Selmer Jackson

Selmer Jackson

Born: May 6, 1888
Died: March 30, 1971
in Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
Selmer Jackson (May 7, 1888 - March 30, 1971) was an American stage, film and television actor who appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963.

Movies for Selmer Jackson...

Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
bee
The Wheeler Dealers
Title: The Wheeler Dealers
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
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.
bee
The Gallant Hours
Title: The Gallant Hours
Released: June 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
bee
The Atomic Submarine
Title: The Atomic Submarine
Character: Admiral Terhune
Released: November 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
bee
The Lost Missile
Title: The Lost Missile
Character: The Secretary of State
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A missile from parts unknown enters an orbit only 5 miles above Earth's surface and, due to friction from its intense speed through our atmosphere, proceeds to incinerate everything in its immediate wake.
bee
Autumn Leaves
Title: Autumn Leaves
Character: Mr. Wetherby
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
bee
Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Minister
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
bee
Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Reverend
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
bee
Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Butler
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
bee
Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Clergyman
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
bee
Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Henry
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
bee
Devil Goddess
Title: Devil Goddess
Character: Prof. Carl Blakely
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Jungle-Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.
bee
Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
bee
Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Character: Mayor Hoover
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
bee
Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
bee
Title: The Millionaire
Character: Dr. Jim O'Toole
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
bee
City Story
Title: City Story
Released: May 5, 1954
Type: Movie
When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the pastor she doesn't come to church because the congregation is too cold and unfriendly. Realizing that she has spoken the truth, the pastor tries to inject new life into the church and brings up the idea of widened community services before the church board. There is opposition, at first because of the cost, but they vote to give the new plan a chance.
bee
Title: Annie Oakley
Character: John Cromby - Rancher
Released: January 9, 1954
Type: TV
Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
bee
Sky Commando
Title: Sky Commando
Character: Gen. Carson
Released: August 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
bee
Jack McCall, Desperado
Title: Jack McCall, Desperado
Character: Col. Brand
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, a Southerner joins the Union Army and is accused of leaking information to the Confederates.
bee
Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Gen. Maddux
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
bee
Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Gen. Summers
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
bee
Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Col. Jack Redding
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
bee
We're Not Married!
Title: We're Not Married!
Character: Chaplain Hall (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
bee
Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Merritt Crayton - Attorney (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
bee
Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
bee
Elopement
Title: Elopement
Character: Dr. Halsey (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
bee
Purple Heart Diary
Title: Purple Heart Diary
Character: Col. Tappen
Released: November 12, 1951
Type: Movie
A trio of singers entertaining hospitalized soldiers during WWII encourage a wounded soldier in his love for a nurse.
bee
Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
bee
That's My Boy
Title: That's My Boy
Character: Doc Hunter
Released: May 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his only son Junior is an uncoordinated, allergy-ridden bookworm. He uses his athletic reputation and standing as #1 alumni contributor to pressure the coach to take Junior onto the team. In addition, he pays the tuition of Junior's financially needy classmate Bill Baker, a potential all-American, with the understanding that he will room with Junior and mentor him athletically and socially. Junior's initial efforts as quarterback prove disastrous and further complications arise when the room mates both fall in love with the same co-ed.
bee
Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Title: Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Character: Governor
Released: May 1, 1951
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
bee
Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Governor
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
bee
Bowery Battalion
Title: Bowery Battalion
Character: Col. Masters
Released: January 24, 1951
Type: Movie
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
bee
The Flying Missile
Title: The Flying Missile
Character: Col. Halliburton
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Edgar Wellman
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Dr. Curlin
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Mr. Coswell
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Dr. Allen
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: General
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Lucky Losers
Title: Lucky Losers
Character: David Thurston
Released: May 14, 1950
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
bee
No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
bee
Gunmen of Abilene
Title: Gunmen of Abilene
Character: Dr. Johnson
Released: February 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Abilene gunmen are bent on terrorizing the town of Blue Valley and massacring its inhabitants. They have been hired by local druggist Henry Turner, who has discovered gold beneath the town and wishes complete possession.
bee
Mark of the Gorilla
Title: Mark of the Gorilla
Character: Warden Frank R. Bentley
Released: January 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
bee
Squadron of Doom
Title: Squadron of Doom
Character: Meredith
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
bee
Renegades of the Sage
Title: Renegades of the Sage
Character: Brown
Released: November 24, 1949
Type: Movie
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.
