Francis Sayles

Francis Sayles

Born: November 22, 1891
Died: March 19, 1944
in Buffalo, New York, USA
Francis Sayles was born on November 22, 1891 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Legion (1937), The Purple Vigilantes (1938) and Midnight Phantom (1935). He died on March 19, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Movies for Francis Sayles...

Moonlight in Vermont
Title: Moonlight in Vermont
Character: Dr. Stubbs
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Stooge
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Bailiff
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Heckler
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Seedy-Looking Man at Campaign Headquarters (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Cab Driver (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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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Clerk
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Title: The Mystery of Marie Roget
Character: Parisian
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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Alias Boston Blackie
Title: Alias Boston Blackie
Character: Laundry Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
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Sunset on the Desert
Title: Sunset on the Desert
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Ben Freeman
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Court Clerk
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Show Spectator
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Dr. Banks
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Politician (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Man-Made Monster
Title: Man-Made Monster
Character: Frank Davis (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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One Crowded Night
Title: One Crowded Night
Character: Jasper, Postman
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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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Title: Riders of Pasco Basin
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Second Cab Driver
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Man Reporting Roy Alive
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Riders of Black River
Title: Riders of Black River
Character: Doc Josh Greene
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
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Overland with Kit Carson
Title: Overland with Kit Carson
Character: Dr. Parker
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Railwayman (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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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: President James A. Garfield
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Stage Shotgun Guard (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Boatman Taking Madame Lucien to Mainland
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Member of Chamber of Commerce
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: Renault (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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The Purple Vigilantes
Title: The Purple Vigilantes
Character: Wiliam Jones
Released: January 24, 1938
Type: Movie
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Townsman
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Waiter
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Martin - Houseman (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Title: Make Way for Tomorrow
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Charlie
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Alibi for Murder
Title: Alibi for Murder
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Barber (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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Midnight Phantom
Title: Midnight Phantom
Character: Police Surgeon Kelly
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
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One in a Million
Title: One in a Million
Character: Mr. Dickman
Released: March 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
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Bum Voyage
Title: Bum Voyage
Character: Madame Zaza's Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
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Girl Missing
Title: Girl Missing
Character: Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
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Blonde Venus
Title: Blonde Venus
Character: Charlie Blaine (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Strangers of the Evening
Title: Strangers of the Evening
Character: Roberts
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.