Clem Bevans

Clem Bevans

Born: October 16, 1880
Died: August 11, 1963
in Cozaddale, Ohio, USA
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Clem Bevans (October 16, 1879 – August 11, 1963) was an American character actor best remembered for playing eccentric, grumpy old men.

Bevans had a very long career, starting in vaudeville in 1900 in an act with Grace Emmett. He progressed to burlesque, Broadway, and even light opera, before making his film debut at the age of 55 in Way Down East (1935). His portrayal was so good, he became stereotyped and played mostly likable old codgers for the rest of his life. Bevans played the neighbour of Gregory Peck in The Yearling and the gatekeeper in Harvey (1950). However, he did occasionally play against type, for example as a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). He also made some television appearances, including the role of murderer Captain Hugo in the 1958 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Demure Defendant" and as Pete in The Twilight Zone episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" (1962). He played Captain Cobb in Disney's TV miniseries Davy Crockett.

His first cousin was actress Merie Earle, best known as Maude Gormley on The Waltons.

Movies for Clem Bevans...

Title: Thriller
Character: The Old Gaffer
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Obed
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Pete
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Girl with an Itch
Title: Girl with an Itch
Character: Gramps
Released: November 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Ben Cooper, an old farmer, falls in love with the young blond hitchhiker Mari Lou. She falls in love with Ben Coopers money. But, will he have enough to make her happy?
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Title: The Real McCoys
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: TV
The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963. The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.
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Title: Maverick
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Capt. Hugo
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Title: Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Character: Cap'n Cobb
Released: July 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
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Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race
Title: Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race
Character: Captain Cobb
Released: October 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Davy and Georgie end a particularly successful season of trapping and hunting with the hopes of easy sales, only for such hopes to be dashed by the self-proclaimed "King of the River", Mike Fink, and a band of renegade Indians that have been notorious for attacking passing boats.
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The Twinkle In God's Eye
Title: The Twinkle In God's Eye
Character: Prospector
Released: October 13, 1955
Type: Movie
A new parson arrives in the mining town of Lodestone and attempts to build a church. Western.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Fly
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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The Kentuckian
Title: The Kentuckian
Character: Riverboat Captain (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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Ten Wanted Men
Title: Ten Wanted Men
Character: Tod Grinnel
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Captain Cobb
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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The Boy from Oklahoma
Title: The Boy from Oklahoma
Character: Amiel "Pop" Pruty
Released: February 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Title: The Stranger Wore a Gun
Character: Jim Martin
Released: July 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
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Hangman's Knot
Title: Hangman's Knot
Character: Plunkett, the Station agent
Released: November 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold.
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Captive of Billy the Kid
Title: Captive of Billy the Kid
Character: Skeeter Davis
Released: January 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Five people have a part of a map leading to Billy the Kid's treasure. When one of them is killed, Rocky Lane has a plan to find the killer.
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Man in the Saddle
Title: Man in the Saddle
Character: Pay Lankershim
Released: December 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
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Gold Raiders
Title: Gold Raiders
Character: Doc Mason
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers.
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Silver City Bonanza
Title: Silver City Bonanza
Character: Town Loafer
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Blind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tell anyone. His seeing eye dog, Duke, brings Rex Allen and Gabriel Horne to Pete's lifeless body. They set out to find the killer and run into trouble near Silver City, Arizona, when they rescue Katie McIntosh from a gang that is chasing her buckboard.
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Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
Title: Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
Character: Sam 'Bigmouth' Smedley
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his help. When he gets there he discovers that his daughter, a lawyer, is under great stress because of her biggest client, an old geezer who is the wealthiest and most powerful man in town. The girl's father decides to make the old man "disappear" by performing a rain dance he learned from an Indian chief back in Wyoming--and lo and behold it starts to rain and the old man does indeed disappear. The local sheriff, however, suspects foul play and arrests the girl's father.
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Harvey
Title: Harvey
Character: Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer
Released: December 4, 1950
Type: Movie
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Title: Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Character: Mr. Edwards
Released: February 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.
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Tell It to the Judge
Title: Tell It to the Judge
Character: Alonzo K. Roogle
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
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Deputy Marshal
Title: Deputy Marshal
Character: Doc Vinson
Released: October 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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The Gal Who Took the West
Title: The Gal Who Took the West
Character: Hawley (as old Timer)
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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Rim of the Canyon
Title: Rim of the Canyon
Character: Loco John
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
20 years ago, 3 men robbed a stage and hid $30,000. They were caught and sent to prison by Marshal Steve Autry. 20 years later, the men bust out of prison and return to the ghost town where they stashed their treasure searching. Steve's grandson picks up where Steve left off to foil the plans of the outlaws.
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Streets of Laredo
Title: Streets of Laredo
Character: Pop Lint
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim
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Big Jack
Title: Big Jack
Character: Saltlick Joe
Released: April 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
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Highway 13
Title: Highway 13
Character: Bill 'Pops' Lacy
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
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Portrait of Jennie
Title: Portrait of Jennie
Character: Capt. Cobb
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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The Paleface
Title: The Paleface
Character: Hank Billings
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Loaded Pistols
Title: Loaded Pistols
Character: Jim Hedge
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
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Moonrise
Title: Moonrise
Character: Coroner
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Title: Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character: Capt. Bjorn
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
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Relentless
Title: Relentless
Character: Dad
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
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The Millerson Case
Title: The Millerson Case
Character: Sheriff Luke Akers
Released: May 29, 1947
Type: Movie
While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
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Yankee Fakir
Title: Yankee Fakir
Character: Shaggy Hartley (aka "Prof. Davis")
Released: April 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
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The Yearling
Title: The Yearling
Character: Pa Forrester
Released: December 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
