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He Hired the Boss (1943)
Character: Fuller
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
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By Jupiter! (1946)
Character: Thornton J. Poindexter
Veteran Hollywood actor Chick Chandler plays Thorton Poindexter, a hapless everyman who learns that a little kindness goes a long way when the Roman God Jupiter allows him to relive one particularly miserable day.
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Tango (1936)
Character: Oliver Huston
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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Inside Story (1939)
Character: Snapper Doolan
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
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The Runaway (1961)
Character: Joe Sullivan
The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.
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A Preferred List (1933)
Character: N/A
A Preferred List is a 1933 American Pre-Code short comedy film produced by Lou Brock. At the 6th Academy Awards, held in 1933, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
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In Paris, A.W.O.L. (1936)
Character: Eddie
Three vaudeville actors after being suspected of a jewel theft and going off to war in 1917 are reconciled in 1917.
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Raised and Called (1935)
Character: N/A
Chandler induces Kennedy to ask the boss for a raise, and to pretend he is married, because the chief has a soft spot for his married employees. So Tom gets a $10 raise, and then the boss invites himself out to his house for dinner and to meet the missus, whereupon it becomes necessary for the boys to produce a wife in a hurry, and a dizzy blonde cutie from next door is elected.
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Unlucky Strike (1934)
Character: N/A
The boys wreak havoc at a bowling alley in this riotous Chick Chandler/Tom Kennedy comedy featurette.
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Horse Heir (1935)
Character: N/A
Chick is trying to sell his cheap horse to a lady with a grating and annoying voice...sort of like Betty Boop. Jeanie is married to Tom and apparently she got the money from him. However, the pair accidentally take the wrong horse...instead of a broken down nag, it's a top racehorse. When they find out, they do their best to hide it by painting the horse. Hilarity ensues...or should have ensued.
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Dangerous Charter (1962)
Character: Kick
The crew of a fishing boat discovers a deserted luxury yacht at sea with a dead body on board. They claim the yacht as salvage, not knowing that a drug smuggling ring has hidden $500,000 worth of heroin on the boat.
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Harold Teen (1934)
Character: Lilacs
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
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Forgotten Faces (1936)
Character: Chick
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo with another man. Harry shoots him and takes his 18 month old daughter, Sally to best friend, Sgt. Donovan to find her a good home. Harry turns himself in and gets life in prison. 17 years pass, Cleo is on the brinks of losing her job as a burlesque dancer. Cleo decides to blackmail the McBrides (Sally's devoted adoptive parents). Harry discovers this and promises his warden that while on parole he will protect Sally. Harry trades places with the McBride's butler. While working, Harry discovers a letter addressed to the McBrides from Cleo asking to meet with her. Harry meets with Cleo instead and they begin to fight...
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Time Out for Murder (1938)
Character: Snapper Doolan
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
Character: Jiggers Johnston
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
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The Lady Fights Back (1937)
Character: Steve Crowder
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
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Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956)
Character: Wilbur the Angel
Thanks to the collaboration between American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and Angels from Heaven a song writing working on his latest musical can finally go on his delayed honeymoon. The Angel Chief sends down Wilbur the Angel along with a wireless phone, from the 1950s, to help Jeff's muse , his wife Mary, inspire Jeff to complete the needed song. This while at the same time displaying and utilizing the latest and greatest telephone equipment. This includes color phones to match every decor. Be sure to note the matching wall cords that connect the phone to the wall.
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Music Man (1948)
Character: N/A
Bickering brothers unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.
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Kilroy (1965)
Character: Ben Feeney
Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved in the affairs of the town and hilarity ensues. The mayor of the city, fearing Oscar Kilroy's popularity, schemes to discredit him by entrusting the management of the city dog pound to him. However, against all odds, Oscar Kilroy takes his work to heart at the pound and implements a plan to save the condemned dogs.
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Don't Be a Sucker! (1946)
Character: N/A
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
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Woman-Wise (1937)
Character: Bob Benton
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
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Blondie's Reward (1948)
Character: Bill Cooper
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series.
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969)
Character: Hunley Cobble
A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance adventurer. The gang threatens to kill Johnny, unless he solves the murder. The CIA also investigates - because it turns out that the slaying was part of a long-range Communist plan to take over the crime syndicate. Cain's search for clues leads him into a maze of beautiful girls, mysterious Oriental statues and murderous spies.
