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Thomas Hardie Chalmers

Born

October 20, 1884

Biography

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Thomas Chalmers was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1925, he appeared in "The Wild Duck" on Broadway. In 1928, he directed the short "The Treasurer's Report." In 1923, he made his screen debut in "Puritan Passions. Chalmers began his career with a role in the comedy adaptation "Romanoff and Juliet" (1961) with Peter Ustinov. Chalmers next focused his career on film...

Filmography

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The Outrage (1964)

All the Way Home (1963)

Romanoff and Juliet (1961)

Chief executive

Anything Can Happen (1952)

Blind Alleys (1927)

Puritan Passions (1923)

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Plow That Broke The Plains, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) The Sun Baked The Earth

Plow That Broke The Plains, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Continent Of Grass

Biography

Thomas Chalmers was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1925, he appeared in "The Wild Duck" on Broadway. In 1928, he directed the short "The Treasurer's Report." In 1923, he made his screen debut in "Puritan Passions. Chalmers began his career with a role in the comedy adaptation "Romanoff and Juliet" (1961) with Peter Ustinov. Chalmers next focused his career on film, appearing in the Jean Simmons dramatic adaptation "All the Way Home" (1963). Later in his career, Chalmers acted in the dramatic adaptation "The Outrage" (1964) with Paul Newman. Chalmers passed away in June 1966 at the age of 82.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Outrage (1964)

All the Way Home (1963)

Romanoff and Juliet (1961)

Chief executive

Anything Can Happen (1952)

Blind Alleys (1927)

Puritan Passions (1923)

Cast (Special)

The Farmer's Daughter (1962)

Life Events

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Plow That Broke The Plains, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) The Sun Baked The Earth Coming out of writer-director Pare Lorentz’s affecting if imprecise montage of the grain-boom following the First World War, a dramatic turn, with Thomas Hardie Chalmers narration, of the catastrophic onset of the Dust Bowl, in the influential federally-financed New Deal documentary, The Plow That Broke The Plains, 1936.

Plow That Broke The Plains, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Continent Of Grass Made for the New Deal federal Resettlement Administration by the progressive former critic Pare Lorentz, who had zero film-making experience at the time, and narrated by the former opera star Thomas Hardie Chalmers, the opening of the sensational documentary The Plow That Broke The Plains, 1936.

Outrage, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Kill To Live Already inside one flashback, this is the recollection by the accused, the bandit Carrasco (Paul Newman), of meeting the crime victims, (Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom, not named), early in director Martin Ritt's remake of Kurosawa's Rashomon, The Outrage, 1964.

Anything Can Happen (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Is Tonight Too Soon? In a New York courtroom, conquering the language barrier so he can plead not-guilty to illegal flower-picking, Georgian immigrant Giorgi (Jose Ferrer) impresses both the judge (Thomas Chalmers) and Helen (Kim Hunter, her first scene), in Anything Can Happen, 1952.

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