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The Marriage Clause (1926)
Character: Sam
A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer.
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Behind the Counter (1928)
Character: The Chauffeur
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
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Midnight Madness (1928)
Character: Manubo
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
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Man Power (1927)
Character: Ptomaine
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood.
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Sheer Luck (1931)
Character: Washington Jefferson Smith
Two milkmen foil a prohibition raid set-up; one finds romance with a society deb in the bargain.
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A Holy Terror (1931)
Character: Stuttering Servant (uncredited)
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
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High C's (1930)
Character: Negro Soldier
The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
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Finn and Hattie (1931)
Character: Colored Man
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
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Quick Millions (1931)
Character: Oscar, Bugs' Valet (uncredited)
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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She Loves Me Not (1934)
Character: Henchman in Car
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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Darkened Rooms (1929)
Character: Oscar
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
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Mississippi (1935)
Character: Valet (uncredited)
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Hold 'Em Yale (1928)
Character: Black Butler
A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
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The Golden Strain (1925)
Character: Snowball
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
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Dangerous Curves (1929)
Character: Black Train Porter
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
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Cocktail Hour (1933)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Character: Pullman Porter (uncredited)
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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No Man of Her Own (1932)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
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Too Much Harmony (1933)
Character: Oscar - Eddie's Valet
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Stolen Harmony (1935)
Character: Prison Chimist (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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For Heaven's Sake (1926)
Character: James
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
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Night of Terror (1933)
Character: Martin
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
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Nothing but the Truth (1941)
Character: Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
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Blonde Venus (1932)
Character: Charlie, the Bartender (uncredited)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Character: Porter
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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The Fleet's In (1942)
Character: Valet
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Shadow of the Law (1930)
Character: Elevator Operator
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Beau Sabreur (1928)
Character: Djikki
The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.
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The Freshman (1925)
Character: Dean's Chauffeur (uncredited)
An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
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The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Character: Stuttering Hallboy (uncredited)
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
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Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Character: Waiter
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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This Gun for Hire (1942)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)
Character: Curfew
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Florida Special (1936)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
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Let's Go Native (1930)
Character: Cook (uncredited)
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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Madame Racketeer (1932)
Character: Train Porter
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Close Harmony (1929)
Character: George Washington Brown
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
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Thirteen Women (1932)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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By Whose Hand? (1932)
Character: Pullman Porter (uncredited)
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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