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The Last Mile (1932)
Character: Fred Mayer... Cell 3
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Wide Open Faces (1938)
Character: Gangster
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Quiet Please! (1933)
Character: Tough Guy
In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling on.
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Gem-Jams (1943)
Character: Hotel Imperial House Detective
Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious.
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Maid to Order (1931)
Character: Harry
While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on her way to the States to take control of the gang, has been caught. Because the American gangsters don't know what their English boss looks like, the police persuade a female impersonator to pretend to be her and infiltrate the gang.
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Eve Knew Her Apples (1945)
Character: First Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
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Stool Pigeon (1928)
Character: Red
An underworld story about a boy (Charles Delaney) suspected of being a stool pigeon but in reality, he is only stealing to give his mother a better life. His devoted girlfriend Goldie (Olive Borden) tries to help him turn his life around.
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I'll Take Romance (1937)
Character: Taxi Driver
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
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Motor Madness (1937)
Character: Henchman Jeff Skinner
After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.
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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Character: Gangster
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Knock on Any Door (1949)
Character: Detective Interrogating Romano (uncredited)
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Sworn Enemy (1936)
Character: Morris, a Gangster (uncredited)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Flying Hostess (1936)
Character: 'Knuckles' Boland
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
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Corsair (1931)
Character: First Mate of the Corsair
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Character: Jones, a Sailor
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Hollywood Cowboy (1937)
Character: Henchman Camby
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce Butler, he hires on at her ranch and quickly gets caught up in Butler's conflict with Kramer. When the Butlers refuse to buy his service, he has their cattle stampeded.
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Whirlpool (1934)
Character: Spike (uncredited)
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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She Learned About Sailors (1934)
Character: Departing Sailor
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together.
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Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
Character: Gangster (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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The Border Patrolman (1936)
Character: Frank Adams
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
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The Flying Missile (1950)
Character: Shipboard Observation Officer
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Criminal Code (1931)
Character: Jerry
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Kid Glove Killer (1942)
Character: Henchman Collecting from Eddie (uncredited)
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Character: Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Prisoner on Train
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Dancers in the Dark (1932)
Character: Smitty - Bouncer (uncredited)
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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I've Always Loved You (1946)
Character: Stagehand 2
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
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Broadway Serenade (1939)
Character: Chuck (uncredited)
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Shrine Auditorium Photographer (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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Woman Wanted (1935)
Character: Smiley's Henchman (uncredited)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Character: State Trooper (uncredited)
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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The Fireball (1950)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Pinball Distributor (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Character: Flint
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.
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Secret Valley (1937)
Character: Henchman Chance
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
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36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Character: Gangster Riding in Truck
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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San Antonio (1945)
Character: N/A
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Character: Cab Driver #2 (uncredited)
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
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Call of the Prairie (1936)
Character: Tom Slade
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
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Little Caesar (1931)
Character: Rico's 'Butler' (uncredited)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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I Stole a Million (1939)
Character: Post Office Guard (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Invisible Stripes (1939)
Character: Getaway Driver at Bank Job (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Captain Kidd (1945)
Character: Peter Sharfstone (uncredited)
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
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Stage Door (1937)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
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The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Character: Jimmy Kirk, Gangster (uncredited)
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: Strong Arm Man
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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All of Me (1934)
Character: Mickey (uncredited)
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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A Gem of a Jam (1943)
Character: Shorter Henchman
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
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The Accusing Finger (1936)
Character: Reporter
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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'G' Men (1935)
Character: Hood (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Destroyer (1943)
Character: Knife-Eating Sailor
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Dragon Seed (1944)
Character: Japanese Officer (uncredited)
Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against the Japanese invaders.
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The Death Kiss (1932)
Character: Assistant Director
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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Sabotage Squad (1942)
Character: Booking Room Sergeant
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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Dressed to Kill (1928)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
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Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Character: Captain of waiters (uncredited)
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
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San Quentin (1937)
Character: Convict
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
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Pacific Blackout (1941)
Character: Cop #2 in Cafe
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Character: Fisherman
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Character: Carnival Game Proprietor (uncredited)
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
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Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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A Fool's Advice (1932)
Character: Kelly's Henchman
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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The Chief (1933)
Character: Henchman Who Gets Kicked (uncredited)
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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A Man's World (1942)
Character: Eddie Bartlett
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
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Smart Blonde (1937)
Character: 2nd Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Mr. Cooper
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Lost in a Harem (1944)
Character: Laughing Palace Official (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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The Bank Dick (1940)
Character: Filthy McNasty aka Rupulsive Rogan
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Air Hawks (1935)
Character: Arnold's Chief Henchman
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Sea Raiders (1941)
Character: Speeding Motorist (archive footage)
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Side Street (1929)
Character: Henchman Blondie (uncredited)
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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A Submarine Pirate (1915)
Character: Navigator / Torpedo Loader (uncredited)
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Fireman
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Crooked Way (1949)
Character: N/A
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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Riffraff (1936)
Character: 'Speed'
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Gangster in Car
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Character: Pete Floogle (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
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Crack-Up (1946)
Character: Card Player on Train (Uncredited)
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Rebellious Daughters (1938)
Character: Al - Chief Henchman
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
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Without Orders (1936)
Character: Reporter
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
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Apache Trail (1942)
Character: Shotgun Guard (uncredited)
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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Lucky Legs (1942)
Character: Reporter
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: Reporter in Dressing Room (uncredited)
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Character: Deputy Madison (uncredited)
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
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Lucky Jordan (1942)
Character: First Killer (as Al M. Hill)
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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The Soul of a Monster (1944)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
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One Night at Susie's (1930)
Character: Chippy (Uncredited)
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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Buried Loot (1935)
Character: Louie Rattig (uncredited)
An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.
