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Mixed Nuts (1934)
Character: Prof. Fabian Nelson
Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."
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The Penny Pool (1937)
Character: Billy
'The Penny Pool' (1937) features Duggie Wakefield and his Crazy Gang who come to the assistance of young lovers Tommy Bancroft and Renee Harland, who have been sacked from their jobs for filling in the penny football pools during work hours. But the Crazy Gang's assistance is not always useful!
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Navy Bound (1951)
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
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Maid in Hollywood (1934)
Character: Burglar in Test (uncredited)
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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I'll Be Suing You (1934)
Character: Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
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Crook's Tour (1933)
Character: Billy
A down-and-out Englishman, mistaken for a duke, is invited (for $50.00) to meet the wife of a gangster who is a passenger on a boat chartered by gangsters. When he cannot initially find his wife, the gangster tells the "duke" to remain in his room with his daughter while he finds the wife. Crazy complications ensue!
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A Duke for a Day (1934)
Character: Billy
Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories about other stars marrying into royalty, she demands that Eddie "promote me a husband with a title within 24 hours". With the dubious assistance of reporter Don Barclay and photographer Billy Nelson he talks the first man with a British accent that he meets into marrying Gloria, fooling her into believing he is a Duke. The trouble is that the man is a big fan of Gloria the movie star and is madly in love with her, so after the wedding, when she finds out the truth, her new husband refuses to divorce her. A wild free-for-all fight ensues in the hotel. In typical Hal Roach comedy fashion, numerous innocent bystanders are pulled into the action.
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Next Week-End (1934)
Character: N/A
Will Stanton, drunken host at his own dull dinner party, decides to leave his guests and go out to make whoopee. At a local night club, emcee Eddie Dunn introduces singer Dorothy Granger. Her singing inspires not a single reaction. The dead atmosphere is livened up when Stanton shows up and starts mussing up everybody's hair. It catches on and soon patrons are mussing each other's hair. Stanton goes into the washroom and drunkenly washes two hands - one his and one the attendant's. He takes a bottle of soap back to the dance floor and pours it out, causing all the dancers to fall on their ..well, to fall down. A seltzer spray melee follows and Stanton decides to go home. His dull wife asks Stanton to tell his dull guests if he learned anything out on the town. Stanton picks up a bottle of seltzer and starts spritzing.
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Senorita from the West (1945)
Character: Taxicab Driver
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
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Search for Danger (1949)
Character: Gunman in Back Seat of Car
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
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When Strangers Marry (1944)
Character: Louisville Driver
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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Minesweeper (1943)
Character: Bos'un 'Freshwater' Heims
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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Waterfront (1944)
Character: Butch
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
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High Powered (1945)
Character: Bill Madden
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
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Harvest Melody (1943)
Character: Canvas Back Kirby
Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.
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My Six Convicts (1952)
Character: Guard
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
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Mister 880 (1950)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
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The Undercover Man (1949)
Character: Horse Parlor Bouncer (uncredited)
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
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Look Up and Laugh (1935)
Character: Alf Chirk
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Broadway (1942)
Character: Tommy (uncredited)
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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The Whip Hand (1951)
Character: Ed (uncredited)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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Ransom! (1956)
Character: Angry Man in Fight (uncredited)
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
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Wrecking Crew (1942)
Character: Tom Kemp
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
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False Faces (1943)
Character: Jimmy -- Cab Driver
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Character: Hood (uncredited)
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
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Dillinger (1945)
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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I Live on Danger (1942)
Character: Longshot
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
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His Kind of Woman (1951)
Character: Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
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The Milkman (1950)
Character: Duke
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
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The Shadow on the Window (1957)
Character: Unshaved Man (uncredited)
Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
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Stamp Day for Superman (1954)
Character: Blinky
Superman's commitment to promote US Savings Stamps is temporarily delayed when Lois is kidnapped.
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Drums in the Deep South (1951)
Character: Union Sergeant (uncredited)
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
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Gambler's Choice (1944)
Character: Danny May
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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12 Angry Men (1957)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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Vicki (1953)
Character: Wino (uncredited)
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)
Character: Bill
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
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