Acting

Paul Porcasi

Born January 1, 1879 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died August 8, 1946 · aged 67

From Wikipedia. Paul Porcasi (1 January 1879 – 8 August 1946) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 142 films between 1917 and 1945. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. Porcasi was memorable as "Nick the Greek" in Universal's Broadway (1929). Porcasi performed infrequently on Broadway from 1916 to 1928. He ended his theatrical career in the smash hit "Broadway" as Nick Verdis that ran from 16 Sep…

Known For

Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

King Kong

King Kong · 1933

MovieAdventureFantasy

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

MovieComedyDrama

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Tarzan and His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate · 1934

Tarzan and His Mate

MovieActionAdventure

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Charlie Chan in Egypt · 1935

Charlie Chan in Egypt

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio · 1933

Flying Down to Rio

MovieComedyRomance

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

Café Metropole

Café Metropole · 1937

Café Metropole

MovieComedyDrama

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

The Devil's Mate

The Devil's Mate · 1933

The Devil's Mate

MovieDramaMystery

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.

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Casablanca

Casablanca · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Native Introducing Ferrari (uncredited)

King Kong

King Kong · 1933

MovieAdventureFantasy

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

Apple Vendor (uncredited)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

MovieComedyDrama

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Italian Opera Board Member (uncredited)

Tarzan and His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate · 1934

Tarzan and His Mate

MovieActionAdventure

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

Monsieur Feronde (uncredited)

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Charlie Chan in Egypt · 1935

Charlie Chan in Egypt

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

Insp. Fouad Soueida

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio · 1933

Flying Down to Rio

MovieComedyRomance

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

Mayor

Café Metropole

Café Metropole · 1937

Café Metropole

MovieComedyDrama

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

Police Official

The Devil's Mate

The Devil's Mate · 1933

The Devil's Mate

MovieDramaMystery

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.

Nick

Morocco

Morocco · 1930

MovieDramaRomance

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

Lo Tinto

Devil and the Deep

Devil and the Deep · 1932

Devil and the Deep

Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.

Hassan

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade · 1933

Footlight Parade

MovieComedyMusic

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Apolinaris

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm · 1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

MovieComedyMusic

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.

Benito Mussolini (uncredited)

The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red · 1937

The Bride Wore Red

MovieRomanceComedy

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Signor Nobili

The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee · 1934

The Gay Divorcee

MovieComedyRomance

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

French Headwaiter (uncredited)

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.

Gendarme

Juarez

MovieDramaHistory

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Councilman in Meeting with Maximilian (uncredited)

The Good Bad Girl

The Good Bad Girl · 1931

The Good Bad Girl

MovieDramaRomance

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

Tony Pagano

Gentleman's Fate

Gentleman's Fate · 1931

Gentleman's Fate

MovieDramaCrime

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

Papa Mario Giovanni

The Death Kiss

The Death Kiss · 1932

MovieMysteryComedy

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.

Ellsmith

It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve · 1941

It Started with Eve

MovieComedyRomance

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

Armand (uncredited)

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life · 1934

Imitation of Life

MovieDramaRomance

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Jackson's Restaurant Manager (uncredited)

La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha · 1934

MovieComedyMusic

Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.

Señor Martinez

Doctors Don't Tell

Doctors Don't Tell · 1941

Doctors Don't Tell

MovieRomanceDrama

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.

Montez

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid · 1940

MovieComedyCrime

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Warehouse Manager (uncredited)