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The Opened Shutters (1914)
Character: Thinkright Johnson
After being orphaned and rejected by her reluctant relatives, Aunt Martha and Judge Trent, Sylvia Lacey is sent to live at a Maine farm managed by a kind man named Thinkright. While there, she becomes captivated by a deserted, shuttered Tide Mill, believing only love can "open its shutters." Sylvia eventually discovers a passion for painting and falls in love with John Dunham, the Judge’s law partner. Though she initially believes John is engaged to her friend Edna, he eventually confesses his love for her. In the end, John surprises Sylvia by revealing he has purchased the Tide Mill and converted it into a professional art studio for her, fulfilling her metaphor that love would finally open the mill's shutters.
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The Flash (1915)
Character: Old Carl Bauer
Blind Carl Bauer is on the verge of regaining his sight. But in a moment of impulsive action tears off his bandages in order to save his daughter from a villain, ultimately losing his chance at vision forever.
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The Restless Spirit (1913)
Character: The Stranger
The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knight. And in the third a Sultan. But in all the illusions he die. Meanwhile his wife is about to be send into the desert while refusing to remarry a Stranger. Before this could happen, the Dreamer arrives and send the Stranger into the desert. He becomes again a loved and respected member of the Town.
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Red Lights (1923)
Character: Luke Carson
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
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The Green Goddess (1923)
Character: The High Priest
The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice Joyce, David Powell, and Harry T. Morey.
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Perils of Pauline (1933)
Character: American Consul
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
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The Black Box (1915)
Character: Prof. Ashleigh / Lord Ashleigh / Lady Ashleigh
Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
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Shipmates (1931)
Character: Admiral Schuyler
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.
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The Return of Boston Blackie (1927)
Character: John Markham
Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie, undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a necklace from a cabaret dancer. He learns that the jewel belongs to the mother of the blonde girl, and the blonde's philandering father gave it as a gift to the cabaret girl. Now, Blackie must find a way to return the necklace to the owner's safe without arousing the suspicions of the girl's family.
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Alcatraz Island (1937)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Espionage Agent (1939)
Character: Instructor in Montage
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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The Awful Truth (1925)
Character: Jonathan Sims
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Character: Oliver Ames (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Music for Madame (1937)
Character: Bus Passenger (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
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I Loved a Woman (1933)
Character: Jefferson (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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Beggars in Ermine (1934)
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
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The Keyhole (1933)
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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Penny Wisdom (1937)
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.
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Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Character: Elderly Man in Hallway
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
Character: Colonel
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Character: Guest (uncredited)
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.
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The Accusing Finger (1936)
Character: Senator
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Hold That Kiss (1938)
Character: Dog Show Judge
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
Character: Assistant Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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Can This Be Dixie? (1936)
Character: George Washington Peachtree
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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Give Me Liberty (1936)
Character: Pendleton (uncredited)
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
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Homicide Bureau (1939)
Character: Citizen League Member
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Law and Order (1940)
Character: Judge Williams
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
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The Chaser (1938)
Character: Dr. Matthews
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Champagne Charlie (1936)
Character: Board Member
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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The Gold Ghost (1934)
Character: Gloria's Father, Jim
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
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Design for Living (1933)
Character: Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
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That Girl from Paris (1936)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
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Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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The Beloved Brat (1938)
Character: Dr. Reynolds
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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Criminal Lawyer (1937)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
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Battle of Greed (1937)
Character: Judge William H. Avery
When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
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Camille (1936)
Character: N/A
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: Reporter Witnessing Execution (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Man at Bar
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Character: King's Chamberlain
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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The President Vanishes (1934)
Character: Legislator
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Kid Boots (1926)
Character: Eleanor's Father (uncredited)
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
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Good Morning, Judge (1928)
Character: Mr. Grey Sr
Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.
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Devil's Playground (1937)
Character: Vice Admiral
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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Walking Down Broadway (1938)
Character: Judge
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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They Made Her a Spy (1939)
Character: Senator in the Dome Cafe
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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Dark Victory (1939)
Character: Specialist #1 (uncredited)
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Character: Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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His Greatest Gamble (1934)
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Hollywood Hotel (1938)
Character: Man at Premiere (uncredited)
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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The Great Gambini (1937)
Character: Elderly Man
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
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The Girl from Mexico (1939)
Character: Mr. Patton
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
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Zenobia (1939)
Character: Townsman
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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I Am the Law (1938)
Character: Committee Man (uncredited)
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Duck Soup (1933)
Character: First Minister of Finance (uncredited)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Back to Life (1913)
Character: The Gambler
A gambler brings his sick wife to live in the mountains after learning she has tuberculosis and will need special care. The gambler soon tires of caring for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon. The gambler's wife discovers her husband's infidelity and wanders off into the forest to die. There she finds a hunted outlaw named Jim, weak from loss of blood, and she nurses him back to health. Jim, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, who then nurse her back to health. The wife decides to try to regain her husband's love, but upon returning home, she finds he has been shot dead by a rival (Lon Chaney) in a saloon brawl. She goes back to Jim, and they find happiness together.
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If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Character: Mr. Fletcher (uncredited)
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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Grand Old Girl (1935)
Character: School Board Member
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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Boys Town (1938)
Character: Governor (uncredited)
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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The Man Who Came Back (1931)
Character: Captain Gallon
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: John - Radio Listener (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Gang Bullets (1938)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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The Spy (1914)
Character: Gen. George Washington
An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.
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Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Character: Theatrical Agent in Montage (uncredited)
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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Samson (1914)
Character: Ladal
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
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A Night at the Ritz (1935)
Character: Banker (uncredited)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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Damon and Pythias (1914)
Character: Damon
The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.
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Half a Bride (1928)
Character: Mr. Winslow
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.
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The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Character: Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Live, Love and Learn (1937)
Character: Mr. Killy (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Alibi for Murder (1936)
Character: John J. Foster (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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Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Character: Prison Board Member (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Morning Glory (1933)
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
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