Sig Ruman

Sig Ruman

October 10, 1884

Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypical Teutonic officials or villains. Ruman made his film debut in Lucky Boy (1929). He became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and A Night in Casablanc…

Known For

28 titles
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Stalag 17

Stalag 17

1953 · 2h 0m · Movie

After two American prisoners are killed by the guards in the act of escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

7.9
2
To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

1942 · 1h 39m · Movie

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

8.1
3
A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera

1935 · 1h 36m · Movie

A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

7.8
4
Ninotchka

Ninotchka

1939 · 1h 50m · Movie

A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

7.8
5
Only Angels Have Wings

Only Angels Have Wings

1939 · 2h 1m · Movie

At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl/harlot stops in town.

7.6
6
A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races

1937 · 1h 51m · Movie

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

7.5
7
The Glenn Miller Story

The Glenn Miller Story

1954 · 1h 55m · Movie

Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.

7.3
8
House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein

1944 · 1h 11m · Movie

A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.

6.2
9
The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette

1943 · 2h 36m · Movie

14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.

7.6
10
Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred

1937 · 1h 17m · Movie

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.

6.8
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36 Hours

36 Hours

1964 · 1h 55m · Movie

Germans kidnap an American Major and try to convince him that World War II is over so they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

7.3
12
Heidi

Heidi

1937 · 1h 28m · Movie

A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl.

7.2
13
The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

6.6
14
Houdini

Houdini

1953 · 1h 46m · Movie

From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.

6.8
15
That Uncertain Feeling

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 · 1h 24m · Movie

A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.

6.6
16
Border Incident

Border Incident

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.

7.0
17
The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms

1952 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1850 San Francisco, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.

6.8
18
The Errand Boy

The Errand Boy

1961 · 1h 32m · Movie

A goofy paperhanger is hired to root out a financial inefficiency on a Hollywood studio lot, wreaking havoc as he goes.

6.4
19
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

6.7
20
The Emperor Waltz

The Emperor Waltz

1948 · 1h 46m · Movie

A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.

6.0
21
Crossroads

Crossroads

1942 · 1h 23m · Movie

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

6.7
22
Living It Up

Living It Up

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.

6.5
23
Many Rivers to Cross

Many Rivers to Cross

1955 · 1h 34m · Movie

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.

6.2
24
The Saint in New York

The Saint in New York

1938 · 1h 9m · Movie

Simon Templar, the Saint, is brought to New York. His search for the identity of "the Big Fellow" takes him through many dangerous situations.

6.3
25
Never Say Die

Never Say Die

1939 · 1h 22m · Movie

A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.

6.8
26
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

1952 · 1h 16m · Movie

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez ...

6.6
27
The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935 · 1h 31m · Movie

Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the canal for a ...

6.4
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Thin Ice

Thin Ice

1937 · 1h 19m · Movie

A Swiss hotel's ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

6.3