Colin Kenny

Colin Kenny

Born: December 3, 1888
Died: December 2, 1968
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Colin Kenny...

Munster, Go Home!
Title: Munster, Go Home!
Character: Man in Pub (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn't named Lord Munster. An on-board romance had blossomed between Marilyn and Roger, but on land Marilyn discovers Roger's family holds a longstanding grudge against the Munsters.
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The Cincinnati Kid
Title: The Cincinnati Kid
Character: Spectator at Cockfight (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Shenandoah
Title: Shenandoah
Character: Church Member
Released: June 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.
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My Fair Lady
Title: My Fair Lady
Character: Ad Lib at Church (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Good Neighbor Sam
Title: Good Neighbor Sam
Character: Nurdlinger Servant (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1964
Type: Movie
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
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The Prize
Title: The Prize
Character: Guest at Awards Ceremony (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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The Manchurian Candidate
Title: The Manchurian Candidate
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Title: Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Character: Chef (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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The Music Man
Title: The Music Man
Character: Brighton Townsman (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
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Incident in an Alley
Title: Incident in an Alley
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Title: Judgment at Nuremberg
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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The Absent-Minded Professor
Title: The Absent-Minded Professor
Character: Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Midnight Lace
Title: Midnight Lace
Character: Pub Patron
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
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Elmer Gantry
Title: Elmer Gantry
Character: Extra at Revival Meeting
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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Inherit the Wind
Title: Inherit the Wind
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
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The Story on Page One
Title: The Story on Page One
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
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North by Northwest
Title: North by Northwest
Character: Man at Auction (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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Compulsion
Title: Compulsion
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Plymouth Club Member (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Auntie Mame
Title: Auntie Mame
Character: Perry (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Tarawa Beachhead
Title: Tarawa Beachhead
Character: Man in Bar (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama.
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Witness for the Prosecution
Title: Witness for the Prosecution
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.
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Sweet Smell of Success
Title: Sweet Smell of Success
Character: Patron at 21 (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Title: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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It's Always Fair Weather
Title: It's Always Fair Weather
Character: Father in Montage/Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
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Brigadoon
Title: Brigadoon
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
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Calamity Jane
Title: Calamity Jane
Character: Chicagoan (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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I, the Jury
Title: I, the Jury
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
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The Band Wagon
Title: The Band Wagon
Character: Drunk Outside Arcade (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: The Baliff
Released: May 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Audience Spectator
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
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Limelight
Title: Limelight
Character: Music Hall Performer (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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Red Planet Mars
Title: Red Planet Mars
Character: Mine Owner
Released: May 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Club Patron
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
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The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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Gambling House
Title: Gambling House
Character: Man in Corridor (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Hunt the Man Down
Title: Hunt the Man Down
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
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All About Eve
Title: All About Eve
Character: Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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Outrage
Title: Outrage
Character: Country Dance Attendee (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
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Reign of Terror
Title: Reign of Terror
Character: Patriot (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
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White Heat
Title: White Heat
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Title: The Secret Of St. Ives
Character: Tribunal Judge (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: Man Reciting Lord's Prayer (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Warder (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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The Paradine Case
Title: The Paradine Case
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.
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The Exile
Title: The Exile
Character: Ross
Released: October 17, 1947
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Police Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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Moss Rose
Title: Moss Rose
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Title: My Brother Talks to Horses
Character: Passenger on Trolley (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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Green Dolphin Street
Title: Green Dolphin Street
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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The Verdict
Title: The Verdict
Character: Sergeant
Released: November 23, 1946
Type: Movie
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Concertgoer (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Lecture Guest (Uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Opera Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: U.S. Senator / Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Birthday Party Table Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Three Strangers
Title: Three Strangers
Character: Alfred, Innkeeper / Bartender
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Mr. Thickness (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Inspector (Uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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None But the Lonely Heart
Title: None But the Lonely Heart
Character: Policeman Outside
Released: October 17, 1944
Type: Movie
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
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Ministry of Fear
Title: Ministry of Fear
Character: Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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Main Street Today
Title: Main Street Today
Character: Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Dock Worker
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Best Foot Forward
Title: Best Foot Forward
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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The Constant Nymph
Title: The Constant Nymph
Character: Party Guest
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Parade Soldier Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character: Scotland Yard Detective (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Hotel clerk
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Yankee Player on Train (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Fire Warden
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: WAAF Supply Officer
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Constable (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Croupier (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Al's Pal (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Officer
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Jim - English Ship's Brig Officer
