Russ Powell

Russ Powell

Born: September 16, 1875
Died: November 28, 1950
in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Russ Powell (September 16, 1875 – November 28, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in 186 films between 1915 and 1943.

Movies for Russ Powell...

Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Slops Denton (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Warsaw Bystander (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Station Agent Hank
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Man at Madison Square Garden (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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That Hamilton Woman
Title: That Hamilton Woman
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: First Train Engineer
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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The Return of Frank James
Title: The Return of Frank James
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Grocer / Juror
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: 'Ugly Man' Contestant #2 (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Everything Happens at Night
Title: Everything Happens at Night
Character: Hilda's Papa
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: Pop, the Doorman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Sexton
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Proprietor
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: Juror, First Trial (Uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Vendor (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Son of Frankenstein
Title: Son of Frankenstein
Character: Webber - Burgher (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Rodeo Rider (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Ruffian
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Man Leaving Elevator (Uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Juror
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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She Loved a Fireman
Title: She Loved a Fireman
Character: Barman at Dance
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Chief Ira Foster
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Asleep in the Deep Singer Suspect (Uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Coachman (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Draegerman Courage
Title: Draegerman Courage
Character: Toby - the Bartender (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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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Passing Motorist (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Moustache, Concert Attendee
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Brewery Manager (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Majordomo at Governor's Reception (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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Come and Get It
Title: Come and Get It
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Give Me Your Heart
Title: Give Me Your Heart
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1936
Type: Movie
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Earthworm Tractors
Title: Earthworm Tractors
Character: Hardware Man
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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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: Brazilian Opera Troupe (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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One Rainy Afternoon
Title: One Rainy Afternoon
Character: Taxi Driver (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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I Married a Doctor
Title: I Married a Doctor
Character: Jonesy - Hotel Clerk
Released: April 25, 1936
Type: Movie
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Brown
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Gypsy in Police Patrol Wagon (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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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Sam (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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I Dream Too Much
Title: I Dream Too Much
Character: Carousel Operator (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: The Shepherd
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Call of the Wild
Title: Call of the Wild
Character: Bartender
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Gendarme (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Joe - the Bartender
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: McGinnis - Hotel Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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The Call of the Savage
Title: The Call of the Savage
Character: Henry Andrews
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Café Cook (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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The Affairs of Cellini
Title: The Affairs of Cellini
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Two Alone
Title: Two Alone
Character: Blacksmith (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
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The House on 56th Street
Title: The House on 56th Street
Character: Tom - Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Tuba Player (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Man Introducing Durosch (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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Arabian Tights
Title: Arabian Tights
Character: Abdullah, Keeper of the Harem (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
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Parachute Jumper
Title: Parachute Jumper
Character: Counterman at Second Diner (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Saunders' Brother
Released: January 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Bartender at Violet's Hangout (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Downstairs
Title: Downstairs
Character: Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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Are These Our Children?
Title: Are These Our Children?
Character: Detective Sam
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
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Ambassador Bill
Title: Ambassador Bill
Character: Drunk Republican Revolutionary Celebrant
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Claudet
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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An American Tragedy
Title: An American Tragedy
Character: Coroner Fred Heit
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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Sweepstakes
Title: Sweepstakes
Character: Big Cook
Released: July 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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The Sin Ship
Title: The Sin Ship
Character: Inspector Colby
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Testimonial Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Bob - Bartender
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
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Check and Double Check
Title: Check and Double Check
Character: Kingfish
Released: October 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
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The Texan
Title: The Texan
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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The Grand Parade
Title: The Grand Parade
Character: Calamity Johnson
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
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Burning Up
Title: Burning Up
Character: Sneezing Barber
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Midway Customer (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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Fashions in Love
Title: Fashions in Love
Character: Joe
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Wild Party
Title: The Wild Party
Character: Pullman Car Passenger
Released: April 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: Mr. Kuchendorf
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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Napoleon's Barber
Title: Napoleon's Barber
Character: Blacksmith
Released: November 24, 1928
Type: Movie
Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
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The Mysterious Lady
Title: The Mysterious Lady
Character: Carriage Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
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Vamping Venus
Title: Vamping Venus
Character: Pete Papaglos / Bacchus
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
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That Certain Thing
Title: That Certain Thing
Character: Night Club Waiter
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
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No Place to Go
Title: No Place to Go
Character: Cannibal Chief
Released: October 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
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Soft Cushions
Title: Soft Cushions
Character: The Fat Thief (as Russell Powell)
Released: August 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
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When a Man Loves
Title: When a Man Loves
Character: Innkeeper (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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Mockery
Title: Mockery
Character: Man Taking Sergei to Ivan (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1927
Type: Movie
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
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The Red Mill
Title: The Red Mill
Character: Burgomaster
Released: January 29, 1927
Type: Movie
A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Konrad Driskai (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Tavern Keeper
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.
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Flesh and the Devil
Title: Flesh and the Devil
Character: Family Retainer with flag (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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Open All Night
Title: Open All Night
Character: Gendarme
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.
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Dynamite Smith
Title: Dynamite Smith
Character: Colin MacClintock
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
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A Boy of Flanders
Title: A Boy of Flanders
Character: Baas Kronstadt
Released: April 6, 1924
Type: Movie
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Kindled Courage
Title: Kindled Courage
Character: Marshal
Released: January 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots two ruffians, but Andy is hailed as the hero and made a deputy sheriff.
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The Ropin' Fool
Title: The Ropin' Fool
Character: The Medicine Doctor
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
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Head Over Heels
Title: Head Over Heels
Character: Papa Bambinetti
Released: April 16, 1922
Type: Movie
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office...
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The Concert
Title: The Concert
Character: Pollinger
Released: February 20, 1921
Type: Movie
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
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The Soul of Youth
Title: The Soul of Youth
Character: Policeman Jones
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he finds a friend in newsboy Mike. Mike teaches him how to survive, but inevitably Ed gets hauled into court. The judge sees potential in him and hands him over to be adopted by a young politician.
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The Slim Princess
Title: The Slim Princess
Character: The Governor General
Released: July 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family, who must marry off Kalora, before her rotund younger sister Papova may wed. To remedy this situation, Kalora's father, the governor general, throws a garden party and disguises his slim daughter in an inflated rubber suit. All goes well until the suit ruptures, deflating Kalora to her normal size....
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Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Title: Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Character: The Hero
Released: February 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.