Frankie Burke

Frankie Burke

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The Quarterback
Title: The Quarterback
Character: 'Slats' Finney (as Frank Burke)
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Title: Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Character: Sobby Taylor
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Skinny
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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East Side Kids
Title: East Side Kids
Character: Skinny
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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Pride of the Blue Grass
Title: Pride of the Blue Grass
Character: Willie Hobson
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
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Everybody's Hobby
Title: Everybody's Hobby
Character: C.C.C. Youth (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Reform School Boy Making Knife (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Soap
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Sweepstakes Winner
Title: Sweepstakes Winner
Character: Chalky Williams
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Johnnie
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Beldenburg Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Reform School Inmate (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Title: Angels with Dirty Faces
Character: Rocky - as a Boy
Released: November 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.