Donald Reed

Acting

Donald Reed

Born — Died

1901-07-23 — 1973-02-28

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 26 titles

The Devil Is a Woman poster
6.4

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

The Devil Is a Woman

1935

Midnight poster
7.4

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

Midnight

1939

Uncertain Lady poster
9.0

Elliot's affair prompts his wife Doris to love millionaire Bruce. After a messy gathering, a flat tire stops Doris from chasing Bruce's departing ship, which traps Elliot and Myra on board instead, leaving Bruce free to propose to Doris ashore.

Uncertain Lady

1934

The Last Train from Madrid poster
4.8

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

The Last Train from Madrid

1937

The Texan poster
6.1

Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.

The Texan

1930

Santa poster
5.6

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.

Santa

1932

The Firefly poster
6.5

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...

The Firefly

1937

The Man from Monterey poster
4.8

A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers

The Man from Monterey

1933

The Racing Strain poster
10.0

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.

The Racing Strain

1932

Juvenile Court poster
6.0

Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.

Juvenile Court

1938

Aloha poster
8.0

In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.

Aloha

1931

The Fighting Marines poster
6.5

Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.

The Fighting Marines

1935

Special Agent K-7 poster
4.9

Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.

Special Agent K-7

1936

Men Without Law poster
8.0

Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.

Men Without Law

1930

Darkest Africa poster
8.3

A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.

Darkest Africa

1936

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted poster
4.6

Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson to make a new plate, he inscribes a tiny help message on it. Renfrew catches a henchman who has one of the new bills. A magnifying glass lets him read the message and he heads out alone to round up the counterfeiters.

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

1937

Law and Lead poster
8.0

A cowboy hears rumors that an old friend who once headed a criminal gang and had since gone straight is now back on the wrong side of the law. He goes to investigate.

Law and Lead

1936

Slaves in Bondage poster
3.0

Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.

Slaves in Bondage

1937

The Vanishing Riders poster
4.2

Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram McDuff, a friend of Bill's. Ranch owner Joan Stanley hires Bill and Tim. Her father has been killed by the gang of Wolf Larson. By mistake, McDuff hires the Larson gang on as ranch hands for Joan. They plan to steal the stock while Bill is away. Tim overhears the plot and informs Bill. Bill and Tim use ghost makeup, skeleton sheets (even outfitting their horses with skeleton-looking blankets) and tricks to rout the superstitious gang members...

The Vanishing Riders

1935

Six Gun Justice poster
8.0

Both Marshal McDonald and Nevada Joe and his gang are after money stolen by the Slades. When McDonald rescues Jim Slade from Nevada's gang, he is seriously wounded. Jim gets him to a doctor and just as he returns to full strength, Nevada and his gang arrive and Jim and the Marshal must face them.

Six Gun Justice

1935

Are You There? poster
7.0

Beatrice Lillie shines in disguise as a private detective.

Are You There?

1930

The Cyclone Ranger poster
10.0

A trio of former cattle rustlers try to go straight, but find that they can't shake off their reputations and trouble follows them.

The Cyclone Ranger

1935

Hollywood, City of Dreams poster
8.0

José arrives in Hollywood seeking fame and fortune. The studio boss, Helen, falls in love with him, offers him a chance, and he becomes a movie star. However, Alice, a actress, gets in the way of José and Helen's romance.

Hollywood, City of Dreams

1931

Happy Landing poster
10.0

An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.

Happy Landing

1934

Chiselers of Hollywood poster
10.0

Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.

Chiselers of Hollywood

1930

Alma de México poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Alma de México

1932

1920s · 14 titles

Show Girl poster
8.0

An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.

Show Girl

1928

Any Woman poster
7.0

When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help support the family, and goes to work as a secretary in the brokerage firm of Phillips and Rand. Both partners find themselves attracted to her, but each has a different approach: Phillipls takes the rough, aggressive route and Rand does the opposite, complimenting and flattering her at every opportunity. However, she falls in love with Tom Galloway, a young inventor who has come up with a new type of soft drink, "Here's How". in which Ellen attempts to interest the brokers. Phillips, however, doesn't take rejection lightly and schemes to break up Ellen and Galloway using his unwitting partner. This film is lost.

Any Woman

1925

No artwork available
8.0

Film serial.

Mark of the Frog

1928

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

A Most Immoral Lady poster
3.3

Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires through blackmail and victimization until she mistakenly victimizes Tony Williams (Walter Pidgeon), the man she really loves.

A Most Immoral Lady

1929

Naughty But Nice poster
9.0

Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).

Naughty But Nice

1927

Hardboiled poster
8.0

Chorus girl Teena Johnson may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy sweetheart Kyle Stannard tries to buy her off, Sally refuses the money. She sticks by Kyle even after he is disinherited and forced to go to work. The financial strain on the young couple's marriage eventually takes its toll, and before long they separate, with Sally returning to the chorus line to square her husband's debts.

Hardboiled

1929

The Auction Block poster
7.0

Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughingly abducted by the flirtatious Bernice Lane, who keeps Bob out way past his bedtime.

The Auction Block

1926

Convoy poster
8.0

A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent

Convoy

1927

Night Watch poster
8.0

Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.

Night Watch

1928

Brown of Harvard poster
5.5

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

Brown of Harvard

1926

Mad Hour poster
7.0

Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.

Mad Hour

1928

His Secretary poster
7.0

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.

His Secretary

1925

Little Johnny Jones poster
7.0

Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swings from the racetracks of America to England and the historical National Derby, with plenty of red-white-and-blue bunting waving behind the little patriot.

Little Johnny Jones

1929

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