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Daring Daughters (1933)
Character: Edgar Barrett
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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Ladies in Distress (1938)
Character: Spade
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
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Crooner (1932)
Character: Ralph - Band Member
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
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The Still Alarm (1930)
Character: The Bellboy
Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.
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Bad Boy (1935)
Character: Bob Carey
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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Carnival Lady (1933)
Character: Tom Warren
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
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Broadway Bad (1933)
Character: Bob North
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
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Chatterbox (1936)
Character: Mr. Harrison
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
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The Return Of Peter Grimm (1935)
Character: Frederik
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
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Easy Money (1936)
Character: Edward Adams, alias Edward Clayton
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
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This Reckless Age (1932)
Character: "Pig" Van Dyke
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
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Army Girl (1938)
Character: Capt. Bradley
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
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No More Orchids (1932)
Character: Dick
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
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Sutter's Gold (1936)
Character: Juan Bautista Alvarado Jr.
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Old Man Rhythm (1935)
Character: College Boy
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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Thrill of Youth (1932)
Character: Jack Thayer
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.
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A Family Affair (1937)
Character: Bill Martin
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.
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Street of Women (1932)
Character: Clarke Upton
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love.
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Hi, Nellie! (1934)
Character: Nick Grassi
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Success at Any Price (1934)
Character: Geoffrey Halliburton
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
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Mother's Boy (1929)
Character: Dinslow
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of stealing the family's life savings, Tommy leaves home and gets a job singing in a cabaret. He is successful and soon lands the lead in a Broadway revue. On opening night, just as he is about to go on stage, he receives word that his mother, who he has not seen since he left home, is dying and wants to see him.
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I Have Lived (1933)
Character: Warren White
A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play.
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Two Against the World (1932)
Character: Bob Hamilton
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
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It's a Bet (1935)
Character: Norman
A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
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