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Lawrence Gray

Lawrence Gray

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lawrence Gray (July 28, 1898 – February 2, 1970) was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s. Gray began in the technical side of films at the Lasky Studios, but later decided on an acting career. He appeared in over 40 films between 1925 and 1936. Gray spent much of his career in vaudeville.

Known For

Golden Harvest
6.5

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.

Golden Harvest

1933
Here Comes the Groom
6.5

Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.

Here Comes the Groom

1934
The Patsy
6.7

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

The Patsy

1928
Oh Kay!
7.0

On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.

Oh Kay!

1928
Sunny
6.6

A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

Sunny

1930
Marianne
6.5

At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.

Marianne

1929
Going Wild
7.0

Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana

Going Wild

1930
Man of the World
6.2

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.

Man of the World

1931
Everybody's Acting
9.0

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.

Everybody's Acting

1926
A Face in the Fog
6.0

A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.

A Face in the Fog

1936
Temptation
10.0

Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan and Eileen Percy.

Temptation

1930
The Tragedy of King Lear
8.0

King Lear, old and weary, divides his kingdom among his daughters, placing great weight on their declarations of love for him. However, when Cordelia, the youngest and most honest, refuses to flatter the old man in exchange for his favour, he banishes her and seeks support from his remaining daughters. Goneril and Regan, however, harbour no love for him and instead conspire to seize all his power. In a parallel, Lear’s loyal courtier Gloucester favours his illegitimate son Edmund after being deceived by lies about his faithful son Edgar. Tragically, both ill-fated fathers are consumed by madness and experience immense suffering.

The Tragedy of King Lear

1982
The Sin Sister
7.0

Pearl a vaudeville dancer is stranded somewhere in Alaska. With no official place to stay in the vicinity, Pearl is obliged to accept the hospitality of a wealthy family which has itself been stranded in the Great White North. An ill-tempered fur trader and a looney Eskimo both lust after Pearl, but she is rescued by Peter Van Dykeman her hosts' male secretary….

The Sin Sister

1929
Kid Boots
6.8

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.

Kid Boots

1926
The Rainbow
9.0

The Rainbow is a 1929 American Western film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Dorothy Sebastian, Lawrence Gray and Sam Hardy.

The Rainbow

1929
Children of Pleasure
5.5

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Children of Pleasure

1930
The Florodora Girl
5.5

A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

The Florodora Girl

1930
The American Venus
8.0

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.

The American Venus

1926
The Untamed Lady
9.0

A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.

The Untamed Lady

1926
Convoy
8.0

A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent

Convoy

1927