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Retribution (1928)
Character: Kane - the Senator's Butler
Henry B. Walthall made his talkie debut in this 10-minute short from Vitaphone. In the film he plays a once rich man who has found himself in the dumps due to drug abuse and other issues. He goes to see a former friend (Tom McGuire), now a Senator, and he's not too open to giving the man a second chance.
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Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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Sweepstake Annie (1935)
Character: Mr. Burns (uncredited)
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
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The Dummy Owner (1938)
Character: N/A
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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The Kibitzer (1930)
Character: Phillips
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
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Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
Character: Mr. Blake
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
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Hit and Rum (1935)
Character: Drunk Driver
Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.
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Counselitis (1935)
Character: Defense Attorney
Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.
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Crime Rave (1939)
Character: N/A
When a crime wave hits town, bank robbers find haven in Errol's home.
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You Drive Me Crazy (1945)
Character: Car Salesman
Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start. Edgar borrow's his neighbor's car (mistake no.2) to go haul in his stranded vehicle, and immediately wrecks it. He then goes to buy a replacement car for his neighbor from "Miracle Sam - The Used Car Man" (mistakes no.3 through no.8) and drives off without insurance. Meanwhile...Brother has gotten Edgar's car started, and anybody not anticipating the upcoming two-car wipeout collision between the cars driven by Edgar and Brother are watching their first Edgar Kennedy short.
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The Big Beef (1945)
Character: Harry Cook
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
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Tee for Two (1932)
Character: Club President
A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.
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Wife Tames Wolf (1947)
Character: Male Character
Caught philandering (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple), Leon's wife (Dorothy Granger) announces (for the 1867th time, give or take a couple as she wasn't always his wife) that she is going to divorce him. His business partner hatches a scheme to cure Leon of his flirting with very pretty girl (and a few ugly ones) he meets, but the scheme has Leon faking a suicide.
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Rule 'Em and Weep (1932)
Character: First duelling officer
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
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Detour to Danger (1946)
Character: Tom Barton
Two young men set out on a fishing trip. They run into a gang of criminals who are menacing two young women.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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Ship Cafe (1935)
Character: Officer (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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The County Fair (1932)
Character: Fisher
A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a gambling ring that doesn't want the horse entering the race has other plans.
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Western Limited (1932)
Character: Frank
A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
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The Windjammer (1945)
Character: Theatre Owner
Scott Elliott, a discharged WWII Navy officer and a film executive in civilian life, passes through a small Arkansas town, and meets Bob Burns, a farmer, and his daughter. As a film executive prior to the war, Elliott always had the thought that he could make animals talk on the screen, and when he tells this to Bob, he heartily agrees. They form a partnership whereby Elliott will handle the technical aspects, and Bob will write the dialogue for the talking animals. They go to Hollywood, where they start work on the film with the financial help of a producer. However, when half of the scenes are completed, they run the scenes for the producer, who walks out and refuses to put any more money in the project.
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Private Affairs (1940)
Character: George, the Maitre D' (uncredited)
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Million Dollar Baby (1934)
Character: Bill Dovan
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Character: Mr. Mullins
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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No Place for a Lady (1943)
Character: Jules, club maitre de
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
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Dames (1934)
Character: Harry (uncredited)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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The Squealer (1930)
Character: Whisper
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
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Star Reporter (1939)
Character: Sam Grey
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)
Character: Theatre Manager
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
Character: Red Apple Inn Headwaiter (uncredited)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Fixing a Stew (1934)
Character: Eddie
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
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Appointment for Love (1941)
Character: Tiller (uncredited)
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Character: 'Freddy' Friedman (uncredited)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
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The Curtain Falls (1934)
Character: Taggart
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Son of India (1931)
Character: Maitre d' (uncredited)
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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Idaho (1943)
Character: Pete
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Hard to Handle (1933)
Character: Grapefruit Acres Executive (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Character: Brookfield (uncredited)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Devil Bat's Daughter (1946)
Character: George, Apartment House Manager
Wishing to dispose of his wife, psychiatrist Dr. Elliott makes his patient Nina think that she suffers from a compulsion to kill. He drugs Nina, murders his wife and leaves evidence that points to Nina. The latter, pre-conditioned by Elliott, also thinks she is guilty.
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Forgotten Women (1931)
Character: Swineback
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Hot Tip (1935)
Character: Lou Schultz - Bookie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Woman Wanted (1935)
Character: Nightclub Headwaiter (uncredited)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Character: Police Chief Martin (uncredited)
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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State of the Union (1948)
Character: Television Prompter (uncredited)
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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The Midnight Patrol (1932)
Character: Stuart
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
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While the City Sleeps (1928)
Character: Member of Skeeter's Gang
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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My Dear Secretary (1948)
Character: Francois, Headwaiter (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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Bathing Beauty (1944)
Character: Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
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Goldie (1931)
Character: Barker
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
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The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
Character: Haberdasher at Edwards (uncredited)
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Love on a Bet (1936)
Character: Couturier
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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The Hard Way (1943)
Character: Oscar Evans (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Don't Gamble with Love (1936)
Character: Gambler
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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My Past (1931)
Character: Henry Everett
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
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The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Character: Dr. Morton
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Autobuyography (1934)
Character: Johnny Winters (first salesman)
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
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Missing Daughters (1939)
Character: Nick
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
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Batman (1943)
Character: J. Hanson
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Jewel Robbery (1932)
Character: Robber (uncredited)
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Heckler (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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The Broadway Melody (1929)
Character: Francis Zanfield (uncredited)
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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Girl from Rio (1939)
Character: First Booking Agent
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
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Atlantic Adventure (1935)
Character: Johnson - First Drunk on Ship
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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How DOooo You Do (1945)
Character: Detective
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
Character: Maitre d'Hotel
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
Character: Bob Wagner
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
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Dude Cowboy (1941)
Character: Gordon West
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
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Dark Mountain (1944)
Character: Waiter
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
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Pacific Blackout (1941)
Character: Headwaiter
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Dan, Headwaiter
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Framed (1930)
Character: Head waiter
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
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The Human Side (1934)
Character: Hagen (uncredited)
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Character: Attorney to Kirby (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Character: Medical Officer (uncredited)
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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The Thrill Hunter (1933)
Character: Sam Levine, producer
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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Career Girl (1944)
Character: Mr. Draper (uncredited)
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
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Harris in the Spring (1937)
Character: Harvey - Club Manager
Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
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Meet John Doe (1941)
Character: Wall Street Tycoon (uncredited)
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
Character: Stage Manager
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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The Stolen Jools (1931)
Character: The Detective
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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The Secret Code (1942)
Character: Coffee Shop Counterman
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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The Devil Commands (1941)
Character: Professor Walt
A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife.
