Buddy Messinger

Buddy Messinger

Born: October 26, 1907
Died: October 25, 1965
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Buddy Messinger...

The Affairs of Martha
Title: The Affairs of Martha
Character: Butcher Boy (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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Brooklyn Orchid
Title: Brooklyn Orchid
Character: Bellhop with Flowers
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Title: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Character: Reporter
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Keeping Company
Title: Keeping Company
Character: Basketball Ticket Boy
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Elevator Boy
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Hullabaloo
Title: Hullabaloo
Character: Third Page
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Title: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Character: Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Reporter
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: First Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Hospital Clerk
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Rance
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Clerk
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Messenger
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Usher
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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The Shining Hour
Title: The Shining Hour
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Theatre Usher
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Midnight Madonna
Title: Midnight Madonna
Character: Messenger
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Boy
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Dancer
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Three of a Kind
Title: Three of a Kind
Character: Bellhop
Released: May 19, 1936
Type: Movie
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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An All American Toothache
Title: An All American Toothache
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Fellow in Third Row
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Keyhole Katie
Title: Keyhole Katie
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Character: Donald
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Tuffy
Released: May 5, 1929
Type: Movie
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
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A Lady of Chance
Title: A Lady of Chance
Character: Hank
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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Dumb-Belles
Title: Dumb-Belles
Released: June 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are featured performers.
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A Sorority Mixup
Title: A Sorority Mixup
Released: March 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)
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Monkeys Prefer Blondes
Title: Monkeys Prefer Blondes
Released: September 11, 1926
Type: Movie
A Sunkist Comedy
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What an Eye
Title: What an Eye
Character: Buddy - the Office Boy
Released: October 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl. His brother, a reporter, is sent to write a story on a mysterious eye that has been terrorizing the neighborhood, sending women into hysterics. The girl staff writer disguises herself as a man and goes on her own hook to get the story. The three meet in an apparently haunted house, where mysterious happenings terrify them, furniture jumps about, a mysterious eye follows them through the place. Buddy dresses as a girl and vamps his brother, obtaining the story. He manages to catch the doctor, attired as the mysterious eye to drum up trade, and scores a beat on the others. He gives them credit for digging up the story, however, and the editor gives them his blessing - and a raise.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Bob Lowden
Released: July 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
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The Whispered Name
Title: The Whispered Name
Character: The Office Boy
Released: January 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Rodney Bitts
Released: June 18, 1923
Type: Movie
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Abysmal Brute
Title: Abysmal Brute
Character: Buddy Sangster
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
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A Howling Success
Title: A Howling Success
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Flirt
Title: The Flirt
Character: Hedrick Madison
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
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When Love Comes
Title: When Love Comes
Character: Coleridge Twin
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: 'Mr. Bad Boy'
Released: November 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.
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The Old Nest
Title: The Old Nest
Character: Jim at 10
Released: June 28, 1921
Type: Movie
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with their mother.
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Edgar's Feast Day
Title: Edgar's Feast Day
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.
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Jinx
Title: Jinx
Character: Orphan
Released: December 13, 1919
Type: Movie
The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishment, she has to run away. She mingles with the orphans and runs away to join an orphanage.
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The Hoodlum
Title: The Hoodlum
Character: Dish Lowry
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Captain Smolett
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, for the night. He is given something from Mrs. Hawkins. The squire discovers it's a map showing the location of the treasure buried by someone named Flint. Jim overhears how the squire is planning to retrieve the treasure and feels inspired by it ...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Title: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Character: Omar - Al-talib's Evil Spirit
Released: October 11, 1917
Type: Movie
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin.