Frank Craven

Frank Craven

Born: August 24, 1875
Died: September 1, 1945
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Frank Craven...

The Many Faces of Dracula
Title: The Many Faces of Dracula
Character: Doctor Harry Brewster (archive footage
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Doctor Harry Brewster (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
Title: Colonel Effingham's Raid
Character: Dewey
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
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Forever Yours
Title: Forever Yours
Character: Uncle Charles
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.
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Destiny
Title: Destiny
Character: Clem Broderick
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.
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My Best Gal
Title: My Best Gal
Character: Danny O'Hara
Released: March 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
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Jack London
Title: Jack London
Character: Old Tom
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
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Son of Dracula
Title: Son of Dracula
Character: Dr. Harry Brewster
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
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Dangerous Blondes
Title: Dangerous Blondes
Character: Inspector Joseph Clinton
Released: September 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Character: Docteur Fielding
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Harrigan's Kid
Title: Harrigan's Kid
Character: Walter Garnet
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
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Eyes Aloft
Title: Eyes Aloft
Character: Ed Randall
Released: January 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World War II explains how the U.S. military depends on civilians watching the skies to warn of possible attacking or spying enemy aircraft. An army major explains to a group of civic leaders how volunteers are to be recruited and organized. Then the volunteers man posts day and night, always watching for unidentified aircraft that might be enemy forces.
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Pittsburgh
Title: Pittsburgh
Character: J.M. 'Doc' Powers
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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Girl Trouble
Title: Girl Trouble
Character: Ambrose Murdock Flint
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
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Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Steve Pettijohn
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Asa Timberlake
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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The Richest Man in Town
Title: The Richest Man in Town
Character: Abb Crothers
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Hank Foreman
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Harvests for Tomorrow
Title: Harvests for Tomorrow
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Documents farming practices in the New England states, showing the prosperity that fertile soils brought to hardworking farmers who cleared the hilly land. That fertile soil, rich in minerals, accumulated over the course of centuries covered in forests. Shows that generations of farmers have enriched themselves from these fertile soils without adequately caring for them. Failing farms, dilapidation and abandonment are shown to follow farming these depleted soils. "But it doesn't have to be this way," states a narrator in the character of an old Yankee. Application of lime and phosphorous fertilizers recommended by soil scientists are shown to restore and maintain soil fertility. Abundant harvests of hay are shown resulting from well-fertilized fields. Depicts pre-mechanized farming and logging practices, hand harvesting, and use of working animals.
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Dreaming Out Loud
Title: Dreaming Out Loud
Character: Dr. Walter Barnes
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: 'Old Timer'
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Mr. Morgan
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Dad Morgan
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Title: Penrod and His Twin Brother
Character: Mr. Frank Schofield
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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You're Only Young Once
Title: You're Only Young Once
Character: Frank Redmond
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: P. T. Quinterfield Sr.
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Mr. Schofield
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Mr. Biddle
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Will "Pa" Brannan
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Barbary Coast
Title: Barbary Coast
Character: Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb
Released: October 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Himself
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.
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Vagabond Lady
Title: Vagabond Lady
Character: 'Spiggy' Spiggins
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Sheriff Peter Arnot
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Pop Sims, aka Jim Parker
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Mr. Rockland
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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City Limits
Title: City Limits
Character: John B. Matthews
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Storekeeper
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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Handle with Care
Title: Handle with Care
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
Character: Self
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game.
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The Very Idea
Title: The Very Idea
Character: Alan Camp
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.