Jesse Graves

Jesse Graves

Born: March 11, 1879
Died: March 4, 1949
in Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Movies for Jesse Graves...

Ruthless
Title: Ruthless
Character: Phillips, Mansfield's Servant (Uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
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Secret Beyond the Door...
Title: Secret Beyond the Door...
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Porter (Uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Johnny O'Clock
Title: Johnny O'Clock
Character: Redcap
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Title: Tomorrow Is Forever
Character: Ambrose
Released: February 20, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Title: Keep Your Powder Dry
Character: Elevator Operator #2 (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Train Porter (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: White House Butler (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Dining Car Waiter
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Sam (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Black Servant (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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All-American Co-Ed
Title: All-American Co-Ed
Character: Redcap
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
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Lydia
Title: Lydia
Character: Michael's Servant
Released: September 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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The Little Foxes
Title: The Little Foxes
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Bristol's Butler (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Louis Napoleon, Mirbeau Servant
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Joseph (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Title: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Character: Train Steward
Released: March 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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Whispers
Title: Whispers
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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Son of Ingagi
Title: Son of Ingagi
Character: Chief of Detectives
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Robert
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Charles Culpepper (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Safari
Title: Safari
Character: Chief
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Onlooker at Debate (uncredited)
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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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Butler
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Mess Hall Aaiter (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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Allegheny Uprising
Title: Allegheny Uprising
Character: Governor's Servant
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Black Committeeman (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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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: Chauffeur
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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In Name Only
Title: In Name Only
Character: Train Waiter (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Porter at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Wilkes' Black Butler (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Butler at Party
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Out West with the Hardys
Title: Out West with the Hardys
Character: Ambrose (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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The Lady Objects
Title: The Lady Objects
Character: Doorman
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Story of Doctor Carver
Title: The Story of Doctor Carver
Character: George Washington Carver's Father (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140 products from all parts of the peanut plant, including the shells and husks. He also developed products based on sweet potatoes and soybeans, and developed a cotton hybrid that was named after him.
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The Beloved Brat
Title: The Beloved Brat
Character: Butler at Party
Released: April 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Penthouse Servant (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Servant
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Graves - J.B. Ball's Porter (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Title: Make Way for Tomorrow
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Once a Doctor
Title: Once a Doctor
Character: Servant
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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Deep South
Title: Deep South
Character: Minister
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.
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Give Me Liberty
Title: Give Me Liberty
Character: Washington's Servant Moses (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
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Three Godfathers
Title: Three Godfathers
Character: Cook (uncredited)
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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Memories and Melodies
Title: Memories and Melodies
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Pallbearer (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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The House on 56th Street
Title: The House on 56th Street
Character: Roulette Player (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.