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John M. St. Polis (November 24, 1873 – October 8, 1946) was an American actor.
St. Polis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before starting his film career, he made a name for himself on the Broadway stage, most notably in the role of Frederik in the original production of The Return of Peter Grimm (1911–12) and the play’s revival in 1921, both performed at the Belasco Theatre.
He appeared in 126 films between 1914 and 1943. In all of his early roles, the actor is billed as John Sainpolis. His best-known performances are as Etienne Laurier in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and as Comte Phillipe de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
St. Polis successfully made the transition from silent cinema to “talkies” with one of his most praised performances as Dr. John M. Besant, the father of Norma Besant (played by Mary Pickford) in Coquette (1929).
John St. Polis Biography / Wiki
| Name | John St. Polis |
| Also Know | John M. Sainpolis, Johnny Sainpolis, John Sainpolis, John Saintpolis, John M. St. Polis |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1873-11-24 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1946-10-08 |
John St. Polis Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Great Lover | Jean Paurel | 1920-11-15 | Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the … |
| Guilty Parents | Defense attorney | 1934-04-01 | A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was c… |
| Mademoiselle Midnight | Colonel de Gontran (Prologue) | 1924-04-14 | Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first “Mademoi… |
| The Love That Lives | Harvey Brooks | 1917-07-09 | When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children…. |
| Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors | 1914-01-01 | … | |
| King of the Arena | Governor | 1933-06-01 | Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller’s Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but… |
| Laughing Bill Hyde | Black Jack Burg | 1918-09-22 | Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan… |
| Three Weeks | The King | 1924-02-10 | A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks…. |
| Three Wise Fools | John Crawshay | 1923-08-19 | Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor th… |
| The Alaskan | Rossland (as John Sainpolis) | 1924-09-14 | An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state…. |
| The Untameable | Dr. Copin | 1923-09-09 | The Most Shocking Film of 1923! Directed by Herbert Blache, The Untameable dramatizes the then-sensational subject of dual personality, with Gladys Wa… |
| Woman-Proof | Milo Bleech (as John Sainpolis) | 1923-10-28 | At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding…. |
| The Melody Man | Von Kemper | 1930-01-15 | A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter… |
| The Rose of Paris | André du Vallois | 1924-11-09 | A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn’t know it, and has been lured… |
| The Salamander | 1916-01-23 | … | |
| Sapho | Dejoie | 1917-03-11 | The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho…. |
| The Fortunes of Fifi | Duvernet | 1917-02-26 | Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving Lou… |
| Held to Answer | Hiram Burbeck | 1923-11-22 | John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and … |
| Shadows | Nate Snow | 1922-11-10 | Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin el… |
| Coquette | Dr. John M. Besant | 1929-03-30 | A Southern belle’s flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy…. |
| On the Spot | Doc Hunter | 1940-06-11 | Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into natio… |
| Paradise Isle | Coxon | 1937-07-21 | Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita)…. |
| Phantom Ranger | Pat Doyle | 1938-05-27 | A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to … |
| Death from a Distance | Prof. Trowbridge | 1935-07-03 | While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detecti… |
| All Woman | Sam Tupper | 1918-06-09 | Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-do… |
| Why Be Good? | Pa Kelly | 1929-02-28 | A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss’ son…. |
| Gambling Sex | John Tracy | 1932-11-21 | A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more … |
| Terror Trail | Colonel Charles Ormsby | 1933-02-02 | A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix’s beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen… |
| Folly of Vanity | Ridgeway (modern sequence) (as John Sainpolis) | 1924-12-21 | This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence (which was beautifully tinted) was directed by Henry Ot… |
| Paint and Powder | Mark Kelsey (as John Sainpolis) | 1925-09-16 | Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy E… |
| The Dixie Handicap | Dexter | 1924-12-29 | Tale of a man and his horse…. |
| The World Gone Mad | Grover Cromwell | 1933-04-15 | A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud…. |
| Party Girl | John Rountree | 1930-01-01 | Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or ‘party girls’ and… |
| Notorious But Nice | John J. Martin | 1933-08-04 | A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gamble… |
| The Power of Silence | Defense Attorney | 1928-10-20 | Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer’s death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?… |
| The Lily | Comte de Maigny | 1926-10-03 | … |
| Cappy Ricks | Skinner (as John Sainpolis) | 1921-08-21 | When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of rob… |
| Those Who Dance | Monahan | 1924-04-27 | A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader’s wife and the sister of one of the ring’s truck drivers to brea… |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Comte Philip de Chagny | 1925-09-22 | A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. L… |
