William Haade

William Haade

Born: March 2, 1903
Died: November 15, 1966
in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Muscular American character actor of Dutch extraction. Tended to play bullies and assorted western heavies. Best remembered as the alcoholic prizefighter (managed by Humphrey Bogart) who is punched out by Wayne Morris in the finale to 'Kid Galahad' (1937).

Movies for William Haade...

The Tall Stranger
Title: The Tall Stranger
Released: November 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.
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Title: 26 Men
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: TV
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
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She Devil
Title: She Devil
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Umpire
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Stagehand
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Tim
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Title: The Star and the Story
Released: January 8, 1955
Type: TV
Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors that went onto bigger things.
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Title: The Whistler
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: TV
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Untamed Heiress
Title: Untamed Heiress
Character: Friend
Released: March 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first he must reclaim his stash of gold from the crooked Williams. Judy helps the old coot by taking on not only Williams, but duplicitous private detectives Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor, not to mention gangsters Spider Mike and Louie.
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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Title: Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Character: Salt Driller
Released: March 29, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
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The Great Diamond Robbery
Title: The Great Diamond Robbery
Character: Mike, the Policeman (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
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Red River Shore
Title: Red River Shore
Character: Henchman Link
Released: December 15, 1953
Type: Movie
When an oil discovery is reported at Paxton, Oklahoma, Marshal Rex Allen immediately suspects that where there is oil, there is trouble. Rex arrives just as a band of desperadoes stage a bank hold-up and escape with $25,000 which ranchers have invested in prospective oil drillings.
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Title: Secret of Outlaw Flats
Character: Tony, Stagecoach Guard
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
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The Blue Gardenia
Title: The Blue Gardenia
Character: Patrolman Hopper (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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Title: I Led Three Lives
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: TV
I Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from October 1, 1953 to January 1, 1956. The series stars Richard Carlson. The show was a companion piece of sorts to the radio drama I Was a Communist for the FBI, which dealt with a similar subject and was also syndicated by Ziv from 1952 to 1954.
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Kansas City Confidential
Title: Kansas City Confidential
Character: Detective Mullins (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1952
Type: Movie
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
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Title: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Character: Man At The Door
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and television for a few years. The series stars Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their young sons, David and Eric "Ricky" Nelson. Don DeFore had a recurring role as the Nelsons' friendly neighbor "Thorny".
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Hopalong Cassidy
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
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Carson City
Title: Carson City
Character: Hardrock Haggerty
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
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Rancho Notorious
Title: Rancho Notorious
Character: Sheriff Sam Bullock (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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The Sea Hornet
Title: The Sea Hornet
Character: Condor
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
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Leave It to the Marines
Title: Leave It to the Marines
Character: Recruiting Sgt. Delaney
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Gerald Meek and Myrna McAllister go to city hall to apply for a marriage license. Gerald wanders into the Marine Recruiting office by mistake and Sergeant Delaney signs him into the Marine Corps and sends him for a medical examination before Gerald realizes what has happened. He finds himself in uniform and ready to be shipped to boot camp without any delay, other than explain to his intended-bride that Uncle Sam has other plans for him.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Released: June 3, 1951
Type: Movie
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
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Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Title: Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Character: Henchman Mark Brannigan
Released: May 1, 1951
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Stop That Cab
Title: Stop That Cab
Character: Onslow
Released: March 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
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Rawhide
Title: Rawhide
Character: Gil Scott (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1951
Type: Movie
At a desolate relay station, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held hostage by a band of escaped criminals.
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Oh! Susanna
Title: Oh! Susanna
Character: Riorty
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.
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A Yank in Korea
Title: A Yank in Korea
Character: Cpl. Jawolski
Released: February 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A tough sergeant has to teach a hotshot young soldier how to be a team player.
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Three Desperate Men
Title: Three Desperate Men
Character: Bill Devlin
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from being hanged, but a guard is killed during their escape. Ed Larkin who framed Matt, falsely accuses them of a long list of crimes. They return to Fort Grant so that Tom can see his sweetheart Laura Brook. They encounter outlaw Bill Devlin who persuades them to hold up a train which Laura unwittingly told them would carry a large payroll. Soon the whole territory is enraged at their deeds. They return to Fort Grant to hold up the two banks that are filled with huge sums of cattle money.
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Hunt the Man Down
Title: Hunt the Man Down
Character: Bart (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
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Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
Title: Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
Character: Robert 'Bubbles' Conway
Released: November 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
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Triple Trouble
Title: Triple Trouble
Character: Dialogue Cop Arresting the Boys
Released: August 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
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The Old Frontier
Title: The Old Frontier
Character: Henchman Pills
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all the robberies.
