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He Hired the Boss (1943)
Character: Stokes
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
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Whispers (1941)
Character: Marty Stevens (uncredited)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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Harmon of Michigan (1941)
Character: Joe Scudder
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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A Panic in the Parlor (1941)
Character: Leon's Boss
Leon goes partying in Tijuana with a friend, but his wife gets wise and makes plans to teach him a lesson. She pretends to have a couple of lovers, including a large Cossack knife-handler. Leon, in order to trap her, disguises himself only to mess up things all around.
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Say Uncle (1944)
Character: N/A
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns from a trip. His solution to pass them off as his uncle and niece from Alaska doesn't work out very well.
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Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
Character: McDermott
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
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You, the People (1940)
Character: Bailey Henchman
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Buyer Beware (1940)
Character: Marty Vincent (uncredited)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Character: Fake Dutch Detective (uncredited)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
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Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
Character: Guard
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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No Way Out (1950)
Character: Ed Kowlaski (uncredited)
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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Mr. Dynamite (1941)
Character: Tour Guide
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
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Trapped (1949)
Character: Deputy Marshal (uncredited)
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
Character: Warden (uncredited)
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Kid Glove Killer (1942)
Character: Police Chief Spencer (uncredited)
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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Paul Bunyan (1958)
Character: Shot Gunderson (voice)
A retelling of the classic Canadian / American tall tale of the enormous lumberjack and his loyal companion, an equally huge blue ox.
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This Time for Keeps (1942)
Character: Train Conductor
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Three Girls About Town (1941)
Character: Union Man
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Burma Convoy (1941)
Character: Hank
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Utah Blaine (1957)
Character: Joe Neal
Western about Calhoun helping to overcome land-grabbing outlaws.
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Roaring Guns (1944)
Character: N/A
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Arabian Nights (1942)
Character: Provost Marshal (uncredited)
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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The Devil's Henchmen (1949)
Character: Police Detective Whalen
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.
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Ball of Fire (1941)
Character: Cop with Ms. Bragg (uncredited)
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Character: N/A
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
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All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Character: Conductor (uncredited)
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
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Inside Detroit (1955)
Character: Ben Macauley
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
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My Sister Eileen (1955)
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
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Blondie Goes to College (1942)
Character: Detective Getting Dithers
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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Hit the Ice (1943)
Character: Fire Chief (uncredited)
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
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The Tall Target (1951)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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Fury at Showdown (1957)
Character: Mr. Phelps
After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer has other ideas.
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Character: Homicide Captain (uncredited)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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The Werewolf (1956)
Character: Dr. Jonas Gilcrist
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
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Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
Character: Army Officer (uncredited)
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
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Love Crazy (1941)
Character: Uniformed Sanitarium Guard (uncredited)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Sitting Pretty (1948)
Character: Mr. McPherson (uncredited)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Character: Pullman Conductor
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Character: Chuck - Plain Clothes Man (uncredited)
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Character: Inspector Rogers in Show (uncredited)
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
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Escape from San Quentin (1957)
Character: Curly Gruber
Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels he has nothing to lose. Gruber intends to get his robbery loot, which his father, Curly, has successfully hidden from the law. After commandeering a plane, they double-cross Graham, who assembles his gang to get revenge - and Gruber's loot. Meanwhile, Gilbert falls in love with Robbie, his ex-wife’s sister. Through Robbie’s influence, Gilbert decides to go straight, but his cohorts aren’t quite so willing to reform.
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Pot o' Gold (1941)
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
Character: Dickson - City Council Member (uncredited)
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Northern Pursuit (1943)
Character: Winnipeg Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Black Tuesday (1954)
Character: Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
Character: Jessop (uncredited)
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
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