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Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
Character: Taxi Driver
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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The Devil with Hitler (1942)
Character: Gestapo Officer (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
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Mr. Noisy (1946)
Character: Baseball Spectator (uncredited)
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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So You Want to Know Your Relatives (1954)
Character: Co-Worker (uncredited)
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
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Edge of Darkness (1943)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
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Captain Fury (1939)
Character: Guard
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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An Annapolis Story (1955)
Character: Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
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The Killing (1956)
Character: Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Iron Man (1951)
Character: Ringside Reporter (uncredited)
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Character: Building & Loan Customer (uncredited)
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Notorious (1946)
Character: Court Stenographer (uncredited)
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Little Giant (1946)
Character: Man in Stockton Office (uncredited)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Riff-Raff (1947)
Character: Man in Hallway (uncredited)
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.
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The House Across the Bay (1940)
Character: Café Patron
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Sports Commentator (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Back from the Front (1943)
Character: Military officer (uncredited)
The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.
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Angels' Alley (1948)
Character: Warehouse Watchman
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
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The Fountainhead (1949)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Pat and Mike (1952)
Character: Waiter at Lindy's (uncredited)
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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The Fighting 69th (1940)
Character: Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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The Window (1949)
Character: Cop Carrying Stretcher (Uncredited)
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
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The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
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I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
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Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
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Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Character: Corporal
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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The Hard Way (1943)
Character: Man in Audience (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Scared Stiff (1953)
Character: Man in Hotel Hallway (uncredited)
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Character: Man Singing at Inquirer Party (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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A Woman's Secret (1949)
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
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Glory Alley (1952)
Character: Boxing Spectator (uncredited)
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
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Woman in Hiding (1950)
Character: Plant Worker (uncredited)
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Rocketship X-M (1950)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
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Three Strangers (1946)
Character: Pub Patron (uncredited)
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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All the King's Men (1949)
Character: Man Tearing Down Poster (uncredited)
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Character: Detective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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The Band Wagon (1953)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Lady on a Train (1945)
Character: N/A
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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White Heat (1949)
Character: Court Officer (uncredited)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Bewitched (1945)
Character: Juror (uncredited)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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The Land Unknown (1957)
Character: Man at Briefing (uncredited)
Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to investigate reports of a mysterious warm water inland lake discovered a decade earlier. His helicopter and its small party, including reporter Maggie Hathaway, is forced down into a volcanic crater by a fierce storm. They find themselves trapped in a lush tropical environment that has survived from prehistoric times.
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Washington Party Guest (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Storm Warning (1951)
Character: Townsman at Recreation Center (uncredited)
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
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The Undercover Man (1949)
Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
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The Great Man's Lady (1941)
Character: Spectator at Dedication
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Easy Living (1949)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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His Butler's Sister (1943)
Character: Park Avenue Doorman
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
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Whispering Smith (1948)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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The Dark Past (1948)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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The Secret Fury (1950)
Character: Trial Spectator (uncredited)
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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Frenchie (1950)
Character: Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Not Wanted (1949)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
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Pinky (1949)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Below the Deadline (1946)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
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The Iron Mistress (1952)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
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The Locket (1946)
Character: Police Stenotypist (uncredited)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend (1957)
Character: Joe - Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
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Motor Patrol (1950)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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So Proudly We Hail (1943)
Character: Troop Ship Survivor (Uncredited)
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Character: Sports Board Clerk (uncredited)
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Character: Confederate Prisoner (uncredited)
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Plainclothesman (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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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Character: Police Clerk (uncredited)
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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The Girl from Mexico (1939)
Character: Wrestling Match Spectator
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
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Easy Living (1937)
Character: Doubledecker Bus Conductor (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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Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.
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Captain Caution (1940)
Character: Sailor
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Character: Reporter at Sparring Session (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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The Judge Steps Out (1947)
Character: Restaurant Waiter (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Character: One of Jim's Black Boys
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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Something to Live For (1952)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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Kitty Foyle (1940)
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
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To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
Character: Treasury Agent in Ship's Galley (uncredited)
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Character: Miner at Colliery (uncredited)
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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Buck Privates (1941)
Character: Army Officer (uncredited)
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Strange Affair (1944)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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Four Guns to the Border (1954)
Character: N/A
A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
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The Far Country (1954)
Character: Miner (uncredited)
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
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Illegal (1955)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Irene (1940)
Character: Diner Patron (uncredited)
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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The Chinese Ring (1947)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
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Magnificent Doll (1946)
Character: Mr. Carroll (uncredited)
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Character: Reporter in Utility Office (uncredited)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Silver River (1948)
Character: Court Marshal Spectator (uncredited)
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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