Don Costello

Don Costello

Born: September 5, 1901
Died: October 24, 1945
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
A Broadway stage actor, Costello entered films in 1935 and in 1939 was put under contract with MGM. Known for his wicked sense of humor, Costello often times played the role of a menace or a tough guy.

Date of Death 24 October 1945, Hollywood, California

Movies for Don Costello...

The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Character: Leo
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Crime of the Century
Title: Crime of the Century
Character: Joe, Bartender
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
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Follow That Woman
Title: Follow That Woman
Character: Nick
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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Marshal of Laredo
Title: Marshal of Laredo
Character: Henchman Pretty Boy Murphy
Released: October 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Laredo. This time, Red comes to the aid of a frontier lawyer, who is suspected of being an outlaw
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The Red Dragon
Title: The Red Dragon
Character: Charles Masack
Released: August 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Gus Vettori (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Leo Gledhill
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
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Great Stagecoach Robbery
Title: Great Stagecoach Robbery
Character: Jed Quinlan
Released: February 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In this western, Red Ryder tries to be a good example for a young man who idolizes his father, an outlaw. The boy wants to follow in his father's footsteps when the hero intervenes.
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Here Come the Co-eds
Title: Here Come the Co-eds
Character: Diamond (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
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Mystery Man
Title: Mystery Man
Character: Bud Trilling
Released: May 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
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The Whistler
Title: The Whistler
Character: Lefty Vigran aka Gorss (Uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1944
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
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Texas Masquerade
Title: Texas Masquerade
Character: Ace Maxson
Released: February 8, 1944
Type: Movie
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
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Murder on the Waterfront
Title: Murder on the Waterfront
Character: Gordon Shane
Released: September 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Drunk
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Nick Ferris / Jim Warren
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Air Raid Wardens
Title: Air Raid Wardens
Character: Heydrich
Released: April 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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Truck Busters
Title: Truck Busters
Character: Anthony 'Tony' Bonetti
Released: January 28, 1943
Type: Movie
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Eddie Turner
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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Just Off Broadway
Title: Just Off Broadway
Character: George Dolphin
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Title: A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Doc Lake
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
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Sundown Jim
Title: Sundown Jim
Character: Dobe Hyde
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
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Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Mead
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Billiken
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Unholy Partners
Title: Unholy Partners
Character: Georgie Pelotti
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
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Last of the Duanes
Title: Last of the Duanes
Character: Jim Bland
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: 'Noose' Green
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Lefty
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: Police Sergeant Brent
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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Ride on Vaquero
Title: Ride on Vaquero
Character: Redge
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Carl Izzard
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Wildcat Bus
Title: Wildcat Bus
Character: Sid Casey
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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One Crowded Night
Title: One Crowded Night
Character: Lefty
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Fred
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: "Diamond Back" Vogel
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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Hot News Margie
Title: Hot News Margie
Character: Football Player (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.