Joseph North

Joseph North

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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Second Passenger (Uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Second Butler at Party (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Judkins the Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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You'll Find Out
Title: You'll Find Out
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Title: Make Way for Tomorrow
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Butler
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Palm Springs
Title: Palm Springs
Character: Valet
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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Doughnuts and Society
Title: Doughnuts and Society
Character: Butler (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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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Butler
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Paris in Spring
Title: Paris in Spring
Character: Etienne
Released: May 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
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Werewolf of London
Title: Werewolf of London
Released: May 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Rintoul's Butler
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Butler
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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Ladies Should Listen
Title: Ladies Should Listen
Character: Butler (as Joe North)
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Butler (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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Long Lost Father
Title: Long Lost Father
Character: Butler
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Victim
Released: October 28, 1931
Type: Movie
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.
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Confessions of a Co-Ed
Title: Confessions of a Co-Ed
Character: Butler
Released: July 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
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Ex-Flame
Title: Ex-Flame
Character: Wilkins
Released: November 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
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The Third Degree
Title: The Third Degree
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
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The Whispered Name
Title: The Whispered Name
Character: Detective Mahoney
Released: January 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.