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The Come-Back (1925)
Character: N/A
Talented boxer Benny Leonard suffers a series of personal and professional setbacks and must find the inner strength and physical discipline to return to the ring to reclaim his title and prove his worth to his skeptics and his love interest, Helen.
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Wide Open Faces (1938)
Character: Gangster
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Flying Fists (1924)
Character: N/A
A series of six boxing dramas, each a complete story in its own right. The episode titles are: #1: Intrusion; #2: Hit Hard; #3: Soft Muscles; #4: The Return; #5: The Surprise Fight; #6: The Jazz Fight.
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Knock on Any Door (1949)
Character: Man (uncredited)
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Character: Man in Pool Hall Brawl (uncredited)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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The Way of the Strong (1928)
Character: One of Handsome's
A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Character: Soxie Anthens (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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The Missing Juror (1944)
Character: Albert Leonard aka Lichter (uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Rio Bravo (1959)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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Powder Town (1942)
Character: Henchman at Dice Table (uncredited)
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
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The Big Street (1942)
Character: Mug Asked to Clear Way (uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
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Iron Man (1951)
Character: Savella's Counterman (uncredited)
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
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Trapped (1949)
Character: Bank Customer (uncredited)
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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Strictly Dynamite (1934)
Character: Junior's Cabbie (uncredited)
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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A Woman's Man (1934)
Character: Joe Ferrera
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
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A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Character: Immigrant (uncredited)
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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Convicted (1950)
Character: Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Character: Gangster at Convention (uncredited)
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
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Detective Story (1951)
Character: Man in Custody (uncredited)
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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Speedy (1928)
Character: Tough (uncredited)
A hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
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Julius Caesar (1953)
Character: Citizen of Rome (uncredited)
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
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Thunder Bay (1953)
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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In Old California (1942)
Character: Townsman
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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The Daring Young Man (1935)
Character: Convict (uncredited)
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
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Scarface (1932)
Character: One of Costillo's Hoods (uncredited)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Girl from Rio (1939)
Character: Patron of Blue Bird Gardens (uncredited)
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
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Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
Character: N/A
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
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White Heat (1949)
Character: Convict (uncredited)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Thunder Road (1958)
Character: Kogan Henchman Killed in Car Crash (uncredited)
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
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Professor Beware (1938)
Character: Dock Worker (uncredited)
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Stolen Harmony (1935)
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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Ball of Fire (1941)
Character: Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Henchman
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Lost in a Harem (1944)
Character: Native in Café Audience (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Great Guy (1936)
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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Winchester '73 (1950)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: Hood (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
Character: Guard at Door (uncredited)
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Character: Torpedo Hansen
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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We Who Are About to Die (1937)
Character: Convict Making Noise with Cup (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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The Far Country (1954)
Character: Miner (uncredited)
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.
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Frenchie (1950)
Character: Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Topper (1937)
Character: N/A
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
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The Big Sleep (1946)
Character: Silent Thug Beating Marlowe (uncredited)
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
Character: Rough Drunk (uncredited)
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
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Walking Down Broadway (1938)
Character: Bartender
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Cannibal Attack (1954)
Character: Rovak's Henchman
Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
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Rhubarb (1951)
Character: Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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Whistling in the Dark (1933)
Character: Bennie (uncredited)
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
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One Night at Susie's (1930)
Character: Mobster (Uncredited)
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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The Harvey Girls (1946)
Character: Man in Saloon (uncredited)
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
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Slightly Honorable (1939)
Character: Nightclub Bouncer (Uncredited)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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King Kong (1933)
Character: Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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Cimarron (1960)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Ex-Champ (1939)
Character: Fighter
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Cross Fire (1933)
Character: McGraw's Manager (uncredited)
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
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Son of Ali Baba (1952)
Character: Villager (uncredited)
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belonging to the wicked Caliph. They flee to his father's palace. But alas, there's more to her than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
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The Set-Up (1949)
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Character: Sidewalk Passerby
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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The Nitwits (1935)
Character: Singing Prisoner (uncredited)
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Slightly French (1949)
Character: Carnival Midway Onlooker (uncredited)
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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House of Strangers (1949)
Character: N/A
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.
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Captain Caution (1940)
Character: Sailor
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Limelight (1952)
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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Reign of Terror (1949)
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Wales' Handler (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Character: Cavalier (uncredited)
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
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Cult of the Cobra (1955)
Character: N/A
While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Character: Hoodlum Who Helps Frame Ross (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: Sailor White (uncredited)
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Ringside (1949)
Character: Trainer (uncredited)
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Character: Townsman (Uncredited)
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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Steady Company (1932)
Character: Pico Vacci
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
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Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Character: Carnival Patron (uncredited)
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Guys and Dolls (1955)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!
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Shield for Murder (1954)
Character: N/A
A crooked police detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep the stolen money.
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Panhandle (1948)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
Character: Roustabout (uncredited)
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
Character: Worker in Pay Line (uncredited)
Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job.
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Silver River (1948)
Character: Gambling Tent Patron (uncredited)
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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Celebrity (1928)
Character: Cyclone
Kid Reagan is a prizefighter who poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. Jane, an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, can’t help falling for the big lug.
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