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Mercy Plane (1939)
Character: Skid (as Edwin Miller)
Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for special treatment. Gangsters soon move in and offer to take over, without an invitation.
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True to the Army (1942)
Character: Ice (as Edwin Miller)
A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.
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Gateways to the Mind (1958)
Character: Bill
The film presents how the human body recognizes and becomes aware of its surroundings. The various information pathways to the brain such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are explored in a accurate but simple manner via human impression and cartoon characters!
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Strange Holiday (1945)
Character: First Detective
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
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We're Not Married! (1952)
Character: Lunchroom Counterman (uncredited)
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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The Enforcer (1951)
Character: 'Sad Eyes' (uncredited)
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)
Character: Elmo Huston
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
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Side Street (1950)
Character: Nick Drumman / Stevenson
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
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The Twonky (1953)
Character: Ed, TV Repairman
A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.
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Hold That Woman! (1940)
Character: Taxi
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
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Ride, Ryder, Ride! (1949)
Character: Frenchy Beaumont
Riding the plains with Little Beaver and Buckskin Blodgett, Red Ryder encounters bandits trying to hold up the stagecoach carrying Libby Brooks, owner of the Devil's Hole newspaper
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Abandoned (1949)
Character: Morrie the Bookie (uncredited)
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
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Tropical Heat Wave (1952)
Character: Moore
Story of staid college professor gathering data for a thesis in criminal psychology who becomes the object of a night-club singers affections.
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Matilda (1978)
Character: Matson
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
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Come to the Stable (1949)
Character: Whitey (uncredited)
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Character: Dr. Mc.Ewen
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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The Gift (1979)
Character: Mr. Baron
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Masher at Maxim's (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Character: Harold
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
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Mister 880 (1950)
Character: Mousie (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 Manager
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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The Well (1951)
Character: Bert
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
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Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Character: Monk
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
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Half Angel (1951)
Character: Richard 'Mac' MacLeish
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
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Best of the Badmen (1951)
Character: Deputy Hawkins (uncredited)
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
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Lucky Jordan (1942)
Character: Sergeant
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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Rhubarb (1951)
Character: Fish Eye (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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Everybody Does It (1949)
Character: Cleary
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
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The Set-Up (1949)
Character: Danny
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Red Light (1949)
Character: Bert Adams (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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Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Character: Charlie Roy aka The Judge
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.
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Thieves' Highway (1949)
Character: Dave (uncredited)
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Character: Lookout Louie Larchment
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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