bee
Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Judge Donnell
Released: July 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
bee
Sorrowful Jones
Title: Sorrowful Jones
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
bee
The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Cortlandt Official (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
bee
Tulsa
Title: Tulsa
Character: Oilman (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1949
Type: Movie
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
bee
Alaska Patrol
Title: Alaska Patrol
Character: Capt. Wright
Released: March 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong resemblance to Rattick.
bee
Every Girl Should Be Married
Title: Every Girl Should Be Married
Character: Clergyman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
bee
The Dark Past
Title: The Dark Past
Character: Warden Benson (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
bee
Sealed Verdict
Title: Sealed Verdict
Character: Dr. Bossin
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
bee
The Girl from Manhattan
Title: The Girl from Manhattan
Character: Dr. Moseby
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
bee
Pitfall
Title: Pitfall
Character: Ed Brawley
Released: August 11, 1948
Type: Movie
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
bee
Dream Girl
Title: Dream Girl
Character: Judge Jed Allerton
Released: July 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
bee
Blonde Ice
Title: Blonde Ice
Character: District Attorney Ed Chalmers
Released: July 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
bee
Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Mr. Howard
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
bee
The Fuller Brush Man
Title: The Fuller Brush Man
Character: Henry Seward (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
bee
The Cobra Strikes
Title: The Cobra Strikes
Character: Dr. Keating
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
bee
High Wall
Title: High Wall
Character: Police Insp. Harding (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
bee
Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: Edward Clemmons
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
bee
Magic Town
Title: Magic Town
Character: Stringer
Released: October 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
bee
The Pretender
Title: The Pretender
Character: Charles Lennox
Released: August 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
bee
Stepchild
Title: Stepchild
Character: Judge
Released: June 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
bee
Sarge Goes to College
Title: Sarge Goes to College
Character: Marine Capt. R.S. Handler
Released: May 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
bee
A Likely Story
Title: A Likely Story
Character: Doctor in Elevator (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
bee
The Thirteenth Hour
Title: The Thirteenth Hour
Character: Judge William B. Collins
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
bee
San Quentin
Title: San Quentin
Character: Rev. Eckles (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1946
Type: Movie
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
bee
Boston Blackie and the Law
Title: Boston Blackie and the Law
Character: Warden Lund
Released: December 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
bee
Wife Wanted
Title: Wife Wanted
Character: Lowell Cornell
Released: November 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
bee
Child of Divorce
Title: Child of Divorce
Character: Dr. Sterling
Released: October 14, 1946
Type: Movie
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce, the judge decrees that the young girl live with her mother for eight months and her father the other four months. The divided life affects her both mentally and physically.
bee
Dangerous Money
Title: Dangerous Money
Character: Ship's Doctor
Released: October 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
bee
The Time of Their Lives
Title: The Time of Their Lives
Character: Mr. Dibbs - Museum Curator (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
bee
She Wrote the Book
Title: She Wrote the Book
Character: Fielding
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
bee
The French Key
Title: The French Key
Character: Walter Winslow
Released: May 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
bee
The Glass Alibi
Title: The Glass Alibi
Character: Dr. Lawson
Released: April 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
bee
Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Dr. Connell (Uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
bee
Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Dr. Blair
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
bee
Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Dr. Judson
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
bee
Black Market Babies
Title: Black Market Babies
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
bee
Allotment Wives
Title: Allotment Wives
Character: Deacon Sam
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
bee
Purity Squad
Title: Purity Squad
Character: Darles F. Peters (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1945
Type: Movie
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
bee
This Love of Ours
Title: This Love of Ours
Character: Dr. Melnik
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
bee
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Title: The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Character: RCMP Superintendant MacDonald
Released: October 23, 1945
Type: Movie
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.
bee
First Yank into Tokyo
Title: First Yank into Tokyo
Character: Col. Blaine (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
bee
Out of This World
Title: Out of This World
Character: Doctor
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
An all-girl band hits paydirt—and mud—when they sign a male crooner and then sell five 25% shares of his contract.
bee
A Sporting Chance
Title: A Sporting Chance
Character: John Smalley
Released: June 2, 1945
Type: Movie
After the death of shipping magnate William Reardon, his young partner, Steve Walker, becomes executor and manager of his shipyards, in accordance with his will. Reardon's spoiled niece, society girl Pamela Herrick, will inherit her uncle's entire estate on condition that she hold a job at the shipyards for a year on her own merit. Steve is to be the sole judge of her actions and decide whether she will receive her inheritance.
