Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan

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Sweet Smell of Success
Title: Sweet Smell of Success
Character: Man at Hot Dog Stand (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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711 Ocean Drive
Title: 711 Ocean Drive
Character: Tim - Bookie (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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Backfire
Title: Backfire
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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The Reckless Moment
Title: The Reckless Moment
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
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Beyond the Forest
Title: Beyond the Forest
Released: October 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Detective Lieutenant Meisner
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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Slightly French
Title: Slightly French
Character: Studio Cop (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Shockproof
Title: Shockproof
Character: Hamburger Man (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Mary Lou
Title: Mary Lou
Character: Mortimer Cripps
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
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Queen Esther
Title: Queen Esther
Character: Scribe
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A Jewish woman, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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Road to the Big House
Title: Road to the Big House
Character: Benson
Released: December 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
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Always Together
Title: Always Together
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: George, Doorman
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Uncle Harry
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
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Wild Country
Title: Wild Country
Character: Convict Brown
Released: January 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one like it. This gets Soapy arrested as soon as he rides into town but it leads Eddie to Varney and he realizes Varney will lead him to Caxton.
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Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
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Partners in Time
Title: Partners in Time
Character: Gerald Sharpe
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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The Missing Corpse
Title: The Missing Corpse
Character: Draper (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.
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The Scarlet Clue
Title: The Scarlet Clue
Character: Nelson (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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Identity Unknown
Title: Identity Unknown
Character: Needles--Rocks' Henchman
Released: April 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Policeman #2
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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Her Lucky Night
Title: Her Lucky Night
Character: Bus Driver
Released: February 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
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Oh, What a Night!
Title: Oh, What a Night!
Character: Murphy
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
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Black Magic
Title: Black Magic
Character: Tom Starkey
Released: August 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Bailiff
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Projectionist (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Old Acquaintance
Title: Old Acquaintance
Character: Bootlegger Selling Gin (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Motor Cop
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Reporter with Coffee
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Corregidor
Title: Corregidor
Character: Bronx
Released: March 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
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The Ape Man
Title: The Ape Man
Character: O'Toole
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
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You Can't Beat the Law
Title: You Can't Beat the Law
Character: Rico Henchman Creeper
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Title: Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Character: Biff Garr
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
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Cat People
Title: Cat People
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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Criminal Investigator
Title: Criminal Investigator
Character: Brannigan
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
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Hello, Annapolis
Title: Hello, Annapolis
Character: Joe Jenkins
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Signalman (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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Back Door to Heaven
Title: Back Door to Heaven
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Convict Trusty
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Title: Penrod and His Twin Brother
Character: Shorty
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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Songs and Impressions
Title: Songs and Impressions
Character: Self - Vocalist
Released: August 24, 1928
Type: Movie
The team of Marlow and Jordan are the talents here as they run through three songs as well as the impressions, which I'm sure you gathered from the title. The Stephen Foster tune "Old Folks at Home" is given a new spin here as it's done by an impression of a 3-year-old, which is somewhat strange to say the least.