Harry Semels

Harry Semels

Born: November 20, 1887
Died: March 2, 1946
in New York City, New York, USA
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Harry Semels (November 20, 1887 – March 2, 1946) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 315 film between 1917 and 1946. Semels appeared in his first film in 1917. He began to achieve fame after arriving at Columbia Pictures, appearing in several Three Stooges shorts including Disorder in the Court, Wee Wee Monsieur and Three Little Sew and Sews. He also appeared in feature films like Road to Morocco, The Princess and the Pirate and The Kid from Brooklyn. A versatile character actor, Semels often appeared as villains, waiters, soldiers, lawyers, et al.

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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Bettor on Broadway Bill (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Bettor (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Road to Utopia
Title: Road to Utopia
Character: Lombardi - Spitting Passenger (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1946
Type: Movie
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Title: The Diary of a Chambermaid
Character: Townsman (Uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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A Thousand and One Nights
Title: A Thousand and One Nights
Character: Leader of Caravan
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Title: Eve Knew Her Apples
Character: Tony (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
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I Love a Mystery
Title: I Love a Mystery
Character: Mr. G's Doorkeeper Servant (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Can't Help Singing
Title: Can't Help Singing
Character: Peon (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Man in Police Lineup (Uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Pedestrian
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Title: The Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Jerome Wagner (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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Dizzy Pilots
Title: Dizzy Pilots
Character: Sky Aircraft Co. Representative (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Greek
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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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Italian at concert (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Greek Florist
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Passerby (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: R.R. Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Road to Morocco
Title: Road to Morocco
Character: Jolla's Warrior (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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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: Waiter
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Mug (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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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Saloon Bouncer
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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She's Oil Mine
Title: She's Oil Mine
Character: Referee
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Buster fights a duel over a girl.
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General Nuisance
Title: General Nuisance
Character: Latin America Delagate
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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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Immigrant at Citizenship Ceremony (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Antro's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Half-breed Archer
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Jewish Fruit Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Title: He Stayed for Breakfast
Character: Comrade
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Title: He Stayed for Breakfast
Character: Communist
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
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Kit Carson
Title: Kit Carson
Character: Aide
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Sidewalk Crowd Extra (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Leo, Cashier (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Bondsman
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Cafe Bartender
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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And One Was Beautiful
Title: And One Was Beautiful
Character: Courtroom Spectator
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Convict (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Crashing Thru
Title: Crashing Thru
Character: Man Who Reports Gunfight
Released: December 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Neighbor
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Gurganov (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Race Track Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Pancho
Released: November 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent because one of the tribe has been murdered by a gang of outlaws. The primary town of the mail route is also being used as a hideout and base of operations for a gang of counterfeiters led by Joe Polini. Jack and an undercover federal agent, Duke Evans, round up the counterfeiters and turn Polini over to the Indian Chief as the killer of the brave.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Cook on Tugboat (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Star Reporter
Title: Star Reporter
Character: Mike
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: Coffee Pot Proprietor
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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Three Little Sew and Sews
Title: Three Little Sew and Sews
Character: Count Alfred Gehrol
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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Flirting with Fate
Title: Flirting with Fate
Character: Member of Sancho's Band
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
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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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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Townsman at Execution (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Man in Cafe (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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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Albert Morton
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Peon Servant
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
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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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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Tony - Italian Shop Owner (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Hollywood Round-Up
Title: Hollywood Round-Up
Character: Tony Papalini
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: Cafeteria Dining Customer (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Tartar (Uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Joe, Counterman
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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New News
Title: New News
Character: Prince Albert
Released: April 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
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Swing It Professor
Title: Swing It Professor
Character: Angelo
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up with gangsters.
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Midnight Blunders
Title: Midnight Blunders
Character: Dr. Wong (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
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More Than a Secretary
Title: More Than a Secretary
Character: Apartment Custodian with Hose (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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The Gay Desperado
Title: The Gay Desperado
Character: Manuel
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Title: The Case of the Velvet Claws
Character: A. G. 'Kicky' Kickopopolos
Released: July 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
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Disorder in the Court
Title: Disorder in the Court
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
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Human Cargo
Title: Human Cargo
Character: Barreto
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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One Rainy Afternoon
Title: One Rainy Afternoon
Character: Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Prisoner
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Cecil Z. Swinehardt - Director
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.
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I'll Name the Murderer
Title: I'll Name the Murderer
Character: Luigi
Released: January 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
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I Don't Remember
Title: I Don't Remember
Character: 'Doctor' in Gambling Hall
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Greek Following Kay (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Stone of Silver Creek
Title: Stone of Silver Creek
Character: R. J. Simmons
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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The Revenge Rider
Title: The Revenge Rider
Character: Henchman Rankin
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
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The Wedding Night
Title: The Wedding Night
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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One Too Many
Title: One Too Many
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Conductor Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Statue Smasher (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Character: Italian Shoemaker (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Rocky Rhodes
Title: Rocky Rhodes
Character: Dick Boggs
Released: September 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Rocky Rhodes returns to find his father dead and his best friend Joe accused of the murder. The culprit is Murtch who now lets Joe break jail and then has him shot escaping. When Rocky starts to interfere with Murtch's plans, he has Rocky framed for murder. Rocky now has to prove Murtch is guilty while escaping the law.
