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Rolling Along (1930)
Character: N/A
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
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His Old Flame (1935)
Character: N/A
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
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Pardon My Gun (1942)
Character: Sheriff
In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the bushes without opening it. Later a woman happens upon the cash and finds herself a prime suspect in the killing. Fortunately, a survey engineer proves her innocence, and they begin looking for the real villains.
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White Lies (1935)
Character: Manager of Employment Agency (uncredited)
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
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Mountain Justice (1937)
Character: Pipe-Smokerat Carnival
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)
Character: Bartender
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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Road to Singapore (1940)
Character: Cherry's Father (uncredited)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
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We Live Again (1934)
Character: Jailer
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Captains Courageous (1937)
Character: Nate Rogers (uncredited)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Killer at Large (1936)
Character: First Coffin Man (uncredited)
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
Character: Herbert - the Morgue Attendant
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
Character: Air Pump Operator
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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The Incredible Stranger (1942)
Character: Wagon Driver Mack Williams (uncredited)
In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep a promise.
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Wild and Woolly (1937)
Character: Engineer (uncredited)
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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Kentucky Kernels (1934)
Character: The Moonshiner (uncredited)
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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Barefoot Boy (1938)
Character: Dutch
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
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The Pinto Kid (1941)
Character: Dan Foster
Pinto Kid was one of Charles Starrett's last "formula" westerns before he permanently assumed the screen guise of the Durango Kid. The story takes places just after the Civil War, with hostilities between Yanks and Rebels still in effect between Kansas and Texas. The villain, cattle rustler Vic Landreau (Paul Sutton), intends to play both factions down the middle for his own benefit. But Landreau meets his match in the form of wandering do-gooder Jud Calvert (Charles Starrett).
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The Westerner (1940)
Character: Eph Stringer - Homesteader (uncredited)
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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Wives Never Know (1936)
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
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Professor Beware (1938)
Character: Brawler - Hand Gag
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Naughty Marietta (1935)
Character: Jacques the Suitor (uncredited)
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
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History Is Made at Night (1937)
Character: N/A
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Man Getting Rain Insurance (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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The Merry Widow (1934)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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George White's Scandals (1934)
Character: Sailor Brown
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from
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Hit the Deck (1929)
Character: Mat
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
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Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
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Barbary Coast (1935)
Character: Sandy Ferguson
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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Gaslight (1944)
Character: Stranger (uncredited)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Mills of the Gods (1934)
Character: Chris
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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Les Misérables (1935)
Character: Gendarme at Inn
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Rebellion (1936)
Character: Honeycutt
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
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The Merry Frinks (1934)
Character: 2nd Expressman (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Stranger
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Character: Ranch Foreman
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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A Wicked Woman (1934)
Character: Proprietor (uncredited)
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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Double Wedding (1937)
Character: Mike, Policeman at Jail (uncredited)
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Character: Statistical Hobo
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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Mad Love (1935)
Character: Detective Arresting Stephen (Uncredited)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
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Redhead from Manhattan (1943)
Character: Fisherman
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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The Durango Kid (1940)
Character: Henchman Jergens (uncredited)
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Character: Cemetery Gateman (uncredited)
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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Out West with the Peppers (1940)
Character: Tom
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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Murder in the Fleet (1935)
Character: Yard Master (Uncredited)
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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Everyman's Law (1936)
Character: Lobo Joe
Texas Ranger Johnny, poses as a hired gunman called The Dog Town Kid in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang, to uncover a plot by a crooked lawman, Sheriff Bradley, and a large landholder, Jim Morgan against the smaller ranches and the homesteaders.
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You and Me (1938)
Character: Bath House
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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The Singing Kid (1936)
Character: Panhandler (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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