Acting

Irving Pichel

Born June 24, 1891 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Died July 13, 1954 · aged 63

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Irving Pichel (June 24, 1891 – July 13, 1954) was an American actor and film director. He married Violette Wilson, daughter of Jackson Stitt Wilson, a Methodist minister and Socialist mayor of Berkeley, California. Her sister was actress Viola Barry. The Pichels had three sons, Pichel Wilson, Julian Irving, and Marlowe Agnew. Description above from the Wiki…

Known For

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon · 1949

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

MovieDramaWestern

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley · 1941

How Green Was My Valley

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game · 1932

The Most Dangerous Game

MovieThrillerAdventure

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

Jezebel

Jezebel · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra · 1934

MovieHistoryDrama

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Westward Passage

Westward Passage · 1932

Westward Passage

MovieRomanceDrama

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

Juarez

MovieDramaHistory

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

Filmography

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon · 1949

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

MovieDramaWestern

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley · 1941

How Green Was My Valley

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

Adult Huw (Voice)

The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game · 1932

The Most Dangerous Game

MovieThrillerAdventure

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

Director

Jezebel

Jezebel · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Huger

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Sandor

Cleopatra

Cleopatra · 1934

MovieHistoryDrama

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Apollodorus

Westward Passage

Westward Passage · 1932

Westward Passage

MovieRomanceDrama

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

Harry Ottendorf

Juarez

MovieDramaHistory

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

General Carbajal

I'm No Angel

I'm No Angel · 1933

MovieComedyRomance

Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.

Clayton's Attorney (uncredited)

The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway · 1942

The Battle of Midway

MovieDocumentaryWar

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, in 2006.

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Special Agent

Special Agent · 1935

MovieDramaCrime

A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

U.S. District Attorney

Wild Girl

Wild Girl · 1932

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.

Rufe Waters

Destination Moon

Destination Moon · 1950

Destination Moon

MovieScience FictionAdventure

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.

Director

Night Flight

Night Flight · 1933

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Dr. Decosta

Torture Ship

Torture Ship · 1939

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

Dr. Herbert Stander

The Miracle of the Bells

The Miracle of the Bells · 1948

The Miracle of the Bells

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.

Director

They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me · 1947

They Won't Believe Me

MovieDramaRomance

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Director

British Agent

British Agent · 1934

MovieRomanceDrama

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

Sergei Pavlov

Before Dawn

Before Dawn · 1933

MovieMysteryDrama

After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.

Director

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever · 1946

Tomorrow Is Forever

MovieDramaRomance

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Director

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty · 1942

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.

Director

Rio

MovieCrimeRomance

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Rocco

The Story of Temple Drake

The Story of Temple Drake · 1933

The Story of Temple Drake

MovieCrimeDrama

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

Lee Goodwin

Swamp Water

Swamp Water · 1941

MovieCrimeDrama

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.

Producer