Wally Vernon

Wally Vernon

Born: May 27, 1905
Died: March 7, 1970

Movies for Wally Vernon...

What a Way to Go!
Title: What a Way to Go!
Character: Agent
Released: October 12, 1964
Type: Movie
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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The White Squaw
Title: The White Squaw
Character: Faro Bill
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
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Come on Seven
Title: Come on Seven
Character: Wally
Released: February 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Wally and Eddie are on their way to Reno to win enough money to pay for a little boy's operation. On the way, their car is stolen by two girls and they are beaten up by the girl's boyfriends. They win a lot of money in Reno, but have to fight their way through a free-for-all with two amazons in order to keep it.
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Fury at Gunsight Pass
Title: Fury at Gunsight Pass
Character: Okay, Okay
Released: February 15, 1956
Type: Movie
An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.
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He Took a Powder
Title: He Took a Powder
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Wally leaves his wife.
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Nobody's Home
Title: Nobody's Home
Released: June 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The boys unknowingly purchase the same house.
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His Pest Friend
Title: His Pest Friend
Released: January 20, 1955
Type: Movie
The boys install a television aerial.
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Doggie in the Bedroom
Title: Doggie in the Bedroom
Released: January 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Eddie visits, with his annoying kids.
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A-Hunting They Did Go
Title: A-Hunting They Did Go
Released: October 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Wally and Eddie go on a hunting trip.
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Affair with a Stranger
Title: Affair with a Stranger
Character: Joe, Taxi Driver
Released: June 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Nicholas Joy, Lillian Bronson and George Cleveland.
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He Popped His Pistol
Title: He Popped His Pistol
Released: May 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Vernon and Eddie run a shoe-store.
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Strop, Look and Listen
Title: Strop, Look and Listen
Released: December 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Eddie and Wally are barbers.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Title: Bloodhounds of Broadway
Character: Harry 'Poorly' Sammis
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
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What Price Glory
Title: What Price Glory
Character: Lipinsky
Released: August 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
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Heebie Gee-Gees
Title: Heebie Gee-Gees
Character: Wally
Released: April 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan, each in trouble with their respective spouse, spend the day at the race track. When they accidentally bet on the wrong horse rather than the one they had picked, they hit a long-shot winner. But their more-than-irate wives show up before they can collect their winnings, and the only winner is Big Dan, the bookie.
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A Fool and His Honey
Title: A Fool and His Honey
Character: Wally
Released: January 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Wally suspects Eddie of having more than a friendly interest in Wally's wife, and his suspicions, he thinks, are confirmed when he finds Eddie in his apartment. Eddie has a logical reason for being there, but Wally won't listen and the chase is on.
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Fun on the Run
Title: Fun on the Run
Released: May 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Wally and Eddie head for Reno, Nevada to get jobs.
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He Flew the Shrew
Title: He Flew the Shrew
Released: January 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Comedy short.
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Holiday Rhythm
Title: Holiday Rhythm
Character: Klaxon
Released: October 30, 1950
Type: Movie
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
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Border Rangers
Title: Border Rangers
Character: Hungry Hicks
Released: October 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Don Barry stars as Texas Ranger Bob Standish, sworn to avenge his brother's death in Border Rangers. To achieve his goal, Standish goes undercover, joining the bandit gang.
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Train To Tombstone
Title: Train To Tombstone
Character: Clifton Gulliver
Released: September 16, 1950
Type: Movie
One of the passengers on a train to Tombstone decides to rob it of the $250,000 it is carrying.
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Gunfire
Title: Gunfire
Character: Clem
Released: August 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his family but a look-a-like outlaw causes suspicion to fall back on him.
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I Shot Billy the Kid
Title: I Shot Billy the Kid
Character: Vicente
Released: July 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.
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House About It
Title: House About It
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Wally and his family and Eddie and his family all wind up living in the same house. Complications ensue.
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Beauty on Parade
Title: Beauty on Parade
Character: Sam Short
Released: May 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.
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Always Leave Them Laughing
Title: Always Leave Them Laughing
Character: Wally Vernon - Comic
Released: November 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
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Let Down Your Aerial
Title: Let Down Your Aerial
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Eddie buys a new TV set and Wally offers to help him put up his roof antenna.
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Square Dance Jubilee
Title: Square Dance Jubilee
Character: Seldom Sam Jenks
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
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He Walked by Night
Title: He Walked by Night
Character: Postman (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1949
Type: Movie
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Title: Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Released: December 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kids.
