Irving Pichel
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1891-06-24
Place of Birth:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Also Known As:Ирвинг Пичел

Jezebel (1938)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Dracula's Daughter (1936)
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly...

Rio (1939)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and...

The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual...

Torture Ship (1939)
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

Murder by the Clock (1931)
A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.

Return of the Terror (1934)
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

Madame Butterfly (1932)
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years...

The Woman Accused (1933)
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As...

Special Agent (1935)
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's...

An American Tragedy (1931)
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before...

The Cheat (1931)
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff...

British Agent (1934)
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

I Am a Thief (1934)
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

Wild Girl (1932)
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two...

Westward Passage (1932)
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

The Right to Love (1930)
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

The Right To Romance (1933)
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young)....

Special Agent K-7 (1936)
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case....

Down to the Sea (1936)
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.

This Is Korea! (1951)
John Ford's documentary about the early battles of the Korean War, shot in color.

The Silver Streak (1934)
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.

The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

Newsboys' Home (1938)
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...

The Painted Woman (1932)
After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island.

Strange Justice (1932)
Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and...

Two Kinds of Women (1932)
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds...

Exile Express (1939)
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.

I'm No Angel (1933)
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...

Happy Land (1943)
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

The Miracle Man (1932)
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

Armored Car (1937)
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to...

The Maya Through the Ages (1950)
Documentary on the Mayan culture.

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

There Goes My Heart (1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

Fog Over Frisco (1934)
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who...

The Moon Is Down (1943)
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

General Spanky (1936)
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

Forgotten Commandments (1932)
A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The...

Old Hickory (1939)
Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.

They Won't Believe Me (1947)
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but...

King of the Jungle (1933)
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.

Juarez (1939)
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

The Great Commandment (1939)
Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the...

Oliver Twist (1933)
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

The High Wall (1952)
Film produced for a coalition of public service groups to combat racial and ethnic hatred. The narrative follows an emotionally insecure Chicago...

The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to...

Before Dawn (1933)
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a...

Gambling Ship (1938)
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be...

Don't Gamble with Love (1936)
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to...

The Road to Reno (1931)
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact...

That Justice Be Done (1945)
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

Santa Fe (1951)
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

Join the Marines (1937)
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the...

The Great Rupert (1950)
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Cleopatra (1934)
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Martin Luther (1953)
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

December 7th (1943)
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii...

Night Flight (1933)
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her...

3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...

The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

Destination Moon (1950)
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon....

Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V (1933)
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

The Battle of Midway (1942)
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox...

She Was a Lady (1934)
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to...

The Mysterious Rider (1933)
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he...