Tommy Ryan

Tommy Ryan

Movies for Tommy Ryan...

Top Banana
Title: Top Banana
Character: Singer (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1954
Type: Movie
Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important department store. Jerry meets Sally Peters, one of the department store models, and makes her part of his TV troupe. As part of his campaign to court Sally, Jerry gets Cliff Lane, the tenor of his TV company, to sing to her over the phone. When Sally and Cliff meet, they fall in love, with Biffle ignorant of the complications.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Olivette's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Delivery Boy
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Newsboy
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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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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Earl of Puddlestone
Title: Earl of Puddlestone
Character: Tommy Higgins
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
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Grandpa Goes To Town
Title: Grandpa Goes To Town
Character: Tommy Higgins
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
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Money To Burn
Title: Money To Burn
Character: Tommy Higgins
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
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The Covered Trailer
Title: The Covered Trailer
Character: Tommy Higgins
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Should Husbands Work?
Title: Should Husbands Work?
Character: Tommy Higgins
Released: July 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
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Mickey the Kid
Title: Mickey the Kid
Character: Mickey Larch / Mickey Adams
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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My Wife's Relatives
Title: My Wife's Relatives
Character: Tommy Higgins
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
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Street of Missing Men
Title: Street of Missing Men
Character: Tommy Blake
Released: April 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..
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Prairie Moon
Title: Prairie Moon
Character: William Brains Barton
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
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Tenth Avenue Kid
Title: Tenth Avenue Kid
Character: Tommy Turner, the 'Tenth Avenue Kid'
Released: August 22, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
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Our Gang Follies of 1938
Title: Our Gang Follies of 1938
Character: Boy in Love Bug Singing Act (as Philip MacMahon)
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
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Make a Wish
Title: Make a Wish
Character: Chunky
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.