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Come Across (1938)
Character: Special Agent Thomas
A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
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Tonight at Twelve (1929)
Character: Tom Stoddard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry A. Pollard and Owen Davis. It is based on the 1928 play Tonight at 12 by Owen Davis. The film stars Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds, Norman Trevor and Hallam Cooley. The film was released on September 29, 1929, by Universal Pictures.
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Sequoia (1935)
Character: Forest Ranger (uncredited)
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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Don't Talk (1942)
Character: FBI Agent Jack Sampson
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
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Forgotten Victory (1939)
Character: Mark Carleton
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to find wheat that farmers can grow despite various disasters.
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He Couldn't Take It (1933)
Character: Oakley
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
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A Fugitive from Justice (1940)
Character: Lee Leslie
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
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Murder in the Pullman (1932)
Character: Vincent Lynch
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
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The Women Men Marry (1937)
Character: Auctioneer McVey (uncredited)
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Love Department (1935)
Character: Gooper Goopalowski (uncredited)
In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.
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The House of Fear (1939)
Character: John Woodford
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Tokyo Rose (1946)
Character: Timothy O'Brien
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.
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Club Havana (1945)
Character: Johnny Norton (as Don Douglas)
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
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The Crowd Roars (1938)
Character: Murray
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Character: 'Hen 'Henderson (Robinson sequence) (as Don Douglas)
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Grissly's Millions (1945)
Character: Ellison Hayes
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Character: Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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On the Sunny Side (1942)
Character: Mr. George Andrews (as Don Douglas)
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
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The Get-Away (1941)
Character: James 'Jim' Duff (as Don Douglas)
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
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A Woman's Man (1934)
Character: Walter Payson - Horseback Rider
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
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Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Character: Mack Clark - Flagg's Investigator (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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A Shot in the Dark (1941)
Character: Roger Armstrong
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
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Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Character: Delbert Thompson
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
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The Night of January 16th (1941)
Character: Attorney Polk
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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I Love You Again (1940)
Character: Herbert
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Special Inspector (1938)
Character: Williams
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
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The Falcon Out West (1944)
Character: Attorney Steven Hayden
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
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Melody Lane (1941)
Character: J. Roy Thomas
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
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Gilda (1946)
Character: Thomas Langford
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: Harry Spaulding
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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Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Character: J.J. Harper (uncredited)
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
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Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
Character: Gordon (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Show Business (1944)
Character: Charlie Lucas (as Don Douglas)
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
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Men in White (1934)
Character: Mac
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
Character: Ship's Officer - Fight Referee
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Character: Police Lt. Randall
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Fast Company (1938)
Character: Lt. James Flanner
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
Character: Mr. Grayson, Patient losing Eye Sight (uncredited)
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)
Character: Hendricks
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
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Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
Character: Lt. North (uncredited)
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Murder Among Friends (1941)
Character: Joe Ellis
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
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Dead Men Tell (1941)
Character: Jed Thomasson
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
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Heavenly Days (1944)
Character: Dr. George Gallup
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
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Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Character: Andres
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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Convicted (1938)
Character: District Attorney
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
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The More the Merrier (1943)
Character: FBI Agent Harding
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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Sergeant York (1941)
Character: Captain Tillman (uncredited)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Tomorrow's Children (1934)
Character: Dr. Brooks
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.
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Flight Command (1940)
Character: 1st Duty Officer
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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Gallant Sons (1940)
Character: Hackberry
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)
Character: John Randall
The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall, the husband of Ellen, the woman Gregory loves.
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The Mysterious Miss X (1939)
Character: Clarence Fredericks
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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Tall in the Saddle (1944)
Character: Harolday
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
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Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Character: Department of Justice Official
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Madame X (1937)
Character: Mr. Edison
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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Life Begins (1932)
Character: Medical Student (uncredited)
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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The Truth About Murder (1946)
Character: Paul Marvin
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
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The Great Gabbo (1929)
Character: Frank
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
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Jesse James (1939)
Character: Infantry Captain (uncredited)
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Within the Law (1939)
Character: Inspector Burke
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Second Fiddle (1939)
Character: Film Director
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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He's My Guy (1943)
Character: Kirk (as Don Douglas)
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
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Law of the Texan (1938)
Character: Chet Hackett
Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.
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Pacific Liner (1939)
Character: Ship's Officer (uncredited)
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
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The Zero Hour (1939)
Character: Stewart Brewster
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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Mercy Island (1941)
Character: Clay Foster
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
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Deadwood Dick (1940)
Character: Dick Stanley, aka Deadwood Dick
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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The Great Swindle (1941)
Character: Bill Farrow
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.
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Sleepers West (1941)
Character: N/A
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Sabotage (1939)
Character: Joe Grayson
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Character: Deputy Commissioner O'Neill
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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Lazy River (1934)
Character: Officer
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Headin' East (1937)
Character: Eric Ward
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
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Fugitive at Large (1939)
Character: Stevens
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
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Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
Character: Captain Lewis
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
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Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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A Royal Scandal (1945)
Character: Variatinsky (uncredited)
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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Wings of the Navy (1939)
Character: Officer of the Day
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Jordan
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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The Spider's Web (1938)
Character: Jenkins
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
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Appointment in Berlin (1943)
Character: Bill Banning (uncredited)
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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On Dress Parade (1939)
Character: Col. Wm. Duncan
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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Calling Philo Vance (1940)
Character: Philip Wrede
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Wintertime (1943)
Character: Jay Rogers (uncredited)
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.
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