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Unto Thyself Be True (1949)
Character: Frank Hartwell
A Christian movie produced in 1949 by Family Films that shows a teenager named Bill who takes out the family car without a drivers license or his father's permission. Bill then gets into a accident and runs. Later young Bill has to deal with the authorities and his father!
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Because of Eve (1948)
Character: Dr. West
A doctor uses films about venereal disease and the human reproductive system to educate a young married couple.
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Know For Sure (1941)
Character: supporting role
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
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A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
Character: Biff--Blackburn's Trainer (uncredited)
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
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Cadets on Parade (1942)
Character: Jeff Shannon
A military school cadet runs away after failing to fit in at sports or school life. He's befriended by a newsboy and they tutor each other, but soon get embroiled in a ransom scheme.
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Beyond the Law (1934)
Character: Chief Anderson
Beyond the Law is a 1934 American film of crime, directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Tim McCoy.
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Tars and Spars (1946)
Character: Admiral
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.
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Strange Wives (1934)
Character: Immigration Official
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
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Jack Pot (1940)
Character: Mayor Steven Andrews (uncredited)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.
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Pride of the Navy (1939)
Character: Brad Foster
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
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Brides Are Like That (1936)
Character: Tom Carter
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
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Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Character: Commissioner O'Brien (uncredited)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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A Criminal Is Born (1938)
Character: Frank Wheeler
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
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The Wrong Road (1937)
Character: District Attorney
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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Navy Secrets (1939)
Character: FBI Chief Herbert Daly
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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The Tougher They Come (1950)
Character: Thompson
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.
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State Department: File 649 (1949)
Character: Government Official
Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
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Mama Runs Wild (1937)
Character: Tom Fowler
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
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The Captain's Kid (1936)
Character: Deputy Coroner Frank Knickerbocker
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
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State Police (1938)
Character: Mr. Owen, Mine Owner
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Homicide for Three (1948)
Character: Police Captain
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
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Frisco Kid (1935)
Character: McClanahan
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Detective Chief
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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The Big Sleep (1946)
Character: Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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We Are Not Alone (1939)
Character: American at Train Station
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Dancing in the Dark (1949)
Character: Board Member
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: Karl Stone
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Character: American Tourist (uncredited)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Character: Duffy - Referee (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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The Brute Man (1946)
Character: Police Commissioner Salisbury (uncredited)
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
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Manpower (1941)
Character: Sweeney
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Star Reporter (1939)
Character: Gordon
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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The Desert Song (1943)
Character: Steve, a Reporter
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
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City Without Men (1943)
Character: Father Burns
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
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Sealed Lips (1942)
Character: Chief Charles R. Dugan
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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Nevada City (1941)
Character: Mark Benton
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Character: Ulysses S. Grant
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Missing Juror (1944)
Character: Willard Apple / Falstaff
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
Character: Inspector Grady
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
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The Cherokee Strip (1937)
Character: Army Officer
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Character: Courtroom Spectator at Verdict (uncredited)
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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The Green Hornet (1940)
Character: Judge Stanton
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
Character: Peter Dugan
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
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Adventures in Silverado (1948)
Character: McHugh
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
Character: Lieut. Lamb
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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Bengal Tiger (1936)
Character: Bill Hinsdale
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
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Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Character: Ballroom Manager (uncredited)
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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Roadblock (1951)
Character: Thompson (uncredited)
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
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Prejudice (1949)
Character: J.P. Baker
Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.
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Relentless (1948)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
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The House Across the Bay (1940)
Character: Federal Man
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Jailbreak (1936)
Character: Warden
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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Let 'em Have It (1935)
Character: Memory Test Instructor
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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Alias the Champ (1949)
Character: Tim Murphy
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who was already on the scene to investigate the Mob’s influence on pro wrestling.
