Cy Schindell

Cy Schindell

Born: March 4, 1907
Died: August 24, 1948
in Brooklyn, New York, United States

Movies for Cy Schindell...

I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Title: I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Character: Caveman Rival (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
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The Man from Colorado
Title: The Man from Colorado
Released: August 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
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Flat Feat
Title: Flat Feat
Character: Louie the Lug
Released: June 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has.
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Nightmare Alley
Title: Nightmare Alley
Character: Roustabout (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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A Likely Story
Title: A Likely Story
Character: Criminal (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.
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Johnny O'Clock
Title: Johnny O'Clock
Character: Dealer
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Nick's Bouncer (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Jiggers, My Wife
Title: Jiggers, My Wife
Character: Jack--Trixie's Husband (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard, in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7438), knows many ways to get into trouble with his wife, and one he opts for here is stay out late playing poker with the boys and then tell his wife he has been working.
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Road to Morocco
Title: Road to Morocco
Character: Arab Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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Matri-Phony
Title: Matri-Phony
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
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What's the Matador?
Title: What's the Matador?
Character: Bullring Attendant (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Pinkie's Listener in Bar (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Plant Heavy 8
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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General Nuisance
Title: General Nuisance
Character: Crazy Head Butcher
Released: September 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he figures out how to get into the hospital and under her care.
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The Iron Claw
Title: The Iron Claw
Character: Henchman Red
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.
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The Spider Returns
Title: The Spider Returns
Character: Henchman Brown
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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The Devil Commands
Title: The Devil Commands
Character: Karl
Released: February 3, 1941
Type: Movie
A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife.
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The Face Behind the Mask
Title: The Face Behind the Mask
Character: Benson
Released: January 16, 1941
Type: Movie
In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his face is horribly scarred; his terrifying appearance makes it impossible for him to get a job. With nowhere else to turn, Janos begins working for the criminal underworld. Janos begins having second thoughts about his life of crime when he falls in love.
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Title: Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Jake - Biplane Pilot
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Darcy
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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Angels Over Broadway
Title: Angels Over Broadway
Character: Jack (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
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The Secret Seven
Title: The Secret Seven
Character: Henchman Felton
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Red Vernon (uncredited)
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.
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Nutty But Nice
Title: Nutty But Nice
Character: Butch - Kidnapper
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: Harry (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Terry and the Pirates
Title: Terry and the Pirates
Character: Henchman Morgan
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors. Both Fang and The Dragon Lady have sworn death for any foreign intruders.
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Money Squawks
Title: Money Squawks
Character: Robber (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Pardon My Berth Marks
Title: Pardon My Berth Marks
Character: Al Spumoni, mobster
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Title: Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Streeter
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Glove Slingers
Title: Glove Slingers
Character: Charlie 'The Kid' Benson (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Fighter
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Calling All Curs
Title: Calling All Curs
Character: Dognapper Tony (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
The Stooges run a pet hospital and are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized girl poodle of socialite Mrs. Bedford . When two men posing as reporters kidnap the poodle, the boys frantically try track them down.
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Mooching Through Georgia
Title: Mooching Through Georgia
Character: Union Soldier
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
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Girl from Rio
Title: Girl from Rio
Character: Patron of Blue Bird Gardens
Released: August 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
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Rattling Romeo
Title: Rattling Romeo
Character: Thief
Released: July 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: Bank Henchman
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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A Ducking They Did Go
Title: A Ducking They Did Go
Character: Fruit Vendor (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
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The Lady and the Mob
Title: The Lady and the Mob
Character: Henchman
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Mutiny on the Body
Title: Mutiny on the Body
Character: Male Nurse
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and relaxation.
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Three Little Sew and Sews
Title: Three Little Sew and Sews
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
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Sue My Lawyer
Title: Sue My Lawyer
Character: Red Burton
Released: September 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Referee (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Shower Room Guard
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Cash and Carry
Title: Cash and Carry
Character: Vault Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Hansen's Second
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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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Schmidt's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1936
Type: Movie
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Bookie Who Throws Bag (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Townsman (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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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Bridge Worker (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Man at Shooting Gallery
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.