Ramsay Ames

Ramsay Ames

Born: March 30, 1919
Died: March 30, 1998

Movies for Ramsay Ames...

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
Title: Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary featured on the Classic Monster Collection and Monster Legacy Collection for The Mummy (1932).
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The Mummy's Ghost
Title: The Mummy's Ghost
Character: Amina (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Nine minutes extracted from The Mummy's Ghost (1944) for the pre-VCR 16mm home movie market.
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The Running Man
Title: The Running Man
Character: Madge Penderby
Released: October 1, 1963
Type: Movie
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
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Una tal Dulcinea
Title: Una tal Dulcinea
Released: August 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A history professor is married with a beautiful woman but she is intellectually not able to follow her husband. Therefore she seeks her own pleasures and amusements without him.
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At Five in the Afternoon
Title: At Five in the Afternoon
Character: Americana (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Spain's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1960
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Il marito
Title: Il marito
Released: February 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.
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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Character: Drunken Woman (as Ramsey Ames)
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Released: February 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother’s fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who’s a friend of the man’s girlfriend. The performer suggests that all the men go out for a few drinks, and the next thing the businessman knows, he’s waking up in his apartment with a terrible hangover and a dead body in his room.
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Vicki
Title: Vicki
Character: Cafe Photographer (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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G-Men Never Forget
Title: G-Men Never Forget
Character: Frances Blake
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
An escaped criminal impersonates a Police Commissioner, causing no end of trouble to a determined Federal Agent.
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The Black Widow
Title: The Black Widow
Character: Ruth Dayton
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
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The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Title: The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Character: Betty Winslow
Released: May 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.
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Philo Vance Returns
Title: Philo Vance Returns
Character: Virginia Berneaux
Released: April 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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Beauty and the Bandit
Title: Beauty and the Bandit
Character: Jeanne Du Bois
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The stagecoach is ambushed by a band of men whose leader, a mysterious bandido known as Cisco (Gilbert Roland), claims the silver is money that was extorted over a period of years from the poor people of California. The bandits take the money and escape, but Cisco stays behind with the Frenchman -- who, it turns out, is actually a lovely mademoiselle, Jeanne DuBois (Ramsay Ames). She follows him to the bandit's lair, where Cisco tells her he intends to return the stolen money to the poor people. The two rivals are irresistibly drawn to each other, however, and as a token of love Cisco offers to return the money to Jeanne instead. Now she must decide whether to complete her business deal, or to comply with Cisco's wishes and redistribute the wealth.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Lynn Turner
Released: August 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
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The Gay Cavalier
Title: The Gay Cavalier
Character: Pepita Geralda
Released: March 30, 1946
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also after the outlaws that robbed a stage carrying gold for the Mission. His task is made easier once he learns that the "wealthy" suitor (Tristram Coffin) is also the man behind the gold robbers.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Title: A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Character: Betty
Released: October 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies. Margaret, furious with Henny for the blunder, fires him---but only temporarily. Another agent, Marty Allen, once married to and still in love with Margaret, signs Betty and Eileen. Henny arrives with Judy and Marian, and the nightclub manager asks Henny to emcee the show. Though he is not sure himself what they can do, Henny introduces the girls and they make a hit in a dramatic sketch. Big-time movie producer R. J. signs them to a film contract. Judy joins the WAVES, Marian the WACS and Marty the Marines and all have two weeks before induction, and that is more than long enough to shoot a Monogram musical-within-a-Monogram musical and have a few days to spare.
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The Mummy's Ghost
Title: The Mummy's Ghost
Character: Amina Mansouri
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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Follow the Boys
Title: Follow the Boys
Character: Laura
Released: May 5, 1944
Type: Movie
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
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Hat Check Honey
Title: Hat Check Honey
Character: Mona Mallory
Released: March 10, 1944
Type: Movie
When a hat-check girl writes a story based on the life of a famous comedian, she helps to reunite a father and son who haven't spoken to each other for years.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Nalu
Released: January 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
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Calling Dr. Death
Title: Calling Dr. Death
Character: Maria Steele
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Herself - Dancer
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
Title: Two Señoritas from Chicago
Character: Louise Hotchkiss
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.