Silents to Talkies- Episode 75- ROCKLIFFE FELLOWES- Learn about the Silent to Talkie Career of the first Movie Gangster!
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Rockliffe Fellowes played one last tough guy, corrupt oil magnate John Levings, in BACK PAGE (1933), which starred Peggy Shannon!
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Rockliffe Fellowes played yet another gangster, this time named Joe Maestro, in THE PHANTOM BROADCAST (1933)! Here, Joe scolds his associate Elsa (Vivienne Osborne) for falling for a mark!
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Rockliffe Fellowes played yet another gangster, this time named Kovaks, represented by Tony Adam (William Powell) in LAWYER MAN (1932)!
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Rockliffe Fellowes played yet another gangster, this time named Tierney, in HOTEL CONTINENTAL (1932). Tierney and Mills (William Scott) are after a fortune hidden in this hotel and enlist Ruth (Peggy Shannon) to help them find it!
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Rockliffe Fellowes played yet another gangster, this time named Martin Doremus, in LADIES OF THE BIG HOUSE (1931). It also starred Earle Fox (seen here), Gene Raymond, and Sylvia Sidney!
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Rockliffe Fellowes famously played gangster Joe Helton in the Marx Brothers’ 1931 hit comedy MONKEY BUSINESS. Here, he finds Harpo and Chico in his room!
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Rockliffe Fellowes played another cop, Mather, in THE VICE SQUAD (1931), seen here stopping Stephen Lucarno (Paul Lukas)!
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Rockliffe Fellowes made his full-length Talkie Debut in Tod Browning’s 1930 remake of his silent classic OUTSIDE THE LAW. Fellowes portrayed Police Captain O’Reilly, seen here greeting his son (Delmar Watson).
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Rockliffe Fellowes starred as Richard Talbot in THE CHARLATAN (1929). Talbot discovers that a man all believe to be a mystic is actually his wife’s revenge-seeking first husband (Holmes Herbert)!
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Rockliffe Fellowes starred as Phil Powers in SILENCE (1926). The plot concerned Jim raising his wife’s daughter (Vera Reynold) until her former crook father (H.B. Warner) shows up to try to keep her from marrying a blackmailer (Raymond Hatton)!
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Rockliffe Fellowes starred as hardworking Railroad Worker Dave Taylor in THE SIGNAL TOWER (1924). The plot concerned Dave’s relationship with his wife (Virginia Valli) threatened when he takes in a coworker (Wallace Beery)!
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Rockliffe Fellowes starred as Mr. Schofield, Penrod’s Dad, in PENROD AND SAM (1923). The film was a comedy about the adventures of Penrod (Ben Alexander) and his best pal Sam (Joe Butterworth)!
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Rockliffe Fellowes made his screen debut starring as Owen in REGENERATION (1915), one of the earliest gangster movies. Made at Fox, it also starred Anna Q. Nilsson.
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