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Empty Holsters (1937)
Character: Jim Hall
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
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Wolf of New York (1940)
Character: Reporter
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
Character: N/A
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
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The Romance Of Robert Burns (1937)
Character: Tavern Customer (uncredited)
The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming relationship with beautiful Jean Armour. Soon a marriage is arranged for Jean, and Robby must race to her side before she is married off.
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County Fair (1950)
Character: Racing Secretary
"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding. Unfortunately, Loretta mistakenly places the bet on the wrong horse. When she discovers her error she tries to get the cashier to exchange the ticket for the horse she wanted, but the cashier refuses. Peter Brennan, standing in back of her in line, buys the ticket for the horse Loretta wants and then exchanges it with her. It turns out that Peter is from a wealthy family that owns racehorses, and Peter is a horse trainer himself. He soon begins to fall for Loretta, and Tommy doesn't like it one bit. Complications ensue.
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Public Wedding (1937)
Character: Jailer
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
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The Lady Escapes (1937)
Character: American Express Man (uncredited)
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
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Across the Sierras (1941)
Character: Sheriff (as Milt Kibbee)
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
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Main Street on the March! (1941)
Character: News Vendor Rod Meakin (uncredited)
This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.
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I Won't Play (1944)
Character: U.S.O. Show Emcee (uncredited)
In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business.
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It's Murder (1944)
Character: Train conductor
Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort.
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Rodeo (1952)
Character: N/A
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has run off with the cash receipts.
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Jingle, Jangle, Jingle (1948)
Character: Announcer
Ranchers Margaret Field and Will Wright compete in a race between their chuck-wagons and drivers. In and around the race, the Page Cavanaugh Trio performs "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle", a 1942 song that was on the Hit Parade for 14 weeks overall, and five weeks at No. 1; "I'm An Old Cowhand" and "Walking My Baby Back Home."
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Brides Are Like That (1936)
Character: Bill - Drug Store Clerk
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Treachery Rides the Range (1936)
Character: Man at Relay Station
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
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Maybe It's Love (1935)
Character: Backed-Into Driver (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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Inflation (1942)
Character: Fred (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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Strange Holiday (1945)
Character: Sam Morgan
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
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State Department: File 649 (1949)
Character: Bill Sneed
Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
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The Big Show-Off (1945)
Character: Slaughterhouse Shannon
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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The House of Fear (1939)
Character: Telephone Repair Man
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Frisco Kid (1935)
Character: Shop Man (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)
Character: Bill - Printing Press Mechanic
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Dames (1934)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Alcatraz Island (1937)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: Ship Line Clerk (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Character: (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Little Big Shot (1935)
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Character: Movie Usher (uncredited)
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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The Missing Juror (1944)
Character: Joe, Train Engineer (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Man Hunt (1936)
Character: Sam / Art
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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White Pongo (1945)
Character: Gunderson
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.
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The Cherokee Strip (1937)
Character: Blade Simpson
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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Murder in the Clouds (1934)
Character: Gas Station Attendant
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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When Strangers Marry (1944)
Character: Charlie
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Character: First Court Clerk (uncredited)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Bengal Tiger (1936)
Character: Artificial Leg Sales Clerk (uncredited)
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Character: Building & Loan Board Member (uncredited)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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The Great O'Malley (1937)
Character: Court Stenographer (uncredited)
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Character: Man Greeting Waiter Bill (archive footage) (uncredited)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Character: Briggs (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Woman on the Run (1950)
Character: Man Yelling from Apartment House (uncredited)
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
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I Loved a Woman (1933)
Character: Lane's Secretary (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Character: Convict (uncredited)
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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Jailbreak (1936)
Character: Cabbie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Character: Hotel Garageman (uncredited)
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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Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Train Conductor
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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42nd Street (1933)
Character: News Spreader (uncredited)
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Billy the Kid Trapped (1942)
Character: Judge Clarke
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
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Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Character: Mike (uncredited)
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Jury Foreman in Newsreel (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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Black Hills Express (1943)
Character: Match Salesman Wetherby
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces to uncover the real robbers, unaware that a U.S. Marshal assigned to the case and the Mayor of the town which is at the center of the robberies, are the leaders of the gang.
