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Taxi Talks (1930)
Character: N/A
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to be taken to the precinct house.
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A Fugitive from Justice (1940)
Character: Dan Miller
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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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)
Character: N/A
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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Strange Wives (1934)
Character: Jimmy King
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
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South of Panama (1941)
Character: Mike Lawrence
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
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Sued for Libel (1939)
Character: Willard Corbin
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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The Richest Man in Town (1941)
Character: Tom Manning
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
Character: Peter Rennick
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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I'll Tell the World (1934)
Character: William S. Briggs
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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High Powered (1945)
Character: Rod Farrell
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Character: District Attorney Drake
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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Lady Bodyguard (1943)
Character: George MacAlister
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
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Gift of Gab (1934)
Character: Kelly
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Straight from the Heart (1935)
Character: Andy MacLean
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Glamour for Sale (1940)
Character: James R. Daly
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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Identity Unknown (1945)
Character: Rocks Donnelly
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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Case of the Missing Man (1935)
Character: James "Jimmy" Hudson
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
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Sitting on the Moon (1936)
Character: Danny West
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
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A Man's World (1942)
Character: 'Bugsy' Nelson
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
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The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Character: Dr. Tim Mason
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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Missing Girls (1936)
Character: Reporter Jimmie Dugan
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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Scared Stiff (1945)
Character: Richardson
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
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The Headline Woman (1935)
Character: Bob Grayson
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Ticket to Paradise (1936)
Character: Terry Dodd aka Jack Doe
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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Bowery Boy (1940)
Character: J. R. Mason
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
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Gambling Daughters (1941)
Character: Chance Landon
A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
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I Live on Danger (1942)
Character: Bert Jannings
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Charles Patteson
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
Character: George Dwight
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
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To Beat the Band (1935)
Character: Larry Barry
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
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The Kid Sister (1945)
Character: J. Waldo Barnes
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
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The Officer and the Lady (1941)
Character: Johnny Davis
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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She Couldn't Say No (1940)
Character: Wallace Turnbull
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
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Belle of the Nineties (1934)
Character: Tiger Kid
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
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Flying Blind (1941)
Character: Rocky Drake
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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Wake Up and Dream (1934)
Character: Charlie Sullivan
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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The Cisco Kid Returns (1945)
Character: John Harris
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.
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Man from Oklahoma (1945)
Character: Jim Gardner
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
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$1,000 a Minute (1935)
Character: Wally Jones
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
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Lady by Choice (1934)
Character: Johnny Mills
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Tom Marsden
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Thoroughbreds (1944)
Character: Harold Matthews
Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his old military mount Sireson. Unfortunately, the father of wealthy socialite Sally Crandall outbids him with plans to train Sireson for a steeplechase race. Sally and Rusty develop a rivalry because she has a favorite horse of her own, but when her horse is hurt she and Rusty declare a truce and begin a romantic relationship.
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Power Dive (1941)
Character: Dan McMasters
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
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Submarine Alert (1943)
Character: G.B. Fleming
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Romance in the Rain (1934)
Character: Charlie Denton
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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