Jay Ward

Jay Ward

Born: August 15, 1921
in USA

Movies for Jay Ward...

Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Harrigan's Kid
Title: Harrigan's Kid
Character: McNarmara
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Boyfriend (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
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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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: John Schofield
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Benny the Bellhop (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Character: Rufe
Released: December 15, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Title: Love Finds Andy Hardy
Character: Gene (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Pogey Williams (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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In Spite of Danger
Title: In Spite of Danger
Character: Tommy Sullivan
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
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Big Hearted Herbert
Title: Big Hearted Herbert
Character: Robert Kainess
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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Hold That Girl
Title: Hold That Girl
Character: Warren
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.
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As Husbands Go
Title: As Husbands Go
Character: Wilbur
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
As Husbands Go charts the romantic misadventures of Lucille Lingard .
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Lynn Hayden - as child
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Theodore Clayton
Released: September 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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Pilgrimage
Title: Pilgrimage
Character: Jimmy Saunders
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
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The Man Who Dared
Title: The Man Who Dared
Character: Jan Novak as a Boy
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Bill as a Child (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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Reducing
Title: Reducing
Character: Marty Truffle
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.