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Are Scotchmen Tight (1929)
Character: Tax Assessor
Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!
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Beyond the Rockies (1932)
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
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Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Dance Hall (1941)
Character: Turnkey
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)
Character: Plainclothesman with Sheriff
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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High Flyers (1937)
Character: Cop
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
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The Plot Thickens (1936)
Character: Detective Fanning
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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The Phantom Speaks (1945)
Character: Cop in Park (Uncredited)
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
Character: Sheriff Lem (uncredited)
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
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Under Your Spell (1936)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Let Us Live (1939)
Character: Detective Brown (uncredited)
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Cadet Girl (1941)
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Character: Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Private Detective (1939)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
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Vagabond Lady (1935)
Character: Dock Official (uncredited)
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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Special Agent (1935)
Character: Wilson's Driver (uncredited)
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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Homicide Bureau (1939)
Character: Detective
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Murder Over New York (1940)
Character: Police Officer
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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We Who Are About to Die (1937)
Character: Guard in Visitor's Room (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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In This Our Life (1942)
Character: Police Detective with Millett (uncredited)
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Parachute Jumper (1933)
Character: Detective at Nightclub (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Road Gang (1936)
Character: Frank - Guard (uncredited)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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It All Came True (1940)
Character: Detective with Danny (uncredited)
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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Maid's Night Out (1938)
Character: Policeman Frank (uncredited)
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Policeman Mitchell (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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The Merry Frinks (1934)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Character: Warden
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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The Truth About Murder (1946)
Character: Burgandy Café Doorman (uncredited)
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
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Girl in Danger (1934)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
Character: Doorman George (uncredited)
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Character: Jailer
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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Are These Our Children? (1931)
Character: Policeman in Courtroom
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
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The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Character: Detective Driving Police Car (uncredited)
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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The Power of the Press (1928)
Character: Detective
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
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Parole Girl (1933)
Character: Desk Sergeant
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Thundering Hoofs (1942)
Character: Postal Inspector
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Silent Arresting Detective
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Johnny Apollo (1940)
Character: Courthouse Guard (uncredited)
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)
Character: Police Officer Wilbur
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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