John St. Polis
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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).
Known for
Credits
Sleeping Fires (1917)
as Edwin Bryce
Boys' Reformatory (1939)
as Superintendent Keene
Party Girl (1930)
as John Rountree
A Night at the Opera (1935)
as Opera Conductor (uncredited)
The Hero (1923)
as Andrew Lane
Shadows (1922)
as Nate Snow
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
as Comte Philip de Chagny
The Unknown (1927)
as Surgeon (uncredited)
The Untameable (1923)
as Dr. Copin
Call Her Savage (1932)
as Doctor Consoling Nasa (Uncredited)
Wormwood (1915)
Actor
Those Who Dance (1924)
as Monahan
The Criminal Code (1931)
as Dr. Rinewulf
Souls for Sale (1923)
as Self - Celebrity Actor in Commissary
If I Had a Million (1932)
as Glidden Associate (uncredited)
The Love That Lives (1917)
as Harvey Brooks
My Lady's Lips (1925)
as Inspector
The Far Cry (1926)
as Count Filippo Sturani
The Greater Glory (1926)
as Prof. Leopold Eberhardt (as John Sainpolis)
Bondwomen (1915)
as Dr. Hugh Ellis
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
as Carl Roemer
The Melody Man (1930)
as Von Kemper
They Shall Have Music (1939)
as Davis
In Every Woman's Life (1924)
as Dr. Philip Logan
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
as Etienne Laurier
Crossroads (1942)
as Professor (uncredited)
The Fortunes of Fifi (1917)
as Duvernet
Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors (1914)
Actor
Cocktail Hour (1933)
as French Police Investigator (uncredited)
The Bad One (1930)
as Judge
The Yellow Passport (1916)
as Fedia
The President Vanishes (1934)
as Attorney General Davis (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
as Minor Role (uncredited)
The Mysterious Rider (1938)
as Townsman
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
as Passport Official at Airport
The Shadow Strikes (1937)
as Caleb Delthern
Alias the Doctor (1932)
as Dr. Niergardt
A Prince of a King (1923)
as Mario
Call of the Prairie (1936)
as Jim
Doctors' Wives (1931)
as Dr. Mark Wyndram
The Social Highwayman (1916)
as Hanby
Below the Deadline (1936)
as Mr. Abrams
Coquette (1929)
as Dr. John M. Besant
Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940)
as Joseph Manners
A Devil with Women (1930)
as Don Diego
Three on the Trail (1936)
as Sheriff Sam Corwin
Symphony of Six Million (1932)
as Dr. Schifflen
Borderland (1937)
as Doctor
The World Gone Mad (1933)
as Grover Cromwell
Paradise Isle (1937)
as Coxon
Jungle Menace (1937)
as Chandler Elliott
The Match King (1932)
as Banker (uncredited)
Captain Thunder (1930)
as Pedro
Three Weeks (1924)
as The King
Lena Rivers (1932)
as John Nichols
The Crusader (1932)
as Robert Henley
Kismet (1930)
as The Imam Mahmud
Saleslady (1938)
as Crane
Old Dad (1920)
as Jeffrey Bretton
Three Wise Fools (1923)
as John Crawshay
Why Be Good? (1929)
as Pa Kelly
The Lady in Scarlet (1935)
as Jerome T. Shelby
Transgression (1931)
as Serafin, Arturo's Butler
The Dark Hour (1936)
as Dr. Munro
Marriage by Contract (1928)
as Father
Woman-Proof (1923)
as Milo Bleech (as John Sainpolis)
The Alaskan (1924)
as Rossland (as John Sainpolis)
Notorious But Nice (1933)
as John J. Martin
The Gay Diplomat (1931)
as General
King of the Arena (1933)
as Governor
Death from a Distance (1935)
as Prof. Trowbridge
Their Mad Moment (1931)
as Hotel Manager
Soldiers of Fortune (1914)
as Pres. Alvarez
International Crime (1938)
as Roger Morton
Beau Ideal (1931)
as Judge Advocate (as John M. St. Polis)
Too Many Crooks (1927)
as Erastus Mason
Mademoiselle Midnight (1924)
as Colonel de Gontran (Prologue)
Paint and Powder (1925)
as Mark Kelsey (as John Sainpolis)
The Dixie Handicap (1924)
as Dexter
Guilty Parents (1934)
as Defense attorney
A Woman's Way (1928)
as Mouvet
Heartbreak (1931)
as U.S. Ambassador
On the Spot (1940)
as Doc Hunter
The Lily (1926)
as Comte de Maigny
The Gambling Sex (1932)
as John Tracy
All Woman (1918)
as Sam Tupper
The Power of Silence (1928)
as Defense Attorney
Terror Trail (1933)
as Colonel Charles Ormsby
Folly of Vanity (1924)
as Ridgeway (modern sequence)
The Three Sisters (1930)
as Judge
False Faces (1932)
as Dr. McDonald
Phantom Ranger (1938)
as Pat Doyle
The Great Lover (1920)
as Jean Paurel
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand (1918)
as Kaiser
Men of the Sky (1931)
as Madeleine's Father
In the Next Room (1930)
as Philip Vantine
The Social Code (1923)
as Defense Attorney
Fast Life (1929)
as Andrew Stratton
Guilty? (1930)
as Polk
The World Against Him (1916)
as Dr. Hamilton Welsh
Held to Answer (1923)
as Hiram Burbeck
Haunted House (1940)
as Simkins
The Rose of Paris (1924)
as André du Vallois
Sapho (1917)
as Dejoie
The Salamander (1916)
as Albert Sassoon
The Mystic Hour (1917)
as Clavering
The Public Defender (1917)
as David Moulton
Laughing Bill Hyde (1918)
as Black Jack Burg
The Mark of Cain (1917)
as Judge Hoyt
Cappy Ricks (1921)
as Skinner (as John Sainpolis)