John Elliott

John Elliott

Born: July 4, 1876
Died: December 12, 1956
in Keosauqua, Iowa, USA

Movies for John Elliott...

Perils of the Wilderness
Title: Perils of the Wilderness
Character: Homer Lynch
Released: January 6, 1956
Type: Movie
In the 56th (and next-to-last serial) made by Columbia Pictures, Montana Deputy Dan Lawson, posing as an outlaw called Laramie, goes to the Canadian northwest on the trail of Bart Randall who is wanted for murder and bank robbery in the states. In Canada, Randall is a little more upscale and uses a hydra-plane and a fake totem to over-awe the Indians. Laramie is aided in his search by RCMP Sergeant Gray and by Donna Blane, who is suspected at first of giving information to Randall, but who is actually a Canadian secret agent investigating Randall's gun-trading with the Indians.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Doctor
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Title: I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Character: Mr. Lake
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
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Angels' Alley
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: The Judge
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
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The Lady from Shanghai
Title: The Lady from Shanghai
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Heading For Heaven
Title: Heading For Heaven
Character: Hunter
Released: December 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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The Fighting Vigilantes
Title: The Fighting Vigilantes
Character: Bert
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Taylor's men are robbing incoming supply wagons to enable Taylor to sell goods at inflated prices. The Vigilantes led by Frank Jackson are doing the same so the ranchers won't starve. Marshals Lash and Fuzzy arrive to try and find the real culprits.
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Cry Wolf
Title: Cry Wolf
Character: Clergyman (voice / uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Judge Edward R. McVey
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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The Woman on the Beach
Title: The Woman on the Beach
Character: Old Workman (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: Judge
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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Law of the Lash
Title: Law of the Lash
Character: Dad Hilton
Released: February 28, 1947
Type: Movie
When Decker's gang holds up a stage, henchman Lefty takes a lady's rings. Later lefty accidentally exposes the rings buying ammunition and Cheyenne sees them. When Lefty tries to shoot Cheyenne he is captured. Now Cheyenne wants the rest of the gang and their leader.
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The Devil's Mask
Title: The Devil's Mask
Character: John, butler
Released: May 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Brother Hooker (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Laundry Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Sleepy Man (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Moon Over Montana
Title: Moon Over Montana
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely and his sidekick "Lasses" White run into trouble as they attempt to hire some cattle cars on the Cattleman's Railroad to take their herd to market. Rancher Joseph Colton has bought up all the cattle cars and intends to purchase the penniless line from principal stockholder Gywnn Randall. She is eager to sell to Colton but doesn't realize that he intends to force all the ranchers out of business once he has control of the line.
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Frontier Gunlaw
Title: Frontier Gunlaw
Character: Pop Evans
Released: January 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Jim Stewart comes to Mesa City and buys a ranch from publisher Matt Edwards, who is confined to a wheelchair. The area is terrorized by an outlaw gang known as The Phantoms. When Jim's cattle herd is rustled and his ranch foreman Pop Evans killed, he takes an active hand against the gang in his guise as the Durango Kid.
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Allotment Wives
Title: Allotment Wives
Character: Police Doctor
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
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Jungle Raiders
Title: Jungle Raiders
Character: Dr. Horace Moore
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.
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The Monster and the Ape
Title: The Monster and the Ape
Character: Prof. Marsden
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Thomas - the Butler (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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The Great Flamarion
Title: The Great Flamarion
Character: Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
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Experiment Perilous
Title: Experiment Perilous
Character: Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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Wild Horse Phantom
Title: Wild Horse Phantom
Character: Prison Warden
Released: October 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.
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Fuzzy Settles Down
Title: Fuzzy Settles Down
Character: John Martin
Released: June 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Billy Carson and Fuzzy Jones have just collected a reward and Fuzzy indulges in a dream of getting away from the hectic life he has been leading and wants to settle down. They arrive in Red Rock just as the newspaper is being sold at foreclosure and, despite the attempts by Lafe Barlow to intimidate him from bidding. Fuzzy finds himself the owner of a newspaper. Fuzzy meets Edith Martin, daughter of the former owner, and unthinkingly commits himself to carrying on her father's policy of bringing a telegraph line to Red Rock. For reason of his own, Barlow is against this and has his henchmen wage a campaign of terror against the ranchers and citizens. Before long, Billy who had been lazily indifferent to everything connected to Fuzzy and his newspaper, decides to take a hand on the side of the good guys.
