Paul McAllister

Acting

Paul McAllister

Born — Died

1875-06-29 — 1955-07-08

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 7 titles

Fury poster
7.5

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Fury

1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island poster
6.8

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936

The Invisible Ray poster
6.3

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

The Invisible Ray

1936

Cock of the Air poster
7.7

An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.

Cock of the Air

1932

Inspiration poster
5.9

Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.

Inspiration

1931

Beau Ideal poster
4.5

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

Beau Ideal

1931

The Case of Sergeant Grischa poster
7.2

This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

1930

1920s · 16 titles

Noah's Ark poster
6.4

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Noah's Ark

1928

The Winning of Barbara Worth poster
6.5

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926

Beau Geste poster
6.4

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

Beau Geste

1926

She's a Sheik poster
8.0

The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.

She's a Sheik

1927

Christopher Columbus poster
10.0

Everyone knows what happened after he "discovered" America, but in this film we learn about Columbus' multi-year struggle to secure funding for the journey. Prior explorers journey's to the North American continent also get a nod in this story.

Christopher Columbus

1923

For Woman's Favor poster
7.0

A modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."

For Woman's Favor

1924

What's Wrong with the Women? poster
8.0

Men try to understand the women in their lives.

What's Wrong with the Women?

1922

Manhandled poster
6.9

A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

Manhandled

1924

Evangeline poster
6.5

A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.

Evangeline

1929

The Big Killing poster
7.0

The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.

The Big Killing

1928

The Sign on the Door poster
9.0

A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.

The Sign on the Door

1921

A Stage Romance poster
7.0

A silent film about the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, whose life intertwines with a young woman, Anna Damby, and Countess Koefeld. Kean, inspired by the Countess, becomes entangled in a plot involving Anna, her guardian, and a roué named Lord Melville. The story culminates in a benefit performance where Kean's passionate denouncement of the Prince of Wales leads to his downfall.

A Stage Romance

1922

Sorrell and Son poster
6.0

Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Sorrell and Son

1927

You Can't Fool Your Wife poster
10.0

Edith sets out to prove that a wife can never be fooled by her husband - but will she succeed?

You Can't Fool Your Wife

1923

Jamestown poster
10.0

The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.

Jamestown

1923

Yolanda poster
8.0

The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .

Yolanda

1924

1910s · 5 titles

Behind the camera