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Jennie (1940)
Character: Dr. Hildebrand
A happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Character: Mike O'Brien
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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I Was Framed (1942)
Character: Dr. Phillip Black
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Romance of the Rio Grande (1941)
Character: Padre Martinez
When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: Turnkey
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Susan and God (1940)
Character: Patrick Maloney
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Ball of Fire (1941)
Character: Justice of the Peace
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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No Place to Go (1939)
Character: "Doc" Heffernan
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of corruption, blackmail, gambling scandals, and criminal intrigue. As Nick investigates, he encounters suspicious bookmakers, dishonest officials, rival gangsters, and a mysterious killer determined to stay ahead of the law. Nora, as always, is never far from the action, bringing her quick wit and fearless curiosity to the case.
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The Major and the Minor (1942)
Character: Reverend Doyle
Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.
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Mississippi Gambler (1942)
Character: Judd Higgins - Mississippi Newspaper Editor
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)
Character: Matt Brandon
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
Character: Mr. Williams
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
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It All Came True (1940)
Character: Father McDuffy (uncredited)
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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Waterfront (1939)
Character: Father Dunn
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Character: Judge Bowling Green
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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These Glamour Girls (1939)
Character: Charlie the Counterman (uncredited)
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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Love Crazy (1941)
Character: Jimmy - the Doorman (uncredited)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Pot o' Gold (1941)
Character: Judge Mike Murray (uncredited)
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Those Were the Days! (1940)
Character: Judge Squire Jennings
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.
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I Married a Witch (1942)
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
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On Dress Parade (1939)
Character: Father Ryan
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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