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Pride of Maryland (1951)
Character: Frankie Longworth
Frankie, a young jockey with a new style of riding that brings him acclaim, is barred from the track when he starts betting on himself. Since he's been donating his winnings to an old flame and her father to help them raise a colt, the forced retirement is quite a blow.
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Racing Luck (1948)
Character: Boots Warren
Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when it wins a claiming race at Santa Anita. Then Stuart learns that the horse will not run without its former stablemate. But neither Stuart nor the Warrens want to give up their respective horses. It is finally agreed that both horses will be entered in the same race, and the winning owner will gain possession of both horses. The only complication is that Phyllis has fallen in love with Stuart.
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Timber Tramps (1975)
Character: 'Hallback' Jack Riley
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
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Jet Job (1952)
Character: Joe Kovak
Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to their publicity woman Marge Stevens if she can entice Joe into quitting Bentley to join their company. When Joe takes repeated unnecessary risks in the air, Bentley fires him and Joe goes to work for the competitor. He almost loses his life when the inferior plane he is testing fails to function at a high altitude, a fault that the designer had anticipated but had let get by because of his greed in getting the contract.
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Saintly Sinners (1962)
Character: Slim
Directed by Jean Yarbrough Ex-con Joseph Braden (Ron Hagerthy) has his car temporarily stolen by a pair of bank robbers who hide their loot in the vehicle's spare tire. After the car is repossessed, it's sold to the kindly Rev. Daniel Sheridan (Don Beddoe), who immediately sets out on a fishing trip. Not knowing that his new automobile was recently used in a heist, Father Dan gets the surprise of his life when he's suddenly stopped by a police officer.
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Hold That Hypnotist (1957)
Character: Duke Coveleskie
When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
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You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943)
Character: Alexander Archibald 'Squirt' O'Reilly
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.
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Fighting Trouble (1956)
Character: Duke Covelske
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
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Red Light (1949)
Character: Carlson Hotel Bellhop
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
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Johnny Holiday (1949)
Character: Eddie Duggan
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
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Wiretapper (1955)
Character: Tony
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
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Mad at the World (1955)
Character: Marty aka Ignatz
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the WolfPack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve.
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Air Strike (1955)
Character: G. H. Alexander
Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenhorns into a squadron of crackerjack jet pilots. Don Haggerty co-stars as the unit's second-in-command who clashes bitterly with the cocky young upstart of the team after the lad shows off with some reckless aerial acrobatics.
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Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Character: Johnny Cates
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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On the Sunny Side (1942)
Character: Tom Sanders
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
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Accent on Love (1941)
Character: Patrick Henry Lombroso
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
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Variety Girl (1947)
Character: Stanley Clements (uncredited)
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Up In Smoke (1957)
Character: Stanislaus 'Duke' Coveleskie
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
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Off Limits (1952)
Character: Bullets Bradley
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.
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The Girl in the Case (1944)
Character: Tuffy
William Warner is a lawyer who is famous for his skill at opening any kind of lock, making him a valuable commodity. William is unknowingly enlisted by German spies who want him to open a chest containing a secret formula. This leads to a madcap adventure involving spies, the police and lots of picked locks!
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
Character: Stash
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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Destination Murder (1950)
Character: Jackie Wales
Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.
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Bad Boy (1949)
Character: Bitsy Johnson
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Character: Stash
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Last of the Desperados (1955)
Character: Bert McGuire
After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang.
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The More the Merrier (1943)
Character: Morton Rodakiewicz
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet (1978)
Character: Saloon Man 2
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
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Going My Way (1944)
Character: Tony Scaponi (uncredited)
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Character: Western Union Boy
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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Boots Malone (1952)
Character: Stash Clements
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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Big Town Scandal (1948)
Character: Tommy Malone
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Panic in the City (1968)
Character: Albert
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
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In the Money (1958)
Character: Stanislaus 'Duke' Coveleskie
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
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Down in San Diego (1941)
Character: Louie Schwartz
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
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Looking for Danger (1957)
Character: Stanislaus 'Duke' Coveleskie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
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Tammy and the Doctor (1963)
Character: Wally Day
Tammy becomes a nurse's aide, works in a hospital, cares for an old rich woman, and causes romantic commotion in the life of Dr. Mark Cheswick.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
Character: Danny (uncredited)
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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See My Lawyer (1945)
Character: Willie
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
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Hot Shots (1956)
Character: Duke Coveleskie
Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
Character: Detroit Harry Morrison Jr.
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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The Rocket Man (1954)
Character: Bob
After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together.
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Hazard (1948)
Character: Joe, Bellboy
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
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Spook Chasers (1957)
Character: Stanislaus 'Duke' Covelesky
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
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Cover Girl (1944)
Character: Elevator Boy (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Canon City (1948)
Character: New
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
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White Lightning (1953)
Character: Mike Connors
The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to bribes being accepted from gamblers by the star player. When the team is joined by cocky Mike Connors, a boyhood friend of Jack's, they begin to regain their former winning ways.
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Hot News (1953)
Character: Mark Miller
An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.
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Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Character: Yonzi
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
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Robbers' Roost (1955)
Character: Chuck
Jim "Tex" Wall, searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays. Both Hays' outlaws and a rival gang headed by Heesman, have been hired as ranch hands by "Bull" Herrick, a cripple who owns a large cattle ranch and wants to get his large herd to market. He theorizes that the two gangs will be kept busy watching each other and neither will rustle his cattle. Helen has little faith in her brother's contrived plan, and hates and distrusts both groups. She begins to soften toward Jim, but abruptly changes when she sees a reward poster which says he has killed two men.
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Army Bound (1952)
Character: Frank Cermak
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
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