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Oklahoma Raiders
Title: Oklahoma Raiders
Character: Judge Clem Masters
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante.
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Calling Dr. Death
Title: Calling Dr. Death
Character: Priest
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Merchant Captain
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Cattle Stampede
Title: Cattle Stampede
Character: George Arnold
Released: August 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are warned in time by Ed Dawson, but Ed is wounded in the getaway. They get a doctor to attend to Ed. The latter tells them there is a range war in progress across the border and that he is looking for men to help make a cattle drive to the rail junction.
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Fighting Valley
Title: Fighting Valley
Character: Frank Burke
Released: August 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Someone has been stealing ore from a valuable smelting mine. One of the independent mine-owners victimized by the crooks is pretty Joan Manning, making the Rangers' mission a bit more pleasant.
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First Comes Courage
Title: First Comes Courage
Character: Norwegian patient
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
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Law of the Saddle
Title: Law of the Saddle
Character: Dan Kirby
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones, Rocky Cameron rides into a small town plagued by cattle rustlers. He can expect no help from the sheriff as he is the head of the rustlers.
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Wolves of the Range
Title: Wolves of the Range
Character: Doctor Lewis
Released: June 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank. When Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money, he is ambushed by Dorn's men, loses his memory, and is jailed for supposedly stealing the money.
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Death Rides the Plains
Title: Death Rides the Plains
Character: James Marshall
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A couple of crooks have repeatedly sold the Circle C Ranch to unsuspecting buyers, whom they summarily rob and kill before signing the papers. Enter Fuzzy Jones, whose cousin Luke was one of the unlucky would-be ranchers, and Rocky Cameron who goes undercover as a fellow outlaw to catch the murderers.
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Raiders of San Joaquin
Title: Raiders of San Joaquin
Character: R.R. Vice President Morgan
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad
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Sagebrush Law
Title: Sagebrush Law
Character: Cole Winters
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
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Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Title: Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Character: Inspector Talbot
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to prevent the building of the road.
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: Uncle Will Hodgins
Released: January 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Wells Fargo hires three cowboys to clean up a lawless town.
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Pirates of the Prairie
Title: Pirates of the Prairie
Character: John Spencer
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the railroad by forcing the townspeople to relinquish their land.
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Overland Stagecoach
Title: Overland Stagecoach
Character: Jeff Clark
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Frontier justice is meted out over the suspicious death of a railroad mogul's partner.
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Border Roundup
Title: Border Roundup
Character: Jeff Sloane
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Prof. Clyde
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Title: The Magnificent Ambersons
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Engineer Kelly (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Come on Danger
Title: Come on Danger
Character: Saunders
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Title: Perils of the Royal Mounted
Character: Factor J. L. Blake
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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The Mad Monster
Title: The Mad Monster
Character: Professor Hatfield
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
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Rolling Down the Great Divide
Title: Rolling Down the Great Divide
Character: Lem Bartlett
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.
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Land of the Open Range
Title: Land of the Open Range
Character: George 'Dad' Cook
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
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Rock River Renegades
Title: Rock River Renegades
Character: Dick Ross
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
In Old Wyoming, a gang is plundering stagecoaches of shipped currency and a crusading newspaper editor is trying to get the local marshal replaced, because of his apparent failure to catch the gang, which seems to disappear into thin air after every robbery. The situation escalates when one of the stage drivers is mortally wounded; so the marshal sends for his friends, the Range Busters, to help him catch the criminals. Meanwhile, even the marshal's fiancee, the editor's daughter, turns against him in favor of an aggressive agitator for law and order - who secretly is leading the robber gang.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
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Billy The Kid's Round-Up
Title: Billy The Kid's Round-Up
Character: Dan Webster
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temporary Sheriff.
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Underground Rustlers
Title: Underground Rustlers
Character: Gold Broker
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.
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Gentleman from Dixie
Title: Gentleman from Dixie
Character: Prosecutor
Released: September 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.
