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Listen Judge (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures (1947)
Character: Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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So You Want to Enjoy Life (1952)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
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Sunset Murder Case (1938)
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
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Life with Father (1947)
Character: Waiter at Delmonico's (uncredited)
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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Hell's Island (1955)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Money from Home (1953)
Character: Hunt Club Ball Guest (uncredited)
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to. Mistaken identities are assumed, while along the way, Virgil meets a female vet and Herman falls for the owner of the horse.
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Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
Character: Drunk (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Character: Photographer with Sheriff (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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Trapped (1949)
Character: Mr. Baker (uncredited)
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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Roadblock (1951)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
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The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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All Through the Night (1942)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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East Side, West Side (1949)
Character: Del Rio Club Patron (uncredited)
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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Abandoned (1949)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
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Bitter Sweet (1940)
Character: Cafe Patron (uncredited)
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Character: Man at Press Conference (uncredited)
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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It Should Happen to You (1954)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
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Cruisin' Down the River (1953)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
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Insurance Investigator (1951)
Character: Bookie
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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The Killers (1946)
Character: Green Cat Patron (uncredited)
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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Any Number Can Play (1949)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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I Love a Mystery (1945)
Character: Restaurant Patron (Uncredited)
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
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If You Knew Susie (1948)
Character: Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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Mister Cory (1957)
Character: Houseman (uncredited)
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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Repeat Performance (1947)
Character: Party Guest
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
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Dishonored Lady (1947)
Character: Club Patron
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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Flamingo Road (1949)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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Portia on Trial (1937)
Character: Party Guest
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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Bright Victory (1951)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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The Other Love (1947)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.
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Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Character: Baseball Fan (uncredited)
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
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Scarface (1932)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Impact (1949)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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All the King's Men (1949)
Character: Politician (uncredited)
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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The Band Wagon (1953)
Character: Ballet Audience Member (uncredited)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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Old Acquaintance (1943)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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The Lady Gambles (1949)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Penny Serenade (1941)
Character: New Year's Party Guest (uncredited)
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Wedding Guest (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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Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Character: Card Player
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Gambling House Patron
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Identity Unknown (1945)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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The Big Game (1936)
Character: Henchman
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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The Thin Man (1934)
Character: Night Club Patron (uncredited)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Mister 880 (1950)
Character: Diplomat (uncredited)
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
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The Big Clock (1948)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
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My Reputation (1946)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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Lost in a Harem (1944)
Character: Native in Café Audience (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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A Stolen Life (1946)
Character: Art Patron (uncredited)
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
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The Whistler (1944)
Character: Tomley's Assistant (Uncredited)
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
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Sabrina (1954)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
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In Old New Mexico (1945)
Character: Doc Wills
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.
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Saboteur (1942)
Character: Party Guest (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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Backfire (1950)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
Character: Uncle John (uncredited)
A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
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Phffft (1954)
Character: Technician (uncredited)
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
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Hold That Ghost (1941)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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Frenchie (1950)
Character: Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Topper (1937)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Autumn Leaves (1956)
Character: Concert Attendee (uncredited)
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
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The Boss (1956)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
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The Locket (1946)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Blonde Crazy (1931)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
Character: Psychiatrist (scenes deleted)
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
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Black Magic (1944)
Character: William Bonner (as Richard Gordon)
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
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Black Widow (1954)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
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Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Character: Man in Follies Audience (uncredited)
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
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One Touch of Venus (1948)
Character: Guest (uncredited)
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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Sadie McKee (1934)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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I Married a Woman (1958)
Character: Passerby on Street (uncredited)
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
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Synthetic Sin (1929)
Character: Member of Frank's Gang
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
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Werewolf of London (1935)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Character: Opera Guest (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Dead Reckoning (1946)
Character: Dealer (uncredited)
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
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Force of Evil (1950)
Character: Attorney (uncredited)
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Character: Prison Guard
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Character: Maitre d'Hotel (uncredited)
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Forever Female (1953)
Character: Diner at Sardi's (uncredited)
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
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Slightly French (1949)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Bright Leaf (1950)
Character: Man at Tobacco Auction (uncredited)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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Tulsa (1949)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Giant (1956)
Character: Governor's Ball Guest (uncredited)
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Character: Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
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Kelly and Me (1957)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams are coming true when he finds himself in Hollywood ... but Kelly is the one in demand on the big screen.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
Character: Casino Patron
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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The Luck of the Irish (1948)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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A Double Life (1947)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
Character: Dealer (uncredited)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Character: Townsman at Meeting (uncredited)
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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Lady in the Death House (1944)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
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Another Thin Man (1939)
Character: West Indies Club Patron (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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Let's Make It Legal (1951)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
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Springfield Rifle (1952)
Character: Man in Corridor (uncredited)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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Imitation of Life (1934)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Best Foot Forward (1943)
Character: Party Guest
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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The Payoff (1942)
Character: Gambling House Patron (uncredited)
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
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Ninotchka (1939)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Dangerously Yours (1937)
Character: Insurance Agent (uncredited)
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Character: Man at Citizen's Meeting (uncredited)
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Night Without Sleep (1952)
Character: Man at Rehearsal (Uncredited)
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Bedside Manner (1945)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
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Let's Do It Again (1953)
Character: Audition Guest (uncredited)
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
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The Breaking Point (1950)
Character: Racetrack Teller (uncredited)
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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The Naughty Flirt (1930)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A coquettish socialite falls for a straight-laced associate in her father's law firm. But she must also fend off the advances of a greedy fortune-hunter and his sister.
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St. Benny the Dip (1951)
Character: Reverend Miles
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
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Phantom Lady (1944)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Illegal (1955)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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The Great American Pastime (1956)
Character: Father (uncredited)
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
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The Racket (1951)
Character: Pedestrian (uncredited)
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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Hollow Triumph (1948)
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Born to Be Bad (1950)
Character: Nathan (Uncredited)
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Experiment Perilous (1944)
Character: Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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Scandal Sheet (1952)
Character: Stockholder (uncredited)
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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Night After Night (1932)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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The Birth of a Baby (1938)
Character: Dr. Wilson (as Richard Gordon)
Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs. Burgess that she wishes that she, too, knew more about her body. She also reveals that she may be expecting a baby and is apprehensive about her safety and the changes that a new baby will bring to her life.
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None Shall Escape (1944)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
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