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The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Character: Silky's Driver (uncredited)
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Wolf of New York (1940)
Character: Owney McGill
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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Little Orphan Annie (1938)
Character: Spot McGee
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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At the Stroke of Twelve (1941)
Character: Babe
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
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Tin Gods (1932)
Character: Cyrus P. Schroeder
A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
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Alibi Inn (1935)
Character: Saunders
A young inventor is wrongfully accused of killing a night watchmen committed by a gang during a jewel robbery.
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Mr. Hex (1946)
Character: Bull Laguna (as Ben Weldon)
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
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Three Dark Horses (1952)
Character: Jim Digger
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild fight.
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The Awful Sleuth (1951)
Character: Memphis Mike
Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on, smiling Memphis Mike.
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The Pride of the Force (1933)
Character: Tony Carlotti
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
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Their Night Out (1933)
Character: Crook
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Admirals All (1935)
Character: Adolph Klotz
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
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This Is the Life (1933)
Character: Two Gun Mullins
This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.
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Send 'Em Back Half Dead (1933)
Character: Mustapha
'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)
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His Grace Gives Notice (1933)
Character: Michael Collier
'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Puppets of Fate (1933)
Character: N/A
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Death on the Set (1935)
Character: Freshman
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
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Mannequin (1933)
Character: Chris Dempson
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
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I Was a Convict (1939)
Character: Rocks Henry
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
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His Lordship (1932)
Character: Washington Roosevelt Lincoln
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
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The Medium (1934)
Character: Deval
A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.
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The Black Abbot (1934)
Character: Charlie Marsh
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Character: Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Gay Love (1934)
Character: Ben
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
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77 Park Lane (1931)
Character: Sinclair
When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
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Too Many Winners (1947)
Character: Gil Madden / Theodore Ross
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
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Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Character: Promoter
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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The Big Sleep (1946)
Character: Pete (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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Alcatraz Island (1937)
Character: Richard 'Red' Carroll
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Hollywood or Bust (1956)
Character: Boss
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
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Manpower (1941)
Character: Al Hurst
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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Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Character: Big Steve's Bodyguard
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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Search for Danger (1949)
Character: Gregory
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Character: Ted Balding
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
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Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
Character: Kenny
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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The Crooked Circle (1957)
Character: Ring Announcer (uncredited)
A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.
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South of Pago Pago (1940)
Character: Grimes
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
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Love Is on the Air (1937)
Character: 'Nicey' Ferguson
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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The Missing Corpse (1945)
Character: "Slippery Joe" Clary
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.
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Prison Nurse (1938)
Character: Gaffney
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
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Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Stemmy
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Mystery House (1938)
Character: Gerald Frawley
When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.
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The Man I Love (1946)
Character: Jack Atlas
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
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Killers from Space (1954)
Character: Tar Baby 2 Pilot (bit)
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
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My Dear Secretary (1948)
Character: Bookie (uncredited)
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
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All Ashore (1953)
Character: Hugo - Bartender
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
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Adventures of Captain Africa (1955)
Character: Omar
Filled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John Hart and the always-dull Rick Vallin making less-than-adequate substitutes for Tom Tyler and Gilbert Roland, this Sam Katzman "production" finds the mighty jungle avenger and legendary Captain Africa - A "Phantom" rip-off that side-stepped the need to pay King Features another fee for using the character - pledging to see that the legitimate Arabian caliph, Hamid, is restored to the throne which a tyrannical rival has usurped. He is joined in this enterprise by adventurer Ted Arnold, wild-animal trapper Nat Coleman, and his assistant Omar and, to cover all bases
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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Character: Singing Solly
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
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Thunder Bay (1953)
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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The Night Hawk (1938)
Character: Otto Miller
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
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The Lady and the Bandit (1951)
Character: Barkeep in Pub
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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Little Miss Broadway (1947)
Character: Cash Monahan
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
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Back in Circulation (1937)
Character: Sam Sherman
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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Blackmail (1947)
Character: Bartender
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: Whitey Clark
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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On the Isle of Samoa (1950)
Character: Nick Leach
After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.
