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Pleasure (1931)
Character: Allan Darrow
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
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The Jucklins (1921)
Character: Station Agent
Pampered debutante Betty Baylock buys a wishing rug from a peddler and wishes for a dark-haired, blue-eyed man, hoping to rid herself of three annoying suitors. However, her wealthy stockbroker father, Robert Baylock, decrees that Betty must choose one of the young men immediately, and she defies him by dismissing them all. Robert's aggravation compounds when Betty falls in love with Jack Grey, who is penniless after squandering a $100,000 fortune. Robert orders Jack to earn back the money he has lost before he can marry Betty. Jack goes into the laundry business and discovers that Robert writes stock tips on his shirt cuffs. He copies the notations and corners a stock, earning $100,000 at Robert's expense. Admitting defeat, Robert gives the young couple his blessing.
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Fightin' Jack (1926)
Character: José Cortez
Jack is accused of horse stealing and trespassing after saving a girl from drowning.
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Spite Marriage (1929)
Character: Scarzi
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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Indiscreet (1931)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
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The Devil's in Love (1933)
Character: Ship Captain
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andre Morand is wrongfully convicted of a murder, he escapes the firing squad with the help of his friend, Jean. Taking refuge in a mission run by the uncle of the beautiful Margot, Andre agrees to care for the sick there. After professing his love for Margot, he learns that she is engaged to Jean, who is now sick. Vowing to return to aid Jean and others, Andre prepares to face death, but a series of events may turn things in his favor.
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Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Character: Leo
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Rugged Water (1925)
Character: Orrin Hendricks
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
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The Social Lion (1930)
Character: 'Knockout' Johnson
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
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Arsène Lupin (1932)
Character: Louvre Guard (uncredited)
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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The Battling Fool (1924)
Character: Clarence Lorraine
William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn prize money to help a crippled girl.
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Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)
Character: Hotel Guest in Lobby
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Slave Ship (1937)
Character: Crew Member
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Yours for the Asking (1936)
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
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Swing Fever (1943)
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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North West Mounted Police (1940)
Character: Jimmy
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Character: (uncredited)
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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The Air Mail (1925)
Character: Rene Lenoir
Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through.
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The Woman Racket (1930)
Character: Duke
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
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What Men Want (1930)
Character: Party Boy
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
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The Hard Hombre (1931)
Character: Abe
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
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Love Is News (1937)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Pope Joan (1972)
Character: Cardinal Jerome
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
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Wives Never Know (1936)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
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Great Guy (1936)
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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Careless Lady (1932)
Character: Speakeasy Patron
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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One Hour with You (1932)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Sins of Man (1936)
Character: Bum
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Character: Speakeasy Patron
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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Gold (1932)
Character: Henchman With Mustache
A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
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The Devil Horse (1932)
Character: Henchman Jake
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Four Walls (1928)
Character: Duke Roma
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
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Professional Soldier (1935)
Character: Gypsy Dancer
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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It's in the Air (1935)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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Madam Satan (1930)
Character: N/A
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
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The Gay Caballero (1940)
Character: Henchman
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.
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Postal Inspector (1936)
Character: Henchman-Driver (uncredited)
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Under the Tonto Rim (1928)
Character: Middleton
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.
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Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Character: Mr. Millaire
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
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Johnny Apollo (1940)
Character: Court Clerk (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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