John J. Richardson

John J. Richardson

Born: November 1, 1888
Died: January 24, 1942
in London, England, UK
John J. Richardson (born Harold Jack Joseph Richardson) was an English-born actor in American films, his screen career spanning the years 1917 to 1941.

Movies for John J. Richardson...

The Golden Age of Comedy
Title: The Golden Age of Comedy
Character: archive footage
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Midnight Club Waiter (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Man Knocked Down By Dreamy
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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A Fugitive from Justice
Title: A Fugitive from Justice
Character: Photographer at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Stage Doorman
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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King of the Lumberjacks
Title: King of the Lumberjacks
Character: Lumberjack On Line for Cashier (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: 4h Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Intern Stopping Jed (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: Cockney Soldier
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: British Sniper
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Man in O'Grady Crowd
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Man Asking for a Match (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Title: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Dish Vendor (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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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Fan at Homecoming
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Nightclub Extra
Released: July 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Title: Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Character: Extra Watching Fire
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Official (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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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Airport Man Getting Hose Out (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Would-Be Settler (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Alien - First Flight
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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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Title: Yes, My Darling Daughter
Character: Husband Leaving Train
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Joe, Taxi Driver (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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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Title: Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Townsman Running (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Man at Track
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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The Dawn Patrol
Title: The Dawn Patrol
Character: Mechanic
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
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Heart of the North
Title: Heart of the North
Character: Jack Richardson (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Escaping Convict
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Garden of the Moon
Title: Garden of the Moon
Character: Jones - Waiter Who is Fired (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
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Penrod's Double Trouble
Title: Penrod's Double Trouble
Character: Man Warning Matt That the Balloon Was Up (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Ring Attendant
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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He Couldn't Say No
Title: He Couldn't Say No
Character: $45 Bidder
Released: March 19, 1938
Type: Movie
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
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The Daredevil Drivers
Title: The Daredevil Drivers
Character: Chick Morgan's Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Pvt. Nelson - Hackett's Orderly
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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The Patient in Room 18
Title: The Patient in Room 18
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
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She Loved a Fireman
Title: She Loved a Fireman
Character: Waiter 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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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Trustee-Window Washer-Spy (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: Joe - First 7-11 Club Waiter
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Studio Worker Extra (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Public Wedding
Title: Public Wedding
Character: Cameraman
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Title: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: Second Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Draegerman Courage
Title: Draegerman Courage
Character: Jack - Pete's Co-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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Melody for Two
Title: Melody for Two
Character: Green Hill Patron
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
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Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Grocery Store Owner (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Man in Line-Up (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Bert Richards (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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Jailbreak
Title: Jailbreak
Character: Convict Under Inspection
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: Accident Spectator
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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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Second Photographer (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Cook Reporting to Jones (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: Gate Guard
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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I Married a Doctor
Title: I Married a Doctor
Character: Party Guest
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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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Smokey - Safecracking Convict (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: Second Reporter
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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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Elevator Operator (Uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: First Taxi Driver (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: Prison Visitor
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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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Cabbie
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Reporter (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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The Right to Live
Title: The Right to Live
Character: John - Chauffeur
Released: January 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Silent Diner (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Maids a la Mode
Title: Maids a la Mode
Character: Dignitary (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Drunk (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Bulls and Bears
Title: Bulls and Bears
Character: Whistling Man at Fountain
Released: March 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Italian vegetable cart vendor
Released: December 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
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What a Trip
Title: What a Trip
Released: January 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Vernon Dent out fishing.
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Oh, What a Man!
Title: Oh, What a Man!
Character: The Bandit's Pal
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to infiltrate her gang in order to get the goods on her, but things don't turn out exactly the way he expected them to.
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Sign Them Papers
Title: Sign Them Papers
Character: Relentless Rudolph
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine.
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Daily Dozens
Title: Daily Dozens
Character: Otto B. Shott
Released: September 15, 1926
Type: Movie
The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert Tansey. Producer Billy West was himself a silent film comedian, and was the best-known and most successful Charlie Chaplin imitator.
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Fearless Harry
Title: Fearless Harry
Character: Relentless Rudolph
Released: September 8, 1926
Type: Movie
Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.
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Thrilling Youth
Title: Thrilling Youth
Character: Bryson's Secretary
Released: August 3, 1926
Type: Movie
Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family.
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A Sweet Pickle
Title: A Sweet Pickle
Character: Bertie Ward
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
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The Iron Nag
Title: The Iron Nag
Character: Eric Legree
Released: August 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A jail break turns into a race.
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Sneezing Beezers
Title: Sneezing Beezers
Character: Yellow Michael
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short.
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Title: Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Character: T. Potter Doam
Released: June 14, 1925
Type: Movie
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
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The Lion's Whiskers
Title: The Lion's Whiskers
Character: Brigham Smith
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!
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Water Wagons
Title: Water Wagons
Character: Captain Dangerfield
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.
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The Cannon Ball Express
Title: The Cannon Ball Express
Character: Rollin Stock - Rival Promoter
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
The Cannon Ball Express is a 1924 comedy short.
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Galloping Bungalows
Title: Galloping Bungalows
Character: Howson Lotts - the Villain
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
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Lizzies of the Field
Title: Lizzies of the Field
Character: Ben Davis
Released: September 7, 1924
Type: Movie
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
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Wall Street Blues
Title: Wall Street Blues
Character: Carl Kopeck - the Loan Shark
Released: August 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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Yukon Jake
Title: Yukon Jake
Character: The Peruna Kid (as Jack Richardson)
Released: June 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
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Black Oxfords
Title: Black Oxfords
Character: Charlie Greenback
Released: May 18, 1924
Type: Movie
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Poodles Byng
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Title: Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Character: The Proprietor
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
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The Dare-Devil
Title: The Dare-Devil
Character: The Leading Man
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: Israelite Slave (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1923
Type: Movie
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
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When Summer Comes
Title: When Summer Comes
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
Title: The Three Must-Get-Theres
Character: Walrus
Released: August 22, 1922
Type: Movie
In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: The Fortune Hunter (as Jack Richardson)
Released: December 24, 1921
Type: Movie
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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Call a Cop
Title: Call a Cop
Character: The Daughter's Fickle Fiance
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Call a Cop is a 1921 comedy short.
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Merely a Maid
Title: Merely a Maid
Released: May 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Beatrice is a maid to a naughty society girl. The latter's lover takes a liking to the maid and a riot follows during a dance. After a free-for-all mix-up among the guests, the maid flees, or rather is carried away, by her admirer in an automobile.
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J-U-N-K
Title: J-U-N-K
Character: Count de Silver
Released: March 8, 1920
Type: Movie
A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.