Conrad Nagel

Actor

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Birth Place

Keokuk, Iowa, USA

Born

March 16, 1897

Died

February 24, 1970

Biography

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Conrad Nagel was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Nagel began his acting career appearing in various films, such as "Nice People" (1922), "The Impossible Mrs. Bellew" (1922) and "Saturday Night" (1922). He also appeared in "Sinners in Silk" (1924), "Dance Madness" (1926) and "The Waning Sex" (1926). His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "Dyna...

Filmography

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Love Takes Flight (1937)

The Man Who Understood Women (1959)

A Stranger in My Arms (1959)

Hidden Fear (1957)

All That Heaven Allows (1956)

The Vicious Circle (1948)

Photos & Videos

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Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid I'm A Barbarian

All That Heaven Allows (1955) -- (Movie Clip) So Few Widows Wear It

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Lynn Merrick

Wife

Actor. Married December 22, 1945.

Biography

Conrad Nagel was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Nagel began his acting career appearing in various films, such as "Nice People" (1922), "The Impossible Mrs. Bellew" (1922) and "Saturday Night" (1922). He also appeared in "Sinners in Silk" (1924), "Dance Madness" (1926) and "The Waning Sex" (1926). His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "Dynamite" (1929), "Kid Gloves" (1929) and "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" (1929). He also appeared in "A Lady Surrenders" (1930). Nearing the end of his career, he tackled roles in "The Man Called Back" (1932), the drama "Ann Vickers" (1933) with Irene Dunne and "The Marines Are Coming" (1934). He also appeared in "Yellow Cargo" (1936) and the Joan Bennett comedy "Wedding Present" (1936). Nagel was most recently credited in "The Kiss" (1991). Nagel passed away in February 1970 at the age of 73.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Love Takes Flight (1937)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Man Who Understood Women (1959)

A Stranger in My Arms (1959)

Hidden Fear (1957)

All That Heaven Allows (1956)

The Vicious Circle (1948)

Stage Struck (1948)

Forever Yours (1945)

Adventures of Rusty (1945)

Dangerous Journey (1944)

Narration spoken by

I Want a Divorce (1940)

David Holland, Sr.

The Mad Empress (1939)

Navy Spy (1937)

The Gold Racket (1937)

Bank Alarm (1937)

The Girl from Mandalay (1936)

Yellow Cargo (1936)

Wedding Present (1936)

Ball At Savoy (1936)

Death Flies East (1935)

John [Robinson] Gordon

One New York Night (1935)

Dangerous Corner (1934)

Robert [Chatfield]

The Marines Are Coming (1934)

One Hour Late (1934)

Stephen Barclay

The Constant Woman (1933)

Ann Vickers (1933)

Divorce in the Family (1932)

Dr. [Phil] Shumaker

The Man Called Back (1932)

Dr. David Yorke

Fast Life (1932)

[Clarence] Burton

Hell Divers (1932)

Son of India (1931)

The Reckless Hour (1931)

The Pagan Lady (1931)

Free Love (1931)

Stephen Ferrier

Three Who Loved (1931)

The Right of Way (1931)

Charley "Beauty" Steele also known as Charles Mallard

Bad Sister (1931)

East Lynne (1931)

Numbered Men (1930)

The Ship From Shanghai (1930)

Second Wife (1930)

Walter Fairchild

Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)

Cosse de Brissac

The Divorcee (1930)

One Romantic Night (1930)

Dr. Nicholas Haller

A Lady Surrenders (1930)

Redemption (1930)

The Kiss (1929)

The Redeeming Sin (1929)

Dr. Raoul de Boise

The Sacred Flame (1929)

Col. Maurice Taylor

The Thirteenth Chair (1929)

Dynamite (1929)

Kid Gloves (1929)

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)

The Idle Rich (1929)

William Van Luyn

Red Wine (1928)

Charles H. Cook

The Mysterious Lady (1928)

Karl von Heinersdorff

Glorious Betsy (1928)

Jérôme Bonaparte

State Street Sadie (1928)

Tenderloin (1928)

Caught in the Fog (1928)

The Michigan Kid (1928)

Jimmy Cowan, the Michigan Kid

Diamond Handcuffs (1928)

The Husband, John

London After Midnight (1927)

Quality Street (1927)

Dr. Valentine Brown

Heaven on Earth (1927)

If I Were Single (1927)

Slightly Used (1927)