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Saddle Mountain Roundup
Title: Saddle Mountain Roundup
Character: 'Magpie' Harper
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Someone wants to kill Magpie Harper. Crash and Dusty arrive too late, Magpie Harper is allready dead.
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The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Title: The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Character: Rancher Jim Bowen
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
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The Texas Marshal
Title: The Texas Marshal
Character: John Gorham
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.
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Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Title: Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Character: Red Gap Judge (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
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Tumbledown Ranch In Arizona
Title: Tumbledown Ranch In Arizona
Character: Judge Jones
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo contestants Johnny King and Corrigan meet, their fathers having been members of the Range Busters. When Johnny is knocked unconscious, time reverts to their father's era and the Range Busters are soon involved in the scheme to get Railroad right-of-way across Mother Slocum's ranch. When she is tricked into signing a release, the Range Busters find their job more difficult as the Sheriff is in with the crooks.
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The Apache Kid
Title: The Apache Kid
Character: Judge John Taylor
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
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Golden Hoofs
Title: Golden Hoofs
Character: Race Announcer
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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The Kid's Last Ride
Title: The Kid's Last Ride
Character: Disher
Released: February 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon. Harmon and his henchman Bart Gill are in reality wanted-outlaw brothers Jim and Ike Breedon seeking revenge against Jimmy and his school-teaching sister Sally as their father, a circuit judge in Nebraska, had sentenced their brother Bud to be hanged. Harmon involves Jimmy, because of his gambling debts, in a robbery of a rancher known to keep large amounts of money at his ranch. The Range Busters break up the robbery, Bart is killed, as is Rancher Fleming, and Jimmy is wounded but escapes. Harmon, setting a trap for Crash, tricks Sally and Jimmy to his hideout, and Crash follows them.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Brewster
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: Army Doctor
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Pop - Stage Doorman
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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The Tulsa Kid
Title: The Tulsa Kid
Character: Judge Perkins
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A protegee of notorious outlaw Montana (Beery), young Tom Benton decides to stay on the good side of the Law upon reaching maturity. Montana, however, has no such inclination to reform, the result being a climactic gun duel between the ageing gunman and his former pupil.
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Gun Code
Title: Gun Code
Character: Parson A. Hammond
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
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Lightning Strikes West
Title: Lightning Strikes West
Character: Dr. Jenkins
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's boot. Joe Laikon and his men are also after the gold and they overpower Morgan, get the map, and head for the treasure. But Morgan and Tod Grant are soon on their trail
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Scientist (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Juror
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Death Rides the Range
Title: Death Rides the Range
Character: Hiram Crabtree
Released: December 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave. Investigating his death, Ken and his friends encounter a land dispute between a pair of neighboring ranches, an arrogant German baron and a mysterious shack that houses a great secret.
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The Invisible Killer
Title: The Invisible Killer
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Doctor - Backstage
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 Fighting Renegade
Title: The Fighting Renegade
Character: Prospector
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian, the professor's niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. The professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie, a Federal Investigator, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill' Carson, a former federal agent who has been missing since Marian's father was slain. The reluctant Magpie believes that his old pal is guilty. Carson sets out to prove otherwise.
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Port of Hate
Title: Port of Hate
Character: Stevens
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
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New Frontier
Title: New Frontier
Character: Townsman
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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Mesquite Buckaroo
Title: Mesquite Buckaroo
Character: Tavern Owner Hawk
Released: April 30, 1939
Type: Movie
It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Banker at Demo
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Mystery Plane
Title: Mystery Plane
Character: Army Colonel
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Judge Mathews
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Cal
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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Songs and Saddles
Title: Songs and Saddles
Character: Sheriff John Lawton
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An old rancher's property sites smack-dab on the site where a new highway is to be built, although he doesn't know it. Someone else does, however, and is determined to force the old man off his property in order to get the ranch for himself. The rancher's foster son returns home to help the old man keep his property and find out who is behind the scheme to take it from him.
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Songs and Bullets
Title: Songs and Bullets
Character: Man in gun fight (archive footage)
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
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Heart of Arizona
Title: Heart of Arizona
Character: Buck Peters
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.
