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Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944)
Character: N/A
The stories of "Goldilocks" and "Little Red Riding Hood" collide with the world of jazz, resulting in three jiving bears and a jitterbugging Big Bad Wolf. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
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King for a Day (1934)
Character: Mr. Brown
A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star.
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Congo Maisie (1940)
Character: Varnai
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
Character: Carpetbagger's Friend (uncredited)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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The Get-Away (1941)
Character: Moose Jones
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
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My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
Character: Mr. Mordecai
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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Banjo (1947)
Character: Uncle Jasper
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's sent to live with her aunt in Boston.
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Half-Pint Pygmy (1948)
Character: Pygmy (voice) (uncredited)
George and Junior hunt for the world's smallest pygmy.
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Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
Character: First Fisherman
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Character: Roustabout (uncredited)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004)
Character: Pit Crowd
A biopic of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr., documenting the driver's career from his earliest days onward and also looking at the family he built along the way. Earnhardt's death in 2001 rocked the sport, but his seven championships and 76 wins made an impact on NASCAR forever.
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Among the Living (1941)
Character: Pompey
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Character: Black Man in Barn (uncredited)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Stormy Weather (1943)
Character: Jim Europe (uncredited)
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
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Safari (1940)
Character: Witch doctor
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
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Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Character: Alexander '8 Ball' Hamilton (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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The Green Pastures (1936)
Character: Pharaoh
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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Tell No Tales (1939)
Character: Slab Griffin (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Character: Sam Blike (uncredited)
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
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6,000 Enemies (1939)
Character: Willie (uncredited)
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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Dillinger (1945)
Character: Jack - Black Prisoner (uncredited)
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Character: Colored Gentleman
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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The Pittsburgh Kid (1941)
Character: Feets Johnson
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
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White Hunter (1936)
Character: Abdi
Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...
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Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Character: Sam
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Pacific Liner (1939)
Character: Professor - Black Stoker (uncredited)
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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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Character: Buck
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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Maryland (1940)
Character: Clarence "Dogface" Reems
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Character: Jim Henry
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
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Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Character: Whiteface
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
Character: Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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Jesse James (1939)
Character: Pinkie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Blonde Savage (1947)
Character: Tonga
An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall Caucasian blonde woman.
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The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Character: Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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