Jack Byron

Jack Byron

Born: September 9, 1895
Died: May 30, 1991
in Kasota, Minnesota, USA

Movies for Jack Byron...

Pope Joan
Title: Pope Joan
Character: Cardinal Jerome
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Jimmy
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Henchman
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Hotel Guest in Lobby
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Crew Member
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
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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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Henchman-Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Bum
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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The Devil's in Love
Title: The Devil's in Love
Character: Ship Captain
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
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The Devil Horse
Title: The Devil Horse
Character: Henchman Jake
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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Gold
Title: Gold
Character: Henchman With Mustache
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
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Careless Lady
Title: Careless Lady
Character: Speakeasy Patron
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Arsène Lupin
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Louvre Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Speakeasy Patron
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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The Hard Hombre
Title: The Hard Hombre
Character: Abe
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
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Pleasure
Title: Pleasure
Character: Allan Darrow
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
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Indiscreet
Title: Indiscreet
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
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Ten Cents a Dance
Title: Ten Cents a Dance
Character: Leo
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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What Men Want
Title: What Men Want
Character: Party Boy
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
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The Social Lion
Title: The Social Lion
Character: 'Knockout' Johnson
Released: June 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
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Lord Byron of Broadway
Title: Lord Byron of Broadway
Character: Mr. Millaire
Released: February 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
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The Woman Racket
Title: The Woman Racket
Character: Duke
Released: January 24, 1930
Type: Movie
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
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Spite Marriage
Title: Spite Marriage
Character: Scarzi
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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Four Walls
Title: Four Walls
Character: Duke Roma
Released: August 11, 1928
Type: Movie
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: Middleton
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.
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Fightin' Jack
Title: Fightin' Jack
Character: José Cortez
Released: June 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack is accused of horse stealing and trespassing after saving a girl from drowning.
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Rugged Water
Title: Rugged Water
Character: Orrin Hendricks
Released: August 17, 1925
Type: Movie
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
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The Air Mail
Title: The Air Mail
Character: Rene Lenoir
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through.
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The Battling Fool
Title: The Battling Fool
Character: Clarence Lorraine
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn prize money to help a crippled girl.