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The Poor Fish (1930)
Character: Harry
Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid fishermen. They leave, so Daisy calls Mr. Gill at the Aquarium and asks if he likes fish. He doesn't, so she invites him over.
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San Francisco Nights (1928)
Character: Tommie
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
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Street of Memories (1940)
Character: Mr. Foster
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
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Doctor Jim (1947)
Character: Mayor
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
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See Your Doctor (1939)
Character: Brother-in-Law
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
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Home Movies (1940)
Character: Party Guest Wearing Bowtie (uncredited)
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
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Sympathy (1929)
Character: William Maxwell
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
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How to Sub-Let (1939)
Character: Mr. Mustavas
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
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Stage to Chino (1940)
Character: J. Horatio Boggs
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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A Dream Comes True (1935)
Character: Himself (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Railroadin' (1941)
Character: George
Produced in 1941, this film was sponsored by Alco Locomotives & General Electric, so naturally their railroad equipment is featured front and center.
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The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Character: Teller / Witness
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Harold Teen (1934)
Character: Pop
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
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Carnival Queen (1937)
Character: Profesor Silva
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
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I'll Remember April (1945)
Character: Joe Billings
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Character: Benny
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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The House of Fear (1939)
Character: Minor Role
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Four Wives (1939)
Character: Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Easy to Love (1934)
Character: Hotel desk clerk
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Lady in a Jam (1942)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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Night and Day (1946)
Character: Man in Hospital Hall (uncredited)
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
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Little Iodine (1946)
Character: Mr. Tremble
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
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The Great O'Malley (1937)
Character: Reporter Pinky Holden
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Sing Me a Love Song (1936)
Character: Mr. Barton (uncredited)
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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A Child Is Born (1939)
Character: Mr. Herbert West
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Roughly Speaking (1945)
Character: The Teacher (uncredited)
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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Land of the Open Range (1942)
Character: Pinky Gardner
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
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Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Character: David Tipton
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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Stella (1950)
Character: Tim Gross
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
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Louisiana Hayride (1944)
Character: Malcolm Cartwright
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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Idiot's Delight (1939)
Character: Frueheim
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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I Wanted Wings (1941)
Character: Mickey
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
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A Scream in the Dark (1943)
Character: Leo Stark
A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
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Private Detective 62 (1933)
Character: Harcourt S. Burns
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Character: Philostrate
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Taxi, Mister (1943)
Character: Police Fingerprint Man
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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Here Comes Carter (1936)
Character: Mel Winter
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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The Firebird (1934)
Character: Emile, Brandt's Valet
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
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Pilot #5 (1943)
Character: Boat Owner
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
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Goodbye Again (1933)
Character: Mr. Clayton
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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Now I'll Tell (1934)
Character: Freddie Stanton
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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I Stole a Million (1939)
Character: Jenkins's Assistant
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Reported Missing (1937)
Character: 'Ab' Steele
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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No Marriage Ties (1933)
Character: Smith
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
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The Devil's Mate (1933)
Character: Parkhurst
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Character: Mr. Gorman
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Character: Pop
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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I Am a Thief (1934)
Character: Daudet
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
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Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
Character: Higgins
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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Hired Wife (1940)
Character: William
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Character: Mr. Schlitz
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Wonder Bar (1934)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Jackass Mail (1942)
Character: Gospel Jones
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Bordertown (1935)
Character: Harry
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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Stage Struck (1936)
Character: Wayne
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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Love Letters of a Star (1936)
Character: Chester Blodgett
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Character: Mr. Harris (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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An Angel from Texas (1940)
Character: Mr. Robelink
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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Madame du Barry (1934)
Character: Professor de la Vauguyon
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Two Against the World (1936)
Character: Tippy Mantus
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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Colleen (1936)
Character: Noggin
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Character: Charles Miller
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Shooting High (1940)
Character: Clem Perkle
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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Too Much Harmony (1933)
Character: Piano Tuner
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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A Modern Hero (1934)
Character: Henry Mueller
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Character: Front Office Man
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Jules
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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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Character: Barber Doyle
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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The Lady Consents (1936)
Character: Mr. Yardley
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
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Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Character: Mr. Rostigaff
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Philbert O. Slemp
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: James Peters - Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Character: Mr. Manleigh
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
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Kansas City Princess (1934)
Character: Alderman Sam Warren
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Character: Potts
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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Girl Overboard (1937)
Character: Joseph L. 'Joe' Gray
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
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Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Character: Inventor on Ship (uncredited)
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Mysterious Crossing (1936)
Character: Ned J. Stebbins
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
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Our Wife (1941)
Character: Shipboard Passenger (uncredited)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Horror Island (1941)
Character: Professor Jasper Quinley
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
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The Golden Arrow (1936)
Character: DeWolfe
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Stevens
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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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940)
Character: Gimpy Darnell
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is.
