John Arledge

John Arledge

Born: March 12, 1906
Died: May 15, 1947
in Crockett, Texas, USA
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Johnson Lundy Arledge (March 12, 1906 – May 15, 1947) was an American film and stage actor. He played dozens of supporting roles in the Hollywood movies of the 1930s–1940s, including the tractor driver who destroys a house in The Grapes of Wrath.

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Dark Passage
Title: Dark Passage
Character: Lonely Man at Bus Station (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Thunder's owner
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Southern Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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The Flag of Humanity
Title: The Flag of Humanity
Character: Jeremy
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Salesman
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Ski Patrol
Title: Ski Patrol
Character: Dick Reynolds
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Newcomer on Ship (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Davis
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Dufond
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Alabama Man #2 (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Dying Soldier (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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All Women Have Secrets
Title: All Women Have Secrets
Character: Joe Tucker
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
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6,000 Enemies
Title: 6,000 Enemies
Character: Phil Donegan
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Red
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Phineas Whipsnade
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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Campus Confessions
Title: Campus Confessions
Character: Freddy Fry
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
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Numbered Woman
Title: Numbered Woman
Character: Tommy Morgan
Released: May 22, 1938
Type: Movie
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
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Prison Nurse
Title: Prison Nurse
Character: Mousie
Released: March 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
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County Fair
Title: County Fair
Character: John Hope
Released: November 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Racetrack drama about a young jockey accused of drugging his horse.
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Big City
Title: Big City
Character: Buddy
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Spike Adams
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Walter Clifford
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Murder on a Bridle Path
Title: Murder on a Bridle Path
Character: Joey Thomas
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
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Two in Revolt
Title: Two in Revolt
Character: John Woods
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.
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You May Be Next!
Title: You May Be Next!
Character: Eddie House
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
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We're Only Human
Title: We're Only Human
Character: Johnny O'Brien
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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Shipmates Forever
Title: Shipmates Forever
Character: Johnny 'Coxswain' Lawrence
Released: October 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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Old Man Rhythm
Title: Old Man Rhythm
Character: Pinky Parker
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Linc Overman
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Devil Dogs of the Air
Title: Devil Dogs of the Air
Character: Mac
Released: February 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
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Flirtation Walk
Title: Flirtation Walk
Character: Spike Dukowe
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
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Jimmy and Sally
Title: Jimmy and Sally
Character: Joe
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart Sally steps in, immediately succeeding where Jimmy had failed.
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Hell's Highway
Title: Hell's Highway
Character: Joe Carter
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
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Week Ends Only
Title: Week Ends Only
Character: Ted Lane
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
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Huddle
Title: Huddle
Character: Pidge
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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Careless Lady
Title: Careless Lady
Character: Hank Oldfield
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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After Tomorrow
Title: After Tomorrow
Character: Office Worker / Wedding Rehearsal Guest
Released: March 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
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Heartbreak
Title: Heartbreak
Character: Jerry Sommers
Released: November 8, 1931
Type: Movie
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Tommy
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
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Daddy Long Legs
Title: Daddy Long Legs
Character: Jimmy McBride
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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Young Sinners
Title: Young Sinners
Character: Jimmy
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
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King of Jazz
Title: King of Jazz
Character: First Pianist at Giant Piano ('Rhapsody in Blue') / Quartet Member ('Nellie') (as Johnson Arledge)
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.