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Frontier Town
Title: Frontier Town
Character: Prairie City Rodeo Announcer
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.
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Cassidy of Bar 20
Title: Cassidy of Bar 20
Character: Tom Dillon
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
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Headin' East
Title: Headin' East
Character: M.H. Benson
Released: December 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
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The Shadow Strikes
Title: The Shadow Strikes
Character: Chester Randall
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: Mr. Grant McKenzie
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Flying Fists
Title: Flying Fists
Character: Jim Conrad
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
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Smoke Tree Range
Title: Smoke Tree Range
Character: Jim Cary
Released: June 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A cowboy aids an orphaned girl whose cattle are being rustled by an outlaw gang.
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Santa Fe Rides
Title: Santa Fe Rides
Character: Carlton
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
The Transcontinental Broadcasting Company sends a sound truck and equipment to a ranch to obtain an audition from "Santa Fe" Evans and his musical cowboys (Oscar Gahan, Lloyd Perryman, Robert "Curley" Hoag, Rudy Sooter and Sherry Tansey.) Carver, arch enemy of Evans and a rival for the love of Carol Sheldon, fails in an attempt to spoil the audition. Carver frames Mr. Sheldon and Carol's brother Buddy on a charge, by Al Jensen, of receiving cattle stolen from him by Evans. Carver blames Evans for all of the Sheldon's troubles and, what with one thing or another, it looks like Evans and his cowhands will miss the big broadcast.
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Rio Grande Ranger
Title: Rio Grande Ranger
Character: John Cullen
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent across the border where he poses as an outlaw hoping to lure the gang back into Texas. He gets into Sayres' gang displacing the gang boss but the disgruntled ex-boss is able to expose the hoax and Bob is made a prisoner.
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Pilot X
Title: Pilot X
Character: Doctor Norris
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
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The Phantom of the Range
Title: The Phantom of the Range
Character: Rancher
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A man has died leaving a fortune somewhere on his ranch. Brandon and his cohorts think a map is hidden in a picture frame. But when they bid on the picture at the auction, newcomer Jerry Lane outbids them. He also buys the ranch so they place their housekeeper there to get the picture. And then to keep Jerry out of the way, they frame him for murder.
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Vengeance of Rannah
Title: Vengeance of Rannah
Character: Doc Adams
Released: November 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Insurance Agent Ted Sanders has been called in to investigate a robbery and murder. A deputy also arrives to investigate. But unknown to Ted, the Deputy is a fake and actually part of the gang. The fake plants some of the money in Ted's room so he can arrest him. Then with the help of the gang he plans to finish Ted off.
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The Fugitive Sheriff
Title: The Fugitive Sheriff
Character: Judge Roberts
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
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Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Title: Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Character: Colonel Hayden
Released: October 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Fighter "Scotty" McQuade, contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the Pacific Coast,after being duped by his manager Ted Todd and fight-promoter Lew Slater, is disgusted with the fight game and decides to go back to punching cattle. He gets a job on the ranch owned by Colonel Hayden, where he once again encounters Slater, who has a crooked deal going that will cause Hayden to lose his ranch. With the aid of the Colonel's daughter, Betty Rose, and his pal "Frozen-Face" Cohen, McQuade breaks jail on a framed charge and puts an end to Slater's crooked dealings.
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Frontier Justice
Title: Frontier Justice
Character: Ben Livesay
Released: October 1, 1936
Type: Movie
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range. When Wilton kills a rancher, Brent is blamed and jailed. Escaping jail he gets Ware to confess that he payed to have Halston committed. He then gets unexpected help from Ethel Gordon when Wilton tries to foreclose.
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Men of the Plains
Title: Men of the Plains
Character: Dad Baxter
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The Government sends Dean, Baxter, and Gordon to investigate a series of train holdups. Travis is behind the robberies and they are soon on his trail. When things get hot, Travis has a plan of double-crossing his own men that will enable him to keep not only his gold but also the money it is insured for.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: City Fathers Committee Member (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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Kelly of the Secret Service
Title: Kelly of the Secret Service
Character: Howard Walsh
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A secret apparatus that controls bombs by remote control is stolen from a laboratory. A federal agent is assigned to recover it, and his investigation leads him to a creepy mansion that is honeycombed with secret passage ways.
