
Acting
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Born 1891-07-27 · Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
Acting credits
6.7Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Riptide
1934
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Mr. Satan
1938
6.4Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wray, but he won't use his influence to take any advantage... as usual, he's a perfect gentleman.
Pointed Heels
1929
6.1In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Alice in Wonderland
1933
7.0Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Possessed
1931
6.1A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Idiot's Delight
1939
6.5After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Bachelor Bait
1934
6.5A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
9.0A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her. A lost film.
New York
1927
5.9This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Paramount on Parade
1930
5.1When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
Bird of Paradise
1932
5.6Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
The Stolen Jools
1931
7.0To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
Duke of Chicago
1949
6.5A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
The Racket
1928
7.0A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
Reform Girl
1933
7.5Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
Her Wedding Night
1930
5.9Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932
5.6A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
The Conquerors
1932
8.0A young stockbroker is in love with a nightclub entertainer. He loses his job and the girl at work one night obtains some information about money making stocks and passes it on to her boyfriend. He then uses this information in the stock market.
Stocks and Blondes
1928
7.0Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Espionage
1937
7.1A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
The Night Club Lady
1932
9.0A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
Citadel of Crime
1941
5.3Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
Yours for the Asking
1936
5.0The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
Up Pops the Devil
1931