George Lessey
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.536 |
Birthday | 1875-06-08 |
Place of Birth | Amherst, Massachusetts, USA |
Also Known As | George Alanson Lessey, George A. Lessey, |
1940
Go West
6.5/82
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and R...
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Go West
1941
Moon Over Miami
6.1/14
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich...
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Moon Over Miami
1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
5.1/8
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and ev...
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940
Sky Murder
6.3/7
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US en...
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Sky Murder
1941
Blossoms in the Dust
6.5/29
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...
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Blossoms in the Dust
1942
Roxie Hart
6.9/21
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was ju...
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Roxie Hart
1941
Forbidden Passage
6.3/7
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the countr...
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Forbidden Passage
1940
The Golden Fleecing
5.3/6
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Golden Fleecing
1911
Romeo and Juliet
2/4
Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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Romeo and Juliet
1940
Gallant Sons
7.2/5
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Gallant Sons
1938
The Miss They Missed
0/0
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect a...
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The Miss They Missed
1941
Adventure in Washington
6.5/2
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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Adventure in Washington
1941
We Go Fast
6.2/3
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that...
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We Go Fast
1925
White Thunder
0/0
The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.
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White Thunder
1925
Durand of the Bad Lands
0/0
A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem...
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Durand of the Bad Lands
1940
Soak the Old
6/1
Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
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Soak the Old
1940
Boom Town
6.9/50
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...
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Boom Town
1941
Sweetheart of the Campus
5/3
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monet...
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Sweetheart of the Campus
1944
Buffalo Bill
5.7/35
Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
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Buffalo Bill
1939
How to Eat
5/1
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock...
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How to Eat
1913
At Bear Track Gulch
5/2
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF TH...
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At Bear Track Gulch
1912
The Passer-by
5.5/2
A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.
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The Passer-by
1913
The Ambassador's Daughter
6/1
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
1944
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
0/0
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
1940
Sporting Blood
4.3/3
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the bi...
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Sporting Blood
1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.5/2
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1942
Now, Voyager
7.329/193
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Now, Voyager
1939
One Third of a Nation
6.2/5
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
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One Third of a Nation
1943
Dixie Dugan
5/1
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast abo...
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Dixie Dugan
1940
Edison, the Man
6.7/20
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor...
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Edison, the Man
1943
Pistol Packin' Mama
5/1
Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters ous...
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Pistol Packin' Mama
1942
The Gay Sisters
6.5/8
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
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The Gay Sisters
1940
Strike Up the Band
6.2/23
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raisi...
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Strike Up the Band
1940
Hullabaloo
4/1
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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Hullabaloo
1940
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
4.8/13
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1917
Patria
6.5/1
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves wi...
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Patria
1912
At the Masquerade Ball
4/1
A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing jewellery...
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At the Masquerade Ball
1912
A Soldier's Duty
4/1
Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His p...
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A Soldier's Duty
1938
Birthright
5.2/12
After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.
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Birthright
1940
Good Bad Boys
6.5/2
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
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Good Bad Boys
1941
Blonde Inspiration
5.4/6
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Blonde Inspiration
1941
Men of Boys Town
6.3/11
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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Men of Boys Town
1944
None Shall Escape
6.2/24
Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
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None Shall Escape
1943
Mission to Moscow
5.2/17
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Mission to Moscow
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
7.4/117
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Pride of the Yankees
1944
Bride by Mistake
6.1/4
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose ma...
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Bride by Mistake
1942
Rings on Her Fingers
6.7/10
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Ente...
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Rings on Her Fingers
1924
It Is the Law
6/1
This silent mystery is considered a lost film.
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It Is the Law
1941
The Big Boss
5.5/1
Why did the Governor want to resign?
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The Big Boss
1942
Laugh Your Blues Away
0/0
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
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Laugh Your Blues Away
1921
A Divorce of Convenience
0/0
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A Divorce of Convenience
1912
His Mother's Hope
0/0
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His Mother's Hope
1912
Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story
4.5/2
An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.
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