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The Man Who Had Influence (1950)
Character: Jim O'Rourke
Business mogul's son David Grant uses his father's power to extricate himself from problems - until implication in a woman's death tests David's willingness to avoid responsibility.
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Ready for the People (1964)
Character: Chaplain
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
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Wall of Noise (1963)
Character: Judge
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
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The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Character: Mr. Smiley
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
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Three Came to Kill (1960)
Character: Tom Barrett
Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.
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Ensign Pulver (1964)
Character: Governor (uncredited)
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...
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Mardi Gras (1958)
Character: Lt. Col. Vaupell
A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
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Hong Kong Confidential (1958)
Character: CIA Field Chief Dan Young
An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.
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Everything's Ducky (1961)
Character: Frank the Bartender
Everything's Ducky is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Two sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duck waddles all over the ship until he escapes.
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Time Table (1956)
Character: Joe Armstrong
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
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On the Threshold of Space (1956)
Character: Lee Welch
In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even though he's not required to be a subject in the tests. Always remaining a constant source of support, his wife, Pat, accepts his unwavering commitment to scientific progress. When Maj. Ward Thomas becomes the new head of the program, Hollenbeck must convince him of the necessity of taking the extra steps.
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