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Three Girls About Town (1941)
Character: Labor leader
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Character: Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Grand Jury Spokesman
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 Fighting 69th (1940)
Character: Inoculations Doctor (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Here Comes Carter (1936)
Character: Daniel Bronson
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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I Love a Mystery (1945)
Character: Police Captain Quinn (Uncredited)
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Before Midnight (1933)
Character: Capt. Frank Flynn
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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The Hunted (1948)
Character: Small Town Police Captain
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
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Dangerous Money (1946)
Character: Captain Black
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
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Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Character: Morehead
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Now I'll Tell (1934)
Character: Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
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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Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Character: Chairman
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
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The Secret Seven (1940)
Character: Police Chief Hobbs
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
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Private Detective (1939)
Character: Capt. Murphy
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
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Born Reckless (1937)
Character: District Attorney
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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Invisible Stripes (1939)
Character: Garage Owner (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Character: President Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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The Last Bandit (1949)
Character: Local No. 44 Engineer
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
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Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Character: Mr. Henderson
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Character: Chief Brandon
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
Character: Hilary Thatcher
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Character: Director
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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Special Agent (1935)
Character: Commissioner of Police
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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Brother Orchid (1940)
Character: Brother MacEwen
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Crazylegs (1953)
Character: Hank Hatch
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
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Woman Against Woman (1938)
Character: Sen. Kingsley
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Girls Can Play (1937)
Character: Editor Brophy
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
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Black Fury (1935)
Character: Johnny Farrell
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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Captain Tugboat Annie (1945)
Character: Alec Severn
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
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The Phantom Thief (1946)
Character: 'Jumbo' Madigan - Pawnbroker
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
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Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Character: Lt. Kane
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Happy Landing (1938)
Character: Agent
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
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The Mysterious Mr. M (1946)
Character: Dan Blair
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.
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Lady on a Train (1945)
Character: Train passenger (uncredited)
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Texas (1941)
Character: Rancher Dusty King
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
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Amazon Quest (1949)
Character: De Ruyter
Thomas Dekker is a diamond cutter attempting to reclaim his right to a portion of a rubber empire in the early part of the twentieth century. Tom travels to Brazil to uncover the fate of his father and along the way meets Teresa, a local girl who offers to be his guide in the jungle. Eventually, they encounter three armed men who take them to Lobato, a bandit who knew his father. Once convinced that Tom is his friend's son, Lobato tells him a lengthy story which culminates with his meeting Tom's father, who rescued him from drowning. With the help of "flashbacks" from an obscure South American feature, Tom learns what really became of his father.
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O.S.S. (1946)
Character: Gen. Donovan
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
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The Star Maker (1939)
Character: Thomas Marlowe
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
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Duck Soup (1933)
Character: Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Four's a Crowd (1938)
Character: Butler Pierce
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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The Virginian (1946)
Character: N/A
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Outlaws of the Orient (1937)
Character: Snyder
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
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Maisie (1939)
Character: Defense Attorney Wilcox
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Man Alive (1945)
Character: Dr. James P. Whitney
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Anthony Adverse (1936)
Character: Capt. Elisha Jorham
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Colorado (1940)
Character: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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Treat 'Em Rough (1942)
Character: Roderick Wetherbee (as Joe Crehan)
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
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Gun Crazy (1950)
Character: Plant Foreman (uncredited)
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Smart Blonde (1937)
Character: Tiny Torgensen
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Character: Officer at Washington Party (uncredited)
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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You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
Character: Warden of Sing Sing
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
Character: Col. George Bolton [Chs. 1-2]
Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.
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The Duke Comes Back (1937)
Character: Pat Doyle
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Doctor Delivering Quintuplets (Uncredited)
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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Boulder Dam (1936)
Character: Ross
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Blackmail (1939)
Character: Mr. Blaine (uncredited)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Illegal Traffic (1938)
Character: Chief Daley
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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God's Country and the Woman (1937)
Character: Jordan
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
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Draegerman Courage (1937)
Character: Dr. Stuart Hunter
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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Front Page Woman (1935)
Character: Spike Kiley
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Billy The Kid Returns (1938)
Character: U.S. Marshal Dave Conway
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
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The Secret Code (1942)
Character: Police Chief Henry Burns
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Junior Army (1942)
Character: Mr. Jeffrey Ferguson
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
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Cain and Mabel (1936)
Character: Reed's Manager
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
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Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
Character: Judge
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Stolen Heaven (1931)
Character: Henry - Steve's Butler
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
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Midnight Court (1937)
Character: Judge Frederick J. Thompson
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Men of Texas (1942)
Character: Luther Crittenden
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
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Louisiana (1947)
Character: Neilson
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.
