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Happily Ever After (1978)
Character: Al
Suzanne Somers appears in her first TV starring role in this romantic comedy about an aspiring singer torn between making the most of her one chance at fame in Las Vegas or giving her heart to a love-struck mountain man.
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Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Character: Bookie (uncredited)
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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My Friend Irma (1949)
Character: Butcher (uncredited)
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
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Gang War (1958)
Character: Mr. Tomkins, Syndicate Man
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder case.
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Mister Cory (1957)
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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Campus Sleuth (1948)
Character: Ronnie Wallace
A photographer is murdered just outside a college dance. The body is found by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's being whisked from one point to another on campus by an ex-con night watchman. However, he isn't the killer, and Freddie, Dodie, Betty and Lee set out to find the culprit who put a big damper on their big event.
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French Leave (1948)
Character: Paul
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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The Joker is Wild (1957)
Character: Man in Hotel Suite (uncredited)
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
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The Set-Up (1949)
Character: Fun Palace Barker (uncredited)
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Telethon (1977)
Character: Pit Boss
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
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Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Character: Politician
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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The Panther's Claw (1942)
Character: Hotel Manager Stevens
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
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