Acting

Cyril Ring

Born December 5, 1892 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died July 17, 1967 · aged 74

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cyril Ring (December 5, 1892 – July 17, 1967) was an American film actor. He began his career in silent films in 1921. By the time of his final performance in 1951, he had appeared in over 350 films, almost all in small and/or uncredited parts. He is probably best remembered today for his role as Harvey Yates, a con artist captured and hand-cuffed to fellow …

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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator · 1940

The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane · 1941

MovieMysteryDrama

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Saboteur

Saboteur · 1942

MovieThrillerMystery

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties · 1939

The Roaring Twenties

MovieCrimeDrama

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife · 1940

My Favorite Wife

MovieComedyRomance

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year · 1942

Woman of the Year

MovieComedyRomance

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.

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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator · 1940

The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Officer Extra (uncredited)

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane · 1941

MovieMysteryDrama

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited)

Saboteur

Saboteur · 1942

MovieThrillerMystery

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Party Guest (uncredited)

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties · 1939

The Roaring Twenties

MovieCrimeDrama

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Charlie (uncredited)

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

Husband on Ship (uncredited)

My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife · 1940

My Favorite Wife

MovieComedyRomance

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

Nick's Lawyer (uncredited)

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year · 1942

Woman of the Year

MovieComedyRomance

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Mr. Harding's Chauffeur (uncredited)

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.

Movie Director (uncredited)

Topper

MovieComedyFantasy

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Test Pilot

Test Pilot · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

N.A.A. Official (uncredited)

The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts · 1929

MovieComedyMusic

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Harvey Yates

Union Pacific

Union Pacific · 1939

MovieDramaWestern

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?

Surveyor (uncredited)

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch · 1942

I Married a Witch

MovieRomanceFantasy

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire · 1942

This Gun for Hire

MovieCrimeThriller

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Neptune Club Waiter (uncredited)

Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady · 1944

MovieMysteryThriller

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

Barfly with Racing Form (uncredited)

The Glass Key

The Glass Key · 1942

MovieCrimeMystery

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Campaign Headquarters Waiter (uncredited)

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo · 1940

MovieDramaCrime

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Cashier (uncredited)

Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific · 1942

Across the Pacific

MovieAdventureThriller

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz?

Canadian Officer (uncredited)

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940 · 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

MovieMusicRomance

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

Show Backer at Rehearsal / Nightclub Headwaiter (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington · 1944

Mr. Skeffington

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Perry Lanks (uncredited)

Laura

MovieDramaMystery

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Party Guest (uncredited)

Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow · 1937

Make Way for Tomorrow

MovieDramaRomance

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

Guest in Vogard Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

You'll Never Get Rich

You'll Never Get Rich · 1941

You'll Never Get Rich

MovieComedyMusic

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

Passerby on Street (uncredited)

Batman

MovieActionAdventure

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.

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