Walter Fenner

Walter Fenner

Born: July 24, 1886
Died: November 7, 1947

Movies for Walter Fenner...

The Shanghai Cobra
Title: The Shanghai Cobra
Character: Police Inspector Harry Davis
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
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Once Upon a Time
Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Walt Disney (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
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Lost Angel
Title: Lost Angel
Character: Professor Endicott
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Col. Roper (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Title: Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Character: Sheik Fedallah
Released: July 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Congressman
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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G-men vs. the Black Dragon
Title: G-men vs. the Black Dragon
Character: Williams - Financial Agent [Ch.1]
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Dentist (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: Taxpayer (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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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Dock Official
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: Walker
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Man at Banquet
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Physician
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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Teddy the Rough Rider
Title: Teddy the Rough Rider
Character: 1st Slum Lord
Released: February 21, 1940
Type: Movie
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Doctor
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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The Covered Trailer
Title: The Covered Trailer
Character: Wells
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Dignitary (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Pride of the Blue Grass
Title: Pride of the Blue Grass
Character: Secretary to Board of Stewards
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
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A Woman is the Judge
Title: A Woman is the Judge
Character: Harper
Released: October 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Achille Fould (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Mr. Cavanaugh
Released: June 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Mr. Skinner - Star Publisher (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Doctor
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Mixed Magic
Title: Mixed Magic
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When Buster Keaton goes to work as an assistant to a carnival magician, the results turn out to be less than magical.
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Speed Devils
Title: Speed Devils
Character: Hart
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A race car driver, injured during an accident, opens up a repair shop only to become the target of crooked government agents.
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Strange Case of Hennessy
Title: Strange Case of Hennessy
Character: Relative
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old dark house in this spoof of S.S. Van Dine's famed sleuth Philo Vance.
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The Shadow Laughs
Title: The Shadow Laughs
Character: Tennant
Released: March 26, 1933
Type: Movie
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
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The Divorce Racket
Title: The Divorce Racket
Character: Miguel Cordoba
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Title: The Studio Murder Mystery
Character: Ian Stevens
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
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The Door Knocker
Title: The Door Knocker
Character: Sales Manager
Released: November 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Al St. John working as a door-to-door book salesman.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Johnny
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A dancer is jealous for her lover.
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The Sap from Syracuse
Title: The Sap from Syracuse
Character: Henderson
Released: July 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
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When It Strikes Home
Title: When It Strikes Home
Character: Mr. Wroth
Released: May 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a son is born. Years later, Dick is in happy, but childless marriage when they decide to adopt a child. By chance and unknown to him, the boy is his son.