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The Man Called Back (1932)
Character: One of the Court Counsels
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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I'll Be Suing You (1934)
Character: Insurance Adjustor (uncredited)
Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
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Done in Oil (1934)
Character: Landlord (uncredited)
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
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Frisco Kid (1935)
Character: Evangelist in The Occidental (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Character: Morgue Attendant's Assistant (Uncredited)
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
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Ivy (1947)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Platinum Blonde (1931)
Character: Typist (uncredited)
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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The Lucky Corner (1936)
Character: Leonard's Father
The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to move their lemonade stand.
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Honolulu (1939)
Character: Pallbearer (uncredited)
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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One More Spring (1935)
Character: Bookkeeper
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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My Man Godfrey (1936)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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White Fang (1936)
Character: Minister
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Professor Beware (1938)
Character: Court Clerk
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Honky Donkey (1934)
Character: Realtor
Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Waiter at Wedding (uncredited)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
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The Glass Key (1942)
Character: Butler (uncredited)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Rustler's Roundup (1933)
Character: Lawyer Homer Jones
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.
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One Wild Night (1938)
Character: Bank Customer (uncredited)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Easy Living (1937)
Character: J.B. Ball's Valet (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Character: N/A
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Maid of Salem (1937)
Character: Townsman (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Afraid to Talk (1932)
Character: Reporter
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Lilly Turner (1933)
Character: Man in Carnival Audience (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival barker, and then falling for a young engineer.
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No More Ladies (1935)
Character: Party Butler (uncredited)
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Character: Reverend Turner
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
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Gateway (1938)
Character: Friend of Mr. McNutt
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Adventure (1945)
Character: Man in Library (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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