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A Prohibition Monkey (1920)
Character: N/A
The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
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Dames (1934)
Character: Sergeant at Jail (uncredited)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Sworn Enemy (1936)
Character: Referee (uncredited)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Character: Tramp (uncredited)
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Iron Man (1951)
Character: Referee (uncredited)
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
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Hard to Handle (1933)
Character: Dance Observer (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Guard in Court
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Trail Street (1947)
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Referee (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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On Patrol (1922)
Character: Convict #1744
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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Over the Wall (1938)
Character: Ring Announcer in Robeck Fight
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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Primrose Path (1940)
Character: Jake Halpern (uncredited)
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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I Stole a Million (1939)
Character: Gas Station Attendant
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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The Big Fight (1930)
Character: Pinkie
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
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The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Character: Johnston's Assistant (uncredited)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Special Agent (1935)
Character: Federal Agent (uncredited)
A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.
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Dangerous (1935)
Character: N/A
Don 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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Flaming Feather (1952)
Character: N/A
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
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Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Character: Whispering Man (uncredited)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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White Heat (1949)
Character: Clocker (uncredited)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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The Miracle Kid (1941)
Character: Referee
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Character: One of Blackie's Hoods (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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20 Mule Team (1940)
Character: Alden
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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20 Mule Team (1940)
Character: Man Pointing Out Where Pete Is
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Millionaires in Prison (1940)
Character: Visitor's Room Guard (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: Bookie (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Broadway (1942)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Gangster
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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Sister Kenny (1946)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Character: Umpire
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
Character: Referee
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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King of Chinatown (1939)
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Character: Referee (uncredited)
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Character: Park Vendor (uncredited)
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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The Arizona Kid (1930)
Character: Homer Snook
The Arizona Kid carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt, accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt, actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
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The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
Character: Makeup Editor
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Central Park (1932)
Character: Gangster Smitty (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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Knockout Reilly (1927)
Character: Kewpie Dugan
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
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You'll Find Out (1940)
Character: Apartment Complainer (uncredited)
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: Sullivan Fight Referee
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Johnny Belinda (1948)
Character: Man Reciting Lord's Prayer (uncredited)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Character: Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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Golden Boy (1939)
Character: Referee
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Thunder Afloat (1939)
Character: Radio Operator (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Riders of the Purple Cows (1924)
Character: Mike's Pal on Train
When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
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Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Character: N/A
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Sailor Beware (1952)
Character: Referee (uncredited)
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
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Punch Drunks (1934)
Character: Referee (uncredited)
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935)
Character: N/A
A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
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