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Appointment with Murder (1948)
Character: Martin Minecci
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
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The Pretender (1947)
Character: Mickie
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
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Fighting Fools (1949)
Character: Lefty Conlin
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
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Impact (1949)
Character: Moving Van Helper
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
Character: Tom
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
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Happy Landing (1938)
Character: Rink Manager
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
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Always Goodbye (1938)
Character: 1st New York Taxi Driver
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
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Men of Boys Town (1941)
Character: Superintendent
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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The Desert Hawk (1950)
Character: Mokar
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
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The Star Maker (1939)
Character: Joe Gimlick
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
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The Fire Raisers (1934)
Character: Bellini - Stedding's Henchman
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
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Love and Hisses (1937)
Character: Bugsy
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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The Duke Comes Back (1937)
Character: Barney
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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It's in the Bag! (1945)
Character: Monty
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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Stand Up and Fight (1939)
Character: Foreman
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Mary Ryan, Detective (1949)
Character: Sammy
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
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Bullet Scars (1942)
Character: Pills Davis
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
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Heading for Heaven (1947)
Character: Sam
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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The Veils of Bagdad (1953)
Character: Stout Wrestler (uncredited)
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
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Secrets of the Underground (1942)
Character: Henchman Joe (uncredited)
With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
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Here Comes Elmer (1943)
Character: Louis Burch
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.
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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935)
Character: Boas 'Sailor' Hoffman
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
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Stand by for Action (1942)
Character: Chief Quartermaster Rankin
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: Buzz Barett
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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The Saint in New York (1938)
Character: Boots 'Pappy' Papinoff
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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Rhubarb (1951)
Character: Oily Moe - Bookie (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Character: Tough Lodge Member in Stands (uncredited)
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Tales of Robin Hood (1951)
Character: Friar Tuck
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Charlie Delaney
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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A Song Is Born (1948)
Character: Monte
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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Killer Dill (1947)
Character: Big Nick Moronie
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
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Passport to Alcatraz (1940)
Character: Bender
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
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Midnight Manhunt (1945)
Character: Hotel Manager (Uncredited)
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Crime Ring (1938)
Character: Nate
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
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Federal Man-Hunt (1938)
Character: Goldie
By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.
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Here Comes Trouble (1948)
Character: Rankin (uncredited)
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
Character: Percy Podd
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Character: Toby
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Shadows in the Night (1944)
Character: Nick Kallus
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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Confession (1937)
Character: Defense Attorney
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Cobb
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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Hidden Guns (1956)
Character: Ben Peabody
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Wagner
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Jinx Money (1948)
Character: Benny the Meatball
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
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That Certain Woman (1937)
Character: Headwaiter Harry Aqueilli (uncredited)
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Character: Shaggsy (uncredited)
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Boys' Reformatory (1939)
Character: Mike Hearn
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
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Varsity Show (1937)
Character: Hammer
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Tavern Proprietor (uncredited)
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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My True Story (1951)
Character: Buzz Edwards
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
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The Desert Hawk (1944)
Character: Omar, the Beggar
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
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Night Passage (1957)
Character: Pete (uncredited)
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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Knockout (1941)
Character: Pelky
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym. However, his manager makes sure that this does not happen and eventually Johnny embraces being a fighter, but Angela becomes increasingly unhappy.
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Gateway (1938)
Character: Motorboat Man
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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Spook Chasers (1957)
Character: Henchman Ziggie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
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Tough Assignment (1949)
Character: Sniffy
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers.
Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Character: Agent
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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Tenth Avenue Kid (1938)
Character: Marty Dayton
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
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Tell It to the Judge (1949)
Character: Augie (uncredited)
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
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Aunt Sally (1934)
Character: Casino
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
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The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Character: Yump Lumkin
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940)
Character: Lefty Shores
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.
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The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Character: Stewart (uncredited)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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Strange Alibi (1941)
Character: Fido Durkin
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
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