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False Faces (1943)
Character: Police Capt. Alan O'Brien
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
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Society Lawyer (1939)
Character: City Editor
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
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Hello, Annapolis (1942)
Character: Evans Arden
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Street Corner (1948)
Character: Dr. James Fenton
Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist. Depending on the release presentation, the movie includes an animation of conception, filmed vaginal and caesarian section births, and a filmed presentation on how syphilis and gonorrhea present themselves.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: Brady
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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Road Gang (1936)
Character: Harry Shields
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Tell No Tales (1939)
Character: Chalmers
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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We're in the Money (1935)
Character: N/A
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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They All Come Out (1939)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
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Parole Fixer (1940)
Character: Warden (uncredited)
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
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Hands Across the Border (1944)
Character: Jeff "Bet-A-Hundred" Adams
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
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The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
Character: Bill Hudson
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
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Black Magic (1944)
Character: Police Sgt. Matthews
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
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Among the Missing (1934)
Character: Detective O'Malley
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
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A Man Betrayed (1941)
Character: N/A
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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A Man Betrayed (1941)
Character: Bob - Globe Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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April Showers (1948)
Character: William Barnes
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
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Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
Character: Reporter
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
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Scattergood Baines (1941)
Character: Keith
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
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Night Spot (1938)
Character: Inspector Wayland
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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Philo Vance's Gamble (1947)
Character: Ellis Mason
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
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Trailin' West (1936)
Character: Colonel Douglas
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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Hit the Ice (1943)
Character: Train Conductor #1 (uncredited)
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
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Murder in the Big House (1942)
Character: Ainslee
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
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Under Two Flags (1916)
Character: Rake
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself.
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Highway Dragnet (1954)
Character: Elderly Border Inspection Officer
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize the man with them may be a killer.
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The Woman of the Town (1943)
Character: New York Newspaper Editor
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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Christmas Holiday (1944)
Character: Steve, the bartender
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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There Goes My Girl (1937)
Character: Sgt. Wood
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.
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Crazy House (1943)
Character: Mogey
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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The Merry Frinks (1934)
Character: Mr. Baxter
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Talent Scout (1937)
Character: A.J. Lambert
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Character: Haskins
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Washington Melodrama (1941)
Character: Phil Sampson
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
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Larceny, Inc. (1942)
Character: Warden
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
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The Sea of Grass (1947)
Character: Colorado Sen. Grew (uncredited)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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King of Hockey (1936)
Character: Mike Trotter
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Down the Stretch (1936)
Character: C.D. Burch
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
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Once a Doctor (1937)
Character: Captain Andrews
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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Voice in the Night (1934)
Character: John Robinson
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
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Whistling in Dixie (1942)
Character: Deputy Police Commissioner (uncredited)
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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The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Character: Detective Johnson
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
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Love Crazy (1941)
Character: Judge
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
Character: Joe
This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.
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Female (1933)
Character: Police Lieutenant (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Character: Editor
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Character: McSweeney
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Character: Broker (uncredited)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Character: City Editor of The Standard (uncredited)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
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The Family Secret (1951)
Character: N/A
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
Character: Gov. Bill Allen
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
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She Has What It Takes (1943)
Character: George Clarke
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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Guns of the Pecos (1936)
Character: Captain Norris
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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While the Patient Slept (1935)
Character: Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited)
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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The Gallant Legion (1948)
Character: George Trent - State Official
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Night Train to Memphis (1946)
Character: John Stevenson
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Here's Flash Casey (1938)
Character: Blaine
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
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The Navy Way (1944)
Character: Chaplain Benson
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Doctor
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Girl Trouble (1942)
Character: Kohn
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
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Flying Blind (1941)
Character: Nunnally
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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Music in My Heart (1940)
Character: Mark C. Gilman
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
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Midnight Madonna (1937)
Character: Moe Grinnell
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
Character: Johnson
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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Mystery Broadcast (1943)
Character: Chief Daniels
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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Triple Trouble (1950)
Character: Warden Burnside
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Gang Bullets (1938)
Character: Wallace
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Gaucho Serenade (1940)
Character: Edward Martin
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
Character: Mr. Parsons, Murillo Customer (uncredited)
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Gang Busters (1942)
Character: Police Chief Martin O'Brien
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
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Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Character: Murdock
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Red Desert (1949)
Character: President Ulysses S. Grant
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.
