Eddie Sturgis

Eddie Sturgis

Born: October 22, 1881
Died: December 13, 1947
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Movies for Eddie Sturgis...

Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Second Juror #3 (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Rat Face (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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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Farmer
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Stolen Harmony
Title: Stolen Harmony
Character: Musician (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Gambler
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Janitor
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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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: 2nd Gunman
Released: June 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
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Hell Bent for Love
Title: Hell Bent for Love
Character: Major Dawson
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Bright-Eyes
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Bandit (Uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
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The Squealer
Title: The Squealer
Character: The Killer
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
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Shooting Straight
Title: Shooting Straight
Character: Spike
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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Sharp Tools
Title: Sharp Tools
Released: September 12, 1928
Type: Movie
The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.
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Fazil
Title: Fazil
Character: Rice
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Skeeter's Driver
Released: February 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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After Midnight
Title: After Midnight
Character: Red Smith
Released: August 20, 1927
Type: Movie
When Joe, a hold-up man, tries to rob Mary, a nightclub hostess, she winds winds up knocking him out. She takes pity on him, however, and nurses him back to health. He decides to go straight and marry her. Mary buys a $1000 Liberty Bond as an investment, while Joe saves up and buys a taxi to start his own business. Then Maisie, Mary's wild and money-crazy sister, shows up, which leads to tragedy.
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Let It Rain
Title: Let It Rain
Character: Crook (as Edwin Sturgis)
Released: February 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
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The Blackbird
Title: The Blackbird
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Released: October 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Ponjola
Title: Ponjola
Character: Native Tribesman (as Edwin Sturges)
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
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Legally Dead
Title: Legally Dead
Character: Jake Dorr
Released: July 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A man faces being hanged for a crime he didn't commit
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The Deep Purple
Title: The Deep Purple
Character: Skinny
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Doris Moore is a country girl who is conned by two crooks, Harry Leland and Pop Clark. They convince the naive girl to come with them to New York City and play the badger game on William Lake. But the intervention of Kate Fallon, who runs the gang's New York home, saves the innocent and traps the guilty. Instead of tricking Lake, Doris marries him.
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The Oakdale Affair
Title: The Oakdale Affair
Character: Dopey Charlie
Released: October 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway.
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The Dark Star
Title: The Dark Star
Character: 'Parson' Smalley
Released: August 3, 1919
Type: Movie
A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications...
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One of the Finest
Title: One of the Finest
Character: Gus Andrews
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Traffic cop Larry Hayes takes care of four-year-old Mary Jane, the daughter of Gus Andrews, a criminal sent to prison because of Larry, and Nellie, a shop girl who visits often.
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A Man And His Money
Title: A Man And His Money
Character: Chauffeur
Released: March 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Inheriting a fortune allows Harry Lathrop to indulge in extravagant spending and wild wine parties with chorus girls, decides to change his ways after his childhood sweetheart, Betty Dalrymple, gives back her engagement ring because he arrives drunk for dinner.
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The Racing Strain
Title: The Racing Strain
Character: Schuyler
Released: December 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly bankrupt as a result of his dealings with New York horseman and stock promoter Jim De Luce....
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Just for Tonight
Title: Just for Tonight
Character: Detective Chase (as Edwin Sturgis)
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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Doing Their Bit
Title: Doing Their Bit
Character: German Spy
Released: August 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battlefield. Having been locked accidentally into O'Dowd's munitions plant one evening, the children catch sight of their intoxicated cousin Miles O'Dowd admitting two men into the factory. The girls recognize the two as spies they had seen on the boat to America sending signals to a German submarine. After the spies knock Miles cold, the children trap them in a die-stamping machine until help arrives.
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Heart's Desire
Title: Heart's Desire
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
A silent drama film directed by Francis J. Grandon
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A Girl Like That
Title: A Girl Like That
Character: Joe Dunham
Released: January 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Nell Gordon's father was once a burglar, but he has turned over a new leaf. When he falls ill, however, the burglar's old cronies persuade Nell to help them in a bank robbery, supposedly to raise funds for their sick friend. Nell gets a job in the bank, and learns how to open the safe, but then she falls in love with Jim Brooks, another bank employee, and decides not to help with the robbery after all. The crooks try to force her father to insist, and when he refuses, they shoot him. Seeing their true colors, Nell forms a plan. She agrees to help with the robbery, but in the middle of the heist she calls the sheriff. Of course the story ends with the crooks in jail, and Nell and Jim in love.
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The Moment Before
Title: The Moment Before
Released: April 27, 1916
Type: Movie
The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
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The Lost Bridegroom
Title: The Lost Bridegroom
Character: Slim Denny (as Edward Sturgis)
Released: March 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.