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Fugitive in the Sky (1936)
Character: Kansas City Airport Official
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
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Let Us Live (1939)
Character: Hardware Store Proprietor (uncredited)
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Happy Land (1943)
Character: Shep Wayne (uncredited)
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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Junior Prom (1946)
Character: Professor Townley
During the Whitney High School student government election, a rich man’s son tries to pay his way into office with promises of new athletic uniforms. His desperate competitors decide to stage a series of song and dance spectacles to try to garner votes.
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Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Character: Steward
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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White Bondage (1937)
Character: Joe Tawney
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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They Meet Again (1941)
Character: Defense Attorney Larkin
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
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Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Character: Indian Affairs Clerk (uncredited)
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.
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Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Character: Milt (uncredited)
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
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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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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Senate Reporter (uncredited)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
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Little Miss Broadway (1947)
Character: Jeff Parks
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
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Black Legion (1937)
Character: Reporter (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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Back in Circulation (1937)
Character: Pink Thomas - a Reporter (uncredited)
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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Strike Up the Band (1940)
Character: Mr. Holden
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
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Come Out Fighting (1945)
Character: Police chief
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
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Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Character: Hotel Clerk
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Larceny in Her Heart (1946)
Character: Joe Morell
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
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Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
Character: The Taxi Driver
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
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In Old California (1942)
Character: Ezra Tompkins
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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One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Character: Alf McAfee (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Two Gun Sheriff (1941)
Character: Deputy Jones
A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the outlaw's cantina-dancer girlfriend has followed him to town and is at risk of exposing him.
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Bordertown (1935)
Character: Man Restraining Johnny in Courtroom Fight
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
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Special Agent (1935)
Character: Pinball Player (uncredited)
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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Rogues' Gallery (1944)
Character: Wheeler
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
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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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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Character: Reporter at Taxi (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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The Big Guy (1939)
Character: Second Citizen (uncredited)
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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Two Against the World (1936)
Character: Writer #2 (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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Born to the Saddle (1953)
Character: Dr. Granden
A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western.
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Desert Fury (1947)
Character: Mike (uncredited)
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
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The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Character: Reporter
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
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Men of Boys Town (1941)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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The Desert Hawk (1950)
Character: Merchant
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
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Remember the Night (1940)
Character: Jury Member (uncredited)
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
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Three Little Sisters (1944)
Character: Tom Scott
The three Scott sisters, Susie, Hallie and Lily, live in the small town of Riverdale with their father Tom, a handyman whose laziness is legendary. The high-spirited sisters relieve the tedium by collaborating on Lily's correspondence with Pvt. Robert Mason, who is stationed in Arizona....
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New York Town (1941)
Character: Postman (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
Character: Pop
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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The Big Store (1941)
Character: Press Photographer (uncredited)
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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The Contender (1944)
Character: Pop Turner
A truck driver turns to prizefighting with hopes of earning enough cash to send his son to military school. 1944.
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The Major and the Minor (1942)
Character: Station Agent
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Rationing (1944)
Character: Wright (uncredited)
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
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Smart Blonde (1937)
Character: Harms (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
Character: Patient with Hand Injury
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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I Married a Doctor (1936)
Character: Train Ticket Clerk
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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Raiders of the West (1942)
Character: The Judge (as Milt Kibbee)
In this western, a frontier detective disguised as an entertainer performs for the leader of an outlaw gang. At the same time, he learns the whereabouts of the outlaws' hideout. Unfortunately, his true identity is revealed and he must escape if he is to bring the gang to justice.