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Against the Law (1934)
Character: Capt. Elliott
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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Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)
Character: Mine Superintendent
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
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Strange Journey (1946)
Character: Thompson
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
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Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Character: Detective Sergeant
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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A Lost Lady (1934)
Character: Second Doctor (uncredited)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Murder Trial Judge (uncredited)
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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Stranded (1935)
Character: Johnny Quinn
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Ringside (1949)
Character: Oscar Brannigan
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.
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Full Confession (1939)
Character: Warden (uncredited)
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Night Time in Nevada (1948)
Character: Engineer Casey
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
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One Mysterious Night (1944)
Character: Jumbo Madigan (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Character: Captain Kelly (uncredited)
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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Babes in Arms (1939)
Character: Mr. Essex
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
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China Clipper (1936)
Character: Jim Horn
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Man of Iron (1935)
Character: Tom Martin
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
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Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Character: Prison Warden O'Neil
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
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Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
Character: IRS Tax Investigator (uncredited)
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
Character: Judge Hoskins
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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Gambler's Choice (1944)
Character: Toby (uncredited)
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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Bad Bascomb (1946)
Character: Gov. Clark (uncredited)
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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The Payoff (1935)
Character: Harvey Morris
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Wings of the Navy (1939)
Character: Second Doctor
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Dodge City (1939)
Character: Hammond (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Back Street (1941)
Character: Postman
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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Sleepers East (1934)
Character: Conductor (uncredited)
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
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Midnight Intruder (1938)
Character: Bill Harwood - Newspaper Editor
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
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Gateway (1938)
Character: Inspector
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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This Is My Affair (1937)
Character: Priest
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945)
Character: RCMP Sergeant Nelson
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.
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Phantom Lady (1944)
Character: Detective
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Michaels
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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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Character: Attorney
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Geronimo (1939)
Character: President Ulysses S. Grant
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Orphanage Director
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Character: Paul Drake
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Sundown in Santa Fe (1948)
Character: Major Larkin
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader of the President Lincoln murder ring. Rocky is sent to Santa Fe to find Durant and arrest him and the gang of outlaws he controls. Rocky soon finds that the information for every robbery comes from Tom, who is the son of the sheriff. But Rocky has to arrest the whole gang, and he does not know who is part of the gang and where Durant may be hiding.
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The Enchanted Valley (1948)
Character: Chief Scott
Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Character: Ray Trent (uncredited)
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Dick Tracy (1945)
Character: Chief Brandon
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
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The Hell Cat (1934)
Character: Captain Barnett
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
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You Can't Escape Forever (1942)
Character: Warden (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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Shipmates Forever (1935)
Character: Spike (uncredited)
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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The Trespasser (1947)
Character: The Doctor
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
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The Chicago Kid (1945)
Character: Chief Rogers
The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the elder Ferrill dies behind bars. Vowing revenge on Society, Joe aligns himself with a bunch of gangsters. He intends to use his mob connections to get even with auditor John Mitchell, the man whose testimony sent Joe's dad to the Big House. But Joe hasn't counted on falling in love with Mitchell's pretty daughter Chris.
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The Singing Kid (1936)
Character: Agent Fulton (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Behind the Mask (1946)
Character: Police Inspector Cardonna
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
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Bright Lights (1935)
Character: Post Office Attendant
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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Emergency Squad (1940)
Character: H. Tyler Joyce, editor
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Magnificent Doll (1946)
Character: Williams
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Character: Stage Manager
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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Silver River (1948)
Character: Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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The Shadow Returns (1946)
Character: Police Insp. Cardona
The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
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Here Comes Happiness (1941)
Character: Tom Burke
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
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The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
Character: Police Boat Captain (uncredited)
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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Havana Widows (1933)
Character: Ship Captain (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Character: Managing Editor (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Duke of Chicago (1949)
Character: 'Tex' Harman
To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
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Adventure (1945)
Character: Ed - Maritime Office (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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