bee
Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Warden
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
bee
Forever Yours
Title: Forever Yours
Character: Williams
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
bee
Sheriff of Las Vegas
Title: Sheriff of Las Vegas
Character: Arthur Stanton
Released: December 31, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father.
bee
She's a Sweetheart
Title: She's a Sweetheart
Character: General
Released: December 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
bee
Stars on Parade
Title: Stars on Parade
Character: J. L. Carson
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
bee
Patrolling the Ether
Title: Patrolling the Ether
Character: Chief of Radio Intelligence Division
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
1940. Sixteen year old Phillip is one of a number of amateur radio operators across the US, doing it purely as a fun hobby. He is informed by Bill Beck of the Radio and Intelligence Division (RID) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that amateur international radio communication is now banned due to spying a result of the war in Europe. Beck, on behalf of the RID, asks Phillip, however, to continue to monitor the airwaves for suspicious activity.
bee
Hey, Rookie
Title: Hey, Rookie
Character: Col. Robbins
Released: April 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
bee
Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Consul
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
bee
Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Col. Thompson (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
bee
Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Carol's Lawyer
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
bee
Flight for Freedom
Title: Flight for Freedom
Character: Sea Captain (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
bee
It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Grant
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
bee
Harrigan's Kid
Title: Harrigan's Kid
Character: Mr. Ranley
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
bee
Margin for Error
Title: Margin for Error
Character: Medical Examiner
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
bee
You Can't Beat the Law
Title: You Can't Beat the Law
Character: Mr. Bedford
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
bee
Reconnaissance Pilot
Title: Reconnaissance Pilot
Character: Lt. General
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
bee
Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Harrison K. Woods
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
bee
Thunder Birds
Title: Thunder Birds
Character: Bit role
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
bee
Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: George Arnold, Insurance Man
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
bee
The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Maj. Henry Barton
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
bee
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Sersen
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
bee
Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Chaplain
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
bee
My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Minister at Wedding
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
bee
Powder Town
Title: Powder Town
Character: Mr. Tuttle (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
bee
Miss Annie Rooney
Title: Miss Annie Rooney
Character: Mr. Thomas
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
bee
The Falcon Takes Over
Title: The Falcon Takes Over
Character: Laird Burnett (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
bee
Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Club Member (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
bee
Romance on the Range
Title: Romance on the Range
Character: Lawyer Harrison
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
bee
Secret Agent of Japan
Title: Secret Agent of Japan
Character: American Navy Captain
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
bee
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Judge
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
bee
Frisco Lil
Title: Frisco Lil
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
bee
Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
bee
A Date with the Falcon
Title: A Date with the Falcon
Character: Mr. Wallis (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
bee
The Power of God
Title: The Power of God
Character: The Pastor
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
bee
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Army Officer
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
bee
Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Graham
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
bee
Road to Happiness
Title: Road to Happiness
Character: Sam Rankin
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
bee
They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Capt. McCook (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
bee
Devil Pays Off
Title: Devil Pays Off
Character: Adm. Curtiss
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
bee
Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: General Duncan (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
bee
Parachute Battalion
Title: Parachute Battalion
Character: Thomas Morse
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
bee
Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Senator
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
bee
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
bee
Three Sons o' Guns
Title: Three Sons o' Guns
Character: Head of Draft Board
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
bee
The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
bee
Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
bee
Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Doctor at Susan's Apartment (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
bee
She Knew All the Answers
Title: She Knew All the Answers
Character: Broker
Released: May 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
bee
Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Radio Announcer at Convention (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
bee
Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Arthur the butler
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
bee
Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
bee
Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Fred Dice
Released: January 29, 1941
Type: Movie
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
bee
Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Officer Reading Names of Graduates (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
bee
Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Henry DeMille
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
bee
Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Henry, Gambling Man (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
bee
The Ape
Title: The Ape
Character: Dr. McNulty
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
bee
Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Caleb Kent
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
bee
Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: District Attorney Thomas (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
bee
City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Doctor
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?
bee
No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: First-Nighter (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
bee
Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Hudson (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
bee
Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Lawyer
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
bee
Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Capt. Sanders
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.
bee
Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Dr. Harry Lindsay
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
bee
Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Executive Officer
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
bee
Wagons Westward
Title: Wagons Westward
Character: Major Marlowe
Released: June 19, 1940
Type: Movie
David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother. The grown Tom becomes an outlaw while brother David becomes a government lawman. David is charged with apprehending Tom...