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Vacation Days (1947)
Character: Professor Owen Townley
Miss Hinklefink invites the Teen Agers to stay at her new ranch for the summer. Freddie is mistaken for a famed bank-robber and hijinx ensue.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Joe, Cashier (Uncredited)
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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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Fly By Night (1942)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: Reporter Outside Prison (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Lady for a Day (1933)
Character: Man in Mayor's Office (uncredited)
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
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High Wall (1947)
Character: Counterman (uncredited)
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Character: Reporter (Uncredited)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
Character: Employee (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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Whispering Smith (1948)
Character: Train Engineer (uncredited)
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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The Law in Her Hands (1936)
Character: Herman Sturm
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942)
Character: Dr. Hagen
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When the gang wound a rancher, the Doc finishes him off with his needle. Running from the law again, Billy and his pals arrive and take up the ranchers fight. But when Billy's pal Jeff is wounded, Fuzzy unknowningly takes him to Doc Hagan.
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The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Character: Brandon - Oafley's Butler (uncredited)
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Blue Blood (1951)
Character: Ryan
An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
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Front Page Woman (1935)
Character: Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Character: Mailman
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Bank Teller
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Cain and Mabel (1936)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
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The Whip Hand (1951)
Character: Produce Company Proprietor (uncredited)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Drunk Reporter (uncredited)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
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The Scarlet Clue (1945)
Character: Herbert Sinclair (uncredited)
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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Polo Joe (1936)
Character: Marker
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
Character: SS Atlantis Deck Steward (uncredited)
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Guest in the House (1944)
Character: Station Master
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: Reporter in Hotel Lobby (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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Road Gang (1936)
Character: Convict Warning Larrabee
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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Hi, Nellie! (1934)
Character: Charlie Dwyer (uncredited)
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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In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Character: Mailman
A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.
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The Seventh Victim (1943)
Character: Joseph (Uncredited)
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
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The Soul of a Monster (1944)
Character: Man in Sedan (uncredited)
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
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Upperworld (1934)
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Freddie Steps Out (1946)
Character: Professor Townley
A high school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing.
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Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Character: Herman
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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From This Day Forward (1946)
Character: Factory Foreman
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
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Top Man (1943)
Character: Mac
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Character: Whortle (Uncredited)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Girl Missing (1933)
Character: Police Stenographer (Uncredited)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
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Queen of Broadway (1942)
Character: Joe (as Milt Kibbee)
There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this sentimental B-picture is the story of a gambler (Rochelle Hudson), who tries to clean up her act and adopt an orphan (Donald Mayo).
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Maisie Was a Lady (1941)
Character: Carnival Show Spectator (Uncredited)
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
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Trailin' West (1936)
Character: Henchman Steve
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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Casanova Brown (1944)
Character: Father at Baby Window (uncredited)
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
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Land Beyond the Law (1937)
Character: Sheriff Spence
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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Hollywood Hotel (1938)
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)
Character: Grocery Creditor (uncredited)
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Smith (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
Character: Baltimore Postman
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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Young Tom Edison (1940)
Character: Baggage Man
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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California Mail (1936)
Character: Bart Banton
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Character: Abe's Friend (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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One Exciting Week (1946)
Character: George Coffey (uncredited)
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
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Talent Scout (1937)
Character: Extra in Carter's Outer Office (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Exposed (1938)
Character: Reporter
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Character: Service Station Attendant (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: Thompson, Dry Cleaning Owner (uncredited)
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: Spectator Bidding $3.50 (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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That Gang of Mine (1940)
Character: Mr. Wilkes
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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Once a Doctor (1937)
Character: "Orlando" Radioman
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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The Flying Irishman (1939)
Character: New York Airport Manager
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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River Lady (1948)
Character: Limpy
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
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Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Character: Bartender Serving Double Scotch (uncredited)
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
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On the Town (1949)
Character: Sign Poster (uncredited)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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Wolves of the Range (1943)
Character: Rancher
Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank. When Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money, he is ambushed by Dorn's men, loses his memory, and is jailed for supposedly stealing the money.
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The Flying Serpent (1946)
Character: Hastings (as Miltin Kibbee)
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.
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Song of the Saddle (1936)
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
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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Jungle Siren (1942)
Character: Dr. Thomas Harrigan
A woman - raised in the jungle - tries to help an American stop a native uprising spurned on by Nazis.
