Henry Otho

Henry Otho

Born: February 6, 1888
Died: June 6, 1940
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Henry Otho...

Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Guard in Warden's Office (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Conductor (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: The Alcade
Released: March 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: The Turnkey
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Paul Daniels
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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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Guard Handcuffing Pierre
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Overland Stage Raiders
Title: Overland Stage Raiders
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Guard
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: Jake - Piano Mover (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Pride of the West
Title: Pride of the West
Character: Saunders's Short Partner
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the robbers. With her father the Sheriff under pressure, Mary sends for Hoppy who finds the stolen money and sets a trap to bring in the entire gang.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: Sam Hedges, the Gardener
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Bruiser in Pinball Room
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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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Boat Loading Announcer
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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Clipped Wings
Title: Clipped Wings
Character: Sgt. Phalen
Released: December 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.
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The Adventurous Blonde
Title: The Adventurous Blonde
Character: Officer Reilly (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Prairie Thunder
Title: Prairie Thunder
Character: Chris
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Bandit (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Empty Holsters
Title: Empty Holsters
Character: Charlie, Ace's Henchman
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
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Blazing Sixes
Title: Blazing Sixes
Character: Chuck - Hess Henchman
Released: June 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
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Draegerman Courage
Title: Draegerman Courage
Character: Gene - Rescue Worker (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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It Happened Out West
Title: It Happened Out West
Character: Henchman Hank
Released: May 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
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Land Beyond the Law
Title: Land Beyond the Law
Character: Kirby
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Mechanic
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Cop Guarding Room (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Guns of the Pecos
Title: Guns of the Pecos
Character: Hank Brady, Blake's Henchman
Released: December 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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Trailin' West
Title: Trailin' West
Character: Henchman Hawk
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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Love Begins at Twenty
Title: Love Begins at Twenty
Character: Lumpy - Bank Robber
Released: August 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Jailbreak
Title: Jailbreak
Character: Guard Murray
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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Earthworm Tractors
Title: Earthworm Tractors
Character: Road Worker
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Murder by an Aristocrat
Title: Murder by an Aristocrat
Character: Sheriff Frank Whiting
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: Apache Dancer
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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Treachery Rides the Range
Title: Treachery Rides the Range
Character: Burley Barton
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Guard in Blackfoot Mine (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Title: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Character: Martin's Detective Escort
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Gangster
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Mug
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Pete
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Bridge Worker (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Joe- Policeman
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Frank - Detective (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Buried Loot
Title: Buried Loot
Character: Cell Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1935
Type: Movie
An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Secret Service Escort
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Spectator Bidding $4.50 (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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The Case of the Howling Dog
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Title: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Fireman
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Man in Mayard's Office (Uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Burly Party Waiter-Bodyguard (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Mr. Gage (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Shooting Gallery Onlooker (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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Penthouse
Title: Penthouse
Character: Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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The Devil's Mate
Title: The Devil's Mate
Character: Witness
Released: August 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Fireman (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Laborer (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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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Guard in School Armory (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Dance Worker Owed Three Weeks' Wages (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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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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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Subway Guide (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Delegate Spreading the Word
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Title: Fireman, Save My Child
Character: Lem
Released: February 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Deputy with Sheriff
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.