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Title: Down to Their Last Yacht
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
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Twentieth Century
Title: Twentieth Century
Character: Poster Artist (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Greek
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Bridal Bail
Title: Bridal Bail
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
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Bombay Mail
Title: Bombay Mail
Character: Platform Conductor
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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I Am Suzanne!
Title: I Am Suzanne!
Character: Balcony Spectator
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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King of the Wild Horses
Title: King of the Wild Horses
Character: John Foster
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Columbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the same name -- and with the same "star," Rex the Wonder Horse, in the lead. Most of the story involves the romantic triangle between rogue stallion Rex, the gorgeous mare Lady, and villainous black steed Marquis.
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Damaged Lives
Title: Damaged Lives
Character: Waiter
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
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Torch Singer
Title: Torch Singer
Character: Waiter in Bistro
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Speakeasy Drunk (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Serbian Villager (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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The Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Henchman Lou Norton
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Drum Taps
Title: Drum Taps
Character: Henchman Pete
Released: January 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.
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Young Blood
Title: Young Blood
Character: Tony Murullo
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
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Texas Buddies
Title: Texas Buddies
Character: Ken Kincaid
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, Ted takes over as pilot figuring another attempt will be made and this time the Sheriff will be there.
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Vanity Street
Title: Vanity Street
Character: Italian Street Workman (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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Tiger Shark
Title: Tiger Shark
Character: Crewman (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
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American Madness
Title: American Madness
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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Ghost Valley
Title: Ghost Valley
Character: Pawnee
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
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This Is the Night
Title: This Is the Night
Character: Man in the Manhole (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
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South of the Rio Grande
Title: South of the Rio Grande
Character: Bandido Leader
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
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Sin's Pay Day
Title: Sin's Pay Day
Character: Louie Joe
Released: March 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
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Sally of the Subway
Title: Sally of the Subway
Character: Leopold Von Trump
Released: January 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.
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Night Beat
Title: Night Beat
Character: Enricco Pommetti
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
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Safe in Hell
Title: Safe in Hell
Character: Jury Member (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
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Suicide Fleet
Title: Suicide Fleet
Character: Havana Merchant
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Jailer
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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Dishonored
Title: Dishonored
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Sergeant of the Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Barfly
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: Anarchist (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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The Bad Man
Title: The Bad Man
Character: Jose
Released: September 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Hood
Released: April 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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The Delightful Rogue
Title: The Delightful Rogue
Character: Hymie
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
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Big News
Title: Big News
Character: Reno Henchman (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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Movie Night
Title: Movie Night
Character: Movie Patron
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
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Hawk of the Hills
Title: Hawk of the Hills
Character: Sheckard
Released: March 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Hawk of the Hills (1927), a ten episode serial, re-edited into a five-reel feature length version released in 1929. Newhall, California. A band of Indians led by the half-breed 'The Hawk' terrorizes prospectors in a valley. When the old prospector Clyde Selby hits the mother lode, The Hawk plans to kidnap his pretty blond daughter Mary Selby. This kidnapping actually proves one of the lesser of the perils faced by the poor Mary. Laramie, a government agent, wants with the help of his friendly Shoshone Indian friends to extricate the damsel-in-distress.
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The Royal Rider
Title: The Royal Rider
Character: Parvene
Released: February 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
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Weary River
Title: Weary River
Character: Telephone Informer / Friend at Barney's (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: French Policeman
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Virgin Lips
Title: Virgin Lips
Character: Patron
Released: July 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
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Beware of Blondes
Title: Beware of Blondes
Character: Portugee Joe
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Jeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in Honolulu, provided that he transports a valuable emerald to the Hawaiian Islands. On the boat he meets a blonde named Mary (Dorothy Revier) whom he mistakes for a jewel thief called Blonde Mary (Hazel Howell).
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The Last Command
Title: The Last Command
Character: A Soldier (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Title: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Character: Carnival Gallery Man with Pig (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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The House Without a Key
Title: The House Without a Key
Character: Saladine
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
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The Crackerjack
Title: The Crackerjack
Character: Guard
Released: May 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel general and falling for the general's daughter.
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Into the Net
Title: Into the Net
Character: Ivan Invanovitch
Released: August 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob, and fiancé, Bert Moore, help with the search. They unearth a scheme to kidnap another girl, Natalie Van Cleef, and the evidence takes Bob and Bert to an estate on Long Island.
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Plunder
Title: Plunder
Character: Jude Deering
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper.
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Speed
Title: Speed
Character: Jim Sprague
Released: October 22, 1922
Type: Movie
An action-themed movie serial.
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Hurricane Hutch
Title: Hurricane Hutch
Character: Jim Tiegerley
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to introduce many daredevil features.
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Rogues and Romance
Title: Rogues and Romance
Character: Pedro Pezet
Released: December 26, 1920
Type: Movie
Sylvia Lee, a young American in Spain, is torn between her attraction to dashing revolutionary Pedro Pezet and her American boyfriend, Reginald.
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The Phantom Foe
Title: The Phantom Foe
Character: The Phantom Foe
Released: October 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Janet Dale feels that there is a danger looming over her home but cannot put her finger on what it is. Days later her father disappears at her 18th birthday party; dematerializing into thin air before her eyes. She sets out to find him and grapples wit mobsters, psychics, murder, and family secrets.
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A Fallen Idol
Title: A Fallen Idol
Character: Tushau
Released: May 18, 1919
Type: Movie
The Hawaiian Princess Laone's love for Keith Parrish is thwarted by social pressure. After being persuaded to refuse Mr. Parrish's proposal she attempts suicide, but is rescued by her lover. After Parrish leaves town to take care of his father, Princess Laone is told he has abandoned her, and she departs for Hawaii on board the yacht of the dastardly wealthy playboy Stephen Brainard. Princess Laone is forced into having sex with Brainard by being threatened with gang rape by his crew.
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Here Comes the Bride
Title: Here Comes the Bride
Character: Sevier
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
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The Black Secret
Title: The Black Secret
Released: January 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war.