| Below the Deadline | Mr. Abrams | 1936-06-07 | After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to e… |
| Transgression | Serafin, Arturo’s Butler | 1931-06-27 | When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy…. |
| The Lady in Scarlet | Jerome T. Shelby | 1935-10-20 | When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds…. |
| Alias the Doctor | Dr. Niergardt | 1932-03-06 | Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while S… |
| Three on the Trail | Sheriff Sam Corwin | 1936-04-14 | An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be … |
| Haunted House | Simkins | 1940-07-21 | Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder…. |
| My Lady’s Lips | Inspector | 1925-07-01 | A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story f… |
| Too Many Crooks | Erastus Mason | 1927-04-02 | Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Dav… |
| A Woman’s Way | Mouvet | 1928-02-18 | Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean…. |
| Mr. Wong, Detective | Roemer | 1938-10-05 | A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two sub… |
| Symphony of Six Million | Dr. Schifflen | 1932-04-29 | A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to … |
| Lena Rivers | John Nichols | 1932-03-27 | Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle’s wife and daughter make no secret of their d… |
| The Crusader | Robert Henley | 1932-10-04 | Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter…. |
| Their Mad Moment | Hotel Manager | 1931-07-12 | Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir H… |
| Fast Life | Andrew Stratton | 1929-09-01 | A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of t… |
| The Social Code | 1923-10-01 | … | |
| Saleslady | Crane | 1938-01-27 | A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who’s unaware of his bride’s wealthy background…. |
| A Devil with Women | Don Diego | 1930-10-17 | Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country’s richest man, try to end Morloff’s banditr… |
| The Unknown | Surgeon (uncredited) | 1927-05-29 | A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost…. |
| Doctors’ Wives | Dr. Mark Wyndram | 1931-03-14 | The trials of being a doctor’s wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin w… |
| The Shadow Strikes | Caleb Delthern | 1937-10-29 | Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as “The Shadow”, to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney’s office. When the police search the scen… |
| The Gay Diplomat | General | 1931-08-22 | Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one qu… |
| Kismet | The Imam Mahmud | 1930-10-30 | Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the ca… |
| Captain Thunder | Pedro | 1930-12-27 | A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.’ Captain Thunder contains some of the darndes… |
| Rocky Mountain Rangers | Joseph Manners | 1940-05-24 | Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Jo… |
| The Greater Glory | Prof. Leopold Eberhardt (as John Sainpolis) | 1926-05-02 | A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mo… |
| Men of the Sky | Madeleine’s Father | 1931-06-20 | In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madelein… |
| Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand | Kaiser | 1918-10-01 | The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan…. |
| The Criminal Code | Dr. Rinewulf | 1930-12-31 | After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 year… |
| International Crime | Roger Morton | 1938-04-23 | The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur… |
| The Dark Hour | Dr. Munro | 1936-02-17 | A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no sho… |
| Boys’ Reformatory | Superintendent Keene | 1939-05-01 | A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are und… |
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Etienne Laurier | 1921-03-06 | Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being ha… |
| Beau Ideal | Judge Advocate (as John M. St. Polis) | 1931-01-25 | An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend…. |
| The Bad One | Judge | 1930-05-03 | In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sa… |
| False Faces | Dr. McDonald | 1932-10-12 | The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicag… |
| Borderland | Doctor | 1937-02-26 | Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along th… |
| They Shall Have Music | Davis | 1939-08-18 | The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the… |
| Crossroads | Professor (uncredited) | 1942-07-23 | A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember…. |
| Jungle Menace | Chandler Elliott | 1937-09-01 | Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest…. |
| The Mysterious Rider | Townsman | 1938-09-21 | Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds’ ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the r… |
| Call of the Prairie | Jim | 1936-03-06 | Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda… |
| Souls for Sale | Himself – Celebrity Actor in Commissary | 1923-04-22 | A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star…. |
| The Yellow Ticket | Passport Official at Airport | 1931-10-30 | A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she re… |
| The Match King | Banker (uncredited) | 1932-12-31 | Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipula… |
| The President Vanishes | 1934-11-17 | The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman a… | |
| Call Her Savage | Doctor Consoling Nasa (Uncredited) | 1932-11-27 | A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage… |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1940-02-22 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el… |
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