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The Dragon’s Claw (1915)
Character: N/A
A little girl and her father are among the settlers in a small western town. The father is very friendly with the neighboring Indian tribe and is presented with a quaint piece of metal representing a dragon's claw, the tribe's good luck omen. Some time later, while traveling with his daughter, he is held up by a band of bandits and shot dead. A bandit takes from him this dragon's claw. Years pass. The little girl has grown into a beautiful young lady. She marries. Their love is very real and their life most happy. He decides to go out west to see a mine that yields the richest gold and his wife expresses a desire to go along with him. The mine is christened "The Dragon's Claw," because of an Indian charm the man owns. While out on a western desert, he shows the dragon's claw to his wife. She then recognizes it as the kind her father possessed when he was killed. She has understood it to be the only one of its kind. She now believes it is her husband who killed her father.
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The Man I Marry (1936)
Character: Jack Gordon
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
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Citadel of Crime (1941)
Character: Chet
A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
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The Daring Years (1923)
Character: College boy (as Skeets Gallagher)
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
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Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
Character: Tommy Goodweek
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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Fast Company (1929)
Character: N/A
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
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It Pays to Advertise (1931)
Character: Ambrose Peale
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
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Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Character: Buck
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Paramount on Parade (1930)
Character: Himself / Master of Ceremonies
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Idiot's Delight (1939)
Character: 'Don' Navadel
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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The Night Club Lady (1932)
Character: Tony
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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The Social Lion (1930)
Character: Chick Hathaway
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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Bird of Paradise (1932)
Character: Chester
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
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Yours for the Asking (1936)
Character: Perry Barnes
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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Danger on the Air (1938)
Character: Finney Fish
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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Hats Off (1936)
Character: Buzz Morton
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.
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The Potters (1927)
Character: Red Miller
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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The Conquerors (1932)
Character: Benson
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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Riptide (1934)
Character: Erskine
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
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Too Much Harmony (1933)
Character: Johnny Dixon
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Her Wedding Night (1930)
Character: Bob Talmadge
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
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Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Character: Rabbit
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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The Stolen Jools (1931)
Character: Reporter
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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New York (1927)
Character: Buck
A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her. A lost film.
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Polo Joe (1936)
Character: Haywood
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Zis Boom Bah (1941)
Character: Professor Warren
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
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Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)
Character: Wally Richards
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
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Up Pops the Devil (1931)
Character: Barney Hatfield
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
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Espionage (1937)
Character: Jimmy Brown
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Bachelor Bait (1934)
Character: Bramwell Van Dusen
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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The Road to Reno (1931)
Character: Hoppie
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
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The Sport Parade (1932)
Character: Dizzy
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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Woman Unafraid (1934)
Character: Anthony Desmond
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
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In the Money (1933)
Character: Spunk Hobbs
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
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The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
Character: Ben Pratt
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
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Pointed Heels (1929)
Character: Dash Nixon
Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wray, but he won't use his influences to take any advantages.... as usual, he's a perfect gentleman.
Pointed Heels was supposed to have been a vehicle for "boop-boop-a-doop" girl Helen Kane, but by the time the film was released, Kane's role was reduced to a supporting part.
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Reform Girl (1933)
Character: Joe Burke
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
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The Perfect Clue (1935)
Character: Ronnie Van Zandt
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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Let's Go Native (1930)
Character: Jerry, King of the Island
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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The Crosby Case (1934)
Character: The Reporter--Miller (as 'Skeets' Gallagher)
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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Honey (1930)
Character: Charles Dangerfield
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
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Close Harmony (1929)
Character: Johnny Bay
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
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The Racket (1928)
Character: Miller
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
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Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
Character: Boots McGee
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
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The Unwritten Law (1932)
Character: Pete Brown
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
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Possessed (1931)
Character: Wally Stuart
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
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Duke of Chicago (1949)
Character: Gus Weller
To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
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