Rod La Rocque
Birthday: 1898-11-18
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roderick Ross La Rocque (November 29, 1898 – October 15, 1969) was an American actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edmund La Rocque and Ann (née Rice) La Rocque. His father was of French-Canadian descent and his mother was of Irish descent. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios as a teenager in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was noticed by Samuel Goldwyn who took him to Hollywood. Over the next two decades, he appeared in films and made the transition to sound films. In 1927, he married Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky in a lavish and highly publicized wedding. They were married until his death in 1969. He retired from movies in 1941 and became a real estate broker. For his contribution to the film industry, La Rocque was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Beyond Tomorrow
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reuni...
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The Ten Commandments
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receip...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut...
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Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who ...
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The Locked Door
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character...
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The Discarded Woman
Esther Wells is dumped by her husband, Martin, just as she's boarding a train. She gets off at the n...
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The Common Sin
Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry their e...
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A Woman's Woman
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son....
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Jazzmania
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her g...
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The Golden Bed
Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival f...
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The Shadow Strikes
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an ...
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Our Modern Maidens
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting ...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English v...
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Stand and Deliver
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her ...
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Let Us Be Gay
A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pur...
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The Coming of Amos
An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the Fr...
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Dark Streets of Cairo
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some...
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The One Woman Idea
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman-...
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One Romantic Night
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince....
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The Fighting Eagle
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napole...
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Mystery Woman
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon...
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International Crime
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocq...
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Taming the Wild
Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection w...
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The Cruise of the Jasper B
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan ...
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The Drag-Net
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A...
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Till We Meet Again
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan ...
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The Dream Doll
A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not ...
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Code of the Sea
Young Bruce McDow tries to live with the specter of his late Father's perceived folly as a Sailor. T...
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Forbidden Paradise
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirato...
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The Circus: Premiere
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....
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Hold 'Em Yale
A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's...
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Gigolo
The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squande...
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A Philistine in Bohemia
Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman wh...
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A Perfect Lady
Dancer Lucille Le Jambon (whose real name is Lucy Higgins) loses her job when the morals committee o...
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A Perfect 36
The plot involves Mabel's clothes being stolen in a mix-up while she was swimming, necessitating her...
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The Delightful Rogue
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer....
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Hi, Gaucho!
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love....
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S.O.S. Iceberg
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language ver...
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The Trap
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she mar...
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Resurrection
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years ...
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Night Life of New York
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald,...
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Paying the Piper
Larry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience. He re...
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Feet of Clay
Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his y...
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left ...
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The Man and the Moment
Relentlessly pursued by gold digger Viola Hatfield millionaire Michel Towne decides to put her off t...
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Captain Swagger
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills....
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Bachelor Brides
Percy Ashfield is to marry Mary Bowman but her father objects. He objects because while the Bowmans ...
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The Stolen Kiss
Felicia Day is brought up in seclusion by her affectionate but narrow-minded grandfather, Major Tren...
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Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...
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Braveheart
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation...
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Red Dice
This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Al...
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Frisco Waterfront
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the poll...
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Beau Bandit
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of...
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Don't Call It Love
Prima donna Rita Coventry charms Richard Parrish from his fiancée, Alice Meldrum. Tiring of Parrish,...
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The French Doll
Georgine Mazulier, the daughter of a French furniture dealer, is exploited by her father and Snyder,...
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Suspicious Wives
A melodrama of misunderstandings in which a rich couple grow more and more suspicious of each other ...
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The Venus Model
A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disas...
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Triumph
At the center of the story is Ann Land. Ann is a small factory worker and has only ever dreamed of g...
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Let's Get a Divorce
A bit too immature for marriage, Cyprienne allows her pretty head to be turned by an egotistical fop...
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A Society Scandal
Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberate...
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Wild, Wild Susan
Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds wor...
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Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this...
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Greater Than Love
Pursued by two suitors, James Brunton and Bob Standing, Grace chooses James followed by a sumptuous ...
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Sadie Goes to Heaven
Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakene...
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The Great Chase
A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences...
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The Garter Girl
Vaudeville dancer Rosalie Ray, disgusted by the advances of her admirers, quits the stage and retire...
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Notoriety
Pigeon Deering, a girl of the tenements, while watching a society ball through a window, witnesses a...
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Slim Shoulders
In trying to conceal evidence of her father's forgery, society girl Naomi Warren agrees to marry wea...
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