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Roaring Guns (1944)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform (1943)
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone Power as a Marine drill instructor; Rudy Vallee leading a military band; and Glenn Ford in the everyday grind of a Marine private.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary (1945)
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
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The Amazon Awakens (1944)
Character: Narrator
A short film made for the U.S. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs about the history of the Amazon basin.
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It's Your Health (1949)
Character: Dr. Hendricks
Tommy Davis asks dentist Dr. Hendricks about his older brother Jim, a star halfback who failed his Annapolis dental examination. The doctor offers good advice, the kind one should share with his friends. Tommy invites his whole gang to hear Dr. Hendricks explain the importance of dental health and how dental disease can be controlled. Dr. Hendricks tells a fascinating story. He talks about mouth hygiene, dental care and the role foods play in protecting dental health. Tommy and his friends learn the facts, and the care of their teeth and health takes on a new, highly important light. As for Jim, he profits, too. The story ends on the note that dental health is essential in health generally, appearance and personality.
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Screen Snapshots: Laguna U.S.A. (1947)
Character: Self - Narrator
The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph Staub is out touring Laguna Beach. While there, he drops in at the Griffin Theatre where actors Brian Aherne, Lon Chaney Jr., Dane Clark and Eddie Bracken are rehearsing, as members of the Griffin Theatre Players, their roles in an upcoming stage presentation of "Of Mice and Men." To be precise, Lon Chaney is not in this film as "Lennie", as some sources seem to think.
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The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948)
Character: Mr. Kurlick
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.
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Trade Winds (1938)
Character: Police Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
Character: Anders J. Finley
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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Task Force (1949)
Character: Sen. Vincent
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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Any Number Can Play (1949)
Character: Mr. Reardon
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
Character: Assistant Bank Manager (uncredited)
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Cover Up (1949)
Character: Stu Weatherby
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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Impact (1949)
Character: Defense Attorney
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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Only the Valiant (1951)
Character: Capt. Jennings
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
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Hot Rod (1950)
Character: Judge David Langham
A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.
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Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Character: Dr. Frederick Townsend
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
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Victory Through Air Power (1943)
Character: Narrator
This is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky's theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.
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Easy Living (1949)
Character: Howard Vollmer
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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Night Unto Night (1949)
Character: Dr. Poole
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
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Artists & Models (1937)
Character: 2nd Announcer (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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Gun to Gun (1944)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkness a fine for unpaid taxes on a herd of over one-thousand cattle. Steve offers to drive the cattle to the commissioners office, even though he fells the fine is unjust. Arriving at the office, Steve learns that Harkness (who he has never met), who has a reputation for dishonesty, is out. Dropping by the cantina, Steve gets into a fight with Harkness, and Harkness swears vengeance on Steve, especially after Steve stampedes the cattle through the town.
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Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Character: Lucille's Attorney
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
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The Underworld Story (1950)
Character: Lieutenant Tilton
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Character: Superintendent
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Slightly Honorable (1939)
Character: Radio Announcer
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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The Wild Angels (1966)
Character: Thomas - Mortician
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
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Exploring the Moon (1960)
Character: Self - Host
Join Art Baker and Dr. C.H. Cleminshaw on a tour of our lunar neighbor in this science-fact short subject.
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Young Dillinger (1965)
Character: Warden
The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
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Spellbound (1945)
Character: Det. Lt. Cooley
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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Take One False Step (1949)
Character: Henry Pritchard
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
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Dark Delusion (1947)
Character: Sanford Burson
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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Artists and Models (1955)
Character: TV Commentator (uncredited)
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
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Massacre River (1949)
Character: Col. James Reid
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
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Wells Fargo Days (1944)
Character: Narrator
A notorious arrives in Sunrise and turns in his gun and promises to avoid trouble. But when robbers shoot his good friend, he straps on his gun again and takes off in pursuit.
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Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
Character: Capt. Johns
After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.
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Trial by Trigger (1944)
Character: Narrator (voice)
California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
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The Walls of Jericho (1948)
Character: Peddigrew
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
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