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A Night at the Movies (1937)
Character: Ticket Taker (uncredited)
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
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Hollywood - The Second Step (1936)
Character: Billy Grady (as Ralph Bushman)
This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work consists mostly of fashion shoots and bit parts that end up on the cutting room floor. She is even used as a stand-in for Maureen O'Sullivan on the set of a Tarzan movie when camera angles and lighting must be set up.
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Dangerous Traffic (1926)
Character: Ned Charters
A young newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate mysterious goings-on in a coastal resort town. He discovers the existence of a gang of vicious liquor hijackers. He sets out to expose the ring and help federal agents break it up.
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Desert Command (1946)
Character: Schmidt (archive footage)
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Character: The Soldier
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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The Cyclone Kid (1931)
Character: Steve Andrews
After rancher Harvey Comstock is killed by a rustler in a ploy to buy his ranch cheap, oil is discovered on the ranch.
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Think It Over (1938)
Character: N/A
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
Character: Knight (uncredited)
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.
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Tangled Fortunes (1932)
Character: Jim Collins
A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.
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Our Hospitality (1923)
Character: Clayton Canfield
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
Character: Reporter Larry Hauser (uncredited)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Three Comrades (1938)
Character: Second comic (uncredited)
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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The Shining Hour (1938)
Character: Club Sirocco Doorman (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Last Frontier (1932)
Character: Jeff Maitland
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.
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The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Character: Paige's Palm Springs Doorman (uncredited)
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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The Sins of the Children (1930)
Character: Ludwig
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
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The Man Life Passed By (1923)
Character: Jerry (as Ralph Bushman)
Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.
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The Three Musketeers (1933)
Character: Dutch Schmidt
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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Midnight Faces (1926)
Character: Lynn Claymore
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
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Way Out West (1930)
Character: Steve
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
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Boom Town (1940)
Character: Man with Nitroglycerine (uncredited)
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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Spell of the Circus (1930)
Character: Jack Grant
The manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Man Insuring Collar Size 15 (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Frank, Dealer #1 (uncredited)
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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The Gay Bride (1934)
Character: Mirabelle's Pickup (uncredited)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Crossroads (1942)
Character: Giant Policeman (uncredited)
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Assignment in Brittany (1943)
Character: German Lieutenant (uncredited)
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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The Murder Man (1935)
Character: Pendleton
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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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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It's in the Air (1935)
Character: Martin (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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The Virtue of Rags (1912)
Character: The Grouch
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.
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Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Character: Newsreel Man (uncredited)
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
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The Girl Said No (1930)
Character: McAndrews
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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They Learned About Women (1930)
Character: Haskins
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
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It's a Great Life (1920)
Character: Big Graham (as Ralph Bushman)
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
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Big City (1937)
Character: Banquet Doorman (uncredited)
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
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Four Sons (1928)
Character: Franz - Her Son
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
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Brown of Harvard (1926)
Character: Bob McAndrew
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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The Ship That Died (1938)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investigators propose three hypotheses.
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Viva Villa! (1934)
Character: Wallace Calloway
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
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Let Freedom Ring (1939)
Character: Gagan's Henchman (uncredited)
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Chained (1934)
Character: Gun Salesman (uncredited)
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Character: Young Hospital Intern (uncredited)
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
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