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Gallant Bess
Title: Gallant Bess
Character: Smitty
Released: December 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: Henry Pecket
Released: December 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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People on Paper
Title: People on Paper
Character: Horatio Curdlepuss (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included dime store novels. The most accessible of these escapes is what are known as the funny papers, the set of serialized comic strips that are included within many newspapers. They appeal to all socio-economic classes, and all ages. Some of the earliest known from the late 19th century include the Yellow Kid, Little Nemo, Happy Hooligan, the Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt & Jeff, and Bringing Up Father. Many cartoonists are seen in action. Some originated their characters, while others have taken over following the passing of the originator. The joy of many comic strips are the absurd and the fantastical, which are limited only by the imagination of the cartoonist. Others are grounded in reality, which add to their poignancy within the public mindset.
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Captain Eddie
Title: Captain Eddie
Character: Jabez
Released: June 18, 1945
Type: Movie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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Grissly's Millions
Title: Grissly's Millions
Character: Old Tom
Released: January 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
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Tall in the Saddle
Title: Tall in the Saddle
Character: Card Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Buffalo Burns
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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The Kansan
Title: The Kansan
Character: Bridge-Tender
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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The Human Comedy
Title: The Human Comedy
Character: Henderson
Released: March 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: January 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
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Lady Bodyguard
Title: Lady Bodyguard
Character: Elmer Frawley
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
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Lucky Jordan
Title: Lucky Jordan
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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The Forest Rangers
Title: The Forest Rangers
Character: Terry McCabe
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Mailman
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Title: Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Character: Tadpole
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Scissor Grinder
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Saboteur
Title: Saboteur
Character: Neilson
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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Captains of the Clouds
Title: Captains of the Clouds
Character: Sam 'Store-Teeth' Morrison
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Station Watchman
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Midas Plant Night-Watchman
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Abilene Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Zeke
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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The Smiling Ghost
Title: The Smiling Ghost
Character: Sexton at cemetery
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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The Parson of Panamint
Title: The Parson of Panamint
Character: Crabapple Jones
Released: July 25, 1941
Type: Movie
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Eli Potter
Released: December 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Railroad Official
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
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Wyoming
Title: Wyoming
Character: Pa McKinley
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
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Calling All Husbands
Title: Calling All Husbands
Character: Judge Todd
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.
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Girl from God's Country
Title: Girl from God's Country
Character: Ben
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: 'Pop' Graybeard (Uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: "Smokey" Moseby
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
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The Captain Is a Lady
Title: The Captain Is a Lady
Character: Samuel Darby
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witnessing their tearful goodbye, the home's residents vote to allow the couple to move in together. The Captain is a reluctant lodger, uncomfortable at being surrounded by so much femininity, and bristles when his pals start referring to him as "Old Lady". The time has come for Captain Peabody to reassert his manhood!
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Chuckawalla
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Snuffy
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Mr. Waddell
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Ben Mattling
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Granny Get Your Gun
Title: Granny Get Your Gun
Character: Smokey
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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Northward, Ho!
Title: Northward, Ho!
Character: Newspaper-reading skeptic
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.
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Main Street Lawyer
Title: Main Street Lawyer
Character: Zeke
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: 'Cap' Finch
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: Smokestack Smiley
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch decides the family isn't worthy of raising his grandson.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Lem the Mailman
Released: July 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Mr. Quill
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Maisie
Title: Maisie
Character: Station Agent (Uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
Title: Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
Character: Curdleface (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government based upon contemporaneous European models.
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Help Wanted
Title: Help Wanted
Character: H.L. (Pop) Daniels
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
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Undercover Doctor
Title: Undercover Doctor
Character: Sam Whitmore
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Smedley (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Charley (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Postman (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Grandpa Burton
Released: March 9, 1939
Type: Movie
This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication.
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Title: Yes, My Darling Daughter
Character: Henry - Baggage Man
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Jimmy Barzek
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Pop Stebbins
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Villager #3 (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Bum in jail
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character: Sheriff "Turkeyneck" Slocum
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Benson
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Mr. Chump
Title: Mr. Chump
Character: Pop (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
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Young Fugitives
Title: Young Fugitives
Character: Benjie Collins
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Deaf Man (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Miracle Money
Title: Miracle Money
Character: Mr. Greene (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
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Of Human Hearts
Title: Of Human Hearts
Character: Elder Massey
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
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Idol of the Crowds
Title: Idol of the Crowds
Character: Andy Moore (as Clem Bevins)
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
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Big City
Title: Big City
Character: Grandpa Sloane
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Riding on Air
Title: Riding on Air
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
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Mountain Music
Title: Mountain Music
Character: Medicine Show Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Monte Christo (Actor Friend)
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Every Sunday
Title: Every Sunday
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: Mr. Hudson
Released: July 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Gila Bend
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Doc Wiggin
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.