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Prison Shadows
Title: Prison Shadows
Character: The Police Captain
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
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The Rogues' Tavern
Title: The Rogues' Tavern
Character: Mr. Jamison
Released: June 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
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Avenging Waters
Title: Avenging Waters
Character: Charles Mortimer
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Mortimer builds a fence for the cattle brought by Ken Morley. To retaliate, Slater who wants access to the land, builds a dam cutting off Mortimer's water supply. When Ken confronts Slater, he is captured. Then lightning destroys the dam and Ken, imprisoned in a shack, is in the path of the oncoming water.
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Roamin' Wild
Title: Roamin' Wild
Character: Chief Inspector Reed
Released: April 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's brother is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his brother's place. Learning that Clark is behind the all the trouble and that he is after the Madison stage line, Tom joins up with Mary Madison to fight Clark while he also looks for his missing brother.
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Doughnuts and Society
Title: Doughnuts and Society
Character: Sanders (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
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The Millionaire Kid
Title: The Millionaire Kid
Character: Yellerton
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs away from home. The private detective assigned to watch him tells Mrs. Neville he has been kidnapped. She immediately suspects her husband. Meanwhile, Tommy is selling newspapers in another city. He is attacked by a bully, and is rescued by gangster Terry Mallon and his daughter Kitty. Unaware of his identity, they take him to their beach home. Reporter Breezy Benson is sent to interview Mrs. Neville about the divorce, and is fired when she won't talk to him. He meets Kitty at the beach and is intrigued by her. He meets her father, who is curious but not suspicious as news of the alleged kidnapping has not been reported.
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A Face in the Fog
Title: A Face in the Fog
Character: Detective Davis
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
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Roarin' Guns
Title: Roarin' Guns
Character: Bob Morgan
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.
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Bulldog Courage
Title: Bulldog Courage
Character: Judge Charley Miller
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
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Skull and Crown
Title: Skull and Crown
Character: John Norton
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.
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Trigger Tom
Title: Trigger Tom
Character: Nord Jergensen
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Tom Hilton and Stub Macey are heading to the Jergenson ranch to buy his cattle. But Jeckyl and Sheriff Slater control the cattle market forcing the ranchers to buy at their price and they intend to keep the newcomers out.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Doctor Attending Ford (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Midnight Phantom
Title: Midnight Phantom
Character: Capt. Bill Withers
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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The Rider of the Law
Title: The Rider of the Law
Character: Town Mayor
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing as an Eastern dude, and, through a series of incidents manages to get rid of three of the brothers, mostly through their own ineptness. The remaining brothers decide to get-while-the-gettin'-is good, rob the bank and head for the Mexican border. But Bob isn't far behind.
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Bars of Hate
Title: Bars of Hate
Character: The Sheriff
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Ted Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves her brother, who is on death row, is innocent and Jim Grant is the guilty party. Ted and Danny help her escape from Grant's henchmen. They have several narrow escapes while on their way to give the proof to the Governor.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Police Captain
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Danger Trails
Title: Danger Trails
Character: George Wilson - aka Pecos
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A football star grown up in the East goes West in order to meet his father. He discovers that his parent and his three half-brothers are now notorious outlaws .
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Captain Matthews
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.
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Trails of the Wild
Title: Trails of the Wild
Character: Tom Madison
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
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Make a Million
Title: Make a Million
Character: Dean
Released: July 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.
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Rainbow's End
Title: Rainbow's End
Character: Adam Ware
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all because of the father's crooked partner.
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Captured in Chinatown
Title: Captured in Chinatown
Character: Butler--City Editor
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
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Saddle Aces
Title: Saddle Aces
Character: Judge
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two prisoners, Steve Brandt and Nick Montana, chained to each other, escape by jumping from the train that brought them to the penitentiary. Persued, they hide in the carriage with Jane Langton. Arriving at her ranch, they discover that she is fighting against a Pete Sutton, who wants to take her pasture. Not wanting to confront, Sutton offers the two escapees help by assisting them move to Mexico.
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What Price Crime
Title: What Price Crime
Character: Chief Radcliff
Released: May 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.