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Topper (1937)
Character: Maitre d' (uncredited)
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Mexican Hayride (1948)
Character: Mr. Clarke, Mine Buyer (uncredited)
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
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The Big Wheel (1949)
Character: Head Waiter
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
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Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Character: Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Lucky Legs (1942)
Character: J.N. Peters
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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The Last Alarm (1940)
Character: Fire Chief
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
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Revenue Agent (1950)
Character: N/A
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Investor (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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The Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
Character: Randolph
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
Character: Dave
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
Character: Man in Audience (archive footage)
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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Who's a Dummy? (1941)
Character: N/A
Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leon a tale of a love triangle that sets Leon's imagination on fire. He follows his wife and discovers her rehearsing a love scene with an actor, and he thinks it is real. He is leaving when he hears a pistol shot and rushes back, to discover his wife stuffing a dummy in a hamper, but he thinks it is a real body. To protect his wife, Leon steals the hamper, and is almost lynched by a crowd who also thinks the hamper contains a real body.
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Break of Hearts (1935)
Character: Mr. Lubin (uncredited)
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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Sister Kenny (1946)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
Character: Politician at Banquet (Uncredited)
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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Crazy House (1943)
Character: Bixby
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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Jam Session (1944)
Character: Lloyd Marley
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
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The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Character: Man in Montage (uncredited)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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The Public Enemy (1931)
Character: Joe - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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The Mummy (1932)
Character: Inspector's Assistant (uncredited)
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
Character: Parker (uncredited)
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Woman Trap (1929)
Character: Bit Role
In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation that Dan's own brother Ray is the secret head of all local criminal activities does not weaken Dan's resolve in the least. The barely relevant title is a reference to "heroine" Kitty Evans, the wife of a minor gang functionary. Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, presumably on a dare, makes a brief appearance as a crime reporter.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Crapshooter
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Borrowed Hero (1941)
Character: Brooks' Hitman (uncredited)
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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Cross Country Cruise (1934)
Character: Chicago Hotel Waiter (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Sign of the Wolf (1941)
Character: Jack Martin
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
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Shed No Tears (1948)
Character: Mr. Nicholas (Uncredited)
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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The Westland Case (1937)
Character: Joe Petro
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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Hollywood Story (1951)
Character: Producer (uncredited)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Character: Building & Loan Depositor (uncredited)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Music in My Heart (1940)
Character: C.B. Blake
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
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Double Trouble (1941)
Character: Carney
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942)
Character: Doctor
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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All Over Town (1937)
Character: William Bailey
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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Illusion (1929)
Character: Gus Bloomberg
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.
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Attorney for the Defense (1932)
Character: Attorney Abe Steiner
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
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Dixie Jamboree (1944)
Character: J.M. Thornton (uncredited)
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
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Hollywood Round-Up (1937)
Character: Henry Wescott
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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Redhead from Manhattan (1943)
Character: Orchestra Leader
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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So This Is Washington (1943)
Character: Department Store Manager (uncredited)
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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The Case of the Baby-Sitter (1947)
Character: Diamonds' the boss (as Ed Kane)
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
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Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Character: Song Publisher
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
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Secret Sinners (1933)
Character: Mr. Edwards - the Stage Manager
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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Crime, Inc. (1945)
Character: Head Waiter (uncredited)
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
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Crime Doctor (1943)
Character: Courtroom Well-wisher
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939)
Character: Congressman
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.
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School for Girls (1934)
Character: Ted (as Edward Kane)
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Take the Stand (1934)
Character: Carr
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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Over My Dead Body (1942)
Character: Man in Employment Office
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Character: Wedding Emcee (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Alibi for Murder (1936)
Character: Venuti (Uncredited)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Character: Maitre d'Casino
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Character: Train Steward (uncredited)
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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You Can't Escape Forever (1942)
Character: Villa Gloria Headwaiter (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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Why Bring That Up? (1929)
Character: Manager
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Mustached Bettor at Race Track
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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My Woman (1933)
Character: Eddie, Straight Man (Uncredited)
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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By Whose Hand? (1932)
Character: Eileen's Accomplice (uncredited)
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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Blondie Johnson (1933)
Character: Jewelry Clerk (uncredited)
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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Swingtime in the Movies (1938)
Character: Dallas Exhibitor Bob O'Donnell (uncredited)
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
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