Richard L'Estrange
Biography
Richard L'Estrange (born Gunther Van Strensch) was an American actor, associate producer / producer, assistant director / director, and production manager. His screen acting career took place during the years 1913 to 1929.
Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles
Movie - 1915, 2h 15m • as Señor Slim (as Dick Le Strange)
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
Movie - 1927, 2h 15m • as Turtle-Neck-Pete (as Dick L'Estrange)
While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
Movie - 1914, 2h 15m • as Grouchy
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
Movie - 1928, 2h 15m • as Lazy Lester
An honest ranch foreman gets kidnapped as part of a complicated plot to swingle the ranch owner
Movie - 1914, 2h 15m • as Maximo the Ghost
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
Movie - 1914, 2h 15m • as Safe Blower
The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to get revenge on the prosecutor.
Movie - 1927, 2h 15m • as Blondy (as Dick L'Estrange)
Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.
Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • as Lerous (as Dick La Strange)
Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • as Tamarack Spicer (as Dick Le Strange)
An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
Movie - 1928, 2h 15m • as Lazy (as Dick L'Estrange)
As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • as The Ghost of the Present (as Dick Le Strange)
Considered to be lost.
Movie - 1927, 2h 15m • as Lazy (as Dick L'Estrange)
Vic Harding, a crooked Eastern land speculator, learns of a proposed railroad spur that will increase the value of the Lawton ranch and conspires with Hank Martin to buy the property. A lost film.
Movie - 1927, 2h 15m • as Lazy (as Dick L'Strange)
Bert Lane and Margery Murray are in love, but her aunt insists she marry either a society man or a hero, so his hands decide that he will be a made-to-order hero - but society man Fred Van Ralt keeps getting the credit.
Movie - 1914, 2h 15m • as Best Man
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie. After a musical comedy troupe comes through, Nellie becomes an actress. When she then falls for a millionaire and goes to Reno for a divorce, Harvey takes their child Phoebe home where her later illness brings her parents back together.
Movie - 1929, 2h 15m • as Ole Swanson
A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and the gorilla saves him by hiding him in a cave. As others try to get close things get heated.