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Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947)
Character: Editor A. C. Blaine
Red Ryder convinces homesteaders to settle in Paradise Valley. Business men in nearby Central City want control of the valley and water supply and propose to build a dam for half interest in the land. They use Red to generate interest in the dam but when the dam is completed, they rig the stockholder's meeting so Central City will get the water.
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Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Character: Ship Steward (uncredited)
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945)
Character: Veterinarian
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
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Together Again (1944)
Character: Workman
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
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She Has What It Takes (1943)
Character: Man (uncredited)
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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Guns of the Pecos (1936)
Character: Carlos, Blake's Henchman
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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While the Patient Slept (1935)
Character: Evening Bulletin Archivist (uncredited)
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Blazing Frontier (1943)
Character: Clem Barstow
A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.
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An Old-Fashioned Girl (1949)
Character: Farmer Brown
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
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Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Character: Street Gawker (uncredited)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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Another Thin Man (1939)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Dr. Broadway (1942)
Character: Patient
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Character: Reporter at Wedding (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Dixie Dugan (1943)
Character: Pressman
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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That Certain Woman (1937)
Character: Newspaper Clerk (uncredited)
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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Gambling Lady (1934)
Character: First Reporter (uncredited)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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Heart of the Rio Grande (1942)
Character: Connie's Cabbie (uncredited)
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Character: Stenographer (uncredited)
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
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Desperate (1947)
Character: Mac (uncredited)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
Character: Peters - Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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The Walking Dead (1936)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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High School Hero (1946)
Character: Principal Townley
The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.
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Kansas Cyclone (1941)
Character: Cal Chambers (as Milt Kibbee)
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.
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Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Character: McGann
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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The Sea Hound (1947)
Character: Milton Kibbee
Columbia's 34th serial production starring Buster Crabbe, the Serial King himself
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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: Johnny (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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The Escape (1939)
Character: Neighbor
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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Stranded (1935)
Character: Pat, the Timekeeper (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Welcome Stranger (1947)
Character: Ben - Bus Driver (uncredited)
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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The Body Snatcher (1945)
Character: Dan (uncredited)
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
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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College Coach (1933)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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China Clipper (1936)
Character: Mechanic (uncredited)
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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A Night at the Ritz (1935)
Character: Ritz Clerk (uncredited)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Character: 'Janssen' Passenger (uncredited)
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
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Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Character: Red's Pal
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Character: Receptionist
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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Crime Doctor (1943)
Character: Man in Bar Booth
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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The Payoff (1935)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Northern Pursuit (1943)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
Character: Wilbur - Detective
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Challenge of the Range (1949)
Character: Ezra (uncredited)
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.
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Dodge City (1939)
Character: Printer (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Body and Soul (1947)
Character: Dan - Marlowe's Manager (uncredited)
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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Billy the Kid's Range War (1941)
Character: Leonard
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy sees the wanted posters and learns of the murders he supposedly committed, he sets out to find the imposter. His sidekick Fuzzy is there to help him but his friend Jeff, now a Marshal, is also after him.
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Conquest of Cheyenne (1946)
Character: Banker Tuttle
Red Ryder and his comical sidekick take on a new batch of bad-guys in this western, the 16th in the Red Ryder series. This time the heroic duo try to save a female rancher from a greedy financier who wants her land so he can exploit the enormous oil fields lying under it.
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Live, Love and Learn (1937)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Workman
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Undercurrent (1946)
Character: Minister (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Orphanage Employee
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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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Character: Picked-pocket Customer
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
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Thunder Afloat (1939)
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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The Narrow Margin (1952)
Character: Tenant (uncredited)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
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Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Character: Waiter at Shim Sham Cafe
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
Character: Wells Fargo Man
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Women in the Wind (1939)
Character: Burbank Official (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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The Singing Kid (1936)
Character: Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937)
Character: Spane
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
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Blazing Sixes (1937)
Character: Mort - Hess Henchman
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
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Cover Girl (1944)
Character: Reporter Asking About Flowers (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Saboteur (1942)
Character: Man Killed in Movie Theater (uncredited)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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