George Calliga

Actor

January 2, 1897 (79 years)

† January 18, 1976

Bucharest, Romania

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

8.2

Witness for the Prosecution

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

7.0

The Fly

Club Member (uncredited)

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

7.0

Point Blank

Conventioneer (uncredited)

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

7.0

Written on the Wind

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.

7.4

An Affair to Remember

Ship Passenger (uncredited)

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

7.7

Inherit the Wind

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

7.1

A Star Is Born

Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

7.3

Pocketful of Miracles

Reception Guest (uncredited)

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

7.5

Imitation of Life

Security

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

6.0

Sirocco

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

7.0

Gambit

Cafe Patron (uncredited)

Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.

6.2

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Townsman (uncredited)

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.

6.5

My Man Godfrey

Party Guest (uncredited)

The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.

7.0

Some Came Running

Club Patron (uncredited)

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.

6.6

Désirée

Party Guest (uncredited)

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

6.8

The Great Sinner

Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

7.0

Mr. Lucky

Gambler (uncredited)

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

6.4

Reunion in France

Mons. Bertheil (uncredited)

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

6.9

Sol Madrid

Board Member

Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.

6.8

Man of a Thousand Faces

Ceremony Guest (uncredited)

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.