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The World Accuses (1934)
Character: Hugh Collins
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
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Son of the Navy (1940)
Character: Police Officer
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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With Love and Kisses (1936)
Character: Flash Henderson
A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200.
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1944)
Character: Police Detective
Errol is mistakenly involved in the raid of a burlesque show where he had innocently gone in order to hire some talent, including a fan dancer, for his lodge show.
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Radio Rampage (1944)
Character: Radio Announcer
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.
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Birthday Blues (1945)
Character: Thief
Leon, not willing to admit he had forgotten the birthday of his wife, tells her he left her present at the office, and she insists he go get it. On the way, a sidewalk salesman sells him a fur coat which Leon learns later had been stolen from his neighbor's wife. He tries to sneak the coat back into the apartment but the husband catches him, and Leon is unable to explain why he is there. A lot of rain must fall in Leon's life, and it does, before everything is resolved... somewhat. He still doesn't have a present for Dorothy, a fact that does not go unnoticed by her.
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Northern Frontier (1935)
Character: Duke Milford
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
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Reckless Living (1931)
Character: Kid Regan
In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.
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Death from a Distance (1935)
Character: Det. Lt. Ted Mallory
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
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Back Street (1932)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Some Like It Hot (1939)
Character: Barker (uncredited)
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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The Drifter (1932)
Character: Montana
A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.
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Beware Of Ladies (1936)
Character: Randy Randall
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
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Car 99 (1935)
Character: Dispatch Operator Harper
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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Idol of the Crowds (1937)
Character: Kelly
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
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The Criminal Code (1931)
Character: State's Attorney
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Youth Runs Wild (1944)
Character: Dickens (uncredited)
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
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Curtain at Eight (1933)
Character: Reporter Mooney
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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New Moon (1930)
Character: Dimitri
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
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The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Character: Rusty Callahan
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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A Successful Failure (1934)
Character: Phil Stardon
Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.
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The Little Giant (1933)
Character: Albert J. 'Al' Daniels
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
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Good Dame (1934)
Character: 'Spats' Edwards
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.
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Valley of Wanted Men (1935)
Character: Kelly Dillon
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
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Below the Deadline (1936)
Character: Terry Mulvaney
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
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Elmer, the Great (1933)
Character: Whitey
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Character: Whitey
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
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Torture Ship (1939)
Character: Harry 'The Carver' Bogard
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
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Desirable (1934)
Character: Chet
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Frisco Waterfront (1935)
Character: Eddie
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
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Arrowsmith (1931)
Character: Terry Wickett
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Black Gold (1936)
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
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On the Spot (1940)
Character: Dave Nolan
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
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Men in White (1934)
Character: Pete
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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The Miracle Woman (1931)
Character: Bill Welford
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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I'm No Angel (1933)
Character: 'Flea' Madigan
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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The Big Timer (1932)
Character: Sullivan
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
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Air Mail (1932)
Character: 'Dizzy' Wilkins
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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The Star Witness (1931)
Character: Deputy Thorpe
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
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Sutter's Gold (1936)
Character: Crazed Sailor
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Boulder Dam (1936)
Character: Cable Operator (uncredited)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Night World (1932)
Character: Klauss
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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Once in a Lifetime (1932)
Character: Jerome 'Jerry' Hyland
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Tarnished Angel (1938)
Character: Lou
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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Remote Control (1930)
Character: Frank
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
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False Pretenses (1935)
Character: Pat Brennan
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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We Who Are About to Die (1937)
Character: MacAndrews
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Blonde Crazy (1931)
Character: Jerry (uncredited)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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Born to Be Bad (1934)
Character: Steve Karns
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. Letty teaches her child to lie, steal, cheat and anything else he'll need to be street smart.
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Angel's Holiday (1937)
Character: Gus
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Call of the Flesh (1930)
Character: Captain Enrique Vargas
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.
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Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Character: Max, Chauffeur
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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The Headline Woman (1935)
Character: Craig
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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He Was Her Man (1934)
Character: Monk, Curly's Hitman
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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Street Scene (1931)
Character: Steve Sankey
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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Bad Guy (1937)
Character: Charlie Edwards
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
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I Sell Anything (1934)
Character: Smiley
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
Character: American Legion Doctor
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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The Last Outlaw (1936)
Character: Sheriff Arthur Billings
After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired assistant sheriff who originally caught him, and Chuck Wilson, a young rancher who has eyes for Sally. Wanted criminal Al Goss holds up the local bank and makes his getaway, taking Sally hostage. Showing he still has what it takes, Payton, along with Yates and Wilson, take off into the hills on horseback to try to track Goss down. - Written by Doug Sederberg
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The Circus Show-Up (1932)
Character: Billy Dooley
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
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West of the Pecos (1945)
Character: Jeff Slinger
Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito. The Colonel hires the two and the Lambeths soon find themselves mixed up in Pecos' trouble. Pecos has killed Sawtelle's brother and Sawtelle as head of the vigilantes is after him.
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One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Character: Peter Brindell
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
Character: Jerry Clayton
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
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Back Page (1933)
Character: Brice Regal
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
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Radio Patrol (1932)
Character: Pat Bourke
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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Ella Cinders (1926)
Character: Studio Actor (uncredited)
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
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Wings in the Dark (1935)
Character: Jake Brashear
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
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Circus Shadows (1935)
Character: A Dip
A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.
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Rose of the Rancho (1936)
Character: Frisco
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
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Star of Midnight (1935)
Character: Tommy Tennant
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
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Destination Unknown (1933)
Character: Georgie
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Law and Order (1932)
Character: Luther Johnson
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
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Min and Bill (1930)
Character: Alec
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
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Women Without Names (1940)
Character: Police Broadcaster
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Renegade Trail (1939)
Character: Bob Smoky Joslin
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."
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Lady Killer (1933)
Character: Smiley
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
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School for Girls (1934)
Character: Elliott Robbins, aka Buck Kreegar
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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One Year Later (1933)
Character: Tony Richards
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
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Take the Stand (1934)
Character: Bill Hamilton
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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So Young, So Bad (1950)
Character: Police Sergeant (archive footage) (uncredited)
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
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Discarded Lovers (1932)
Character: Bob Adair
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.
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The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
Character: Harry Donnell
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
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Mutiny in the Big House (1939)
Character: Convict Frankie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Times Square Lady (1935)
Character: Ed Brennan
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
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Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
Character: Lee Adams
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
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'G' Men (1935)
Character: Gerard
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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