Georges Metaxa

Character actor of genteel demeanor in US films.

Swing Time (1936)

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Stevens
CAST:  Fred Astaire  •  Ginger Rogers  •  Victor Moore  •  Helen Broderick

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Stevens
CAST:  Fred Astaire  •  Ginger Rogers  •  Victor Moore  •  Helen Broderick

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean Negulesco
CAST:  Sydney Greenstreet  •  Zachary Scott  •  Faye Emerson  •  Peter Lorre

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean Negulesco
CAST:  Sydney Greenstreet  •  Zachary Scott  •  Faye Emerson  •  Peter Lorre

Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)

A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Blair
CAST:  C. Aubrey Smith  •  Erich von Stroheim  •  Stephanie Bachelor  •  Forrester Harvey

A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Blair
CAST:  C. Aubrey Smith  •  Erich von Stroheim  •  Stephanie Bachelor  •  Forrester Harvey

The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Ray Milland  •  Edmund Gwenn  •  Reginald Gardiner

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Ray Milland  •  Edmund Gwenn  •  Reginald Gardiner

The West Side Kid (1943)

Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Sherman
CAST:  Don Barry  •  Henry Hull  •  Dale Evans  •  Chick Chandler

Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Sherman
CAST:  Don Barry  •  Henry Hull  •  Dale Evans  •  Chick Chandler

Paris Calling (1941)

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edwin L. Marin
CAST:  Elisabeth Bergner  •  Randolph Scott  •  Basil Rathbone  •  Gale Sondergaard

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edwin L. Marin
CAST:  Elisabeth Bergner  •  Randolph Scott  •  Basil Rathbone  •  Gale Sondergaard

Submarine Base (1943)

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Albert H. Kelly
CAST:  John Litel  •  Alan Baxter  •  Eric Blore  •  Georges Metaxa

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Albert H. Kelly
CAST:  John Litel  •  Alan Baxter  •  Eric Blore  •  Georges Metaxa

Background to Danger (1943)

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Walsh
CAST:  George Raft  •  Brenda Marshall  •  Sydney Greenstreet  •  Peter Lorre

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raoul Walsh
CAST:  George Raft  •  Brenda Marshall  •  Sydney Greenstreet  •  Peter Lorre

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrew L. Stone
CAST:  Martha Scott  •  Adolphe Menjou  •  Pola Negri  •  Billie Burke

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrew L. Stone
CAST:  Martha Scott  •  Adolphe Menjou  •  Pola Negri  •  Billie Burke

Kissing Time (1933)

An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Mack
CAST:  Jane Froman  •  Georges Metaxa  •  Don Zelaya  •  Gerald Oliver Smith

An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Mack
CAST:  Jane Froman  •  Georges Metaxa  •  Don Zelaya  •  Gerald Oliver Smith

Sheik to Sheik (1936)

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Mack
CAST:  Georges Metaxa  •  Ann Barrie  •  John Berkes  •  Marley & Elsa

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Mack
CAST:  Georges Metaxa  •  Ann Barrie  •  John Berkes  •  Marley & Elsa