Alphonse Martell
Popularity:0.092
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1890-03-27
Place of Birth:Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
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Also Known As:Alphonse Martel, Alfonso Martell, Charles Martel

One Night of Love (1934)
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless...

Artists & Models (1937)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Dodsworth (1936)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

The Prairie Wife (1925)
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan...

The Love Thief (1926)
To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince...

The Night Bird (1928)
A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.

Naughty Nanette (1927)
The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashing through a series of adventures.

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make...

The Divine Sinner (1928)
Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a...

Zamba (1949)
Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a...

My Sister Eileen (1955)
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They...

The Catman of Paris (1946)
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a...

This Side of Heaven (1934)
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

Alias Mary Dow (1935)
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.

Letter of Introduction (1938)
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also...

Confession (1937)
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues...

Can-Can (1960)
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe...

The Match King (1932)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

The Strings of Steel (1926)
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial. Episode titles: 1. The Voice on the Wire 2. The First Central 3. Fighting for Love 4. The Power of...

Fort Ti (1953)
Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of...

Seventh Heaven (1937)
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the...

Doctor Rhythm (1938)
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

Maid in Hollywood (1934)
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through...

Bathing Beauty (1944)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her...

Soup and Fish (1934)
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who...

Dream of Love (1928)
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years...

Phffft (1954)
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate...

God's Gift to Women (1931)
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.

The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935)
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a job on the Barton ranch and joins in the fight...

We Have Our Moments (1937)
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down...

Wells Fargo (1937)
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

I'll Give a Million (1938)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

City in Darkness (1939)
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was...

Give Me Your Heart (1936)
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

I'll Take Romance (1937)
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house,...

Broadway Hostess (1935)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Colleen (1936)
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and...

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for...

The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

Stronger Than Desire (1939)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

The Three Musketeers (1939)
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under...

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...

Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Man About Town (1939)
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he...

Miracles for Sale (1939)
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Confidential (1935)
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

A New Kind of Love (1963)
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Rebecca (1940)
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett,...

Libeled Lady (1936)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

The Princess Comes Across (1936)
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a...

North West Mounted Police (1940)
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

Hired Wife (1940)
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

Arise, My Love (1940)
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...

I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

Let's Do It Again (1953)
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The...

Pilgrimage (1933)
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence...

The Girl from Scotland Yard (1937)
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.

The Wedding Night (1935)
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of...

Satan Met a Lady (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Shall We Dance (1937)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time...

The Gigolo Racket (1931)
As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.

Seven Thieves (1960)
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

Suez (1938)
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

The Buccaneer (1938)
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

The Jitters (1938)
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.

Scarlet Youth (1928)
A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him with another woman, she leaves him and goes to work in...

Private Lives (1931)
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples...

Coney Island (1943)
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night...

A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her...

A Woman's Secret (1949)
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal...

Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935)
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins...

Tovarich (1937)
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact...

Let Them Live (1937)
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.

Only Yesterday (1933)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

Convicted (1950)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Paris Playboys (1954)
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist,...

One More River (1934)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

Club Havana (1945)
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

Marked Woman (1937)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Noah's Ark (1928)
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

The Bride Wore Red (1937)
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

Dick Tracy (1945)
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).

Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes...

Cocktail Hour (1933)
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is...

The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police...

Let's Live Tonight (1935)
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At...

Four Star Playhouse (1952)
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Mission: Impossible (1966)
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