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Lost Planet Airmen (1951)
Character: Dr. Graffner
Feature version of the 1949 serial, KING OF THE ROCKETMEN: Young member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy saboteur known only as "Dr. Vulcan".
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Yukon Vengeance (1954)
Character: The Commissioner
In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers.
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Captive Women (1952)
Character: Mutate Council Leader
In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.
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Night Riders of Montana (1951)
Character: Sam Foster
After being hit by rustlers, a group of Montana ranchers asks the governor to send state rangers for protection. State Ranger Rocky Lane becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a gang of horse rustlers and a young rancher who is blamed falsely for a killing. Lane helps uncover the real killers and unmasks the ringleader of the rustlers.
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Convicted (1950)
Character: Parole Board Member (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Texas Dynamo (1950)
Character: Walt Beck
Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego" Steve Drake, but also takes on a third identity, that of a hired gun in the employ of the film's bad guys. As one critic noted, this may be the only western in which the hero is obliged to chase himself. Jock O'Mahoney -- later known as Jock Mahoney -- plays a secondary role, and also doubles for Starrett during the riskier stunt sequences.
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The Fast and the Furious (1954)
Character: Mr. Hillman
A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.
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Hellgate (1952)
Character: Dr. Pelham
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
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A Summer Place (1959)
Character: Dr. Matthias (uncredited)
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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All the King's Men (1949)
Character: Senator (uncredited)
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Colorado Ambush (1951)
Character: Ben Williams
As was customary in his late Monogram westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays an undercover agent in Colorado Ambush. Brown is sent to Colorado to stem the activities of a particularly vicious outlaw gang
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Character: Dr. Randolph
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
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The Neanderthal Man (1953)
Character: Naturalists' Conference Chairman
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
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White Heat (1949)
Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Ghost Chasers (1951)
Character: Professor Krantz
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
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Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Character: Mr. Creely (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Party Girl (1958)
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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It Conquered the World (1956)
Character: U.S. Secretary Platt
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Character: Man Outside the Club (uncredited)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Terror At Black Falls (1962)
Character: Doc Kemper
A Mexican gunslinger is injured trying to save his son and is put into prison. When he's released, he's got revenge on his mind.
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The Night Runner (1957)
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
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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Bright Leaf (1950)
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Blackhawk (1952)
Character: Malcolm Smith [Ch. 10]
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.
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Teenage Cave Man (1958)
Character: Member of the Tribe
Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone."
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Four Guns to the Border (1954)
Character: N/A
A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
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King of the Rocket Men (1949)
Character: Professor Graftner
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.
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Western Renegades (1949)
Character: Paul Gordon
Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss, an outlaw who has killed the community's leading citizen. The dead man's grown children want to investigate the killing, but the outlaw puts a stop to this by hiring a dance-hall dame to pose as the kids' long-lost mother. Johnny isn't fooled by this subterfuge nor is his sidekick.
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