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Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
Character: Nathan Detroit
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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The Great American Mug (1945)
Character: Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.
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Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight (1948)
Character: Saloon Extra (uncredited)
In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.
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Foreign Agent (1942)
Character: Stocky Tough at Warehouse
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Character: Referee
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Sworn Enemy (1936)
Character: Strongarm Man (uncredited)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Character: Ozinski - Newsman (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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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Character: Callahan - Ticket Taker (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Manpower (1941)
Character: Midnight Club Bouncer (uncredited)
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Character: Admission Collector at Gym (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940)
Character: Bartender #1
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
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The Green Hornet (1940)
Character: Thug at the D.A.'s Home (uncredited)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
Character: Diner Customer (uncredited)
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
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Cafe Hostess (1940)
Character: Ice Man
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Swing Fever (1943)
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Border Bandits (1946)
Character: Bartender Cupid (as Pat R. McGee)
Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of crooks whose hideout is on the other side of the Mexican border. Aiding Brown in his task are faithful sidekicks Raymond Hatton and Riley Hill. For reasons unknown, Brown is allowed to sing on occasion, despite the indifference of millions. Border Bandits benefits from the assured direction of veteran horse-opera helmsman Lambert Hillyer.
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Moontide (1942)
Character: Tough Mug at Bar (uncredited)
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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The Crime of the Century (1933)
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
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Homicide Bureau (1939)
Character: Henchman at Pier
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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Mandrake the Magician (1939)
Character: Dam Henchman
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Kelly's Patron
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Coney Island (1943)
Character: Saloon Patron
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
Character: Seaman Observing Fight (uncredited)
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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Voodoo Man (1944)
Character: Grego
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
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A Likely Story (1947)
Character: Smoky (Bartender) (uncredited)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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Midnight Court (1937)
Character: Mug at Party / Mechanic
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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The Lady and the Mob (1939)
Character: Bouncer at Black Kitten Cafe
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Saps at Sea (1940)
Character: N/A
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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Within the Law (1939)
Character: Bus Driver
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Townsman Mob Defendant (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Character: Barfly
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Character: Two Punch Hogan (uncredited)
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
Character: Blood Bank Donor (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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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Danny's Trainer (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Another Thin Man (1939)
Character: Father (uncredited)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Prison Shadows (1936)
Character: Prison Fight Ring Opponent (uncredited)
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
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The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
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Born to Be Wild (1938)
Character: Thug (uncredited)
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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Golden Boy (1939)
Character: Fight Spectator
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Character: Potential Bodyguard (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Body and Soul (1947)
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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The Panther's Claw (1942)
Character: Joe Morgan
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Character: Roulette Croupier
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Mutiny in the Big House (1939)
Character: Convict in Machine Shop
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Hangover Square (1945)
Character: N/A
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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