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Cain and Mabel (1936)
Character: Milo
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
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Housewife (1934)
Character: George Wilson
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
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Guest in the House (1944)
Character: Mr. Blossom
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
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Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Character: Henri Fippany
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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Margie (1946)
Character: Mr. Angus MacDuff
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
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Dark Hazard (1934)
Character: George Mayhew
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
Character: Mr. Wilson
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
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Charter Pilot (1940)
Character: Horace Sturgeon
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Three Smart Girls (1936)
Character: Wilbur Lamb
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Stand by for Action (1942)
Character: Carpenter's Mate 'Chips'
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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Hi, Nellie! (1934)
Character: Fullerton
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Tell No Tales (1939)
Character: Charlie Daggett
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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The Wall Street Mystery (1931)
Character: Martin Hill
When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found in the closet, a frightened African-American elevator operator, and a suspicious business associate are among the witnesses questioned.
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We're in the Money (1935)
Character: Max
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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From Headquarters (1933)
Character: Muggs Manton
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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The Inside Story (1948)
Character: Mr. Mason
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
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Captain Blood (1935)
Character: Dr. Bronson
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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The Kansan (1943)
Character: Josh Hudkins
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Zenobia (1939)
Character: Mr. Dover
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Convention City (1933)
Character: Wendell Orchard
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
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Down in San Diego (1941)
Character: Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
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I Sell Anything (1934)
Character: Stooge
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Kismet (1944)
Character: Moolah
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Career (1939)
Character: Jim Bronson
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
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Never Say Die (1939)
Character: Druggist
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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San Diego I Love You (1944)
Character: Mr. McGregor (uncredited)
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
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Best Man Wins (1948)
Character: Amos
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
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Whistling in Dixie (1942)
Character: Mr. Panky
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
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That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
Character: Dwight Cook
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
Character: Clark
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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What a Woman (1943)
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Character: Whitey Boone
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
Character: Homer Pringle
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
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My Girl Tisa (1948)
Character: Sigmund
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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While the Patient Slept (1935)
Character: Eustace Federie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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The St. Louis Kid (1934)
Character: Richardson
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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Reno (1939)
Character: Abe Compass
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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State Fair (1933)
Character: Professor Fred Coin (Uncredited)
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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Wings in the Dark (1935)
Character: Mac
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
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The Human Comedy (1943)
Character: Drunk at Bar (uncredited)
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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The Key (1934)
Character: Homer, Tennant's Aide
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939)
Character: "Killer"
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
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Moulin Rouge (1934)
Character: Drunk
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Mandalay (1934)
Character: Purser (uncredited)
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
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A Lost Lady (1934)
Character: Robert
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
Character: Bill Stapleton
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Fake Worthingham
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Joe Bonner
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Driftwood (1947)
Character: Judge Beckett
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
Character: Ambrose Bundy
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
Character: Peanuts Dinwiddie
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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Up in Central Park (1948)
Character: Mayor Oakley
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Character: Music Critic Gilmore
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
Character: Jacob 'Jake' Buckley
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Character: Joe Farnsworth
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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The Covered Trailer (1939)
Character: E. L. Beamish
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Night Key (1937)
Character: Petty Louie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Daughters Courageous (1939)
Character: Tourist (uncredited)
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
Character: Arresting Plainclothesman (uncredited)
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
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My Woman (1933)
Character: Mr. Miller
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Character: Antique Clock Dealer (uncredited)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Character: Albert Gowdy
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Naughty But Nice (1939)
Character: Clark's Piano Tuner (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Havana Widows (1933)
Character: Mr. Otis, Invincible Insurance
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Black Angel (1946)
Character: Jake
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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