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Trial Without Jury
Title: Trial Without Jury
Character: Kennedy - Truck Driver
Released: July 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Morrow's Henchman
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Outcasts of Black Mesa
Title: Outcasts of Black Mesa
Character: Dayton
Released: April 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid disguise, whereupon stunt-double Jock Mahoney swings into action. Outcasts of Black Mesa is distinguished by the presence of a relative newcomer to the film game, leading lady Martha Hyer.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Scene of the Crime
Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Lafe Douque
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
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The Wyoming Bandit
Title: The Wyoming Bandit
Character: Lonnigan - Henchman
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't commit, only to find his son on his deathbed. Seeking revenge for his son's murder, Dan enlists the help of Rocky Lane (Allan Lane), who poses as an outlaw to try to uncover the truth. When the duo manage to track down the killer, they find him armed to the teeth.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Night Unto Night
Title: Night Unto Night
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
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Prairie Pirates
Title: Prairie Pirates
Character: Quirt Richards
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: Movie
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Alaska Patrol
Title: Alaska Patrol
Character: Anorus
Released: March 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong resemblance to Rattick.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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The Bribe
Title: The Bribe
Character: Walker (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
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Last of the Wild Horses
Title: Last of the Wild Horses
Character: Henchman Rocky Rockford
Released: December 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
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Strike It Rich
Title: Strike It Rich
Character: Bull
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
When not drinking and fighting, three wildcatters in search of a gusher are enthusiastically drilling for black gold. The trouble begins when one of them grows dissatisfied with their lifestyle and quits so he can be with his new wife. Unfortunately for him, soon after he leaves, the other two find their gusher and become filthy rich. The impoverished quitter is envious and begins looking for an obscure law that will force his pals to share.
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Tap Roots
Title: Tap Roots
Character: Mob Leader (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
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Lulu Belle
Title: Lulu Belle
Character: Duke Weaver
Released: August 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
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Four Faces West
Title: Four Faces West
Character: Poker Player
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
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Key Largo
Title: Key Largo
Character: Ralph Feeney
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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The Inside Story
Title: The Inside Story
Character: Rocky
Released: March 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
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Under Colorado Skies
Title: Under Colorado Skies
Character: Marlowe
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He is about to leave to return to college when the bank is held up by two members of a notorious gang, headed by Marlowe, leaving Monte with the smoking gun of one of the bandits that killed the bank president. To avoid bringing disgrace on the family of his sweetheart, Julia Collins, by revealing that it was her brother Jeff, supposedly working in Denver, who induced him to open the back door of the bank to let the robbers in, Monte allows suspicion to rest on him until he can clear himself.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Marcus
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Iggy Broty
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Down to Earth
Title: Down to Earth
Character: Spike
Released: August 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop.
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Deep Valley
Title: Deep Valley
Character: Guard
Released: July 30, 1947
Type: Movie
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Eustice (Laundry Woman's Husband) (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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The Pilgrim Lady
Title: The Pilgrim Lady
Character: Cab Driver
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
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Lady Chaser
Title: Lady Chaser
Character: Bill Redding
Released: November 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.
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Affairs of Geraldine
Title: Affairs of Geraldine
Character: Wayne Cooper
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Cop
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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My Pal Trigger
Title: My Pal Trigger
Character: Davis
Released: July 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign gets shot accidentally by Skoville but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees an opportunity to clear his name.
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Valley of the Zombies
Title: Valley of the Zombies
Character: Police Officer 'Tiny'
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
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A Guy Could Change
Title: A Guy Could Change
Character: Hank Krane
Released: January 27, 1946
Type: Movie
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Roughneck in Saloon (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
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Fallen Angel
Title: Fallen Angel
Character: First Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Phantom of the Plains
Title: Phantom of the Plains
Character: Ace Hanlon
Released: September 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Red Ryder tries to warn a duchess that her newfound beau has a history of murdering his wives.
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Honeymoon Ahead
Title: Honeymoon Ahead
Character: Trigger
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
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Sheriff of Las Vegas
Title: Sheriff of Las Vegas
Character: Dan Sedley (as Wm. Haade)
Released: December 31, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father.
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I Won't Play
Title: I Won't Play
Character: Chicago
Released: November 11, 1944
Type: Movie
In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business.
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It's Murder
Title: It's Murder
Character: Sergeant
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort.
