man, but he turns out to be a cad who mistreats her and cheats on her at every opportunity. (imdb)
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    Jealousy
    The wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but when her husband is found murdered, the police suspect she and her new "friend" committed the murder. (imdb)
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    Eagle Squadron
    An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl. (imdb)
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    One More Tomorrow
    Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party--until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine which opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. (imdb)
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    The Wife of Monte Cristo
    Edmund Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, rides again in 1832, this time accompanied by (or stood in for) his countess wife, Haydee. He is out for vengeance (using a mask and working as "The Avenger") against those who responsible for his imprisonment in the Chateau DIf, and justice for the people of Paris who are being mistreated by the crooked Prefect of Police. (imdb)
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    Diamond Frontier
    Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter Regan. The villain's reign of terror as he searches for the precious gems is checked by Charles Clayton (John Loder), freshly escaped from a brutal penal colony. A wild escape through the jungle enables Universal Pictures to exercise its usual prerogative of lifting great chunks of celluloid from its stock-footage library. (allrovi.com)
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    The Fighting Guardsman
    A band of Frenchmen start an uprising against the aristocracy in the days before the French Revolution. (imdb)
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    In Italia si chiama amore
    Attempted documentary on courting habits. (bfi)
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    On the Loose
    On the Loose (1931) - Short Film
    The girls, tired of being taken to Coney Island by all the local boys, meet up with two Englishmen who offer to take them on a date--to Coney Island. (imdb)
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    Sing As We Go
    When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool. (imdb)
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    Owd Bob
    In Cumberland, an old farmer's sheep dog is accused of killing sheep. (BFI)
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    Adventure in Diamonds
    British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some stolen diamonds. Stephen and South African Police Commissioner Lansfield (Nigel Bruce) set a trap for her partner Barclay (John Loder), but Felice falls for it instead. She's given parole in order to help Stephen and Lansfield trap a new, murderous ring of thieves, and she and Stephen start to fall in love. (allmovie.com)
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    Adventure in Iraq
    Five Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be. (imdb)
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    Confirm or Deny
    Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love. (imdb)
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    The Firechasers
    Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love. (imdb)
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    The Gorilla Man
    Commando Captain Craig Killian, carrying important military information, is wounded and taken to a hospital on the South Coast of England, operated by Doctor Joseph Wolf. The hospital is really a blind used by Nazi spies working on wrecking the Home Defense of England. In order to discredit the information that Killian has, Wolf tells am important British official that Killian is suffering from shock and is not responsible for what he says. (imdb)
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    It Happened in Paris
    After spending time working as dialogue director on a number of films, Carol Reed made his directorial debut as co-director of It Happened in Paris. Based upon a French play by Yves Mirande, Paris stars John Loder as Paul, the artistically-inclined son of an American millionaire. Serious about his work, he has moved to Paris, where he can find inspiration and study the masters. While there, he finds inspiration of a different sort in the form of the beautiful Jacqueline, played by Nancy Burne. (allmovie.com)
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    Java Head
    The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. (imdb)
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    Lorna Doone
    High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. (imdb)
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    Love, Life and Laughter
    Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder). This one however, isn't English, but from a broken down mittleEuropean duchy with a lonely castle amidst an Alpine-like landscape. They meet while she's selling (quite Nell Gwynnishly)oranges on the streets, with proceeds for a charity trust. He gets to know her and hers at the pub, and she attends a full dress affair in his honor at the embassy. (imdb)
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    Non-Stop New York
    A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York. (imdb)
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    The Mysterious Doctor
    The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine. (imdb)
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    Lilies of the Field
    John Loder, who is married to Corinne Griffith, falls in love with another women and wants to separate from his wife without losing custody of his daughter. He frames his wife and files for divorce, and Griffith ends up losing her daughter. Griffith moves into a cheap apartment and gradually becomes a Broadway showgirl and drowns her depression in a life of alcohol and jazz.
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    The Silent Passenger
    A really well made British murder mystery. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer? (imdb)
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    One Night at Susie\
    A woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. When her foster son decides to take the blame for a murder that was actually committed by his girlfriend, her boarding-house pals decide to try to help her out. (imdb)
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    My Song Goes Round the World
    Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt (1933).
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    Queen of Hearts
    A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him
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    You Made Me Love You
    A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer. (imdb)
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    Ourselves Alone
    One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
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    Whom the Gods Love
    Whom the Gods Love is a 1936 British biographical film directed by Basil Dean and starring Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper and John Loder. The film portrays the life of the Eighteenth Century Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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    Under Secret Orders
    When a German spy realizes that he is being followed by British agents, he gives the secret information he is carrying to his girlfriend. When he is killed, she gives the information to his superiors, and herself becomes a spy, hoping to get revenge for his death. She is then sent on several dangerous and deadly missions during World War I that cause her to question whether what she is doing is right. (imdb)
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    Murder on the Waterfront
    Joey Davis has just been married to Gloria, but before they can have their wedding night, he's called into service in the Navy. He smuggles his new bride into the camp. The camp is under heavy security because the Navy has obtained a new top secret kind of thermostat (and the formula necessary to make it work), which will keep weaponry dry. There is a murder--someone is trying to steal the device, and the newlyweds become involved in the investigation.
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    The Wedding Rehearsal
    A London bachelor must marry off the women to whom his grandmother introduces him in hopes of avoiding matrimony. (hulu.com)
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    Thunder in the East
    In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him. (imdb)
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    Anything to Declare?
    Professor Grayson is working on anti-gas formula and Dr. Klee whose peace propaganda masks other interests means to obtain it.
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    Small Hotel
    The crafty and experienced waiter Albert keeps things running smoothly at the Jolly Fiddler Hotel, and he is the only one who can placate the crabby justice of the peace who is a permanent resident there. But Mr. Finch, a representative from the chain that owns the hotel, thinks that Albert is too old and should be fired. When Finch visits the hotel, his ideas and his manner quickly antagonize the staff and guests, setting off a lengthy battle of wills.
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