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A Sound of Different Drummers (1957)
Character: George
A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intellectual activity, including executing book readers. He catches a librarian hiding a banned book and joins her in reading books.
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For the Love of Rusty (1947)
Character: J. Cecil Rinehardt
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trailer during the night, and Rusty rescues the vet before he is overcome.
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Betty Co-Ed (1946)
Character: Plimpton
Joanne Leeds, a carnival hootchy-kootchy dancer, is accepted into a snobbish college sorority when it is assumed that she hails from a blue-blooded Virginia family.
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Champagne for Caesar (1950)
Character: Mr. Brown
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
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The Enforcer (1951)
Character: N/A
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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Night and Day (1946)
Character: Minister (uncredited)
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
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The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Character: Dr. Knight
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Spellbound (1945)
Character: Hallett - Railroad Clerk (uncredited)
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Roughly Speaking (1945)
Character: The Professor (uncredited)
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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The Young Lions (1958)
Character: Milkman (uncredited)
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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Champion (1949)
Character: Fight Doctor (uncredited)
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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Half Past Midnight (1948)
Character: Bascomb, Bondman
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
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Man-Made Monster (1941)
Character: Dr. Bruno
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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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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New York Town (1941)
Character: (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Character: Music Store Manager (uncredited)
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
Character: Bellboy
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
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Madame Curie (1943)
Character: Singing Professor (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
Character: Holliday (uncredited)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Bachelor Daddy (1941)
Character: Judge McGinnis
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
Character: Man (uncredited)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Young Widow (1946)
Character: Photographer (Uncredited)
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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Lucky Jordan (1942)
Character: Clarence
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Character: Stage Door Man (uncredited)
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
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The Glass Key (1942)
Character: Claude Tuttle
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Character: Elliott (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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Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
Character: Hawkins, alias A. P. Smith
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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Uncertain Glory (1944)
Character: N/A
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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On the Town (1949)
Character: Professor
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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The Judge Steps Out (1947)
Character: Man on Train (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Father Takes a Wife (1941)
Character: Henderson (as George Meador)
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
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The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Character: Hank - Lansing's Father-in-Law (uncredited)
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
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The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Character: Dinwiddle
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940)
Character: Harry Johnson
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
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The Unsuspected (1947)
Character: Fritz (uncredited)
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
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Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Minister
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Dangerous Years (1947)
Character: Oliver Hughes (uncredited)
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Character: Principal (uncredited)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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