Jack Chefe
Date of birth: 1894-04-01
Place of birth: Kiev, Russian Empire
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jack Chefé, Jacques Chefé
Biography
Movie Credits
Jewel Robbery
1932-07-08
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je
Leaping Love
1929-06-22
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Heartbeat
1946-05-01
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944-06-23
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead bo
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949-05-26
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize
Bowery Blitzkrieg
1941-08-01
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and beco
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937-06-30
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950-04-01
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955-04-16
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
The Strange Door
1951-10-31
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960-03-31
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apart
The Great Flamarion
1945-01-13
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achiev
One Hour with You
1932-03-23
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatiou
My Man Godfrey
1957-10-11
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfre
Sudan
1945-04-18
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
Murder Is My Business
1946-03-07
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of polic
Houseboat
1958-11-19
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
A Thrill for Thelma
1935-11-23
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "eas
Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich
There's Always Tomorrow
1956-01-08
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekin
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953-10-29
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
That's My Baby!
1944-09-14
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, an
Three Husbands
1950-11-10
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--h
The Lady Gambles
1949-05-20
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the ti
The Perfect Snob
1941-12-19
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist,
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953-07-14
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis
In a Lonely Place
1950-05-17
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she be
The Story on Page One
1959-12-01
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuf
I Accuse My Parents
1944-10-27
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. Aft
Man Of The People
1937-01-27
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
We Have Our Moments
1937-03-28
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen
Vogues of 1938
1937-08-18
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that
Guys and Dolls
1955-12-23
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e
The Maze
1953-07-02
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the
His Greatest Gamble
1934-08-10
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Spy Hunt
1950-06-08
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware th
Gilda
1946-04-25
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Back Street
1932-08-04
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Cha
Mama Steps Out
1937-02-05
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Fur
All About Eve
1950-11-09
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re
Sirocco
1951-06-13
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until
Midnight
1939-03-24
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.
Roadblock
1951-09-17
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor
Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo
Second Fiddle
1939-06-30
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939-08-31
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a wor
First Love
1939-11-10
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl
Holiday Affair
1949-12-12
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis,
The Flying Deuces
1939-11-03
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempt
Shakedown
1950-09-01
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes
Pier 23
1951-05-11
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatri
Spring Parade
1940-09-27
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card
An American in Paris
1951-09-26
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter
The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo
Espionage
1937-02-26
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours
The Girl from Mandalay
1936-04-19
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Fost
To Have and Have Not
1945-01-20
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives du
Dixie Dugan
1943-03-12
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol
Bordertown
1935-01-23
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Hangover Square
1945-02-07
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi
I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's sug
All by Myself
1943-06-11
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark,
This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well
Angel Face
1953-01-02
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn
The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Scarlet Dawn
1932-11-12
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Con
Waterfront Lady
1935-10-04
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he be
Hired Wife
1940-09-13
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his
It Had to Be You
1947-12-07
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
The Heiress
1949-10-06
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end
Bitter Sweet
1940-11-08
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle
Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mothe
Girl in 313
1940-05-31
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one
Drums of the Desert
1940-10-06
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in
I Was an Adventuress
1940-05-10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac
Champagne Waltz
1937-02-05
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its
Around the World in 80 Days
1956-10-17
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor
California Passage
1950-12-15
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his part
Top of the Town
1937-04-17
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom
Crime of Passion
1956-12-28
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack
Confession
1937-08-19
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal
Once More, My Darling
1949-09-10
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical je
That Girl from Paris
1936-12-31
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j
Forty Little Mothers
1940-04-26
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's scho
Silver Queen
1942-11-14
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h
They Dare Not Love
1941-05-16
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a bea
Madame X
1929-08-17
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen
Seven Thieves
1960-03-11
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull of
Straight, Place and Show
1938-09-30
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match
Bombers B-52
1957-11-22
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more re
A Date with the Falcon
1942-01-16
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon,
Over My Dead Body
1942-01-15
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s
The Devil with Hitler
1942-10-18
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premis
Foreign Agent
1942-10-09
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
Escapade
1932-04-01
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going strai
That Certain Thing
1928-01-01
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and sta
Above Suspicion
1943-05-31
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Background to Danger
1943-07-03
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Something to Shout About
1943-02-25
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway
Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th
Hi Diddle Diddle
1943-08-02
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's fat
Kid Dynamite
1943-02-05
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but j
Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role bu
The Bigamist
1953-12-03
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of
Bunco Squad
1950-09-01
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells,
Man Wanted
1932-04-23
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
My Favorite Brunette
1947-03-19
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective.
Pretty Baby
1950-09-16
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on t
The Big Sleep
1946-08-22
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi
Hunt the Man Down
1950-12-26
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
The Naughty Nineties
1945-06-20
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act
Lured
1947-08-28
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
Private Affairs
1940-07-05
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love
Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New
My Man Godfrey
1936-09-02
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is
Double Exposure
1944-12-18
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistak
The Gay Divorcee
1934-10-12
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. Ther
This Woman Is Dangerous
1952-02-09
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the h
Nightmare
1956-08-20
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and fi
The Blue Veil
1951-10-26
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Swing Fever
1943-11-01
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943-07-24
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and go
The Man Who Understood Women
1959-10-02
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957-04-03
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young I
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946-05-02
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
The Big Street
1942-08-13
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses
The Mad Martindales
1942-05-15
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art tr
The Tarnished Angels
1957-11-21
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot
Dick Tracy
1945-12-01
Detective Tracy rescues Tess Trueheart and Junior from a killer called Splitface.
Flying with Music
1942-05-22
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the cl
Fast Company
1938-07-05
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
The Leopard Man
1943-05-08
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Louisiana Purchase
1941-12-31
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese b
Saigon
1947-12-05
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the e