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Fighting Pioneers
Title: Fighting Pioneers
Character: Major Dent
Released: May 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Driving off an Indian attack, the soldiers capture one of the Indian rifles only to learn that it came from their own warehouse. With Lieutenant Bentley and Sergeant Luke having the only keys to the guns, Bentley finds himself under suspicion and starts to investigate.
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Toll of the Desert
Title: Toll of the Desert
Character: Judge
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When his family is killed by Indians, a bitter cowboy turns into a ruthless hired gunman. Unbeknownst to him, his son had survived the attack, and is now a lawman. The son, not knowing that the killer is his father, is assigned to bring him to justice.
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Tombstone Terror
Title: Tombstone Terror
Character: Mr. Dixon
Released: April 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Jimmy Dixon, pursued by a band of Mexicans, changes clothes with a tramp, who takes off on his horse. Four miles later, Jimmy walks onto the Double-O Ranch, from which he had been thrown off four years before by his dad, who had blamed Jimmy for something that his twin brother Duke had done. Duke, home from college, took over the ranch when Mr. Dixon became ill, and has run it into the ground. When Duke goes to the bank to repay a debt to Jimmy, he rides onto Phoenix with all of the ranch money.
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Wagon Trail
Title: Wagon Trail
Character: Judge
Released: April 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret head. Sheriff Hartley suspects him, but has been unable to gather the needed evidence. Collins instructs his gang, including young Hartley, to hold up the stagecoach on its return trip from Missionary Flats and take the cargo of gold dust it is carrying. Sheriff Hartley is notified of the planned holdup by one of his deputies who has been spying on Collins, and organizes a posse. A deputy-sheriff is killed in the ensuing gunfight between the lawmen and the outlaws, but Deputy Joe Larkin, pursues and captures Clay Hartley Jr. The latter is quickly tried and convicted of the killing of the deputy, and sentenced to be hung. Sheriff Hartley has only a few hours to prove his son was not the killer. He enlists the aid of Collins' step-daughter, Joan, who is in love with Hartley's son.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Third Drunk
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
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Sunset Range
Title: Sunset Range
Character: Dan Caswell
Released: April 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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One in a Million
Title: One in a Million
Character: Store Manager
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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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Rusty Hicks
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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Kid Courageous
Title: Kid Courageous
Character: High-Hat Clickett
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
The man Bannister has sent to investigate the trouble at his mine has disappeared. This time his son Bob goes, quickly learning that Kincade is the culprit. Kincade has been taking gold from the mine and now plans to kidnap Teresa and skip across the border.
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Ticket to a Crime
Title: Ticket to a Crime
Character: Mr. Davidson
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
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Cowboy Holiday
Title: Cowboy Holiday
Character: Sheriff Hank Simpson
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Buck's friend Sheriff Simpson is after the Juarez Kid. Buck knows the Kid and the Sheriff's description does not fit. Buck then meets a one time outlaw who is now the Sheriff's deputy and thinks he is posing as the Kid. When a rancher is killed by the supposed Kid, Buck has a plan utilizing the real Juarez's Kid's ranch that will trap him.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Bill - Night Editor
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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The Third Sex
Title: The Third Sex
Character: John Grant
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
An exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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A Lost Lady
Title: A Lost Lady
Character: Bridge Player (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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The Murder in the Museum
Title: The Murder in the Museum
Character: Detective Chief Snell
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: Country Doctor
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Advertiser
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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Carolina
Title: Carolina
Character: Gen. Robert E. Lee
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
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Sons of the Desert
Title: Sons of the Desert
Character: Exalted Ruler (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Crenshaw
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Politician
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Bank Director (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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The Gallant Fool
Title: The Gallant Fool
Character: Chris McDonald
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
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Breed of the Border
Title: Breed of the Border
Character: Judge Stafford
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds. Brent's old friend Chuck arrives and the two head out to find the gang and recover the bonds.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Lucky Larrigan
Title: Lucky Larrigan
Character: J. C. Bailey
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Hank (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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The Man from Arizona
Title: The Man from Arizona
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Real Estate Agent (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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Broadway to Cheyenne
Title: Broadway to Cheyenne
Character: Martin Kildare
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
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Week Ends Only
Title: Week Ends Only
Character: Bartender
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
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Texas Pioneers
Title: Texas Pioneers
Character: Colonel Thomas
Released: May 18, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to find out who is smuggling guns to the Indians, an army officer pretends to have been demoted and hold a grudge against the army, hoping that the smugglers will try to contact him and take him into their gang.
