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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Character: Attendee at Dance
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Devil Pays Off (1941)
Character: Carlos Castillo-Martinez
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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South of Pago Pago (1940)
Character: Ferro
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
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The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Character: Gregory - Perry’s Aide (uncredited)
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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Roaring City (1951)
Character: Eddie Paige
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
Character: Maita
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
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Viva Zapata! (1952)
Character: Captain (uncredited)
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
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Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Character: Wardrobe Buyer
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Captain Kidd (1945)
Character: Theodore Blades (uncredited)
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
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Enemy Agent (1940)
Character: Baronoff
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
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The Rains Came (1939)
Character: John, the Baptist
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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Bombardier (1943)
Character: Japanese Sergeant
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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Dragon Seed (1944)
Character: Capt. Yasuda (uncredited)
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
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Two-Man Submarine (1944)
Character: Gabe Fabian
Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at a secret laboratory on a remote South Pacific Island in order to produce penicillium, the mold from which the magic drug penicillin is derived.
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Singapore Woman (1941)
Character: Singa
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Gunga Din (1939)
Character: Chota
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Broadway (1942)
Character: Trado
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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Strange Conquest (1946)
Character: Molugi
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
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This Woman Is Mine (1941)
Character: Lamazie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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His Girl Friday (1940)
Character: Louie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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South to Karanga (1940)
Character: Manek Sen
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
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Girl from Havana (1940)
Character: Captain Lazear
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
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Zanzibar (1940)
Character: Aba
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Balalaika (1939)
Character: Leo Proplinski
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Whispering Ghosts (1942)
Character: Mack Wolf
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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Panama Lady (1939)
Character: Elisha
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
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Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Character: Dr. Ling
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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Soak the Rich (1936)
Character: N/A
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
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The Leopard Man (1943)
Character: Charlie How-Come
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
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Another Thin Man (1939)
Character: 'Dum-Dum'
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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South of Tahiti (1941)
Character: Tahawa
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
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King of the Mounties (1942)
Character: Adm. Yamata
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
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The Marines Fly High (1940)
Character: Gomez
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Character: Shake Edwards (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Panama Patrol (1939)
Character: Arlie Johnson
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
Character: La'oa
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
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Elephant Walk (1954)
Character: Dr. Pereira
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Henchman
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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The Golden Mistress (1954)
Character: Carl Dexter
Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure hunt. He agrees to let Ann accompany him in search of the treasure after a native he befriended gives him directions and certain voodoo secret charms. They follow an underwater passage to an island where they find a Pagan tribe. They learn that the golden idol is a burial symbol representing the dead and that hundreds of idols are at the bottom of the sacred burial lake.
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Winchester '73 (1950)
Character: Latigo Means
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Submarine Alert (1943)
Character: Commander Toyo
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Back to Bataan (1945)
Character: Japanese Captain
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
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Ski Patrol (1940)
Character: Russian Field Commander
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
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Knock on Wood (1954)
Character: Maurice Papinek
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
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