Charles Tannen

Charles Tannen

Born: October 22, 1915
Died: December 28, 1980
in New York City, New York, New York, USA

Movies for Charles Tannen...

Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Mr. Haley
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
Title: Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the threats posed both by one another and the local Indigenous peoples.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Title: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Character: CPO Mack Gleason
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Title: Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Character: Sheriff #1
Released: February 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
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Title: Black Saddle
Character: Andy Benson
Released: January 10, 1959
Type: TV
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
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The Fly
Title: The Fly
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Jeff
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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The Monster That Challenged the World
Title: The Monster That Challenged the World
Character: Seaman Wyatt (Radioman)
Released: June 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Ben
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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The Proud Ones
Title: The Proud Ones
Character: 2nd Foreman (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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The Harder They Fall
Title: The Harder They Fall
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Title: Father Knows Best
Character: Hal Berdahl
Released: October 3, 1954
Type: TV
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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Vice Squad
Title: Vice Squad
Character: Dutch (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1953
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
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A Blueprint for Murder
Title: A Blueprint for Murder
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
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Dangerous Crossing
Title: Dangerous Crossing
Character: Wine Steward (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the young bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Ed, Malone's Contact (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Title: Bloodhounds of Broadway
Character: Bookie on Phone (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
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Night Without Sleep
Title: Night Without Sleep
Character: Steve Brooks (Uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Dick Bannister
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Without Warning!
Title: Without Warning!
Character: Wolf
Released: May 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears
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Red Skies of Montana
Title: Red Skies of Montana
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
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You're in the Navy Now
Title: You're in the Navy Now
Character: Houlihan
Released: February 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Character: Police Radio Dispatcher #79 (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Character: Jack
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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You're My Everything
Title: You're My Everything
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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A Letter to Three Wives
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Released: January 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
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Cry of the City
Title: Cry of the City
Character: Intern
Released: September 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
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The Street with No Name
Title: The Street with No Name
Character: Cab Driver (Uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1948
Type: Movie
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
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Green Grass of Wyoming
Title: Green Grass of Wyoming
Character: Dr. Kimgrough - Veterinarian
Released: June 3, 1948
Type: Movie
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Newsreel Director (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Second Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Johnny Comes Flying Home
Title: Johnny Comes Flying Home
Character: Harry
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.
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Behind Green Lights
Title: Behind Green Lights
Character: Ames, Reporter
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
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Doll Face
Title: Doll Face
Character: Flo's Aide
Released: December 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
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Leave Her to Heaven
Title: Leave Her to Heaven
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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Your Next Job
Title: Your Next Job
Character: T-5 Joe Dailey
Released: December 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this documentary short film, a U.S. Army lieutenant instructs soldiers in how to prepare for new and interesting jobs in civilian life after the war. He leads the soldiers through a number of checklists to determine what their interests are and how to make decisions and plans for future employment. One of the soldiers, T-5 Dailey, worries about his options, until his mirror-image self appears to talk him through a plan of action.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Detective Tonti
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.
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Land and Live in the Jungle
Title: Land and Live in the Jungle
Character: Charley Tannen
Released: March 14, 1944
Type: Movie
In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until they can meet up and be rescued. The pilot does almost everything wrong, and the rest of his crew does almost everything right. We learn, by both bad and good example, how to survive in the jungle.
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Don't You Believe It
Title: Don't You Believe It
Character: Politician
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva never rode naked through the streets of Coventry.
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Don't Be a Sucker!
Title: Don't Be a Sucker!
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Seaman Hammond
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Hollis
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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December 7th
Title: December 7th
Character: Mike - Landing Field Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
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Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation
Title: Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation
Character: FIU captain
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to what Grover's aerial reconnaissance team is doing to protect ships from attack by submarine. Grover introduces him to Captain Smith, an expert at photographic intelligence. The two men explain to Bowen just how aerial photographic reconnaissance works and how their work in the air and on the ground is helping win the war even at sea.
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Eyes Aloft
Title: Eyes Aloft
Character: Civil Aeronautics operative
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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Thunder Birds
Title: Thunder Birds
Character: American Flyer / Opening Off-Screen Narrator (voice)
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
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Manila Calling
Title: Manila Calling
Character: Fillmore
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
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Careful, Soft Shoulders
Title: Careful, Soft Shoulders
Character: Joe
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.
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Footlight Serenade
Title: Footlight Serenade
Character: Charlie
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.
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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: Radio Broadcaster (Voice)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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Sundown Jim
Title: Sundown Jim
Character: Dan Barr
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Ship's Ticket Agent
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Slicker
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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The Perfect Snob
Title: The Perfect Snob
Character: Chauffer (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
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Cadet Girl
Title: Cadet Girl
Character: Jimmy, a Cadet
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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Dead Men Tell
Title: Dead Men Tell
Character: Sailor with Girl
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Murder Over New York
Title: Murder Over New York
Character: Airport Announcer Voice
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Reporter
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Assistant Manager
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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The Return of Frank James
Title: The Return of Frank James
Character: Charlie Ford
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Reporter
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Joe
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Reporter
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Morrison Foster
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Barricade
Title: Barricade
Character: Opening Narrator (voice)
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Title: Drums Along the Mohawk
Character: Dr. Robert Johnson
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Plane Passenger
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Assistant Director
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Ninian Edwards (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Legion Member (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Court Clerk
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Charles Ford
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Undetermined Part (script name, Kelly)
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Reporter
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Engineer (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Walking Down Broadway
Title: Walking Down Broadway
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Radio Station Attendant
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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The Lady Escapes
Title: The Lady Escapes
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Bellhop
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Reporter / Radio Station Messenger
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Steamship Clerk
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Jim Courtney
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.