Walter Shumway

Walter Shumway

Born: October 26, 1884
Died: January 13, 1965

Movies for Walter Shumway...

Pretty Baby
Title: Pretty Baby
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Policeman
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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The Avenging Rider
Title: The Avenging Rider
Character: First Deputy
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Bomb Shelter Official
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Garbage Man (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Wrangler's Roost
Title: Wrangler's Roost
Character: Grover (Wells Fargo Chief)
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When they find that Black Bart is now a respectable citizen and that someone is impersonating him, they set a trap for the robber.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Farrier
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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The Showdown
Title: The Showdown
Character: Snell
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
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Six-Gun Rhythm
Title: Six-Gun Rhythm
Character: Henchman Bart
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Western - When football player Tex fletcher arives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex's identity - Tex Fletcher, Joan Barclay, Ralph Peters
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Whirlwind Horseman
Title: Whirlwind Horseman
Character: Sheriff Blake
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers. Ken figures that one of the prominent citizens is the real boss and sets a trap to find him.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Cop
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Title: Mary Burns, Fugitive
Character: G-Man (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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King of the Arena
Title: King of the Arena
Character: Man with Governor
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
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Outlaw Justice
Title: Outlaw Justice
Character: Sheriff Tom Rankin
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man accused of murdering a sheriff, escapes a posse and joins a gang at the Bar-O-Ranch. The mistress of the ranch is about to be cheated out of her land, but the wanted man helps her against the gang and bests the leader in a fight.
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The Night Rider
Title: The Night Rider
Character: Sheriff Lynn Ricker
Released: August 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage from the Rogers mine to the Rogers house used by the Night Rider and also a note written by the Night Rider to his henchmen. Practicing his hand writing, he has a plan to trap him.
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Ghost City
Title: Ghost City
Character: Henchman
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.
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Spell of the Circus
Title: Spell of the Circus
Character: George Wallace
Released: November 13, 1930
Type: Movie
The manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.
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Headin' North
Title: Headin' North
Character: Arnold - aka Stanton
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
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The Mystery Rider
Title: The Mystery Rider
Character: Norman Wentworth
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy Western serial.
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A Wanderer of the West
Title: A Wanderer of the West
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
In a plot to take control of the Lazy Y ranch, which holds water rights to the local area, a rancher kidnaps the Lazy Y owner's daughter. The ranch foreman manages to eventually foil the plot and get the girl.
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The Thief Trapper
Title: The Thief Trapper
Character: Bob Duncan
Released: March 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Last of the series of short films starring "Fearless the Famous Police Dog."
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Hi-Jacking Rustlers
Title: Hi-Jacking Rustlers
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 30, 1926
Type: Movie
When Montana cowpuncher Larry Benson, riding his horse Starlight and accompanied by his dog Rex, tied up at the hitching post in front of McAvoy's hotel in Dam, Texas, he had little idea of the extraordinary series of adventures that were in store for him, Starlight and Rex.
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The Return of Grey Wolf
Title: The Return of Grey Wolf
Character: Gaston Pacot
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Grey Wolf, a German Shepherd Dog, leads the human hero to victory in this silent western.
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Pretty Ladies
Title: Pretty Ladies
Character: Mr. Gallagher
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
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Wine
Title: Wine
Character: Revenue officer
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
John Warriner, facing financial ruin, accepts the proposal of a bootlegger, Benedict, to underwrite the business of illegal wine-selling. His daughter, Angela, takes up with the jazz set and is caught in a raid, at a cafe owned by Benedict. Her former sweetheart, Carl Graham, comes to the rescue and saves her from notoriety, while the family struggles back to its former respectability following Warriner's prison term.