O.P. HeggieFilmography

Born:: September 17, 1879 in Angaston, South Australia
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Golden-voiced character actor O.P. Heggie has sometimes been described as a Scotsman; in truth, he was born in Australia of Scots parents. Trained for a musical career, Heggie began "trodding the boards" at the turn of the century. He had nearly 30 years' worth of stage experience when he made his...Read More

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The Prisoner of Shark Island

Actors: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, Harry Carey, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known Confederate sympathizer, sets the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger who stumbles into his home. The injured man turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, and Mudd is accused of Read More

1936
A Dog of Flanders

Actors: Frankie Thomas, Helen Parrish, O.P. Heggie, Richard Quine, Christian Rub

Synopsis: Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in 1924 with Jackie Coogan. The second filmization, produced in 1935, stars child actors Frankie Thomas, Helen Parrish and Richard Quine as three poor Flemish youths whose lives Read More

1935
Chasing Yesterday

Actors: Anne Shirley, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Elizabeth Patterson, John Qualen

Synopsis: O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads to a small French village, where Heggie meets the daughter (Anne Shirley) of a woman he'd been in love with years earlier. He becomes the girl's guardian, smooths the path of Read More

1935
The Bride of Frankenstein

Actors: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernst Thesiger, Dwight Frye

Synopsis: This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling conversation. The wicked Byron mockingly Read More

1935
Ginger

Actors: Jane Withers, O.P. Heggie, Jackie Searl, Katherine Alexander, Walter Woolf King

Synopsis: A rich, melancholy family adopts poor orphan Jane Withers who brightens their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1935
Anne of Green Gables

Actors: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Sara Haden

Synopsis: Former child actress Dawn O'Day changed her professional name for Anne of Green Gables, assuming the moniker of her character in the film, Anne Shirley. This first of three RKO films based on the novels of L. M. Montgomery finds young, orphaned, hoydenish Anne arriving at a Canadian household. Read More

1934
Call it Murder

Actors: Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the independently-produced crime melodrama Midnight. O.P. Heggie plays jury foreman Edward Weldon, who has no qualms about sentencing a woman to death for a crime of passion. His unpopular decision makes Weldon persona non Read More

1934
The Count of Monte Cristo

Actors: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo--and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat. Donat plays Edmond Dantes, wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison Read More

1934
Peck's Bad Boy

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy Peterson, Jackie Searl, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Based on the barnstorming stage play by George W. Peck, Peck's Bad Boy stars Jackie Cooper in the title role. Cooper's discomfort upon discovering that he was adopted by his dad (Thomas Meighan) is doubled when his obnoxious aunt (Dorothy Peterson) and repulsive cousin (Jackie Searl) move in with Read More

1934
The King's Vacation

Actors: George Arliss, Florence Arliss, Marjorie Gateson, Dudley Digges, Dick Powell

Synopsis: One of George Arliss' "smaller" vehicles, The King's Vacation casts the eminent British stage star (always billed as "Mr. George Arliss") as an abdicating monarch. Seeking the simple life, he comes to America in search of the wife (Marjorie Gateson) he'd been forced to divorce years earlier in Read More

1933
Zoo in Budapest

Actors: Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright, Paul Fix

Synopsis: A beautiful orphan girl, faced with the prospect of being forced to work as an indentured servant (more like a slave) until she grows up, runs away to the zoo. There she encounters a kindly zookeeper who has been chastised by his boss for being too nice to the animals. He becomes a fugitive after Read More

1933
Smilin' Through

Actors: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes

Synopsis: Director Sidney Franklin originally adapted Jane Murfin and Jane Cowl's play Smilin' Through for the silver screen in a 1922 silent film starring Norma Talmadge and (the other) Harrison Ford. Remaking his own film, Franklin directed Norma Shearer in this 1932 talkie. Leslie Howard plays John Read More

1932
Too Young to Marry

Actors: Loretta Young, Grant Withers, O.P. Heggie, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry Read More

1931
East Lynne

Actors: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne." To many playgoers, this hoary stage adaptation of Mrs. Henry Wood's 1861 novel represented the height of Victorian nonesuch. Still, there were several silent film versions Read More

1931
The Woman Between

Actors: Lili Damita, O.P. Heggie, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, Anita Louise

Synopsis: Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like heroine in RKO Radio's The Woman Between. Damita plays a knockout French modiste who marries the much-older widower O.P. Heggie. She immediately incurs the wrath of Heggie's grown Read More

1931
Devotion

Actors: Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Robert Williams, O.P. Heggie, Louise Closser Hale

Synopsis: Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets. Ann Harding is desperately in love with London barrister Leslie Howard. To be nearer to him, she dons a disguise (wig and spectacles) and takes a job as the governess to Howard's son. Read More

1931
The Vagabond King

Actors: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth, Warner Oland

Synopsis: The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This theatrical piece inspired several films, as well as the Rudolph Friml/Brian Hooker musical play The Vagabond King (1927). Dennis King recreated his original London and Broadway Read More

1930
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

Actors: Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O.P. Heggie, William Austin

Synopsis: In his pre-Charlie Chan days, Warner Oland returned as Dr. Fu Manchu for this sequel to The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu (1939). Supposedly the victim of a suicide at the end of the first film, Fu Manchu has actually injected himself with a toxin that will make him only appear dead. Escaping Read More

1930
Playboy of Paris

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Frances Dee, O.P. Heggie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment prospects look grim until the opportunistic restaurateur learns that his ex-employee is slated to receive a vast inheritance. Hastily, he hires the youth back and then tries Read More

1930
The Bad Man

Actors: Walter Huston, Dorothy Revier, James Rennie, O.P. Heggie, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Based on Porter Emerson Browne's 1920 play of the same name, The Bad Man features Walter Huston as the title character, bold Mexican bandido Pancho Lopez. Holding Americans Ruth Pell (Dorothy Revier) and her wealthy husband Morgan (Sidney Blackmer) for ransom, Lopez takes a liking to Ruth and Read More

1930
Sunny

Actors: Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue, Mackenzie Ward, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated dazzling smile at every possible occasion, Miller is cast as a circus bareback rider, in love with wealthy Tom Warren (Lawrence Gray). Naturally, Tom's aristocratic family are Read More

1930
One Romantic Night

Actors: Lillian Gish, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great Lillian Gish. The star plays Alexandra, a mittel-European princess who falls in love with Dr. Hafler (Conrad Nagel), her brother's tutor. Alas, affairs of state demand that Read More

1930
The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu

Actors: Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Claude King, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an effort to explain Fu's hatred of all whites by showing the death of the Doctor's family during the Boxer Rebellion. Twenty years later, Fu Manchu is a full-blooded villain Read More

1929
The Wheel of Life

Actors: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, O.P. Heggie, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan (Esther Ralston), the wife of his commanding officer (O.P. Heggie), Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the Read More

1929
The Mighty

Actors: George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, Warner Oland, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in Read More

1929
The Letter

Actors: Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne

Synopsis: The Letter was the first film version of the Somerset Maugham play of the same name. Broadway star Jeanne Eagels plays the wife of Reginald Owen, the owner of a Malayan rubber plantation. The film opens with Eagels shooting a man (Herbert Marshall) to death; she explains that the man had tried to Read More

1929
The Actress

Actors: Norma Shearer, Ralph Forbes, Owen Moore, O.P. Heggie, Gwen Lee

Synopsis: The Actress is a silent-film adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's evergreen stage play Trelawny of the Wells. Norma Shearer plays Rose Trelawny, who becomes an accomplished actress only after she learns to "love the players"-that is, to believe in what she's doing. While touring with a second-string Read More

1928