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Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Guard
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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Timber Queen
Title: Timber Queen
Character: Rawson (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
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A Scream in the Dark
Title: A Scream in the Dark
Character: Gerald Messenger
Released: October 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
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Song of Texas
Title: Song of Texas
Character: Fred Calvert
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Groves (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Loudmouth Saloon Patron (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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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Title: Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character: Butch - Prison Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Daredevils of the West
Title: Daredevils of the West
Character: Henchman Ward
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
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Days of Old Cheyenne
Title: Days of Old Cheyenne
Character: Big Bill Harmon
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Clint Ross's skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in Cheyenne. Thanks to the string-pulling of political boss Big Bill Harmon, Ross makes it all the way up to the governor's office. But when Ross figures out that Big Bill is a big crook, it's showdown time.
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Pittsburgh
Title: Pittsburgh
Character: Johnny (Miner)
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Henchman Cully Bronson
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Red Gargan
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Deputy Joe (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Title: Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Bone Crusher (Uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Dynamo
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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A Gentleman After Dark
Title: A Gentleman After Dark
Character: Relief Cop
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Gang Busters
Title: Gang Busters
Character: Mike Taboni
Released: March 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
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Shepherd of the Ozarks
Title: Shepherd of the Ozarks
Character: Dudd Hitt
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
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Heart of the Rio Grande
Title: Heart of the Rio Grande
Character: Hap Callahan
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Torpedo Boat
Title: Torpedo Boat
Character: Big Sweeney, Riveter
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
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Man from Cheyenne
Title: Man from Cheyenne
Character: Ed
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
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You're in the Army Now
Title: You're in the Army Now
Character: Sergeant Thorpe
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
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Rise and Shine
Title: Rise and Shine
Character: Butch
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
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Married Bachelor
Title: Married Bachelor
Character: Marie's Husband (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Heckler in Church
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Sailors on Leave
Title: Sailors on Leave
Character: Sawyer
Released: September 30, 1941
Type: Movie
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Citadel of Crime
Title: Citadel of Crime
Character: Turk
Released: July 23, 1941
Type: Movie
A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Moon
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
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Kansas Cyclone
Title: Kansas Cyclone
Character: Sheriff Ed King
Released: June 24, 1941
Type: Movie
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Desert Bandit
Title: Desert Bandit
Character: Largo
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
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Pirates on Horseback
Title: Pirates on Horseback
Character: Bill Watson
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
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Affectionately Yours
Title: Affectionately Yours
Character: Matthews
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Henchman Davidge
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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The Roundup
Title: The Roundup
Character: Frane Battles
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Van
Released: March 13, 1941
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Captain Jeff Morgan
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Title: Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Character: Guirk, Man in Fistfight
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Armorer
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Skeptic
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Man Waiting for Job (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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One Crowded Night
Title: One Crowded Night
Character: Joe Miller
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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Stage to Chino
Title: Stage to Chino
Character: Slim
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Tough Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Strong-Arm Robber (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Soldier
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Guard During Break (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Bullet Code
Title: Bullet Code
Character: Scar
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
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And One Was Beautiful
Title: And One Was Beautiful
Character: Prison Guard
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Deputy with shogun (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Millionaire Playboy
Title: Millionaire Playboy
Character: Policeman
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
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The Man from Dakota
Title: The Man from Dakota
Character: Union Soldier
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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The Saint's Double Trouble
Title: The Saint's Double Trouble
Character: Helm Van Roon aka 'The Dutchman' (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: First American
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Crapshooter (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Shrank
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: George Fields
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: McNeil
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: A Stoker
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Kid Nightingale
Title: Kid Nightingale
Character: Rocky Snyder
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Cooper, Pomeroy's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Moore
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Island of Lost Men
Title: Island of Lost Men
Character: Hambly
Released: August 16, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: Mr. Turk
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch decides the family isn't worthy of raising his grandson.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Hotel Doorman
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Dusky Clayton
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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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: First Mate (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Detective (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character: Jupiter Dunlap / Jake Dunlap
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Shadows Over Shanghai
Title: Shadows Over Shanghai
Character: Captain Murphy
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Hefferkamp
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Guy Tabarie
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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Sing, You Sinners
Title: Sing, You Sinners
Character: Pete
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Mrs. Updyke's Watchman (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: 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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He Couldn't Say No
Title: He Couldn't Say No
Character: Slug
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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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Character: Botulian's Driver
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Title: Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Character: Tommy Madison - the Champ
Released: February 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Pvt. Ferris
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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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Emmet White
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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Telephone Operator
Title: Telephone Operator
Character: Heaver
Released: December 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: Chuck McGraw
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.