Allan Cavan

Allan Cavan

Born: March 24, 1880
Died: January 19, 1941
in Concord, California, USA

Movies for Allan Cavan...

Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Title: Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Character: (archive footage)
Released: April 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Police Chief Harding
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Man with Thinking Brain (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: Radio Station Owner
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Ragner (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: 2nd Warden
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Wyoming Outlaw
Title: Wyoming Outlaw
Character: Senator Roberts
Released: June 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Wichita Official (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: Judge
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Officer
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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In Old Montana
Title: In Old Montana
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 5, 1939
Type: Movie
The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a two man medicine show, they quickly become involved. When Fred tries to bring the two sides together, Joe Allison is shot and Fred blamed. With Fred in jail and a lynch mob on the way, Doc tries to break his friend out.
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I Am a Criminal
Title: I Am a Criminal
Character: De Motte
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Prison Official (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Brother Rat
Title: Brother Rat
Character: Superintendant
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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Portia on Trial
Title: Portia on Trial
Character: Richard Conlon's Doctor
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Empty Holsters
Title: Empty Holsters
Character: Warden (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
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The Law Commands
Title: The Law Commands
Character: Judge
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doctor the town sheriff and tells him to clean up the gang.
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Old Louisiana
Title: Old Louisiana
Character: President Thomas Jefferson
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.
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Jail Bait
Title: Jail Bait
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Title: The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
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Rebellion
Title: Rebellion
Character: President Zachary Taylor
Released: October 27, 1936
Type: Movie
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
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The Unknown Ranger
Title: The Unknown Ranger
Character: Ranger Captain
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate. Everyone is looking for men when the actual rustler is a horse.
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Hong Kong Nights
Title: Hong Kong Nights
Character: Mr. Caulder
Released: December 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
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The New Frontier
Title: The New Frontier
Character: Parson Shaw
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: One of Keaton's Lieutenants
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps.
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Streamline Express
Title: Streamline Express
Character: Senior Conductor
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Special Agent
Title: Special Agent
Character: 122 Club Doorman (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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Red Salute
Title: Red Salute
Character: Army Officer
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Title: The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Character: Mr. Bruce
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Sergeant
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Whispering Smith Speaks
Title: Whispering Smith Speaks
Character: Harrington Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Okay Toots!
Title: Okay Toots!
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes husband and wife to switch bodies!
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Sequoia
Title: Sequoia
Character: Forest Ranger (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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Opened by Mistake
Title: Opened by Mistake
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Court Clerk
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Badge of Honor
Title: Badge of Honor
Character: Preston, the Lawyer
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Doctor Kahn (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Doctor with Iron Lung
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Captain Rush
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Spring Valley Contest Judge
Released: January 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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Slightly Married
Title: Slightly Married
Character: Banker
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Erickson
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Highway Patrol Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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The Thirteenth Guest
Title: The Thirteenth Guest
Character: Uncle Wayne Seymour (Uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Reviewing Officer
Released: May 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Dishonored
Title: Dishonored
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: Doctor
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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The Widow from Chicago
Title: The Widow from Chicago
Character: Police Sergeant Jerry Dunn (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Juror
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Shivering Shakespeare
Title: Shivering Shakespeare
Character: Man who 'resents it' (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
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The Mighty
Title: The Mighty
Character: Police Captain
Released: November 16, 1929
Type: Movie
In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Prison Warden (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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Saturday's Lesson
Title: Saturday's Lesson
Character: Pedestrian #2
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
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The Million Dollar Collar
Title: The Million Dollar Collar
Character: Police Chief
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.
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We Faw Down
Title: We Faw Down
Character: Pedestrian
Released: December 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Stockbroker (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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The Smart Set
Title: The Smart Set
Character: Host at Red Lantern Inn
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
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London After Midnight
Title: London After Midnight
Character: Real Estate Broker (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. (This movie was lost in 1965 during a fire.)
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Shanghai Bound
Title: Shanghai Bound
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Father of the bride
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: O'Bannon's Aide (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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The Primal Law
Title: The Primal Law
Character: Mat Lane
Released: September 11, 1921
Type: Movie
silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.