Westbrook Van Voorhis

Actor

Biography

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Filmography

7.3

Crusade in Europe

Narrator (voice)

No description available

7.5

The Roaring Twenties

Himself - Narrator (uncredited)

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

6.3

The Ladies Man

TV Person to Person

After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

5.3

Walk East on Beacon

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

10.0

We Are the Marines

Narrator

The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the Few and the Proud at Parris Island and elsewhere. Finally, wartime newsreel footage is adroitly blended with dramatized re-enactments to illustrate the contributions - and the utter necessity-of the marines in WW II.

7.5

Atomic Power!

Narrator

Atomic Power! is an American short documentary film produced by The March of Time and released to theaters August 9, 1946, one year after the end of World War II. It is a recreation of the making of the atomic bomb leading up to the Trinity test. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

6.7

Africa, Prelude to Victory

Narrator (voice)

Covers the American planning and execution of the great Allied Military Manoeuvre in North Africa.

N/A

The March of Time: An American Dictator

Narrator

On July 10, 1936, the Time Corporation released the seventh episode of the second year of its newsreel series The March of Time, which included a controversial sequence titled “An American Dictator.” This segment, purportedly a journalistic exposé, centered on the rise to power and political career of then Dominican head of state Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. The content of the short piece accused Trujillo of committing many politically motivated crimes, including murder, and caused a brief diplomatic crisis between the United States and the Dominican Republic. - Naida García-Crespo

6.6

The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler

Narrator

1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.

N/A

If Moscow Strikes

Self - Narrator

Using documentary footage, re-enactments, newsreels, diagrams and animation, narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis details how to react to news of an atomic explosion.

10.0

Tembo

Self - Narrator

Tembo is a 1951 American documentary film which follows the travels of hunter Howard Hill through equatorial Africa.

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