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Flame of Youth (1949)
Character: Steve Miller
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.
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Hail (1973)
Character: Vice President
A presidential advisor discovers that the President has assembled a secret army of vigilantes to suppress dissent and is setting up concentration camps in which to imprison protestors, hippies and other "social undesirables."
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So You Want a Raise (1950)
Character: N/A
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
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Flaming Fury (1949)
Character: N/A
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
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Three Secrets (1950)
Character: Max (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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The Apartment (1960)
Character: Mr. Vanderhoff
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
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Mystery Street (1950)
Character: The Mortician
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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Three for the Show (1955)
Character: TV Show Moderator (uncredited)
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
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Father of the Bride (1950)
Character: Vincent Dixon (uncredited)
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
Character: Myron Trout
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
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Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
Character: Senator Hubert Morrison
A young music student faces expulsion after her instructors learn she is moonlighting as a pop-music writer.
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Louisa (1950)
Character: Dick Stewart
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
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Free For All (1949)
Character: Commander H.C. Christie
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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No Man of Her Own (1950)
Character: Jack Olsen (uncredited)
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Hollywood or Bust (1956)
Character: Manager Neville
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
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The Lawless (1950)
Character: Pawling (uncredited)
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
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Darling, How Could You! (1951)
Character: Theatre Manager
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
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Rhubarb (1951)
Character: Orlando Dill
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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Auntie Mame (1958)
Character: Claude Upson
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
Character: J.J. Schumacher (uncredited)
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
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Fourteen Hours (1951)
Character: Mr. Harris (uncredited)
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950)
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
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Riding High (1950)
Character: Arthur Winslow
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Character: Dr. Wallace (uncredited)
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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Half a Hero (1953)
Character: Charles McEstway
A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.
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