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Minesweeper (1943)
Character: Seaman 'Corny' Welch
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Character: Goldberg (uncredited)
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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The West Side Kid (1943)
Character: Shoelace
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
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Puddin' Head (1941)
Character: Herman
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
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It Should Happen to You (1954)
Character: TV Engineer in Booth (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
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Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)
Character: Gus
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Cadet Girl (1941)
Character: Benny Burns
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
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Born Reckless (1937)
Character: Windy Bowman
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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Portia on Trial (1937)
Character: Barker
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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Captain Eddie (1945)
Character: Richard Lacey
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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Show Boat (1951)
Character: Trocadero Stage Assistant (uncredited)
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
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Blondie in Society (1941)
Character: Cliff Peters
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1944)
Character: Jack
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
Character: Pitchman
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
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Naked Gun (1956)
Character: 'Shakey' Wilson
Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
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Holiday Affair (1949)
Character: New Year's Celebrant (uncredited)
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
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Off to the Races (1937)
Character: Spike
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Too Busy to Work (1939)
Character: Cracker McGurk
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Character: Reporter
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
Character: Soda Clerk
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
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City Girl (1938)
Character: Mike Harrison
In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook is only using her as a pawn in his scheme to learn the DA's secrets. When she finally does learn the truth, she gives up her life for truth, justice and love.
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Private Eyes (1953)
Character: Eddie
After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.
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Love and Hisses (1937)
Character: Hoffman
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Leave It to Blondie (1945)
Character: Eddie Baxter
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers.
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Remember the Day (1941)
Character: Mr. Mason
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Steel Town (1952)
Character: Ernie
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the daughter, "Red", who is already involved with another steelworker. Although he is at first has a hard time with his co-workers, he eventually wins them over, and also wins the girl.
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Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
Character: Chauffeur
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
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Star for a Night (1936)
Character: Eddie
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Lost Continent (1951)
Character: Lt. Danny Wilson
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
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Charter Pilot (1940)
Character: Fred Adams
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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The Great Rupert (1950)
Character: Phil Davis
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
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Sailors on Leave (1941)
Character: Swifty
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Swanee River (1939)
Character: Bones
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Alias Mary Dow (1935)
Character: Jimmie Kane
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)
Character: Marty Hicks
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
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Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
Character: James Richard 'Jim' Baldwin
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
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Untamed Heiress (1954)
Character: Eddie Taylor
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first he must reclaim his stash of gold from the crooked Williams. Judy helps the old coot by taking on not only Williams, but duplicitous private detectives Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor, not to mention gangsters Spider Mike and Louie.
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The Mysterious Miss X (1939)
Character: Dan 'Scooter' Casey
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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Honeymoon Deferred (1940)
Character: 'Hap' Maguire
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
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Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941)
Character: Knuckles
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
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Blood Money (1933)
Character: Drury Darling
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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The Big Shot (1942)
Character: Frank 'Dancer' Smith
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Man in Car at Diner (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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Spy Train (1943)
Character: Stew Stewart
People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.
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A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
Character: Louie
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
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Sing and Be Happy (1937)
Character: Mike
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
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Bright Leaf (1950)
Character: Tobacco Auctioneer (uncredited)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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It Started with Eve (1941)
Character: Frank (uncredited)
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Sweepings (1933)
Character: Gene's Friend (Uncredited)
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
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Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Character: Emcee at Theatre (uncredited)
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Wyoming Mail (1950)
Character: Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
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One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Character: Charlie Milford
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Ted Dooley
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Seven Doors to Death (1944)
Character: Jimmy McMillan
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
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Battle Cry (1955)
Character: Capt. Chaplin (uncredited)
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
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Hotel for Women (1939)
Character: Ben Ritchie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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On Their Own (1940)
Character: Doc Duggan
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
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My Sister Eileen (1942)
Character: Air Raid Warden (uncredited)
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Character: Detective Outside Chinese Laundromat
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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The Party's Over (1934)
Character: Martin
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.
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Melody Cruise (1933)
Character: Hickey
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
Character: Bartender
A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.
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The Christmas Spirit (1956)
Character: Austin Blaine
Story about two boys who want ponies for Christmas but their family can only afford one. The horse owner, who is bitter about the loss of his son in the war, is softened by the boys' sacrifice for each other.
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The Patsy (1964)
Character: Hedda Hopper's Escort (uncredited)
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
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The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
Character: Reporter
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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Family Honeymoon (1948)
Character: Taxi driver
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
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Missing Evidence (1939)
Character: Jerry Howard
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)
Character: Chick Davis
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
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Pier 13 (1940)
Character: Nickie
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Character: Assistant Director
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Speed to Burn (1938)
Character: Sport Fields
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
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While New York Sleeps (1938)
Character: Snapper Doolan
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Baby Face Morgan (1942)
Character: Oliver Harrison
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
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Hideout (1949)
Character: Joe Bottomley (as Fletcher Chandler)
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.
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Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
Character: Dick French
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Betting Parlor Clerk
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Home in Wyomin' (1942)
Character: 'Hack' Hackett
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
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The Chicago Kid (1945)
Character: Squeak
The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the elder Ferrill dies behind bars. Vowing revenge on Society, Joe aligns himself with a bunch of gangsters. He intends to use his mob connections to get even with auditor John Mitchell, the man whose testimony sent Joe's dad to the Big House. But Joe hasn't counted on falling in love with Mitchell's pretty daughter Chris.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Character: Louie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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Three of a Kind (1936)
Character: Jerry Bassett
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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