Roland Young
14 titles
Filmography
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
(1936)An ordinary Englishman is granted the divine ability to make anything he says come true, but he soon discovers that absolute power has its drawbacks.
Wedding Rehearsal
(1932)
Topper Returns
(1941)When fun-loving Gail is mistakenly murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend, her ghost seeks aid from Topper to find the killer.
Topper
(1937)George (Cary Grant) and Marion Kerby (Constance Bennett) are a young, happy-go-lucky couple who love to party. But after a car accident kills them both, they discover that they haven't done enough good deeds to earn a trip to heaven. To remedy this problem, they decide to help their old uptight boss, Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), live a little. While Topper begins to take their ghostly advice and enjoy life for a change, his controlling wife finds her husband's laid-back behavior infuriating.

They All Kissed the Bride
(1942)While running her late father’s trucking company with an iron fist, Margaret falls for a reporter intent on exposing her ruthless business practices.

The Bishop Murder Case
(1929)Philo Vance investigates when a man nicknamed ‘Cock Robin’ is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range and a chess piece left behind.

St. Benny the Dip
(1951)Three small-time crooks disguise themselves as clergymen to evade the law, only to find that their fake piety leads to unexpected moral dilemmas.
The Unguarded Hour
(1936)Did Samuel Metford push his wife from Dover Cliff? Lady Helen Dearden saw the Metfords there and knows the woman's death was an accident. If she testifies in court, an innocent man avoids the gallows. Yet one thing will die if she testifies – her barrister husband's career. Lady Helen had secretly gone to Dover to pay off the blackmailer who possessed letters linking her husband romantically to a married woman. Her trust in her spouse is further tested when he is later accused of killing the woman addressed in the letters. Did Lady Helen wed a murderer? Twists abound in this luminous whodunit featuring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone as the sophisticated, increasingly disquieted Deardens. Roland Young adds wit as the Deardens' friend. And little-known Henry Daniell excels as the blackmailer.

Madam Satan
(1930)A Manhattan socialite plots to win back her cheating husband while masquerading as a femme fatale during a costume ball aboard a doomed zeppelin.

King Solomon's Mines
(1937)A hunter and the son of a murdered chief help a young Irish woman locate her father who has gone missing while searching for diamonds in South Africa.

No, No, Nanette
(1940)In a bid to save her flirty uncle’s marriage, Nanette steps into a love triangle of her own when enlisting help from a theatrical producer and artist.

Ruggles of Red Gap
(1935)Charles Laughton is stuffy British butler Marmaduke Ruggles, who finds his life takes a hilarious turn for the better when he is traded to a rowdy American and taken to the Wild West.

One Rainy Afternoon
(1936)French actor Phillipe Martin (Lederer) enters a darkened movie theater to rendezvous with his married lover, Yvonne. However, Phillipe ends up mistakenly kissing a complete stranger, young and innocent Monique Pelerin (Lupino). The incident causes a furious media scandal, landing Phillipe in a zany screwball court trial, fighting against the Purity League as "The Kissing Monster." To protect Yvonne, Phillipe lies and states that he was overcome with Monique's beauty and could not resist kissing her, due to his romantic French nature. The charges are dropped, and Phillipe becomes an overnight celebrity and and the play he stars in a success. His testimony in court intrigues Monique, and leads to a burgeoning romance between Monique and Phillipe.

The Philadelphia Story
(1940)On the eve of her wedding, a wealthy woman gets caught in a bind when her ex-husband and a handsome reporter make an appearance in her life.