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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Title: Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: September 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
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Behind Locked Doors
Title: Behind Locked Doors
Character: Maintenance Man (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
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Crabbin' in the Cabin
Title: Crabbin' in the Cabin
Released: May 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Wally and Eddie's hunting trip is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of their wives.
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Title: Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Character: Archie Stone
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
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Stagecoach to Monterey
Title: Stagecoach to Monterey
Character: Throckmorton 'Other-Hand' Snodgrass
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Barstow and Stevens are forcing the local printer to print fake silver certificates which they then sell. Treasury Agents Chick Weaver and Throckmorton Snodgrass arrive working under cover. But when Chick's true identity as an Agent is revealed, Barstow sends his henchmen to finish him off.
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Silver City Kid
Title: Silver City Kid
Character: Wildcat Higgens
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A landowner tries to drink his neighbor's molybdenum milkshake and winds up having him killed. It's up to Allan Lane to find out what happened and apprehend the culprits.
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Silent Partner
Title: Silent Partner
Character: Room Service Waiter
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
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Call of the South Seas
Title: Call of the South Seas
Character: Handsome
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
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Outlaws of Santa Fe
Title: Outlaws of Santa Fe
Character: Buckshot Peters
Released: April 4, 1944
Type: Movie
After bank robber Bob Hackett (Don "Red" Barry) learns that his real father was a marshal, he reforms and travels with his pal Buckshot (Wally Vernon) to Santa Fe, where his father was killed. When he stands up to rustlers working for Henry Jackson (Herbert Heyes), Hackett is made the new marshal.
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California Joe
Title: California Joe
Character: Tumbleweed Smith
Released: December 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.
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Pistol Packin' Mama
Title: Pistol Packin' Mama
Character: The Joker
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters oust a gambler from the Big Apple. In need of quick cash, he goes to Las Vegas and enters a casino owned by a tough but pretty young woman. Cheating like crazy, the gambler breaks the house back and takes his considerable winnings back to New York to open his own casino. The woman is in hot pursuit and eagerly plans to turn the tables in her favor.
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Canyon City
Title: Canyon City
Character: Beauty Bradshaw
Released: November 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, robberies, and threats to destroy their new power dam in the first days of electrification of the wild west.
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Here Comes Elmer
Title: Here Comes Elmer
Character: Wally
Released: November 15, 1943
Type: Movie
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.
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The Man from the Rio Grande
Title: The Man from the Rio Grande
Character: Jimpson Simpson
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
The suspicious death of Henry King during a hunting trip with his brother John leaves the inheritance of the rich Santa Rita Ranch to be shared with John, Henry's daughter Doris and a young girl from New York, Twinkle Watts. King says that a son, Henry King Jr., who left home as a young boy was killed in a Texas gunfight. - Written by Les Adams
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A Scream in the Dark
Title: A Scream in the Dark
Character: Klousky
Released: October 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
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Black Hills Express
Title: Black Hills Express
Character: Deputy Deadeye
Released: August 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces to uncover the real robbers, unaware that a U.S. Marshal assigned to the case and the Mayor of the town which is at the center of the robberies, are the leaders of the gang.
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Fugitive from Sonora
Title: Fugitive from Sonora
Character: Jack Pot Murphy
Released: June 30, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, a paroled desperado and his twin, a preacher, wander about the Old West to bring "salvation." The parson begins trying to help a gang leader's niece whose uncle has been forcing parolees to join him or return to prison. Naturally he tries to rope the paroled twin into his gang.
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Tahiti Honey
Title: Tahiti Honey
Character: Maxie
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Stomp McCoy (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Goofer
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Elmer
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Seaman
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
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Chasing Danger
Title: Chasing Danger
Character: Waldo Winkle [AFI Name: Waldo Rohrbeck]
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Joey, the Jinx
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Chick
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Sharpshooters
Title: Sharpshooters
Character: Waldo
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
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Meet the Girls
Title: Meet the Girls
Character: Delbert Jones
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Wally Vernon
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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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Gus Bryce
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Happy Landing
Title: Happy Landing
Character: Al Mahoney
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
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This Way Please
Title: This Way Please
Character: Bumps
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: Jerry
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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Mountain Music
Title: Mountain Music
Character: Odette Potta
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.