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Meet King Joe (1949)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Cold War propaganda movie showcasing the benefits of capitalism through the eyes of an average worker named Joe.
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The Devil and John Q (1952)
Character: Narrator
The devil poses as a business tycoon to try and raise the price on home living to start another war and it's up to John Q to stop him.
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Fill 'Er Up (1959)
Character: Narrator
The video explains how gasoline, like a genie, provides energy from oil deposits to make life easier and move goods.
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New York to Berlin in Twenty-Six Hours (1933)
Character: Narrator
Promotional film about Lockheed aircraft using test pilots and speed records to show how Lockheed was at the forefront of aviation technology during the 1930's and 1940's. Famous pilots including the Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes are shown along with the latest aircraft designs such as the P-38 fighter.
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A Is for Atom (1953)
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
General Electric sponsors this explanation of atomic energy, detailing some of its uses besides the bomb. Using animation and an off-screen narrator, the film describes the atom, elements and isotopes, the discovery of transmutation, experiments in artificial transmutation, and the reasons for the power of nuclear fission. The film argues that now, besides war, the atomic age holds promise for energy, farming, medicine, and research. The promise of the atomic age will depend on human wisdom.
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Mountain Justice (1937)
Character: Radio Announcer at Ruth's Trial
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Character: Radio Announcer
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Character: N/A
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
Character: Broadcaster
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Character: Radio Commentator (uncredited)
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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The Square Jungle (1955)
Character: N/A
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
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I Wanted Wings (1941)
Character: Radio Announcer
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
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Garden of the Moon (1938)
Character: Nightclub Announcer (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
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Over the Wall (1938)
Character: Radio Announcer at Governor's Broadcast
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Black Legion (1937)
Character: First Radio Announcer Breaking Story (uncredited)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Rise and Shine (1941)
Character: Announcer
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
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The Glass Web (1953)
Character: Announcer
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests turning the case into a TV show episode.
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Swing, Sister, Swing (1938)
Character: Radio Announcer
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
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Big Town Girl (1937)
Character: Announcer
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Character: KIRL TV Newscaster (uncredited)
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
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Two Against the World (1936)
Character: Radio Announcer #1 (uncredited)
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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The Hucksters (1947)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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Mister 880 (1950)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
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Love and Hisses (1937)
Character: Radio Announcer
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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World Without End (1956)
Character: TV Newscaster (uncredited)
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th-century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
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Remember the Day (1941)
Character: Radio Announcer
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
Character: Commentator #1 (uncredited)
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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The Man I Married (1940)
Character: Announcer
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Character: Annoucer (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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True to Life (1943)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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The Man from Button Willow (1965)
Character: Old Salt / Moatgomerey Blaine (voice)
In 1869, Justin Eagle lives on his ranch called "The Eagle's Nest" near the town of Button Willow, California. In addition to being a rancher, Juston is a trouble-shooter for the U. S. Government which calls for him to act as an undercover operative and thwart the forces of evil in the rapidly-growing West. He is sent to San Franciso to find missing U. S. Senaator Freeman, who has disappeared while fighting the efforts of Montgomery Blaine, a villain who has been, with the aid of his henchman, "The Whip," forcing settlers to sell their land to him, not knowing that the land is in the path of a proposed railroad, from Utah, that will link the western United States to the East. Senator Freeman is the leader of an effort to veer the railroad southward to bypass Blaine's land and, for his efforts, is kidnapped by Bliane's henchmen and shanghaied from the San Francisco waterfront. Justin Eagle's job is to find and return him safely.
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Why Play Leap Frog? (1950)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.
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It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown (1983)
Character: Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
This hour-long anthology presents six animated shorts, which include Charlie Brown spending two unexpectedly pleasant weeks at summer camp; Peppermint Patty and Marcie taking jobs as golf caddies, with disastrous results; and Lucy trying to cure Linus' dependence on his security blanket.
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Second Fiddle (1939)
Character: Radio Announcer
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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The Great Profile (1940)
Character: Announcer (voice)
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
Character: Newscaster
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
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You're My Everything (1949)
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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The Daredevil Drivers (1938)
Character: KFWB Announcer (uncredited)
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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King of the Mounties (1942)
Character: Lane
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Derby Radio Announcer
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Women in the Wind (1939)
Character: Cleveland Radio Announcer (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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