Maj. John Smith

The Girl From Chicago (1927)

London After Midnight (Reconstruction) (1927)

The Waning Sex (1926)

Tin Hats (1926)

Memory Lane (1926)

There You Are (1926)

Dance Madness (1926)

The Exquisite Sinner (1926)

Pretty Ladies (1925)

Maggie's dream lover

Excuse Me (1925)

The Only Thing (1925)

Duke of Chevenix

Lights of Old Broadway (1925)

Cheaper To Marry (1925)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924)

Married Flirts (1924)

Name the Man (1924)

So This Is Marriage (1924)

Three Weeks (1924)

Sinners in Silk (1924)

The Snob (1924)

Herrick Appleton

The Rejected Woman (1924)

Lawful Larceny (1923)

The Rendezvous (1923)

Walter Stanford

Bella Donna (1923)

Singed Wings (1922)

Saturday Night (1922)

Richard Wynbrook Prentiss, her fiancé

Nice People (1922)

Fool's Paradise (1922)

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)

The Ordeal (1922)

Dr. Robert Acton

Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Emilie Diaz, a pianist

What Every Woman Knows (1921)

Midsummer Madness (1921)

The Lost Romance (1921)

Allen Erskine, M. D.

The Fighting Chance (1920)

Unseen Forces (1920)

Little Women (1919)

Matthew Thurlow

The Lion and the Mouse (1919)

Jefferson Ryder

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

One Million B.C. (1940)

Cast (Short)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1925 Studio Tour (1925)

Life Events

Videos

Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid I'm A Barbarian Still in the opening scene, Russian playboy Fedya (John Gilbert) revels with his Gypsy friends, especially Renée Adorée as Masha, when he’s distracted by Lisa (Eleanor Boardman) and old friend Victor (Conrad Nagel), in MGM’s Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.

All That Heaven Allows (1955) -- (Movie Clip) So Few Widows Wear It Escorted by stately Harvey (Conrad Nagel), Connecticut widow Cary (Jane Wyman) turns heads at the country club, cruelly greeted by Mona (Jacqueline de Wit), defended by Sara (Agnes Moorehead) then jumped by Howard (Donald Curtis), social tumult in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, 1955.

One Million B.C. (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Saga Concerns Two Tribes Hiding from a storm in the Alps, climbers addressed by a scholar they met in a cave (Conrad Nagel), only too willing to reveal what he's learned, offering Carole Landis and Victor Mature as models for the story he's deduced, opening Hal Roach's One Million B.C., 1940.

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Suck Lemons Joining the first conversation between crippled vengeful African ivory trader-bandit Flint (Walter Huston) and drunken/addicted doctor Kingsland (Conrad Nagel), joined by his crony Cookie (Forrester Harvey), and his mistress (Lupe Velez), hatching a plot, in MGM’s Kongo, 1932.

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Seen Such An Adonis? Opening MGM’s pre-Code dark jungle revenge-exploitation drama, Walter Huston is Flint, with aides Cookie and Hogan (Forrester Harvey, Mitchell Lewis) Lupe Velez his mistress Tula, his motives not yet clear but his character well-drawn, William Cowen directing, in Kongo, 1932.

Divorcee, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Any Way She Likes Norma Shearer (as "Jerry"), in an early provocative role, with husband Ted (Chester Morris) discovering she's not so comfortable after all with their "open" marriage, in The Divorcee, 1930.

Reckless Hour, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) I Saw Her First Non-affluent Jersey girl Margaret (Dorothy Mackaill) on the town with her playboy date Allen (Walter Byron), who runs into his married illustrator pal Ed (Conrad Nagel), and isn't entirely kidding when he asserts his claim, in the pre-Code melodrama The Reckless Hour, 1931.

Kiss, The (1929) -- (Movie Clip) We Can't Go On Meeting Like This Opening scene in MGM's version of Lyons, and an opening (though silent) line from suitor Andre (Conrad Nagel) which must have been said before, to married Irene (Greta Garbo, in her last non-talking picture) from The Kiss, 1929.

Divorcee, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Hear It And Weep! Norma Shearer (as "Jerry") with all three of her will-be lovers, Ted (Chester Morris), whom she's about to marry, and Don (Robert Montgomery) and Paul (Conrad Nagel) who'll come later, in an early scene from The Divorcee, 1930.

Companions

Lynn Merrick

Wife

Actor. Married December 22, 1945.

Bibliography

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