bee
Babies for Sale
Title: Babies for Sale
Character: Arthur Kingsley
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
bee
Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
bee
Murder in the Air
Title: Murder in the Air
Character: Dr. Riddell
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
bee
If I Had My Way
Title: If I Had My Way
Character: Mr. Melville (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
bee
Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Missing Persons Detective
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
bee
Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Prison Warden
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
bee
Son of the Navy
Title: Son of the Navy
Character: Capt. Parker
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
bee
The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Inspection Officer
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.
bee
The Marines Fly High
Title: The Marines Fly High
Character: Medical Officer
Released: March 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
bee
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Aide to Stephen Douglas (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
bee
Teddy the Rough Rider
Title: Teddy the Rough Rider
Character: John W. Riggs
Released: February 21, 1940
Type: Movie
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
bee
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: James Sawyer
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
bee
The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: District Attorney
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
bee
Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
bee
Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Army Medical Examiner
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
bee
South of the Border
Title: South of the Border
Character: American Consul
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
bee
Missing Evidence
Title: Missing Evidence
Character: Manager
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
bee
Private Detective
Title: Private Detective
Character: Simmy Sanger
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
bee
Two Thoroughbreds
Title: Two Thoroughbreds
Character: Bill Conway
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
bee
Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Disbarment Lawyer
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
bee
On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Capt. Evans Dover
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
bee
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Title: Blondie Brings Up Baby
Character: Tom Malcolm (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
bee
20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: C.A.A. Official
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
bee
Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Douglas Haynes
Released: October 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
bee
The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Mr. Henley
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
bee
Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Instructor
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
bee
Calling All Marines
Title: Calling All Marines
Character: Col. C.B. Vincent
Released: September 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
bee
The Under-Pup
Title: The Under-Pup
Character: Lawyer
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
bee
Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Editor Patterson (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
bee
Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Plaintiff's Attorney (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
bee
Five Came Back
Title: Five Came Back
Character: Airlines Official (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
bee
Inside Information
Title: Inside Information
Character: Alfred Huxley
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
bee
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Customs Official (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
bee
Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Jerome (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
bee
Sorority House
Title: Sorority House
Character: Mr. Grant
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
bee
Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: John Wilson
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
bee
Undercover Agent
Title: Undercover Agent
Character: John Graham
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
bee
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Title: Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Character: Doctor
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
bee
Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: First Doctor
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.
bee
Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Detective Mendall
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
bee
Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Whittingham P. Talbot
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
bee
Pacific Liner
Title: Pacific Liner
Character: San Francisco Port Doctor (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
bee
Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Steve Riley
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
bee
Gangster's Boy
Title: Gangster's Boy
Character: Judge Davis
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
bee
Flight to Fame
Title: Flight to Fame
Character: Jules Peabody
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
bee
Garden of the Moon
Title: Garden of the Moon
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
bee
Secrets of an Actress
Title: Secrets of an Actress
Character: Thompson
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
bee
Personal Secretary
Title: Personal Secretary
Character: Blackmere
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
bee
The Missing Guest
Title: The Missing Guest
Character: Frank Baldrich
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
bee
Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Inspector
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
bee
The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Judge #2
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
bee
Crime Ring
Title: Crime Ring
Character: Ernie-Lawyer
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
bee
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Manager Radio Station
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
bee
Arson Racket Squad
Title: Arson Racket Squad
Character: Commissioner Benton
Released: March 27, 1938
Type: Movie
New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading terror and loss of property, including human life.
bee
Prison Nurse
Title: Prison Nurse
Character: Parker
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.
bee
Midnight Intruder
Title: Midnight Intruder
Character: Judge Hammond
Released: February 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
bee
You're Only Young Once
Title: You're Only Young Once
Character: Hoyt Wells
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
bee
The Duke Comes Back
Title: The Duke Comes Back
Character: Jim Watson
Released: November 29, 1937
Type: Movie
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
bee
The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: The Warden
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
bee
Federal Bullets
Title: Federal Bullets
Character: Harker
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Harrigan, investigates a seemingly respectable charitable organization. In fact, the enterprise is a front for a crime ring, headed by Ma Barker clone Zeffie Tilbury (Trivia note: Ms. Tilbury was totally blind, and had to learn her "blocking" by rote).
bee
The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Judge
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
bee
Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Maxwell
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
bee
Meet the Boy Friend
Title: Meet the Boy Friend
Character: Ned Madison
Released: July 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
bee
The 13th Man
Title: The 13th Man
Character: Andrew Baldwin
Released: June 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
bee
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Title: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: Victor Stockton
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
bee
Behind The Headlines
Title: Behind The Headlines
Character: J.H. Scott, FBI
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
bee
A Family Affair
Title: A Family Affair
Character: Hoyt Wells
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.
