Dudley Dickerson

Dudley Dickerson

Born: November 27, 1906
Died: September 23, 1968
in Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA

Movies for Dudley Dickerson...

Spy Smasher Returns
Title: Spy Smasher Returns
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
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The Alligator People
Title: The Alligator People
Character: Porter
Released: July 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
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Pardon My Nightshirt
Title: Pardon My Nightshirt
Released: November 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Professor Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit prowling the college campus.
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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Scheming Schemers
Title: Scheming Schemers
Character: Cook (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight.
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Hook a Crook
Title: Hook a Crook
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur coat was the thief. They, instead, encounter a gorilla.
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Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
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One Spooky Night
Title: One Spooky Night
Character: Wilbert
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Fraidy-cat Andy is assigned to demolish a haunted house.
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Booty And The Beast
Title: Booty And The Beast
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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One Shivery Night
Title: One Shivery Night
Character: Julius
Released: July 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Julius away.
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Peggy
Title: Peggy
Character: Redcap
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
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Vagabond Loafers
Title: Vagabond Loafers
Character: The Cook
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
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It's a Great Feeling
Title: It's a Great Feeling
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: Horatio
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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Microspook
Title: Microspook
Released: June 9, 1949
Type: Movie
As a publicity gimmick, Harry has to announce his radio show from a real haunted house.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Janitor
Released: March 3, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Bootblack (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Title: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Character: Dudley
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.
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Here Comes Trouble
Title: Here Comes Trouble
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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Should Husbands Marry?
Title: Should Husbands Marry?
Character: Doorman
Released: November 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
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Hold That Lion!
Title: Hold That Lion!
Character: Pullman Porter
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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Nervous Shakedown
Title: Nervous Shakedown
Released: March 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh and Dudley stay at Dr. Flint's Sanitarium, unaware that two escaped convicts are using the place for a hideout.
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Meet Mr. Mischief
Title: Meet Mr. Mischief
Character: Cyril - Radio Station Janitor
Released: January 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
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Meet Mr. Mischief
Title: Meet Mr. Mischief
Character: Jason Perkins
Released: January 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
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Dangerous Money
Title: Dangerous Money
Character: Big Ben
Released: October 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
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Pardon My Terror
Title: Pardon My Terror
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Redcap (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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Get Along, Little Zombie
Title: Get Along, Little Zombie
Released: May 9, 1946
Type: Movie
There's a monster running around loose in the house Hugh is showing to two prospective clients.
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Low Down Dog
Title: Low Down Dog
Released: March 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A Soundie featuring Meade (Lux) Lewis and Dudley Dickerson [with Avanelle Harris, Leonald Bluett].
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A Gem of a Jam
Title: A Gem of a Jam
Character: Watchman
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
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Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Title: Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Character: Valet
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Bullfiddle Player
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Jackson
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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His Wedding Scare
Title: His Wedding Scare
Character: Pullman Train Porter
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
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They Stooge to Conga
Title: They Stooge to Conga
Character: Wilbur - the Cook (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Sock-a-Bye Baby
Title: Sock-a-Bye Baby
Character: Roadside Worker (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Spy Smasher
Title: Spy Smasher
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Dining Car Waiter (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Cow-Cow Boogie
Title: Cow-Cow Boogie
Character: Cowboy
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Man Who Came to Dinner
Character: Porter at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: Laundryman (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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Some More of Samoa
Title: Some More of Samoa
Character: Native Cook (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
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All-American Co-Ed
Title: All-American Co-Ed
Character: Dancing Porter
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Hotel Janitor (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Murder by Invitation
Title: Murder by Invitation
Character: Bob's Servant (Uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1941
Type: Movie
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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Criminals Within
Title: Criminals Within
Character: Sam Dillingham
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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The Ring and the Belle
Title: The Ring and the Belle
Character: Barber Shop Assistant
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Member at Ball
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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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Waiter
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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From Nurse to Worse
Title: From Nurse to Worse
Character: Crematorium Orderly (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
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His Bridal Fright
Title: His Bridal Fright
Character: Sam
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
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You're Next!
Title: You're Next!
Character: Sam
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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A Plumbing We Will Go
Title: A Plumbing We Will Go
Character: The Cook
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion, but they wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.
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At the Circus
Title: At the Circus
Character: Singer / Dancer - 'Swingali' (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: Black Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Sam
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Chauffeur
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Wide Open Faces
Title: Wide Open Faces
Character: Shoe Shine Man
Released: April 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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The Adventurous Blonde
Title: The Adventurous Blonde
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Engine Room Singer (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Spooky Hooky
Title: Spooky Hooky
Character: Sam, the Janitor
Released: December 24, 1936
Type: Movie
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was going on a field trip to the circus anyway.
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The Sport Parade
Title: The Sport Parade
Character: Night Club Dancer (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.