H.B. Warner

H.B. Warner

October 25, 1876

Henry Byron Warner (often credited as H.B. Warner) was an English actor. He was the definitive cinematic Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927). He was born into a prominent theatrical family on October 26, 1875 in London. His father was Charles Warner, and his grandfather was…

Known For

17 titles
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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 2h 10m · Movie

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

8.6
2
Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard

1950 · 1h 50m · Movie

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

8.4
3
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · 2h 9m · Movie

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...

8.1
4
You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938 · 2h 6m · Movie

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

7.8
5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

7.8
6
Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1937 · 2h 12m · Movie

When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

7.6
7
The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Devil and Daniel Webster

1941 · 1h 47m · Movie

A struggling farmer in 1840 New Hampshire makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from the consequences of his contract.

7.6
8
The King of Kings

The King of Kings

1927 · 2h 40m · Movie

Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.

7.3
9
Crossroads

Crossroads

1942 · 1h 23m · Movie

An amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory.

6.7
10
Supernatural

Supernatural

1933 · 1h 5m · Movie

A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.

6.2
11
Zaza

Zaza

1923 · 1h 24m · Movie

Zaza is the favorite actress at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But when Zaza is badly injured, he has no choice.

6.6
12
The Corsican Brothers

The Corsican Brothers

1941 · 1h 51m · Movie

After their parents are killed, co-joined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other in the mountains becoming a bandit.

6.5
13
Arrest Bulldog Drummond

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

1938 · 57m · Movie

The invention of an atomic weapon - a long-range ray that can detonate explosions - sends Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into action.

6.1
14
El Paso

El Paso

1949 · 1h 43m · Movie

In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.

5.8
15
Driftwood

Driftwood

1947 · 1h 28m · Movie

6-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog slated for animal experiments. Dr. Webster adopts them both, to his fiancee's chagrin. An outbreak of spotted fever sends the town into panic and Jenny is infected and about to die.

7.1
16
Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great

1937 · 1h 52m · Movie

The story of an 18-year-old princess who becomes Queen of England. It chronicles six decades of her reign during a period of immense change and her marriage to a prince who would become her treasured source of stability and affect...

6.3
17
Enemy of Women

Enemy of Women

1944 · 1h 12m · Movie

Young Dr. Paul Joseph Göbbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt. His first attempt to force himself upon women comes when he becomes in...

5.0