David Torrence
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.306 |
| Birthday | 1864-01-17 |
| Place of Birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | David Tayson, |
1932
The Mask of Fu Manchu
5.5/80
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an upris...
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
1926
Laddie
0/0
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor but meets opposition from her stern military father who has recently immigrated from England.
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Laddie
1933
Queen Christina
6.8/121
The popular monarch, Queen Christina of Sweden, must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
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Queen Christina
1927
The Mysterious Rider
0/0
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).
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The Mysterious Rider
1930
City Girl
7.4/94
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm...
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City Girl
1925
The Other Woman's Story
4/1
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to...
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The Other Woman's Story
1935
Captain Blood
7.2/226
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Captain Blood
1922
Forsaking All Others
0/0
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he is easy prey for designing Enid Morton. After some...
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Forsaking All Others
1926
The Isle of Retribution
2/1
Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes with the rich girl, Lenor Harderworth, for the at...
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The Isle of Retribution
1929
Silks and Saddles
0/0
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse,...
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Silks and Saddles
1927
The World At Her Feet
1/1
In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane sta...
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The World At Her Feet
1929
Disraeli
5.1/19
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the...
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Disraeli
1931
East Lynne
6.333/12
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite bein...
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East Lynne
1932
Smilin' Through
6/19
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carte...
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Smilin' Through
1937
Lost Horizon
7/212
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like...
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Lost Horizon
1933
Berkeley Square
5.6/13
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Berkeley Square
1930
Raffles
5.9/13
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a wom...
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Raffles
1922
A Virgin's Sacrifice
0/0
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A Virgin's Sacrifice
1926
The King of the Turf
0/0
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to j...
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The King of the Turf
1924
The Sawdust Trail
0/0
Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show where he clashes with the leading lady, "Calamity...
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The Sawdust Trail
1934
Jane Eyre
4.9/10
Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is at...
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Jane Eyre
1929
The Black Watch
6/13
Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First...
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The Black Watch
1933
Voltaire
5.7/3
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs o...
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Voltaire
1934
What Every Woman Knows
7/4
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must ma...
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What Every Woman Knows
1931
The Bachelor Father
6/6
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses...
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The Bachelor Father
1937
Ebb Tide
6/1
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The...
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Ebb Tide
1933
The Masquerader
4.8/4
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporari...
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The Masquerader
1930
River's End
6.2/3
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reache...
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River's End
1934
Mandalay
5.9/15
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
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Mandalay
1925
The Tower of Lies
0/0
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected s...
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The Tower of Lies
1926
Brown of Harvard
5.8/10
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for th...
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Brown of Harvard
1923
Trimmed in Scarlet
0/0
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to pay...
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Trimmed in Scarlet
1930
Scotland Yard
0/0
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance...
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Scotland Yard
1913
The Prisoner of Zenda
3.5/2
King Rudolf of Ruritania is saved from a coup attempt by the help of his lookalike cousin, who falls in love with the king's fiancee.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
1931
Five Star Final
6.5/36
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman in...
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Five Star Final
1926
The Unknown Cavalier
0/0
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than...
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The Unknown Cavalier
1930
The Devil to Pay!
6/18
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting...
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The Devil to Pay!
1913
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1/1
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1933
Horse Play
0/0
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor...
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Horse Play
1926
Sandy
0/0
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a pa...
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Sandy
1935
Black Sheep
7/2
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his...
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Black Sheep
1936
Mary of Scotland
6.3/35
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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Mary of Scotland
1939
Stanley and Livingstone
6.31/21
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...
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Stanley and Livingstone
1922
Tess of the Storm Country
5.8/11
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the sq...
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Tess of the Storm Country
1936
Beloved Enemy
6.1/8
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is no...
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Beloved Enemy
1923
Abysmal Brute
0/0
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of hi...
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Abysmal Brute
1923
The Drums of Jeopardy
0/0
The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to project a sinister influence on the possessor. The czar...
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The Drums of Jeopardy
1934
Charlie Chan in London
6.9/32
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamel...
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Charlie Chan in London
1939
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
6.308/13
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way...
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1933
Cavalcade
5.5/110
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst even...
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Cavalcade
1924
Which Shall It Be?
0/0
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Which Shall It Be?
1936
The Country Doctor
6/3
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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The Country Doctor
1926
Oh! What a Nurse!
0/0
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Rut...
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Oh! What a Nurse!
1935
Bonnie Scotland
6.621/62
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in...
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Bonnie Scotland
1925
The Mystic
6.5/10
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high soc...
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The Mystic
1935
Harmony Lane
3.5/4
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Harmony Lane
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.3/332
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1927
Annie Laurie
6.8/4
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
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Annie Laurie
1934
Madame Spy
6/1
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak...
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Madame Spy
1932
A Successful Calamity
5.2/6
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy an...
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A Successful Calamity
1936
Annie Laurie
5/2
In late 18th century Scotland, Annie Laurie and William Douglas love each other, but their clans are on opposite sides of the country's civil war. The...
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Annie Laurie
1925
The Reckless Sex
0/0
Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and...
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The Reckless Sex
1929
Strong Boy
5/1
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitio...
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Strong Boy
1939
Rulers of the Sea
6.5/2
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...
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Rulers of the Sea
1929
Hearts in Exile
0/0
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each ot...
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Hearts in Exile
1924
Tiger Love
0/0
The Wildcat, a Robin Hood of the Spanish hills and son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Marcheta, who is pledged to marry Don Ramón to save the fa...
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Tiger Love
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
0/0
Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
1928
The Big Noise
0/0
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter...
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The Big Noise
1922
Sherlock Holmes
5.5/18
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective...
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Sherlock Holmes
1923
The Light That Failed
0/0
About Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places. He...
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The Light That Failed
1928
The Cavalier
0/0
In old Mexico a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes. When she leaves with him, her fa...
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The Cavalier
1926
Forever After
0/0
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
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Forever After
1921
The Inside of the Cup
0/0
Minister John Hodder becomes rector of a prestigious church in the Midwestern city of Bremerton but finds dissension and malfeasance among his congreg...
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The Inside of the Cup
1926
The Third Degree
0/0
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's desert...
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The Third Degree
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
5.3/3
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1923
The Man Next Door
0/0
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon ha...
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The Man Next Door
1925
What Fools Men
1/1
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictati...
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What Fools Men
1927
Rolled Stockings
0/0
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two coll...
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Rolled Stockings
1924
Idle Tongues
0/0
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althe...
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