Russell Wade

Russell Wade

Born: June 21, 1917
Died: December 9, 2006
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Russell Wade (June 22, 1917 – December 9, 2006) was an American actor.

Movies for Russell Wade...

Beyond Glory
Title: Beyond Glory
Character: Cadet Jensen
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: George 'Mitch' Mitchell
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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Renegade Girl
Title: Renegade Girl
Character: Jerry Long
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.
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The Bamboo Blonde
Title: The Bamboo Blonde
Character: Patrick Ransom, Jr.
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
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A Game of Death
Title: A Game of Death
Character: Robert Trowbridge
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.
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The Body Snatcher
Title: The Body Snatcher
Character: Donald Fettes
Released: May 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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Tall in the Saddle
Title: Tall in the Saddle
Character: Clint Harolday
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
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Marine Raiders
Title: Marine Raiders
Character: Lt. Tony 'Junior' Hewitt
Released: July 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
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Sundown Riders
Title: Sundown Riders
Character: Russ Wade
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
This film was produced and released in 1944 by Film Enterprises for the 16mm school-and-institutional market, and was picked up and released in 1948 by Astor for theatrical 35mm showings. Both versions finds the citizens of Rockford upset over a series of murders and robberies. The Sundowners, Andy Clyde (Andy Clyde), Jay Kirby (Jay Kirby) and Russ Wade (Russell Wade), ride into Rockford and innocently takes jobs with Tug Wilson (Jack Ingram) and his tough crew of line riders, who are in cahoots with Yeager (Hal Price) in a big land swindle scheme.
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The Ghost Ship
Title: The Ghost Ship
Character: Third Officer Tom Merriam
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
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The Iron Major
Title: The Iron Major
Character: Private Manning
Released: October 31, 1943
Type: Movie
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning percentages in football history.
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The Leopard Man
Title: The Leopard Man
Character: The Man in the Black Car
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Paul Harris
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Jimmy
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Charles, the chauffeur
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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Red River Robin Hood
Title: Red River Robin Hood
Character: Chet Andrews
Released: November 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade.
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Dear! Deer!
Title: Dear! Deer!
Character: Philip Errol
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting trip, and then lapses into amnesia.
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Bandit Ranger
Title: Bandit Ranger
Character: Tex - Clay's Ranchhand
Released: September 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.
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Weekend for Three
Title: Weekend for Three
Character: Old Field Inn Patron
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
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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Keep 'Em Flying
Title: Keep 'Em Flying
Character: Young Flyer (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Newlywed on Beach (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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One Night in the Tropics
Title: One Night in the Tropics
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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Eyes of the Navy
Title: Eyes of the Navy
Character: Young Man in Automobile (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced training in California.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Chalmers' Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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My Love Came Back
Title: My Love Came Back
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Title: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Officer Worker in Corridor (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Yacht Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Student
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Nightclub Dancer (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Ball Guest
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: College Boy (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Dance Extra
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Sorority House
Title: Sorority House
Character: Dance Extra
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Guest
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Spring Madness
Title: Spring Madness
Character: Dartmouth College Student
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Charity Ball Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: Man in Tenwright's Outer Office
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Wedding Reception Guest
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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What Do You Think? (Number Three)
Title: What Do You Think? (Number Three)
Character: Party Guest / Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Wedding Guest (Uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Socialite at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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The House of a Thousand Candles
Title: The House of a Thousand Candles
Character: Young Man
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Chuck Regan (as Russell Waddle)
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.