Acting
Demetrius Alexis
Born 1899-12-01 · Alexandria, Egypt
Demetrius Alexis was born on 1 December 1899 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was an actor, known for The Red Dance (1928), The Red Sword (1929) and Torture Ship (1939). He died on 12 March 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Acting credits
8.0Newspaper 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.
Citizen Kane
1941
7.8A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Freaks
1932
6.4Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Honky Tonk
1941
6.7A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
Born to Kill
1947
6.5Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
The Red Dance
1928
5.7Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Mission to Moscow
1943
6.0While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
5.3A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Balalaika
1939
3.8A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
Torture Ship
1939
5.9A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
Bedside Manner
1945
7.3An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Café Metropole
1937
9.0Colonel Lotovski rapes the Innkeeper's wife and blinds him. 6 years later, his crime may be punished.
The Red Sword
1929
9.0Jack Bannister returns to his home in South America, bringing with him some Wyoming cowboys. At a fiesta, he meets Menocal, an old friend, who is murdered moments later by Bud Latham, an American bandit under the protection of the local sheriff, a rascal named Berengo. Jack sets out after Latham and finds the killer trailing another outlaw, José Remado. Jack catches up with Latham and whips him in a brutal fight.
Don Dare Devil
1925
7.0A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Paddy O'Day
1936
10.0Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
1930