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Dumb Dicks (1932)
Character: Mugs
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
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The Promoter (1932)
Character: Burns
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
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Off Again, On Again (1945)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
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The Sting of Stings (1927)
Character: N/A
Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
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Court Plaster (1924)
Character: N/A
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
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Busy Buddies (1924)
Character: N/A
Three hungry pals go to great lengths to feed their appetite.
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Getting Gertie's Goat (1924)
Character: N/A
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
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We Live Again (1934)
Character: Gendarme
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
Character: Dr. Spud O'Leary (uncredited)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Wildcat Bus (1940)
Character: Foreman (uncredited)
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Confessions of a Queen (1925)
Character: (uncredited)
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
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Carnival (1935)
Character: Fireman
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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The Window (1949)
Character: Police Officer (Uncredited)
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
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The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
Character: Peasant (Uncredited)
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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Anything Goes (1936)
Character: Pug-Ugly (uncredited)
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
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Bannerline (1951)
Character: N/A
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
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Sinner Take All (1936)
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Paradise Express (1937)
Character: (uncredited)
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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The Pooch (1932)
Character: Bud the Dogcatcher
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
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Be Yourself! (1930)
Character: Step
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
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Whispering Smith (1948)
Character: N/A
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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Flying Elephants (1928)
Character: Hulking Caveman (uncredited)
Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Character: Cop at Accident
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Les Misérables (1935)
Character: Galley Fight Warder
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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The Tall Target (1951)
Character: Pinkerton Man (uncredited)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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Young Tom Edison (1940)
Character: Train Passenger
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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The General (1926)
Character: Raider (uncredited)
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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The Sea of Grass (1947)
Character: Brakeman (uncredited)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
Character: Guard #1 (uncredited)
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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Captain Caution (1940)
Character: Sailor
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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The Nevadan (1950)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
Character: Stevedore (uncredited)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Oh, Yeah! (1929)
Character: Pop Eye
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the freight-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. Meanwhile, two crooks are at-large, and the boys fall under suspicion.
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Battling Butler (1926)
Character: The Mountain Girl's Brother
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
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Lazy River (1934)
Character: Chief Petty Officer
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Character: Immigration Officer (uncredited)
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Pie-Eyed (1925)
Character: Policeman
It's 3:00 AM at the Firewater Club, and Stanley has had more than enough to drink. When he tries to take over leading the orchestra, the manager - a former boxer - lets him know that he needs to restrain himself. But it's not long before Stanley causes another disruption anyway, and when he then tries to dance with the manager's wife, the manager's patience finally runs out.
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Drift Fence (1936)
Character: Henchman Sam Haverly
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft, who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula, paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise.
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Character: Military Police Sergeant #2 (uncredited)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
Character: Fine (uncredited)
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Character: First Mate (uncredited)
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
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The Texas Ranger (1931)
Character: Breed
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.
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Strange Cargo (1940)
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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After the Dance (1935)
Character: Guard
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Thunder Afloat (1939)
Character: Survivor (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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The Racketeer (1929)
Character: Bernie Weber (as Bud Fine)
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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The Best Man Wins (1935)
Character: Seaman
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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Spring Madness (1938)
Character: Railroad Station Inspector
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
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