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Wide Open Faces (1938)
Character: Radio Announcer
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Exclusive (1937)
Character: Radio Announcer
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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Music for Madame (1937)
Character: KAFF Radio Announcer (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
Character: Announcer (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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Saturday's Millions (1933)
Character: William Kelly, Announcer
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
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The Crowd Roars (1932)
Character: Second Announcer
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
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Over the Goal (1937)
Character: Radio Announcer
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
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Heat Lightning (1934)
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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Blind Date (1934)
Character: Sam Hayes - Marathon Dance Radio Broadcaster
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Fighting Fools (1949)
Character: Bill Radar, Sportscaster
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
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One Night of Love (1934)
Character: Radio Announcer
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Song of Texas (1943)
Character: Announcer
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Character: Radio Announcer
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
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The Threat (1949)
Character: Radio News Broadcaster (uncredited)
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Announcer (Voice) (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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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Announcer
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Draegerman Courage (1937)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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Wake Island (1942)
Character: N/A
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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He Married His Wife (1940)
Character: Racetrack Announcer
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
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The President Vanishes (1934)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949)
Character: Fight Announcer
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
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Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
Character: Radio Announcer
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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Shall We Dance (1937)
Character: Dispatcher (uncredited)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Break of Hearts (1935)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Character: New York Broadcaster (uncredited)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Character: Radio Announcer
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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The Defense Rests (1934)
Character: Radio Announcer
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Character: Radio Broadcaster
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Sam Hayes - Radio Announcer (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Character: Second Radio Announcer
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Radio Announcer in Nome Alaska (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
Character: Race Announcer (uncredited)
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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Golden Boy (1939)
Character: Broadcaster
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 parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Tail Spin (1939)
Character: Announcer (Uncredited)
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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The Singing Kid (1936)
Character: News Announcer (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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