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East of Fifth Avenue (1933)
Character: Sam Cronin
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion the chain of events in East of Fifth Avenue’s tender pageant of life.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven (1936)
Character: Philmore Tubbs
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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Lucky Dog (1933)
Character: The Business Man
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
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Halfway to Hollywood (1938)
Character: Mr. Hornsloger
Johnny writes a screenplay, then gets Tom and his wife to star with him in his amateur production. Their production is about their boss, who walks in on a screening of the finished product, puts "two and two" together and is infuriated....until the footage reveals the truth behind Tom and Johnny's co-worker...who is collecting workman's comp for his "injuries".
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Give Me Action (1930)
Character: James Stanton
James Stanton and John Lane meet 30 years after graduating from Yale to decide the winner of a bet as to who is the more successful.
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That Rascal (1932)
Character: N/A
Harry Barris and Audrey Ferris want to get married, and her father, Harry Holman, likes Barris' piano playing. However, he hates it when Barris sings songs like "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You".
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Calling All Cars (1935)
Character: Judge Marlowe
A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
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The Line-Up (1934)
Character: Jacob (uncredited)
Bob Curtis (William Gargan), the youngest member of the New York City plain-clothes squad, is assigned to help Detective-Sergeant Doyle (Paul Hurst) uncover the people behind a number of fur robberies. Peggy Arnold (Marian Nixon), a beautiful girl, comes under suspicion, but Bob, convinced of her innocence, adopts a desperate plan to clear her and round up the real criminals.
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Million Dollar Baby (1934)
Character: J.D. Pemberton
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Character: Fat Man
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Western Jamboree (1938)
Character: Doc Trimble
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
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Man Hunt (1933)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
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Dames (1934)
Character: Druggist #3 (uncredited)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Nation Aflame (1937)
Character: Roland Adams
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
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Silver Dollar (1932)
Character: Adams
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Manpower (1941)
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Jalna (1935)
Character: Mr. Cory
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
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Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Character: Stuffy
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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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Character: Fat Man (uncredited)
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Idaho (1943)
Character: Man Leaving Church
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Hard to Handle (1933)
Character: Colonel's Associate (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Character: Mr. Partridge (uncredited)
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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Night Alarm (1934)
Character: Mayor Wilson
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
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The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
Character: Jim Dugan
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
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Let Us Live (1939)
Character: Businessman Juror - J. B. (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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Beauty and the Boss (1932)
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
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What a Man! (1944)
Character: Harold D. Prewitt
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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The Silver Bullet (1942)
Character: Doc Winslow
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
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The Devil's Mate (1933)
Character: McGee
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Character: Mr. Brown (uncredited)
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
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Lady from Louisiana (1941)
Character: Mayor of New orleans
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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The Conquerors (1932)
Character: Stubby
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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American Madness (1932)
Character: Loan-Seeker (uncredited)
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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My Dog Shep (1946)
Character: The Judge
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.
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The Stranger's Return (1933)
Character: Minor Role
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.
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The Solitaire Man (1933)
Character: Mr. Elmer Hopkins
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
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The Woman Accused (1933)
Character: Judge Osgood
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda confronts Leo and tells him that it's over. Leo, a high-powered attorney calls a hit man to have Jeffrey eliminated. Glenda knocks Leo over the head before he can give the hit man a name. Leo is dead. Glenda sneaks back into her apartment, goes off on the cruise with Jeffrey and pretends that all is swell. Leo's partner, Stephen Bessemer, suspects Glenda and follows her to the ship. Bessemer stages a mock trial aboard the ship and cleverly draws a confession from Glenda. Jeffrey, also an attorney, represents Glenda when she is arrested upon arriving on shore. A skeptical district attorney, and the fact that Jeffrey horsewhips the star witness (the hit man), combine to get Glenda completely off the hook.
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My Woman (1933)
Character: Lou
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
Character: Campbell Snowden
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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Sinner Take All (1936)
Character: Sgt. Berkovitch (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Professor Beware (1938)
Character: Man Shaving on Boat
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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Too Many Women (1942)
Character: John Cartwright
Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister.
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Stage Mother (1933)
Character: Mr. Rumley (uncredited)
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Meet John Doe (1941)
Character: Mayor Hawkins
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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The Lost Jungle (1934)
Character: Maitland
Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
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In Caliente (1935)
Character: Biggs
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Last Auto Camp Manager (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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So Big! (1932)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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Without Reservations (1946)
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Magic Town (1947)
Character: Mayor
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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Every Night at Eight (1935)
Character: Col. Ratchfield (uncredited)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Hoi Polloi (1935)
Character: Prof. Richmond (uncredited)
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges' new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
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Swing Hostess (1944)
Character: Fralick
An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
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Lady Killer (1933)
Character: J.B. Roland (uncredited)
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
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To Beat the Band (1935)
Character: Chubby Diner
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
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The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Character: Telegrapher
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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Welcome Home (1935)
Character: Flink
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
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Central Park (1932)
Character: Police Captain (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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Doctor X (1932)
Character: Mike, Waterfront Policeman
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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Hotel Imperial (1939)
Character: Burgomeister (uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Badman's Territory (1946)
Character: Hodge
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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State Fair (1933)
Character: Professor Tyler Cramp (Uncredited)
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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The Dark Horse (1932)
Character: Mr. Jones
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Character: Victor Dupont (uncredited)
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Character: Pat O'Connor's Uncle
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 Came C.O.D. (1941)
Character: Judge Sobler
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: Diner Counterman
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Character: Fat Man
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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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Joe Cuney (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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Gentle Julia (1936)
Character: Grandpa Atwater
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
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Inside the Law (1942)
Character: Judge Mortimer Gibbs
A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.
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Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Character: Dock Ticket Office Clerk
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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One Year Later (1933)
Character: Man Shaving on Train
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
Character: Joshua Baldwin
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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Jesse James (1939)
Character: Engineer (uncredited)
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Shadows on the Sage (1942)
Character: Lippy
Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck. The Three Mesquiteers, Tucson, Stony, and Lullaby arrive to help Sheriff Lippy fight the outlaws. But when the gang leader Curly Joe captures Tucson and notices the resemblance, he assumes Tucson's identity.
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The Best Man Wins (1935)
Character: Uncle Ed
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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Fugitive Road (1934)
Character: Burgomaster
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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The Wet Parade (1932)
Character: Wilson Supporter (uncredited)
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
Character: Honest John Brady
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
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I Demand Payment (1938)
Character: Justice of the Peace
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.
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