Acting

Edward LeSaint

Born December 13, 1870 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Died September 10, 1940 · aged 69

No biography available.

Known For

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

★ 7.51936

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.

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang · 1932

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

★ 7.81932

MovieDrama

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew · 1939

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

★ 7.01939

MovieFamilyComedy

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Filmography

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A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Bank Director (uncredited)

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Sheriff Couler

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

★ 7.51936

MovieComedyDrama

Dr. Fosdick (uncredited)

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Judge Rankin

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Secretary of Labor (uncredited)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang · 1932

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

★ 7.81932

MovieDrama

Chamber of Commerce Chairman (uncredited)

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew · 1939

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

Dr. Emery

Fr. Ryan (uncredited)

Lady for a Day · 1933

Lady for a Day

★ 7.11933

MovieComedyDrama

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.

Police Capt. Moore (uncredited)

The Saint in New York · 1938

The Saint in New York

★ 6.51938

MovieCrimeThriller

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

Citizens Committee Member (Uncredited)

It Happened in Hollywood · 1937

It Happened in Hollywood

★ 6.31937

MovieDramaComedy

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Doctor

Idiot's Delight · 1939

Idiot's Delight

★ 6.11939

MovieComedyDrama

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

The Honorable Thomas McCreevy

Convicted Woman · 1940

Convicted Woman

★ 4.61940

MovieCrimeDrama

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

Judge (uncredited)

Once to Every Woman · 1934

Once to Every Woman

★ 6.11934

MovieDrama

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

Priest (uncredited)

The Marriage Market · 1923

The Marriage Market

★ 9.01923

MovieComedyRomance

The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.

Director

Edison, the Man · 1940

Edison, the Man

★ 6.81940

MovieHistoryDrama

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

Doctor

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell · 1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

★ 6.31939

MovieDramaHistory

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Banker at Demonstration

Horse Feathers · 1932

Horse Feathers

★ 6.91932

MovieComedyRomance

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Professor in Wagstaff's Study (uncredited)

They Met in a Taxi · 1936

They Met in a Taxi

★ 6.81936

MovieComedyCrime

A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.

Justice of the Peace

We Who Are About to Die · 1937

We Who Are About to Die

★ 7.01937

MovieDramaCrime

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

Judge (uncredited)

Gentleman's Fate · 1931

Gentleman's Fate

★ 6.11931

MovieDramaCrime

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

Detective Meyers

Gabriel Over the White House · 1933

Gabriel Over the White House

★ 6.81933

MovieDramaFantasy

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

Chief Justice of the United States (uncredited)

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President · 1939

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

★ 5.01939

MovieComedy

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.

Bishop

Wife vs. Secretary · 1936

Wife vs. Secretary

★ 6.71936

MovieDramaComedy

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

Party Guest with Herbert (uncredited)