Landers Stevens

Landers Stevens

Born: February 17, 1877
Died: December 19, 1940
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Landers Stevens...

Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Senate Investigator (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Wildcat Bus
Title: Wildcat Bus
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Cross-Country Romance
Title: Cross-Country Romance
Character: Bishop at Wedding
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Employee (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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Pop Always Pays
Title: Pop Always Pays
Character: Bo Johnson
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
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The Man with Nine Lives
Title: The Man with Nine Lives
Character: Doctor Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Business Executive in Arlen's Office (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Danger On Wheels
Title: Danger On Wheels
Character: Lloyd B. Allen
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
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20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: Professor
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Committeeman (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Ringsider with Ill Woman
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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The Zero Hour
Title: The Zero Hour
Character: Doctor
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Manager of New England Telephone Exchange
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Thatcher
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Man at RAce Track
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Rev. Oscar Twitchby (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Berth Quakes
Title: Berth Quakes
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
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Ears of Experience
Title: Ears of Experience
Released: January 28, 1938
Type: Movie
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Dr. Van Cleve
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Owner
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Bill Cracks Down
Title: Bill Cracks Down
Character: Dr. Colcord
Released: March 22, 1937
Type: Movie
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: Dr. McCullough
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Warden Lawton
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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That Girl from Paris
Title: That Girl from Paris
Character: Ship Captain (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
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The Cowboy Star
Title: The Cowboy Star
Character: Jack Kingswell
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Mr. Graves - Joe's Father
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Swing Time
Title: Swing Time
Character: Judge Watson (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Businessman
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Milford (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Charlie Chan's Secret
Title: Charlie Chan's Secret
Character: Coroner
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Counselitis
Title: Counselitis
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Stage Manager
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Hans
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Federal Man (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Standish's Associate
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Love Time
Title: Love Time
Character: Major Domo (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Conductor
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Ocean Swells
Title: Ocean Swells
Character: Mr. Harrington
Released: August 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A old lady and her 2 girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.
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Bachelor Bait
Title: Bachelor Bait
Character: Mr. Wells (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Executive
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Inspector (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Walking Back Home
Title: Walking Back Home
Character: Mr. Fleetwood
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Two drive in waitresses try to find a wealthy boyfriend.
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The Most Dangerous Game
Title: The Most Dangerous Game
Character: Yacht Passenger 'Doc' (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Admiral
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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The Rainbow Trail
Title: The Rainbow Trail
Character: Frisby
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
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Guilty Hands
Title: Guilty Hands
Character: Chief of Police Bill Mott (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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Little Caesar
Title: Little Caesar
Character: Alvin McClure - Crime Commissioner (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Inspector
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
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Frozen Justice
Title: Frozen Justice
Character: Mate Moore
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Drama set in Alaska
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Dr. Welcome
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
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Battling Bunyan
Title: Battling Bunyan
Character: Pierson
Released: February 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.
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The Veiled Woman
Title: The Veiled Woman
Character: The Doctor
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Evelina Grey is the prettiest girl of the small community where she lives. Her sweetheart is Dr. Dexter, and they share a passion for scientific research. While they are both working in the laboratory one day, there is an explosion which renders Evelina unconscious. Concerned that her beauty has been marred, Dexter disappears.
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Wild Honey
Title: Wild Honey
Character: Wolf Montague
Released: March 6, 1922
Type: Movie
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the man she suspects of the murder.
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Handle with Care
Title: Handle with Care
Character: David Norris
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy.