Gertrude Hoffmann

Acting

Gertrude Hoffmann

Born — Died

1871-05-17 — 1968-02-13

Place of birth

Heidleberg, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 17 titles

Suspicion poster
7.1

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

Suspicion

1941

Foreign Correspondent poster
7.0

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

Foreign Correspondent

1940

The File on Thelma Jordon poster
6.6

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949

The Bride Wore Boots poster
6.1

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

The Bride Wore Boots

1946

A Guy Named Joe poster
6.7

A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he's sent back to Earth by a heavenly General with a new assignment.

A Guy Named Joe

1944

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case poster
6.0

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

1943

One Foot in Heaven poster
6.9

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

One Foot in Heaven

1941

Lydia poster
6.5

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

Lydia

1941

The Moon Is Down poster
6.9

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

The Moon Is Down

1943

Commandos Strike at Dawn poster
5.5

A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942

The Ape poster
4.9

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?

The Ape

1940

Untamed poster
5.0

A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.

Untamed

1940

North of the Rockies poster
9.0

Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and Tex Martin on the American side are after them. When Morgan sets up Tex to be found with furs, Mountie Bill arrests him. But he lets him go hoping he will lead him to the gang and eventually the two join forces.

North of the Rockies

1942

The Wife Takes a Flyer poster
5.5

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.

The Wife Takes a Flyer

1942

What a Woman poster
6.3

An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.

What a Woman

1943

East Side Kids poster
6.4

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.

East Side Kids

1940

Texas Trouble Shooters poster
7.7

The Range Busters are together again to try and stop a swindle.

Texas Trouble Shooters

1942

1930s · 9 titles

Cassidy of Bar 20 poster
6.0

Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.

Cassidy of Bar 20

1938

Les Misérables poster
7.1

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Les Misérables

1935

Before Dawn poster
5.7

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.

Before Dawn

1933

The Cat's-Paw poster
6.3

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.

The Cat's-Paw

1934

I'll Tell the World poster
7.0

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.

I'll Tell the World

1934

The Gentleman from Louisiana poster
8.0

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.

The Gentleman from Louisiana

1936

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7.0

The life of an avowed bachelor who tows garbage is changed when he meets a runaway taxi dancer.

Hell and High Water

1933

Mountain Justice poster
6.3

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Mountain Justice

1937

A Son Comes Home poster
4.0

A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.

A Son Comes Home

1936

1920s · 8 titles

Series credits