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Ups and Downs (1937)
Character: J.C. Daily
An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.
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Once to Every Woman (1956)
Character: Dr. Bradford
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
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The Story of Mr. Hobbs (1947)
Character: E.K. Lester
Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented.
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From the Terrace (1960)
Character: Partner (uncredited)
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Character: Judge
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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Rails Into Laramie (1954)
Character: Higby
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Kathy O' (1958)
Character: Bixby
A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.
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The Night Runner (1957)
Character: Dr. Royce
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?
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The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
Character: Dr. May (Uncredited)
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
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Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
Character: Mr. Moffitt (uncredited)
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
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Texas Lady (1955)
Character: Judge Herzog
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
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Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Character: Dr. Allan
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
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Jigsaw (1949)
Character: Pemberton
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murders related to a neo-fascist organisation.
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Kiss of Death (1947)
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Character: Dr. W. Gregory Harcourt
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
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Illegal (1955)
Character: Municipal Court Judge (uncredited)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Outside the Law (1956)
Character: Warden Lewis
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
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The Naked City (1948)
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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Black Tuesday (1954)
Character: Prison Warden (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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