Cast: George Arliss
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring George Arliss. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 19
The House of Rothschild
1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker · Sidney Lanfield
Cast George Arliss · Boris Karloff · Loretta Young · Robert Young
Synopsis The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially...
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26 votes
6.4
26 votes
Disraeli
1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast George Arliss · Joan Bennett · Florence Arliss · Anthony Bushell
Synopsis Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
5.8
39 votes
5.8
39 votes
The Tunnel
1935 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast Richard Dix · Leslie Banks · Madge Evans · Helen Vinson
Synopsis Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. His biggest supporter is Varlia Lloyd, daughter of one of the backers, and she uses her influence...
5.3
28 votes
5.3
28 votes
The Man Who Played God
1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Bette Davis · Violet Heming · André Luguet
Synopsis Montgomery Royale. He returns to New York with this sister, friend Mildred and fiancée Grace. He becomes philanthropic, using binoculars and lip reading to decide what anonymous gifts to bestow on strangers. He sees Grace tell her love Howard that...
5.3
34 votes
5.3
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Doctor Syn
1937 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast George Arliss · Margaret Lockwood · John Loder · Roy Emerton
Synopsis 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...
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Old English
1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast George Arliss · Doris Lloyd · Harrington Reynolds · Reginald Sheffield
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The King's Vacation
1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Marjorie Gateson · Dudley Digges · Patricia Ellis
Synopsis A king finds himself with no purpose in his reign, abdicates his throne to return to the wife and child he left many years ago when he was called to duty to be the king of his country.
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The Devil
1921 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction James Young
Cast George Arliss · Sylvia Breamer · Lucy Cotton · Florence Arliss
Synopsis Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while viewing a new painting, "The Martyr--Truth Crucified by Evil." Marie declares that the...
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A Successful Calamity
1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Mary Astor · Evalyn Knapp · Grant Mitchell
Synopsis Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children (Peggy and Eddie). To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he...
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Hollywood: The Great Stars
1963 · Documentary · 51 min. · United States
Direction Marshall Flaum
Cast Henry Fonda · Walter Abel · June Allyson · George Arliss
Synopsis Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
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The Iron Duke
1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Victor Saville
Cast George Arliss · Ellaline Terriss · Gladys Cooper · A.E. Matthews
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The Green Goddess
1930 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast George Arliss · Ralph Forbes · H.B. Warner · Alice Joyce
Synopsis An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India. His subjects believe that...
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The Last Gentleman
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast George Arliss · Edna May Oliver · Janet Beecher · Charlotte Henry
Synopsis In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in...
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The Working Man
1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Bette Davis · Theodore Newton · Hardie Albright
Synopsis Shoe manufacturer John Reeves turns his business over to his conceited nephew when his rival dies. On vacation, he runs into his rivals heirs who are living it up on their dead father's money. Reeves gets hired by them and...
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Voltaire
1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Doris Kenyon · Margaret Lindsay · Alan Mowbray
Synopsis Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the...
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Alexander Hamilton
1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Doris Kenyon · Dudley Digges · June Collyer
Synopsis With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was over paying the soldiers who had fought in the...
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The Green Goddess
1923 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Olcott
Cast George Arliss · Alice Joyce · David Powell · Harry T. Morey
Synopsis Three British subjects arrive in the land of the Rajah of Rukh, during the time of the British Raj.
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Cardinal Richelieu
1935 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast George Arliss · Maureen O'Sullivan · Edward Arnold · Cesar Romero
Synopsis Arliss etches another historical portrayal of France's unscrupulous cardinal who controlled Louis XIII (Arnold). Good cast supports star.
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The Millionaire
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John G. Adolfi
Cast George Arliss · Florence Arliss · David Manners · Evalyn Knapp
Synopsis A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
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