bee
Two Wise Maids
Title: Two Wise Maids
Character: Dr. MacIntyre
Released: February 15, 1937
Type: Movie
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching to the tune of a hickory stick. Though ridiculed for their so-called outmoded methods, the heroines manage to turn out quite a few prize students, earning the undying gratitude of the local citizenry.
bee
Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Governor
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
bee
Jungle Jim
Title: Jungle Jim
Character: Attorney Tyler
Released: January 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
bee
Smashing the Vice Trust
Title: Smashing the Vice Trust
Character: District Attorney
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains that his profits are down. He demands that his henchmen get new, younger and prettier girls for his bordellos.
bee
Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Hamilton
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
bee
Wanted: Jane Turner
Title: Wanted: Jane Turner
Character: Ferris - Postal Inspector (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
bee
The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Medical Examiner
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
bee
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Title: Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Character: Mr. Canfield
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
bee
Ace Drummond
Title: Ace Drummond
Character: William Meredith, Sr.
Released: October 18, 1936
Type: Movie
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.
bee
The Magnificent Brute
Title: The Magnificent Brute
Character: Dr. Coleman
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
bee
Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Adams the Washington Chronicle Editor (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
bee
My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Blake (Socialite) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
bee
Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: City Editor
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
bee
Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Chief Postal Inspector
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
bee
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Character: Lansing
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
bee
Public Enemy's Wife
Title: Public Enemy's Wife
Character: Duffield
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
bee
Parole!
Title: Parole!
Character: Earl Bigbee
Released: June 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Louis Friedlander-directed film
bee
Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: D. A. Allen Harrison
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
bee
Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Judge Gibson
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
bee
Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Prof. Howard (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
bee
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.
bee
The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: J.A. Hanson (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
bee
The Great Ziegfeld
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Character: Barber Shop Customer (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
bee
The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Defense Attorney Alan Adams
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
bee
Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Ship's Officer
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
bee
A Night at the Opera
Title: A Night at the Opera
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
bee
Grand Exit
Title: Grand Exit
Character: District Attorney Cope
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
bee
Shipmates Forever
Title: Shipmates Forever
Character: Commander Gibbs (uncredited)
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.
bee
She Married Her Boss
Title: She Married Her Boss
Character: Andrews (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
bee
Navy Wife
Title: Navy Wife
Character: Doctor
Released: September 17, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
bee
Red Salute
Title: Red Salute
Character: Army Officer
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
bee
Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
bee
Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Program Director
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
bee
Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Gambler Who Bet $30,000 (Uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
bee
The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Lt. White - Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
bee
Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Joe Davis
Released: July 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
bee
Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Simpson - Prison Board Member (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
bee
Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Detective
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
bee
$10 Raise
Title: $10 Raise
Character: Real Estate Agent (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
bee
Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: J.C. Scoville
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
bee
Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Baby Judge
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
bee
The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: O'Neill
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
bee
The Secret Bride
Title: The Secret Bride
Character: Vincent's Counsel (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
bee
Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Radio Announcer (Voice)
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
bee
The Richest Girl in the World
Title: The Richest Girl in the World
Character: Dr. Harvey (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
bee
Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: George E. Martin
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
bee
The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Duffy
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
bee
Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Radio Announcer (Uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
bee
I've Got Your Number
Title: I've Got Your Number
Character: Joe, a Gangster
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
bee
Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: Barton
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
bee
Police Car 17
Title: Police Car 17
Character: Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
bee
The Little Giant
Title: The Little Giant
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
bee
Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: Joe Chase - Record Editor (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
bee
The Working Man
Title: The Working Man
Character: Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
bee
Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Character: Hans Strauss
Released: February 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
bee
Luxury Liner
Title: Luxury Liner
Character: Older Man (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
bee
You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Jones - Attorney (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
bee
Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
bee
Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Joe
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
bee
Doctor X
Title: Doctor X
Character: Willard Keefe, Daily World Night Editor (Uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
bee
The Mouthpiece
Title: The Mouthpiece
Character: Prison Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
bee
Left Over Ladies
Title: Left Over Ladies
Character: Churchill
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
bee
The Secret Call
Title: The Secret Call
Character: Matt Stanton
Released: July 24, 1931
Type: Movie
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
bee
Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Mason
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
bee
Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: George Van Horne
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
bee
Why Bring That Up?
Title: Why Bring That Up?
Character: Eddie
Released: October 3, 1929
Type: Movie
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
bee
Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: King (defense attorney)
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.