Acting
Georges Metaxa
Born September 11, 1899 · Bucharest, Romania
Died December 8, 1950 · aged 51
Character actor of genteel demeanor in US films.
Known For
Swing Time · 1936Swing Time
★ 6.81936
MovieRomanceComedy
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. 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 romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Background to Danger · 1943Background to Danger
★ 6.71943
MovieThrillerWar
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
The Mask of Dimitrios · 1944The Mask of Dimitrios
★ 7.11944
MovieCrimeDrama
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 is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Submarine Base · 1943Submarine Base
★ 5.11943
MovieActionDrama
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 headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Secrets of a Secretary · 1931Secrets of a Secretary
★ 6.01931
MovieDrama
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
The Doctor Takes a Wife · 1940The Doctor Takes a Wife
★ 6.81940
MovieComedyRomance
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.
Scotland Yard Investigator · 1945Scotland Yard Investigator
★ 6.51945
MovieMysteryAction
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Hi Diddle Diddle · 1943Hi Diddle Diddle
★ 6.61943
MovieComedy
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.



