Jack Overman

Jack Overman

Born: March 26, 1917
Died: December 24, 1949

Movies for Jack Overman...

The Good Humor Man
Title: The Good Humor Man
Character: Shirtless Stoker
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Title: Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Character: Hood (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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The Crooked Way
Title: The Crooked Way
Character: Hood
Released: April 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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Flaxy Martin
Title: Flaxy Martin
Character: Caesar
Released: February 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.
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Force of Evil
Title: Force of Evil
Character: Juice (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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Secret Service Investigator
Title: Secret Service Investigator
Character: Herman
Released: May 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
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Assigned to Danger
Title: Assigned to Danger
Character: Biggie Kritz
Released: May 19, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Title: Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Character: Truck Driver
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
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T-Men
Title: T-Men
Character: Brownie
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
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Brute Force
Title: Brute Force
Character: Kid Coy
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: Mike
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
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The Brasher Doubloon
Title: The Brasher Doubloon
Character: Apartment Manager (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
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The Missing Lady
Title: The Missing Lady
Character: Ox
Released: August 17, 1946
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
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The Runaround
Title: The Runaround
Character: Cusack
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
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Frontier Gal
Title: Frontier Gal
Character: Buffalo
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
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Secret Agent X-9
Title: Secret Agent X-9
Character: Marker
Released: July 24, 1945
Type: Movie
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
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The Jungle Captive
Title: The Jungle Captive
Character: Detective - George
Released: June 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Gambling Room Guard (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Honeymoon Ahead
Title: Honeymoon Ahead
Character: Knuckles
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.