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Court Bailiff
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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Vigil in the Night
Title: Vigil in the Night
Character: Court Bailiff
Released: February 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Sergeant (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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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: Doctor #2
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: George
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Soldier
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Raffles
Title: Raffles
Character: Bobby
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Capt. Benson
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Slade - Morgan Henchman
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: English Bobby (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Nightclub Patron
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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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Clansman
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Sir Baldwin
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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Murder Is News
Title: Murder Is News
Character: Inspector Fitzgerald
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Character: Henchman
Released: December 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Character: Policeman
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Hunter (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Dancing on the Ceiling
Title: Dancing on the Ceiling
Character: Dental Patient
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist office. Cute chorus girls attend to the many male customers, and the girl the young man was following is revealed to be the dentist. She gives the young man anesthetic gas and he dreams the dentist and her troupe of nurses are dancing on the ceiling.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Lord Chester Dyke
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Kind Lady
Title: Kind Lady
Character: Second Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
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Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Title: Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Character: Reporter
Released: October 11, 1935
Type: Movie
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
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The Dark Angel
Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Officer at Station
Released: September 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
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Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: Black Watch Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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My Grandfather's Clock
Title: My Grandfather's Clock
Character: Detective at Crime Scene (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1934
Type: Movie
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a second will and changes have been made as to who will receive what. Philo is the ace detective, and he brings everyone from the nightclub to see him solve the case.
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A Lost Lady
Title: A Lost Lady
Character: Ormsby's Butler (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: The Clock (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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One Man's Journey
Title: One Man's Journey
Character: Doctor at Banquet
Released: August 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
Title: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1933
Type: Movie
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
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Cynara
Title: Cynara
Character: Officer at Inquest
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Dignitary on Dais
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Man Leaving Men's Room (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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Grumpy
Title: Grumpy
Character: Dawson
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
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The Clue of the New Pin
Title: The Clue of the New Pin
Character: Insp. Carver
Released: March 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
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Adam's Apple
Title: Adam's Apple
Character: Husband
Released: September 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Title: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Character: Dawson
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
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Her Dangerous Path
Title: Her Dangerous Path
Character: Stanley Fleming
Released: August 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Her Dangerous Path
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The Weak-End Party
Title: The Weak-End Party
Character: Monocle Charley
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
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The Egg
Title: The Egg
Character: Gerald Stone
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Bevis
Released: September 15, 1921
Type: Movie
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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The Fighting Lover
Title: The Fighting Lover
Character: Vic Ragner
Released: June 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Andrew Forsdale bets his friend Ned Randolph $10,000 that Ned will fall in love with one of three girls within 30 days.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: George Gordon
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
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813
Title: 813
Character: Gerard Beaupre
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
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Darling Mine
Title: Darling Mine
Released: August 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from Ireland to New York City, there she meets Gordon Davis, a successful playwright, who directs her to her aunt's address on the East Side. Kitty soon discovers her aunt living in a tenement, a confirmed alcoholic. Through her niece's care, Agnes is cured, and one day Davis appears and offers Kitty a part in a comedy that he has written. She accepts, and once backstage meets Vera Maxwell, the victim of an unhappy affair with Oscar Savoy. Kitty brings the lovelorn couple back together but is unsuccessful in arranging her own romance with Davis' nephew Roger until Davis finally intervenes, and a happy ending prevails for all.
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The Last Straw
Title: The Last Straw
Character: Dick Hilton
Released: February 14, 1920
Type: Movie
A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.
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The Wishing Ring Man
Title: The Wishing Ring Man
Character: Allen Harrington
Released: March 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimental poetry, nineteen-year-old Joy Havenith longs for companions of her own age.
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The Romance of Tarzan
Title: The Romance of Tarzan
Character: Clayton
Released: October 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
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Unexpected Places
Title: Unexpected Places
Character: Lord Harold Varden
Released: September 30, 1918
Type: Movie
The valet of Lord Harold Varden, on a secret mission to our Government, has been murdered. Dick Holloway, a reporter, detailed to the story, calls on Lord Varden just as the latter feels the effects of poison administered to him. He takes the place of the nobleman when his American cousins come for him, and not only saves his lordship's papers, but captures the spies detailed to get them.
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The Seal of Silence
Title: The Seal of Silence
Character: Beverly Rivers
Released: April 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Dr. Hugh Loring, whose hobby is heredity, has evolved the theory that physical or mental peculiarities of children reveal the parents. The doctor's intense desire for children is only equaled by his wife's aversion. On the occasion of the doctor admonishing his wife for being friendly with an admirer she leaves him, and when her child is born she swears Ruth Carden, an employee of her husband's, who has accompanied her, to secrecy, so that she may keep from the doctor his greatest joy. Mrs. Loring dies, and Ruth returns to the doctor's office, leaving the child in the care of the nurse. Three years later the nurse finds it necessary to give up the child, and the doctor, who has fallen in love with Ruth, is stunned, for he believes that the child is hers.
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Tarzan of the Apes
Title: Tarzan of the Apes
Character: Greystoke's Nephew
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time missing Lord Greystoke. But then, one of the search members, Jane Porter, gets separated from the group and comes face to face with fearsome wild animals. Tarzan saves her from harm just in the knick of time and love begins to blossom.