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Everybody's Old Man (1936)
Character: Clerk
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
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Love Affair (1932)
Character: Charlie - Mayfair Headwaiter (uncredited)
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
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Behind Stone Walls (1932)
Character: Reporter at Trial (uncredited)
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene's butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob's girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene...
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
Character: Ambulance Orderly
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Senator (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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Juvenile Court (1938)
Character: Man (uncredited)
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Big Town Girl (1937)
Character: Reporter
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Mandrake the Magician (1939)
Character: Roadster Henchman
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Cash and Carry (1937)
Character: President's Secretary (uncredited)
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
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Start Cheering (1938)
Character: Studio Writer
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Paradise Express (1937)
Character: (uncredited)
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Gun Smoke (1931)
Character: Jassy Quinn (uncredited)
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
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She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Character: Reporter
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Telegraph Operator
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Postal Inspector (1936)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Gang Bullets (1938)
Character: Al (uncredited)
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Pete (uncredited)
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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You Only Live Once (1937)
Character: Male Nurse (uncredited)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Christmas in July (1940)
Character: Juror (uncredited)
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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