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The Stage Hand (1933)
Character: N/A
The story is set in the village of Oskaloosa, which is in Iowa -- Langdon's home state. A silent movie-style opening title informs us that the town needs a new fire engine, so they decide to stage a play to raise the money. (Nothing more is heard about this, but the finale involves a fire emergency at the theater.) In the opening scene the community players rehearse at the home of the director, a pompous lady named Mrs. Winters. Harry, of course, is The Stage Hand.
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Gypsy Sweetheart (1935)
Character: Bellingham
Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brings along her friends and a whole caravan of gypsies take over the green, telling fortunes, singing and dancing. Most of the comedy is supplied by the kleptomaniac butler, Bellingham, and his employer who humors his nutty ways...as good help seems to be hard to find.
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Maybe It's Love (1935)
Character: Passenger Motor Cop (uncredited)
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Little Big Shot (1935)
Character: Kell's Henchman
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Man Hunt (1936)
Character: Joe
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Murder in the Clouds (1934)
Character: Eddie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
Character: Joe - Policeman
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Character: Sweeney
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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Alibi Ike (1935)
Character: Jack Mack
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
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Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Character: Speedboat Skipper (uncredited)
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Snowed Under (1936)
Character: Bridgeport Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Heat Lightning (1934)
Character: The Last Traveler (uncredited)
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra. When two escaped criminals stop for a bite to eat, Olga is reminded of the past she left behind.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Truck Driver with Steaks (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
Character: Detective Jones
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
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Sons o' Guns (1936)
Character: Military Policeman
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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Broadway Hostess (1935)
Character: Joe - a Detective (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
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Dangerous (1935)
Character: N/A
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Steve
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Boulder Dam (1936)
Character: Pa's Guest (uncredited)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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The Law in Her Hands (1936)
Character: Harry Morton
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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Road Gang (1936)
Character: Buck Draper
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Return of the Terror (1934)
Character: Second Trooper
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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He Was Her Man (1934)
Character: Tobacco Clerk
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals". He then flees from killers with a San Francisco fisherman's fiancee.
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Trailin' West (1936)
Character: Happy Simpson
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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Dangerous Number (1937)
Character: Policeman
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Character: Detective
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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The Big Noise (1936)
Character: Machine Gun Nolan
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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I Sell Anything (1934)
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Song of the Saddle (1936)
Character: Jake Bannion
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Truck Driver
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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While the Patient Slept (1935)
Character: Detective Muldoon
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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The St. Louis Kid (1934)
Character: Pete - a Truck Driver
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: 1st Referee
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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A Lost Lady (1934)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Eddie Marigan (uncredited)
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Fog Over Frisco (1934)
Character: Officer Daly (Uncredited)
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Character: Ed Wheeler
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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The Circus Clown (1934)
Character: Card Player
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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The Payoff (1935)
Character: Beetles Davis
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Deputy Sheriff
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Libeled Lady (1936)
Character: Moe (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Character: 'Red' Turner
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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