David Torrence
Birthday: 1864-01-17
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biography: David Torrence (born David Tayson; 17 January 1864 – 26 December 1951) was a Scottish film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1913 to 1939. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the brother of actor Ernest Torrence. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and died in Los Angeles.
Movies
The Mask of Fu Manchu
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, be...
View Movie
Laddie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor but meets opposition from her stern military fa...
View Movie
Queen Christina
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh...
View Movie
The Mysterious Rider
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charle...
View Movie
City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the inte...
View Movie
The Other Woman's Story
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colb...
View Movie
Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate....
View Movie
Forsaking All Others
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he i...
View Movie
The Isle of Retribution
Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes...
View Movie
Silks and Saddles
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybi...
View Movie
The World At Her Feet
In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As...
View Movie
Disraeli
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicane...
View Movie
East Lynne
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships...
View Movie
Smilin' Through
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named...
View Movie
Lost Horizon
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where the...
View Movie
Berkeley Square
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution...
View Movie
Raffles
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has d...
View Movie
A Virgin's Sacrifice
Set in “the white-bound heart of Canada that lies within the Arctic Circle,” and concerns a rifle-to...
View Movie
The King of the Turf
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Marty...
View Movie
The Sawdust Trail
Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show...
View Movie
Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
View Movie
The Black Watch
Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regime...
View Movie
Voltaire
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingl...
View Movie
What Every Woman Knows
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wyli...
View Movie
The Bachelor Father
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) ch...
View Movie
Ebb Tide
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are ...
View Movie
The Masquerader
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so ...
View Movie
River's End
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. ...
View Movie
Mandalay
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put...
View Movie
The Tower of Lies
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her ...
View Movie
Brown of Harvard
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not...
View Movie
Trimmed in Scarlet
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, b...
View Movie
Scotland Yard
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a lock...
View Movie
The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
View Movie
Five Star Final
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se...
View Movie
The Unknown Cavalier
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds...
View Movie
The Devil to Pay!
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too...
View Movie
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced an...
View Movie
Horse Play
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle...
View Movie
Sandy
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs w...
View Movie
Black Sheep
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized b...
View Movie
Mary of Scotland
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her hal...
View Movie
Stanley and Livingstone
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, ...
View Movie
Tess of the Storm Country
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up ...
View Movie
Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....
View Movie
Abysmal Brute
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great stren...
View Movie
The Drums of Jeopardy
The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to projec...
View Movie
Charlie Chan in London
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits exe...
View Movie
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robber...
View Movie
Cavalcade
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-...
View Movie
The Country Doctor
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu...
View Movie
Oh! What a Nurse!
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F...
View Movie
Bonnie Scotland
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't qu...
View Movie
The Mystic
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man cra...
View Movie
Harmony Lane
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradati...
View Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
View Movie
Annie Laurie
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woma...
View Movie
Madame Spy
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigne...
View Movie
A Successful Calamity
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wil...
View Movie
Annie Laurie
In late 18th century Scotland, Annie Laurie and William Douglas love each other, but their clans are...
View Movie
The Reckless Sex
Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of ...
View Movie
Strong Boy
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the fru...
View Movie
Rulers of the Sea
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks...
View Movie
Hearts in Exile
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries...
View Movie
Tiger Love
The Wildcat, a Robin Hood of the Spanish hills and son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Marcheta...
View Movie
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive....
View Movie
The Big Noise
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney I...
View Movie
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out ...
View Movie
The Light That Failed
About Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie We...
View Movie
The Cavalier
In old Mexico a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her...
View Movie
Forever After
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with....
View Movie
The Inside of the Cup
Minister John Hodder becomes rector of a prestigious church in the Midwestern city of Bremerton but ...
View Movie
The Third Degree
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. ...
View Movie
The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e...
View Movie
The Man Next Door
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge o...
View Movie
What Fools Men
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-p...
View Movie
Rolled Stockings
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy...
View Movie
Idle Tongues
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and ...
View Movie
The Man in the Shadow
Better by far that ten Guilty men escape than that one Innocent man die for another's crime-Upon thi...
View Movie
The Auction Block
Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughi...
View Movie
Love's Wilderness
Worthless French cad Paul L'Estrange leads a young Southern girl, Linda Lou Heath, from the shelter ...
View Movie
Railroaded
Richard Garbin, willful son of Judge Garbin, one of England's most prominent jurists, is railroaded ...
View Movie
Her Husband's Secret
A young couple's future is put in jeopardy by both the past and present actions of their parents....
View Movie
The Power of a Lie
At a wild surprise party John Hammond signs a note for his struggling friend, architect Richard Burt...
View Movie
Fighting the Flames
Horatio Manly Jr. (William Haines), the only son of Judge Horatio Manly (David Torrence), is disowne...
View Movie