Rod La Rocque Trailers
The Great Chase TrailerMeet John Doe TrailerDark Streets of Cairo Trailer
Roderick Ross La Rocque (November 29, 1898 – October 15, 1969) was an American actor.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edmund La Rocque and Ann (née Rice) La Rocque. His father was of French-Canadian descent and his mother was of Irish descent. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios as a teenager in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was noticed by Samuel Goldwyn who took him to Hollywood. Over the next two decades, he appeared in films and made the transition to sound films.
In 1927, he married Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky in a lavish and highly publicized wedding. They were married until his death in 1969. He retired from movies in 1941 and became a real estate broker.
For his contribution to the film industry, La Rocque was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Most Popular Rod La Rocque Trailers
Total trailers found: 75
04 April 1936
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage.
28 February 1936
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
19 March 1927
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
02 June 1929
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman- a woman from another country-wife of another man.
10 December 1917
A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls.
05 August 1940
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr.
01 December 1918
Dancer Lucille Le Jambon (whose real name is Lucy Higgins) loses her job when the morals committee of Sycamore, Kansas, headed by the self-righteous Deacon John Griswold, forces the Merry Models Burlesque show to close.
24 December 1917
Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker, so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs.
02 March 1930
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse.
20 October 1918
The plot involves Mabel's clothes being stolen in a mix-up while she was swimming, necessitating hert
10 July 1920
Esther Wells is dumped by her husband, Martin, just as she's boarding a train. She gets off at the next stop, wanders into a cabin owned by Samuel Radburn, who happens to have been swindled out of a mine by Martin.
12 December 1926
Percy Ashfield is to marry Mary Bowman but her father objects. He objects because while the Bowmans and Percy and others with vested interest are all assembled in Ashfield's castle admiring the pearls that are to be Mary's wedding present, a girl rushes in carrying a baby and claiming the Percy is the baby's father, and her claims are supported by a doctor who follows her in adding that the girl is mentally deranged over Percy's faithfulness.
14 May 1928
A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
16 January 1921
Larry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience. He really loves Marcia, a dancer, and Barbara vamps Keith, an architect.
12 December 1926
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B.
12 February 1923
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
13 January 1928
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
27 December 1925
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force.
18 February 1928
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all.
31 August 1939
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.
01 December 1940
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
22 September 1933
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic a year earlier. (The English-language version of S.
10 August 1919
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother.
16 November 1929
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
03 October 1926
The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money.
23 November 1923
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf.
24 September 1922
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
09 January 1921
A melodrama of misunderstandings in which a rich couple grow more and more suspicious of each other fidelities after the groom’s father is shot dead on their wedding night.
03 May 1920
Vaudeville dancer Rosalie Ray, disgusted by the advances of her admirers, quits the stage and retires to the anonymity of a small town.
25 January 1925
Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier.
29 October 1937
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office.
28 April 1918
A bit too immature for marriage, Cyprienne allows her pretty head to be turned by an egotistical fop.
14 March 1941
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills.
23 April 1938
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque.
10 May 1940
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
03 September 1917
Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce.
05 September 1925
An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the French Riviera.
13 October 1928
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.
25 February 1918
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
01 July 1920
Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry their eldest daughter Needa to the wealthy, disreputable John Davis Warren, despite Needa's love for Hugh Stanton.
20 November 1928
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star.
15 April 1936
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
27 April 1924
At the center of the story is Ann Land. Ann is a small factory worker and has only ever dreamed of great fame, recognition as an artist and applause .
24 September 1922
In trying to conceal evidence of her father's forgery, society girl Naomi Warren agrees to marry wealthy promoter Edward Langden, who holds the damning notes; but he dies on the eve of the wedding, and his estate falls to his nephew, Richard.
19 March 1920
Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman who owns the house.
30 April 1930
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
06 July 1929
Relentlessly pursued by gold digger Viola Hatfield millionaire Michel Towne decides to put her off through a marriage of convenience with surprising consequences.
02 January 1924
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love.
08 September 1929
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment.
03 September 1923
Georgine Mazulier, the daughter of a French furniture dealer, is exploited by her father and Snyder, an American hustler, to sell fake antiques to millionaires.
14 February 1936
Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection with one of her misadventures, she winds up in jail and has to be bailed out by the family attorney, Dick Clayton.
08 January 1935
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.
06 January 1924
Prima donna Rita Coventry charms Richard Parrish from his fiancée, Alice Meldrum. Tiring of Parrish, Miss Coventry casts him aside and begins a flirtation with Patrick Delaney, a piano tuner of some musical talent.
12 September 1922
Men try to understand the women in their lives.
25 November 1928
Richard Hill is a subway ticket taker who believes beautiful Jeanette Stewart is involved in a robbery, but he still falls in love with her and tries to stop her wedding.
14 March 1926
This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La Rocque) is a war hero who is very much down on his luck.
03 December 1935
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent.
27 September 1924
Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his youthful wife Amy (Reynolds) becomes a fashion model.
11 July 1930
A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman.
11 June 1917
Finding himself broke and out of a job in Paris, American William Ruggles joins the Turkish army and is sent to fight in its war in the Balkans.
