Jack Kennedy

Jack Kennedy

Born: February 4, 1888
Died: May 27, 1964
in Comanche, Texas, USA

Movies for Jack Kennedy...

The Underdog
Title: The Underdog
Character: Officer O'Toole
Released: October 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Second Theatrical Agent in Montage (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Ape
Title: The Ape
Character: Dep. Archie Tomlin
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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Doomed to Die
Title: Doomed to Die
Character: Police Sgt. Casey (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Stationmaster
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: Mike
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Cop at Oriental Bazaar
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Mounted Policeman
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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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Sgt. Brady
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Streets of New York
Title: Streets of New York
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Police Guard
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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I Am a Criminal
Title: I Am a Criminal
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
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Gangster's Boy
Title: Gangster's Boy
Character: Sergeant
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
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Romance of the Limberlost
Title: Romance of the Limberlost
Character: Abner
Released: June 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Sandy (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Born to the West
Title: Born to the West
Character: Sheriff Pete Starr (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Captain of Flying Swan (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Mahoney (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Mike
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Watchman
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Pop Wilson
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Mr. Jenner
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Bar Proprietor
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Hansen
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Title: Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Character: Mike - Saloon Owner
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
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He Couldn't Take It
Title: He Couldn't Take It
Character: Driscoll
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
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Skyway
Title: Skyway
Character: Police Desk Sergeant
Released: August 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
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College Humor
Title: College Humor
Character: Police Captain
Released: July 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Patty Kilbane
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
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McKenna of the Mounted
Title: McKenna of the Mounted
Character: Wiley - Banker
Released: August 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Mike O'Flaherty, Guard
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Gilligan
Released: March 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Admiral
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Skyline
Title: Skyline
Character: Kearny
Released: October 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.