Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Born: September 27, 1898
Died: January 3, 1958
in Albany, New York, USA
Charles Williams was born on September 27, 1898 in Albany, New York. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood and Vine (1945) and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). He was married to Isabel and Virginia Josephine Evans. He died on January 3, 1958 in Hollywood, California.

Movies for Charles Williams...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Fighting Trouble
Title: Fighting Trouble
Released: September 16, 1956
Type: Movie
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
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A Lawless Street
Title: A Lawless Street
Character: Mr. Willis (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Sam
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Title: Annie Oakley
Character: Fred
Released: January 9, 1954
Type: TV
Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
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Main Street to Broadway
Title: Main Street to Broadway
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
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Title: Topper
Character: Harlon
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: TV
Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars Leo G. Carroll in the title role.
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The Magnetic Monster
Title: The Magnetic Monster
Character: Cabbie
Released: February 18, 1953
Type: Movie
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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Title: The Abbott and Costello Show
Character: Duncan
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: TV
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Yo Yo
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Tim
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
Title: According to Mrs. Hoyle
Character: Charlie
Released: May 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
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Lullaby of Broadway
Title: Lullaby of Broadway
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
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Gasoline Alley
Title: Gasoline Alley
Character: Mortie
Released: January 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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The Missourians
Title: The Missourians
Character: Postmaster Walt
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Fred Appleby
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Title: The Gene Autry Show
Character: Reporter Lewis (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1950
Type: TV
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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Task Force
Title: Task Force
Character: Luggage Salesman (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1949
Type: Movie
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Character: Reporter
Released: January 31, 1949
Type: Movie
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Dorgan's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Parole, Inc.
Title: Parole, Inc.
Character: Titus Jones
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Title: The Strange Mrs. Crane
Character: Juror
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
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Marshal of Amarillo
Title: Marshal of Amarillo
Character: Hiram Short
Released: July 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
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Hazard
Title: Hazard
Character: Little Motorist
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
As part of a bet, a compulsive gambler agrees to marry the winner, a professional gambler. Before he can "collect," she skips town. The gambler hires a private detective to track her down so he can collect his "winnings."
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Wedlock Deadlock
Title: Wedlock Deadlock
Character: Chester
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
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Heading For Heaven
Title: Heading For Heaven
Character: Eddie Williams
Released: December 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Joe, the stage manager
Released: July 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
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Saddle Pals
Title: Saddle Pals
Character: Leslie
Released: June 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Cousin Eustace
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Lady Chaser
Title: Lady Chaser
Character: Apartment House Manager
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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Queen of Burlesque
Title: Queen of Burlesque
Character: Carr, manager of Regent Hotel
Released: July 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
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Night and Day
Title: Night and Day
Character: Music Store Customer (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Character: Mr. Stone
Released: July 1, 1946
Type: Movie
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Louis Burt (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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Passkey to Danger
Title: Passkey to Danger
Character: Mr. Williams
Released: May 11, 1946
Type: Movie
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Hitchhike to Happiness
Title: Hitchhike to Happiness
Character: Park Magician (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
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Scared Stiff
Title: Scared Stiff
Character: Reporter (Uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
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Hollywood and Vine
Title: Hollywood and Vine
Character: Chick Jones
Released: April 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
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Identity Unknown
Title: Identity Unknown
Character: Auctioneer
Released: April 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Reporter
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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End of the Road
Title: End of the Road
Character: Jordan
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: Author
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Atlantic City
Title: Atlantic City
Character: Chalmers
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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Call of the Rockies
Title: Call of the Rockies
Character: Burton Witherspoon
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
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Song of the Open Road
Title: Song of the Open Road
Character: Man Saying 'It's a Trick' (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Title: Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Character: Mr. Pike
Released: March 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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Career Girl
Title: Career Girl
Character: Louis Horton
Released: January 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
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Whispering Footsteps
Title: Whispering Footsteps
Character: Second Bank Teller
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
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The Girl from Monterrey
Title: The Girl from Monterrey
Character: Harry Hollis
Released: October 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...
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The West Side Kid
Title: The West Side Kid
Character: Reporter
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
Title: I Escaped from the Gestapo
Character: Secretary
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Box Office Attendant
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Time to Kill
Title: Time to Kill
Character: Dentist
Released: December 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Little Strength Machine Contestant (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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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Citizen (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: 3rd Speaker in Park
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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One Thrilling Night
Title: One Thrilling Night
Character: Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Assayer
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: The Pitchman
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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Girls' Town
Title: Girls' Town
Character: Coffer
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Photographer
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Theodore H. Sherman Jr.- Printer
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Flying Cadets
Title: Flying Cadets
Character: Mr. Prim / Primmie, Bookkeeper
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Clerk
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Detective in Café (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Marked Men
Title: Marked Men
Character: Charlie Sloane
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
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Grand Ole Opry
Title: Grand Ole Opry
Character: Politician (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Henry, Husband
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Photographer (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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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Hugh Gilman
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Peters (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Northern Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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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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Those High Grey Walls
Title: Those High Grey Walls
Character: Stranger (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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Undercover Doctor
Title: Undercover Doctor
Character: Pinky Valkus
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Car Repo Man
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Title: The Ice Follies of 1939
Character: Max Morton (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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Wife, Husband and Friend
Title: Wife, Husband and Friend
Character: Jaffee
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Reporter Jones (Uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Reporter
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Mike Brody
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Agent
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Title: Mr. Moto's Gamble
Character: Gabby Marden
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Title: Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Character: Jake
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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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Company Spotter
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Irving Skolsky
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Amateur Crook
Title: Amateur Crook
Character: Drunk Witness
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Merry Go Round of 1938
Title: Merry Go Round of 1938
Character: Dave Clark
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
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Stand-In
Title: Stand-In
Character: Mr. Mack
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
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Sky Racket
Title: Sky Racket
Character: Nightclub Entertainer
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
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Charlie Chan on Broadway
Title: Charlie Chan on Broadway
Character: Meeker, Burke's Lawyer
Released: September 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Hymie - Photographer
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: Charlie Alberts, Agent
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Vogues of 1938
Title: Vogues of 1938
Character: Customs Man in Fall Show
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
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Flying Fists
Title: Flying Fists
Character: Meggs, the Reporter
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Florist Shop Customer
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Joe Brady
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Simmons (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Four Days Wonder
Title: Four Days Wonder
Character: Kasky
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Gopher Mazda
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Sleepless Hollow
Title: Sleepless Hollow
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
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Moon Over Manhattan
Title: Moon Over Manhattan
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
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Woman in the Dark
Title: Woman in the Dark
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Fighter Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Druggist
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Baby Face (Charles T. Pearson Jr.)
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
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The Gay Nighties
Title: The Gay Nighties
Character: Timid Man
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Skating Rink Official (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Central Airport
Title: Central Airport
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
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Hip Zip Hooray
Title: Hip Zip Hooray
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.
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Blondie of the Follies
Title: Blondie of the Follies
Character: Lottie's Friend Mr. Kinskey (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
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Strangers of the Evening
Title: Strangers of the Evening
Character: 1st Passerby
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
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Strictly Unreliable
Title: Strictly Unreliable
Character: Billy Freeman - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
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Dance Team
Title: Dance Team
Character: Benny Weber
Released: January 17, 1932
Type: Movie
From Wikipedia.com A 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Edwin J. Burke.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Stagehand
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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The Mad Genius
Title: The Mad Genius
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Gabe Waters
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.