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Little Mickey Grogan (1927)
Character: Dancing Black Boy
The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
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Penrod and Sam (1923)
Character: Verman
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in because his parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town. Finally the boys agree to let Georgie join, but first they demand that he undergo an "initiation", and they're determined to make it one that Georgie won't soon forget.
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Sporting Chance (1931)
Character: Horseshoe
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
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Anaesthesia (1938)
Character: Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
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The Apartment (1960)
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
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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Hearts in Dixie (1929)
Character: Chinquapin
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
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Circus Fever (1925)
Character: Gene
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the festivities.
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Sporting Blood (1940)
Character: Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
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The Love Bug (1925)
Character: Pineapple
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it. The police arrive and arrest them, but Grandma comes to their rescue.
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Golden Hoofs (1941)
Character: Curly
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Take My Life (1942)
Character: Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang, they begin to suspect they're up to nefarious deeds.
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Character: Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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The Lonely Trail (1936)
Character: Harmonica Player / Dancer
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
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The Addams Family (1991)
Character: One-Armed Bass Player
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
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Black Gunn (1972)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.
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Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
Character: Eight Ball
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)
Character: Eightball
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.
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North by Northwest (1959)
Character: Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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All the President's Men (1976)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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The Buccaneer (1938)
Character: James Smith, a Servant
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Character: Child (uncredited)
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Looking for Love (1964)
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
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Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Character: Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)
Character: Winfield
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.
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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
Character: Bootblack (uncredited)
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
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Midnight Court (1937)
Character: Garfield Brown
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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The Big Town (1925)
Character: Pineapple
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next morning they find themselves in New York City. After seeing some of the sites on foot, they steal a 5th Avenue Bus, and are caught by the police.
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Coffy (1973)
Character: Man at Rally (uncredited)
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
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The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
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Red River Valley (1936)
Character: Iodine
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Character: Inmate
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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Secret Service (1931)
Character: Israel Polk
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Character: Congregation Member (uncredited)
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
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Cleopatra Jones (1973)
Character: Henry
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
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Cimarron (1931)
Character: Isaiah
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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The Mysterious Mystery! (1924)
Character: Snowball
Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to discover the whereabouts of a young rich kids who has gone missing. While trying to find the kid the gang must also try and avoid a dumb detective also working the case.
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Scott Joplin (1977)
Character: Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
The once-prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Miss., has been reduced to near-penury by generations of alcoholism and sin. Levelheaded Jason struggles to keep the family together, but his teenage stepsister, Quentin, chafes against his strictures. When Quentin's estranged mother reappears in town, and carnival worker Charles attempts to seduce the virginal teen, the family may finally be headed for complete collapse.
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Dog Days (1925)
Character: Pineapple
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs to her party, much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother.
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Melinda (1972)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
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American Gigolo (1980)
Character: Bootblack
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
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Chandler (1971)
Character: Shoe Shine Boy
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
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Shootin' Injuns (1925)
Character: Gene
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout. They run into some obstacles in playing the game, including objections from parents, and as such they decide to postpone it until the wee hours of the next morning and play it in the streets of the neighborhood. As it begins to rain during the middle of their shootout that morning, they decide to take refuge in a neighborhood house. What they are unaware of is that the house belongs to inventor W.R. Jones, who rigged it to be a "magnetic house", a demonstration for a possible amusement park attraction. Not knowing about the house's rigged contraptions leads to a lot of misadventures for the gang not related to shooting Indians as they try to figure out what's happening around them.
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Reform School (1939)
Character: Pete
A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne.
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Swing Shift (1984)
Character: Bartender at Kelly's
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
Character: Hotel Page Boy
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Off the Wall (1983)
Character: Old Black Man
Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she did to them, resolves to break them out of the prison
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The Carey Treatment (1972)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Character: Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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40 Carats (1973)
Character: Party Dancer (uncredited)
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Jimmy
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Sporting Blood (1931)
Character: Sam 'Sammy'
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Character: Humidor
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
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Guns and Guitars (1936)
Character: Eightball
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
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