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Whispers (1941)
Character: Minister (uncredited)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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Memories and Melodies (1935)
Character: Servant (uncredited)
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
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Deep South (1937)
Character: Minister
1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.
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The Story of Doctor Carver (1938)
Character: George Washington Carver's Father (uncredited)
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140 products from all parts of the peanut plant, including the shells and husks. He also developed products based on sweet potatoes and soybeans, and developed a cotton hybrid that was named after him.
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Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Character: Elevator Operator #2 (uncredited)
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
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The Missing Juror (1944)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Black Committeeman (uncredited)
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Character: Charles Culpepper (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Character: Porter at Train Station (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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In Name Only (1939)
Character: Train Waiter (uncredited)
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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The House on 56th Street (1933)
Character: Roulette Player (uncredited)
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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California (1947)
Character: Black Servant (uncredited)
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Character: Man (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Lady from Louisiana (1941)
Character: Louis Napoleon, Mirbeau Servant
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Give Me Liberty (1936)
Character: Washington's Servant Moses (uncredited)
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
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Dangerous Partners (1945)
Character: Railroad Station Porter (uncredited)
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: White House Butler (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Character: Robert
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Mannequin (1938)
Character: Penthouse Servant (Uncredited)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Character: Redcap
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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The Beloved Brat (1938)
Character: Butler at Party
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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Three Godfathers (1936)
Character: Cook (uncredited)
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).
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Going Places (1938)
Character: Butler at Party
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Character: Ambrose (uncredited)
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
Character: Sam (uncredited)
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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On Your Toes (1939)
Character: Chauffeur
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Safari (1940)
Character: Chief
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
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Jezebel (1938)
Character: Servant (uncredited)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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The Green Pastures (1936)
Character: General (uncredited)
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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Swanee River (1939)
Character: Butler
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Without Reservations (1946)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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The Egg and I (1947)
Character: Porter (Uncredited)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Lydia (1941)
Character: Michael's Servant
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Character: Onlooker at Debate (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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The Sea of Grass (1947)
Character: Luke (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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Easy Living (1937)
Character: Graves - J.B. Ball's Porter (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Once a Doctor (1937)
Character: Servant
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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These Glamour Girls (1939)
Character: Porter (uncredited)
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Character: Black Servant (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Love Crazy (1941)
Character: Bristol's Butler (uncredited)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Character: Governor's Servant
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
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Sleepers West (1941)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Character: Joseph (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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The Lady Objects (1938)
Character: Doorman
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
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Imitation of Life (1934)
Character: Pallbearer (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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The Invisible Menace (1938)
Character: Servant
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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Maryland (1940)
Character: N/A
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Son of Ingagi (1940)
Character: Chief of Detectives
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.
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Ruthless (1948)
Character: Phillips, Mansfield's Servant (Uncredited)
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
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Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
Character: Ambrose
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Character: Wilkes' Black Butler (uncredited)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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All-American Co-Ed (1941)
Character: Redcap
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
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On Dress Parade (1939)
Character: Mess Hall Aaiter (uncredited)
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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The Little Foxes (1941)
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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None Shall Escape (1944)
Character: Member of Tribunal (uncredited)
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.
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