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The Little Maestro (1937)
Character: Cook
A silent, little man carrying a violin case wanders into the kitchen of a swanky nightclub looking for a meal. The chef takes pity on him and convinces the nightclub's owner that the man is actually a world-famous artist. The owner insists that the man perform for his customers. That's when the fun begins.
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I'll Take Romance (1937)
Character: Operatic Conductor
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
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Second Chorus (1941)
Character: Boris (uncredited)
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
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Rainbow Island (1944)
Character: Executioner
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
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Swiss Miss (1938)
Character: Chef
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Character: N/A
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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Torture Ship (1939)
Character: Adolph Krantz
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
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Everybody Sing (1938)
Character: Boris
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: O.G.P.U. Man (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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Devil's Island (1939)
Character: Pierre
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Arabian Nights (1942)
Character: Slaver
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Lost in a Harem (1944)
Character: Chief Ghamu
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Tropic Fury (1939)
Character: Soledad - Slave-Driver
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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On Your Toes (1939)
Character: Second Assassin
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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The Seventh Victim (1943)
Character: Thespian (Uncredited)
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
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Madame X (1937)
Character: Captain Dorcas
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
Character: Gregory Rozniloff
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Easy Living (1937)
Character: Bum (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
Character: Gaston
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Character: Gustavo
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Pacific Liner (1939)
Character: Silvio
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.
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Let Freedom Ring (1939)
Character: Ivan (uncredited)
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
Character: Don José Ramon Sebastian Rurales
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom.
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Character: Festival Singer (uncredited)
Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.
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