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Slightly Honorable (1939)
Character: Bartender (Uncredited)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Living It Up (1954)
Character: Newspaper Slugger (uncredited)
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Cafe Society (1939)
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Broadway Babies (1929)
Character: One of Perc's Henchmen
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
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Parole Racket (1937)
Character: Dapper Dunning
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.
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Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Character: Clinton (uncredited)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Me, Gangster (1928)
Character: Danny
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
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Run for the Hills (1953)
Character: Process Server
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
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Lady Killer (1933)
Character: Casino Bouncer (uncredited)
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
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Eternally Yours (1939)
Character: Heckler
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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The Drop Kick (1927)
Character: Jack's Buddy at Dance
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
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Crash Donovan (1936)
Character: Mike
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Red Light (1949)
Character: Burt (uncredited)
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
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The Big Noise (1936)
Character: Slug Batterson, Morelli's Henchman (uncredited)
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
Character: Workman at Ringside
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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The Winning Ticket (1935)
Character: Bookie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Slightly French (1949)
Character: Carnival Barker (uncredited)
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Broken Lance (1954)
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.
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Private Jones (1933)
Character: Howard (uncredited)
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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Alibi (1929)
Character: Brown - a Crook
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
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Joy of Living (1938)
Character: Look Photographer (Uncredited)
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
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The Miami Story (1954)
Character: N/A
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
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Northwest Rangers (1942)
Character: Poker Player
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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For Me and My Gal (1942)
Character: Newark Palace Stagehand (uncredited)
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
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Murder in Times Square (1943)
Character: Older Detective
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Dangerous Passage (1944)
Character: Crewman (uncredited)
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
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Lucky Partners (1940)
Character: Bob Clark (uncredited)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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She's Got Everything (1937)
Character: Second Taxi Driver
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Character: Tough on Pay Phone
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Road to Utopia (1946)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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Dr. Broadway (1942)
Character: Jerry
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Three on the Trail (1936)
Character: Henchman Kit Thorpe
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942)
Character: Tim
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Character: Johnny - a Gangster (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Against the Law (1934)
Character: Reardon
Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with his friend, Doctor Bill Barie (the house surgeon in the Emergency Ward), for the attentions of nurse Martha Gray. Despite their rivalry, Steve still endeavors to free his friend from the grip of a merciless racketeer and a gambling gang. But Steve fails in his efforts and then sets out to avenge his friend and smash-up the gang.
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Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Character: Flintwood Policeman (uncredited)
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: Al
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Seven Sinners (1940)
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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Name the Woman (1934)
Character: Maxie
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.
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Nocturne (1946)
Character: Flynn (uncredited)
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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The Escape (1939)
Character: Lefty
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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Lady with a Past (1932)
Character: Collins the Chauffeur (Uncredited)
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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Partners of the Plains (1938)
Character: Doc Galer
Lorna Drake has inherited a ranch. Hoppy teaches her a bit about ranching and handles Scar Lewis, the bad guy, in the process.
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Men with Wings (1938)
Character: Mail Driver
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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You Only Live Once (1937)
Character: Attendant in Second Gas Station (uncredited)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Holiday (1930)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: 1st Ex-Con (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Honolulu Lu (1941)
Character: Detective
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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711 Ocean Drive (1950)
Character: Al - Las Vegas Bookmaker (uncredited)
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
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Missing Evidence (1939)
Character: Galvin
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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The Killers (1946)
Character: Disgruntled Diner Patron (uncredited)
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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Night in New Orleans (1942)
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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The Payoff (1935)
Character: Mike
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Vicki (1953)
Character: Seedy Movie House Patron (uncredited)
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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Calamity Jane (1953)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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Smuggler's Gold (1951)
Character: Walt
A deep-sea diver becomes romantically involved with the daughter of a gold smuggler.
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Take the Stand (1934)
Character: Man at Radio Station (uncredited)
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
Character: Man Cooking in his Room (uncredited)
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
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Winter Carnival (1939)
Character: New York Mercury Reporter
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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The Racketeer (1929)
Character: Squid
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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Station West (1948)
Character: Dice Table Croupier (uncredited)
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
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Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Character: Al - Sonny's Henchman (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Junior G-Men (1940)
Character: Henchman Burke (uncredited)
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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That's My Man (1947)
Character: Man at $100 window
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Half Way to Heaven (1929)
Character: Blackie
A trapeze artist causes the death of another over their mutual love of a girl. When a new artist joins the troupe and falls in love with her, she must protect him from her ex-lover's jealous rage.
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Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Character: Fire Chief (Uncredited)
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
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Punch Drunks (1934)
Character: Killer Kilduff (uncredited)
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Character: Bookie (uncredited)
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
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Night After Night (1932)
Character: Blainey
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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