Ernest Wood

Ernest Wood

Born: April 17, 1887
Died: July 13, 1942
in Atchison, Kansas, USA

Movies for Ernest Wood...

Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: First Headwaiter (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.
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I'll Take Romance
Title: I'll Take Romance
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
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Roaring Timber
Title: Roaring Timber
Character: Slim Bagnell
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Jewelry Salesman
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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False Pretenses
Title: False Pretenses
Character: Tiffany Cortland
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Smith - Second Drunk on Ship
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Call It Luck
Title: Call It Luck
Character: Sid Carter
Released: July 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
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A Bedtime Story
Title: A Bedtime Story
Character: Robert
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Parole Girl
Title: Parole Girl
Character: Davison - 1st Store Manager
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Beauchard - Hotel Manager
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Ambassador Bill
Title: Ambassador Bill
Character: Northfield Slater
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
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Sob Sister
Title: Sob Sister
Character: Dave
Released: October 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
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Dining Out
Title: Dining Out
Released: September 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out drinking with his friend. When that friend later mistakes the wife for the girl he's been carousing with, it all gets a bit messy.
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Sweethearts on Parade
Title: Sweethearts on Parade
Character: Denham
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
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Not Damaged
Title: Not Damaged
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
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Scotch
Title: Scotch
Character: Jack
Released: January 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
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Take Me Home
Title: Take Me Home
Character: Al Marks
Released: October 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
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A Perfect Gentleman
Title: A Perfect Gentleman
Character: George Cooper
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
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Horse Shoes
Title: Horse Shoes
Character: Henry Baker Jr
Released: April 17, 1927
Type: Movie
A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
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Get 'Em Young
Title: Get 'Em Young
Character: Lawrence Lavendar Virgin, a female impersonator
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
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A Sweet Pickle
Title: A Sweet Pickle
Character: Jack Roebuck
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
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Over Thereabouts
Title: Over Thereabouts
Character: Horace Voyce
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!