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Riders of the Desert
Title: Riders of the Desert
Character: Dad Houston
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride. They go after the outlaw gang led by Hashknife. They catch Hashknife, but he escapes taking Barbara with him and Bob and Slim have to go after him again.
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Vanishing Men
Title: Vanishing Men
Character: Heck Claiborne
Released: April 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
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Single-Handed Sanders
Title: Single-Handed Sanders
Character: Senator Graham
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Tom Tyler plays a small-town blacksmith, whose reckless younger brother casts his lot with a crooked politician. When brother dear steals $5000 from heroine Margaret Morris, Tyler gallantly confesses to the deed. He eventually clears himself by rallying his fellow frontiersmen to form a united front against the villains (guess he's not so "single-handed" after all).
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Thornton
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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Galloping Thru
Title: Galloping Thru
Character: Mr Winton
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down in front of him.
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: Mr Cameron
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: Indian Agent
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
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The Montana Kid
Title: The Montana Kid
Character: Burke
Released: August 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
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Mother and Son
Title: Mother and Son
Character: Mr. Winfield
Released: July 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.
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The Nevada Buckaroo
Title: The Nevada Buckaroo
Character: Station Agent Brennan
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
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A Holy Terror
Title: A Holy Terror
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
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Dugan of the Badlands
Title: Dugan of the Badlands
Character: Sheriff Manning
Released: June 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Bill Dugan befriends an orphaned boy; the pair help a sheriff bring his crooked deputy to justice.
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God's Country and the Man
Title: God's Country and the Man
Character: Young
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A government agent is sent to a tough frontier town to arrest & bring back one of the most ruthless criminals in the region.
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Laugh and Get Rich
Title: Laugh and Get Rich
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1931
Type: Movie
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Capt. Wilkins
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
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The Widow from Chicago
Title: The Widow from Chicago
Character: Detective T. Finnegan (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
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Let's Go Native
Title: Let's Go Native
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: McGann
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
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Wild Company
Title: Wild Company
Character: Police Captain
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Hot Springs Hotel Baggage Clerk
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
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The Rampant Age
Title: The Rampant Age
Character: Arnold Benton
Released: January 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy Sandy Benton falls for pretty but decidedly less wealthy neighbor Doris Lawrence. She rebuffs his attentions, but scheming golddigger Estelle has her own plans for Sandy. When Doris hears about Sandy's wild times with Estelle, she sets out to show him that she, too, can be a "modern" woman.
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Million Dollar Mystery
Title: Million Dollar Mystery
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Horse Shoes
Title: Horse Shoes
Character: William Baker
Released: April 17, 1927
Type: Movie
A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
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Christine of the Big Tops
Title: Christine of the Big Tops
Character: Dr. Hastings
Released: August 20, 1926
Type: Movie
When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
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The Scarlet Streak
Title: The Scarlet Streak
Character: Professor Richard Crawford
Released: December 20, 1925
Type: Movie
A group steals a death ray in order to terrorise the world into peace. The inventor and his daughter try to retrieve the death ray with the aid of a government agent.
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Flaming Waters
Title: Flaming Waters
Character: Justin Laidlaw (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
After several years' absence, the young sailor Dan O'Neill returns to his hometown. He quickly discovers that his mother has been cheated out of her life savings by slick oil speculator Jasper Thorne and is now working as a charwoman. Dan tries to avenge his mother's loss by swindling the swindler.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Bill Wheaton
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Are All Men Alike?
Title: Are All Men Alike?
Character: Uncle Chandler
Released: November 8, 1920
Type: Movie
In this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her childhood sweetheart, Gerry West (Wallace MacDonald) takes her to a Greenwich Village cafe, she thinks she's found where she belongs. So she spends all her time there and gets herself in a load of trouble.
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Homer Comes Home
Title: Homer Comes Home
Character: Mr. Bailly
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.