John Sheehan

John Sheehan

Born: October 22, 1885
Died: February 14, 1952
in Oakland, California, USA

Movies for John Sheehan...

The Lady and the Bandit
Title: The Lady and the Bandit
Character: Huggens
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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Where Danger Lives
Title: Where Danger Lives
Character: Quartz Miner (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Reformer
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Title: I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Character: Judge
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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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Pharmacist Simpson
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Drew (INS) (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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Magnificent Doll
Title: Magnificent Doll
Character: Hugo
Released: December 8, 1946
Type: Movie
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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I've Always Loved You
Title: I've Always Loved You
Character: Stagehand 1
Released: December 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
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The Killers
Title: The Killers
Character: Fight Arena Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
Title: The Man in Half Moon Street
Character: Expressman
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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Johnny Come Lately
Title: Johnny Come Lately
Character: Cop
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Congressman
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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Ladies' Day
Title: Ladies' Day
Character: Lou
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Storekeeper (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Silent Witness
Title: Silent Witness
Character: Detective Dan Callahan
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.
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Mug Town
Title: Mug Town
Character: Manager
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Theatre Ticket Seller
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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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: First Paper Hanger (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Drunk (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Keever (uncredited)
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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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Red Face (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Sergeant
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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Mob Town
Title: Mob Town
Character: Mr. Loomis
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Townsman
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Flight Command
Title: Flight Command
Character: Friendly Mechanic
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Announcer
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Title: Mexican Spitfire Out West
Character: Janitor
Released: October 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
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Hullabaloo
Title: Hullabaloo
Character: Audition Manager
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Man Yelling at Ringside (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Bartender
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Drunk Greeting 'Pop' (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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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Deputy Taking Keats & Kellogg to Prison (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Man Asking When Wedding Will Be
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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King of the Lumberjacks
Title: King of the Lumberjacks
Character: Bartender
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
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The Marines Fly High
Title: The Marines Fly High
Character: Airplane Seller
Released: March 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Clinic Patient with Good Blood Pressure (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Hidden Enemy
Title: Hidden Enemy
Character: Marden
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
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Mexican Spitfire
Title: Mexican Spitfire
Character: Bartender in Mexico
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
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Slightly Honorable
Title: Slightly Honorable
Character: Mike Daley
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: County Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: Desk Sergeant O'Toole (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Wolf Call
Title: Wolf Call
Character: Grogan
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
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Big Town Czar
Title: Big Town Czar
Character: Ray Norman
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Man in Front of Grandma (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Fire Chief
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Second Communist
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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Many Sappy Returns
Title: Many Sappy Returns
Character: Mr. Benson
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Fire Chief Nelson
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Mama Runs Wild
Title: Mama Runs Wild
Character: Snodey
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
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Night Club Scandal
Title: Night Club Scandal
Character: Duffy
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
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Love Takes Flight
Title: Love Takes Flight
Character: Spud Johnson
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
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All Over Town
Title: All Over Town
Character: McKee
Released: August 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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Island Captives
Title: Island Captives
Character: Island Police Commandant
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Vincent
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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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: 'Clouter' Hoag
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Under Southern Stars
Title: Under Southern Stars
Character: Number Thirteen
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Policeman in Radio Car (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Stage Manager
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: O'Day
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Leon Blyfuss
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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The Case of the Black Cat
Title: The Case of the Black Cat
Character: Sergeant Holcomb (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Here Comes Carter
Title: Here Comes Carter
Character: Slugs Dana
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: June 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Bert Murphy (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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Three Godfathers
Title: Three Godfathers
Character: Ed Barrow
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
Title: Laughing Irish Eyes
Character: Joe Cronin
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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The Goose and the Gander
Title: The Goose and the Gander
Character: Murphy
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Sweeney
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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His First Flame
Title: His First Flame
Character: Fire-Eating Sam
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Gardy (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Moxley
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Such Women Are Dangerous
Title: Such Women Are Dangerous
Character: Granigan
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Prof. Thompson
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Little Miss Marker
Title: Little Miss Marker
Character: Sun Rise
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Harry Smith
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
Title: The Countess of Monte Cristo
Character: Sterner
Released: March 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
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Trimmed in Furs
Title: Trimmed in Furs
Character: William
Released: January 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
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King for a Night
Title: King for a Night
Character: Manny
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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The Chief
Title: The Chief
Character: Charlie, a Streetcleaner
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Tom--Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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As the Devil Commands
Title: As the Devil Commands
Character: Wilfred Morgan
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Slowly dying of an unspecified illness, wealthy invalid Charles Sellon wants his aide Neil Hamilton to end his suffering. Hamilton won't do it, but villainous lawyer Alan Dinehart, in line to inherit Sellon's millions, is not so charitable. Dinehart kills Sellon, then makes it look as though Hamilton murdered the old guy for his money.
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Arizona to Broadway
Title: Arizona to Broadway
Character: Flynn's Straightman
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Title: Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Character: Gypse Joe
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
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The Gay Nighties
Title: The Gay Nighties
Character: Mr. Oliver Beezley
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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The Warrior's Husband
Title: The Warrior's Husband
Character: Pokus
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Title: Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Character: Sir Marmaduke Rakes
Released: April 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Ship Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Barker at Aerial Act (Uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Ed 'Mac' McGrath (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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The Past of Mary Holmes
Title: The Past of Mary Holmes
Character: Tom Kincaid
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Drunken Tenant (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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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Mike Maloney
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Too Young to Marry
Title: Too Young to Marry
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Kelduff
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: 'Mac' McManus
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Kazim
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
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Swing High
Title: Swing High
Character: Doc May
Released: May 18, 1930
Type: Movie
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
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The Comet's Come-Back
Title: The Comet's Come-Back
Released: May 31, 1916
Type: Movie
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops time.
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Pretenses
Title: Pretenses
Character: Steve Nolan
Released: December 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
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The Last Chapter
Title: The Last Chapter
Character: Reggy Trevor
Released: December 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Gordon, a young war correspondent, after being wounded in the jungles of Africa, is picked up and taken back to England by James Egerton, a wealthy rubber magnate, who has been investigating conditions on his plantation, where there has been a great shortage in the year's yield. On the voyage homeward the correspondent and Egerton's daughter Alice fall in love.
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The Key to Yesterday
Title: The Key to Yesterday
Character: George Steels
Released: October 12, 1914
Type: Movie
George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.