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So You're Going to the Dentist (1952)
Character: Marvin Schulz (uncredited)
Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
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So You Want a Television Set (1953)
Character: Marvin Schulz (uncredited)
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.
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So You're Taking in a Roomer (1954)
Character: Marvin Schulz (uncredited)
Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.
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The Fire Chaser (1954)
Character: Wilbur Slemons
Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back.
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So You Want to Be a Handyman (1951)
Character: Marvin (uncredited)
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.
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So You Never Tell a Lie (1952)
Character: Eager Beaver Troop Leader (uncredited)
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
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The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Character: Bill Cady (uncredited)
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
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The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
Character: Politico
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
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The Subterraneans (1960)
Character: Balloon Man (uncredited)
A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.
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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Character: Harris' Assistant (uncredited)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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The Missouri Traveler (1958)
Character: Herb Davis
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.
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Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Money, Women and Guns (1958)
Character: Martin (uncredited)
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
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Gasoline Alley (1951)
Character: Judd (uncredited)
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
Character: Barney (uncredited)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Character: Wedding Reception Guest (uncredited)
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
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Wallflower (1948)
Character: N/A
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Character: Attorney (uncredited)
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
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The Rookie (1959)
Character: Pentagon janitor
A manic young radio network employee enlists in the army at the end of WWII and finds himself the only new recruit at basic training camp. Military comedy.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Blondie Goes to College (1942)
Character: Student
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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An Angel Comes To Brooklyn (1945)
Character: Oscar
An angel returns to Earth to help a Broadway producer put on a show, so a struggling young actress will have a job.
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Heartbeat (1946)
Character: Student (uncredited)
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
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Love Nest (1951)
Character: Drunk (Uncredited)
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
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Pretty Baby (1950)
Character: Traffic Cop (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Character: William Johnson
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Character: Withers (uncredited)
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Character: N/A
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
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The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Character: Man in Elevator (uncredited)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
Character: William S. 'Bill' Grant
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
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That's My Man (1947)
Character: Owner
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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