Donald Briggs

Donald Briggs

Born: January 28, 1911
Died: February 3, 1986
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Donald Briggs was an American actor who appeared in over 75 films and television shows during a forty years span 1936-1976.

Movies for Donald Briggs...

Title: Here's Lucy
Character: Mr. Huntington
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: Batman
Character: Irving Irving
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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The Wheeler Dealers
Title: The Wheeler Dealers
Character: Len Flink
Released: November 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Whit Pearson
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Eddie Collins
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Dreaming Out Loud
Title: Dreaming Out Loud
Character: Will Danielson
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Mr. Brownlee
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Dick Allerton
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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Hot Steel
Title: Hot Steel
Character: George Barnes
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Title: Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Character: Jimmy Rothaker
Released: March 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.
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The Forgotten Woman
Title: The Forgotten Woman
Character: Dist. Atty. Burke
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
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Unexpected Father
Title: Unexpected Father
Character: Allen Rand - theatre manager
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
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Panama Lady
Title: Panama Lady
Character: Roy
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Jeffrey Grey
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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The Hardys Ride High
Title: The Hardys Ride High
Character: Caleb Bowen
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
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Whispering Enemies
Title: Whispering Enemies
Character: Fred Bowman
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket...
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Instructor
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Mr. Carter (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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Mr. Chump
Title: Mr. Chump
Character: Jim Belden
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Star Reporter
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: George Onslow
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
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Crime School
Title: Crime School
Character: New Doctor
Released: May 10, 1938
Type: Movie
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
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The Beloved Brat
Title: The Beloved Brat
Character: Williams
Released: April 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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The First Hundred Years
Title: The First Hundred Years
Character: William Regan
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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Love, Honor and Behave
Title: Love, Honor and Behave
Character: Tennis Coach
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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The Daredevil Drivers
Title: The Daredevil Drivers
Character: Tommy Burnell
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: Maitland Greer
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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All American Sweetheart
Title: All American Sweetheart
Character: Johnny Ames
Released: December 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Cap Collender (Arthur Loft),a showboat gambling racketeer, ensnares a collegiate rowing team's coxswain, "Squirt" Adams (Jimmy Eagles), into the sports-gambling racket.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Prince Michael
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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They Won't Forget
Title: They Won't Forget
Character: Harmon
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Tyler
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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The Good Old Soak
Title: The Good Old Soak
Character: Fred
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Baldwin
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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After the Thin Man
Title: After the Thin Man
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: Stuart Farnum (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Man
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Quartermaster
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Frank Merriwell (as Don Briggs)
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.