Movies: George Arliss

An eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance....

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson....

The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice ...

An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India....

A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh....

An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren....

The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal....

The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank....

A millionaire's health deteriorates when his doctor and family prevail upon him to retire....

John Reeves, steel magnate, wagers with his son Chester that he can earn twenty dollars a week and live on it. He procures work in the office of William Hart's steel plant. Against her brother's wish, Hart's sister Muriel adopts a little boy. Hart ev...

The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne....

Celebrity endorsement: Stanley Baldwin introduces George Arliss playing the legendary PM....