Jack Daley

Jack Daley

Born: August 31, 1883
Died: August 30, 1967
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Jack Daley...

Retreat, Hell!
Title: Retreat, Hell!
Released: February 17, 1952
Type: Movie
During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
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Pickup
Title: Pickup
Character: Company Doctor
Released: July 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Jan Horak is a middle-aged railroad dispatcher stationed at a forsaken spot in the desert, within driving distance of the nearest town. A widower, he has saved his money and goes to town to buy a dog, meets Betty, a flashy blonde who gains his confidence and marries him to acquire his $7,000 "fortune."
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Cause for Alarm!
Title: Cause for Alarm!
Character: Elderly Man
Released: March 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Tea for Two
Title: Tea for Two
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
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No Way Out
Title: No Way Out
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
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Once a Thief
Title: Once a Thief
Character: Eddie
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.
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Colorado Territory
Title: Colorado Territory
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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Search for Danger
Title: Search for Danger
Character: Dunk
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
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Never Say Goodbye
Title: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Gambler
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Six Gun Gospel
Title: Six Gun Gospel
Character: Ben Dailey
Released: August 3, 1943
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville, a small ranching community being terrorized by greedy saloon keeper Ace Benton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his gang of cutthroats. Unbeknownst to the citizenry, the railroad is planning to build tracks through town and Benton is attempting to secure the land by scaring off the settlers.
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The Ghost Rider
Title: The Ghost Rider
Character: Pat McNally
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The first of a long-running series of Monogram-produced westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton that replaced the Rough Riders series following the death of Buck Jones in the Boston night club fire. Though the next three years featured Brown (as Nevada Jack McKenzie) and Hatton (in his Sandy Hopkins role from the Rough Riders series) as undercover marshals in some form or another, this initial entry had Brown as a lone rider seeking vengeance and he and Hatton's characters were unknown to each other through most of the film. Hopkins offer McKenzie a marshal's job at the end of the film, which the Brown character declined and rode off alone on his quest. This quest didn't take long as by the next film in the series Nevada Jack McKenzie was a full-fledged U. S. Marshal.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Gambler
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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West of the Law
Title: West of the Law
Character: John Corbett
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders arrive to fight Rand, Ludlow and their gang. Buck poses as a preacher, Tim as a preacher, and Sandy as an undertaker. Buck not only wants the outlaws, but also their unknown boss.
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Down Texas Way
Title: Down Texas Way
Character: John Dodge
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Below the Border
Title: Below the Border
Character: Townsman
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Scully has forced Joe Collins who works on the Garcia ranch to give him information so his men can steal the family jewels. But the Rough Riders are on the job. Buck poses as a wanted outlaw to get into the gang, Tim as a cattle buyer, and Sandy is collecting information as the saloon janitor. As usual they pretend not to know each other. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: Rogers, a Miner
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Queen of the Yukon
Title: Queen of the Yukon
Character: Captain
Released: August 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Mary's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Band Leader (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Minor Role
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Man at Station
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Bad Little Angel
Title: Bad Little Angel
Character: Mr. Miller, Exiting from Train (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Evans - Cell Block Guard
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Train Conductor
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Policeman at School (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Fred C. Tyler - Second Editor (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Quarter Passerby (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Drugstore Customer
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Attendant (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Policeman
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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Artists & Models
Title: Artists & Models
Character: Jack (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Guard
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Police Officer Callahan (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Factory Foreman (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Mooney (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: District Attorney's Man
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Title: O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character: Mack
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Captain of the Guards
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Chasin
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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The Sap from Syracuse
Title: The Sap from Syracuse
Character: Hopkins
Released: July 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.