Demetrius Alexis
Acting
Biography
Demetrius Alexis was born on 1 December 1899 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was an actor, known for The Red Dance (1928), The Red Sword (1929) and Torture Ship (1939). He died on 12 March 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Known For

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Citizen Kane

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Freaks

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Honky Tonk

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Mission to Moscow

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
Torture Ship

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
Born to Kill

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Paddy O'Day

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Café Metropole

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Balalaika

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
They Knew What They Wanted

A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
Bedside Manner

Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
The Red Dance

Colonel Lotovski rapes the Innkeeper's wife and blinds him. 6 years later, his crime may be punished.
The Red Sword

Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa

Jack Bannister returns to his home in South America, bringing with him some Wyoming cowboys. At a fiesta, he meets Menocal, an old friend, who is murdered moments later by Bud Latham, an American bandit under the protection of the local sheriff, a rascal named Berengo. Jack sets out after Latham and finds the killer trailing another outlaw, José Remado. Jack catches up with Latham and whips him in a brutal fight.