Mike Donlin

Mike Donlin

Born: May 30, 1878
Died: September 24, 1933
in Peoria, Illinois, USA

Movies for Mike Donlin...

Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Brick Baldwin
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Lester Dunn
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Midnight Mary
Title: Midnight Mary
Character: Club Imperial Doorman (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
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High Gear
Title: High Gear
Character: Jake Cohen
Released: March 21, 1933
Type: Movie
When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Tout (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Cafe Manager
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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Air Hostess
Title: Air Hostess
Character: Mike
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Inmate (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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One Way Passage
Title: One Way Passage
Character: Hong Kong Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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Off His Base
Title: Off His Base
Character: Mike Donlin
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
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The Purchase Price
Title: The Purchase Price
Character: Shivaree Attendee Tom Buchanan (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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A Fool's Advice
Title: A Fool's Advice
Character: Mr. Wimple
Released: February 20, 1932
Type: Movie
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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The Secret Witness
Title: The Secret Witness
Character: Mike - Speakeasy Proprietor
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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The Tip-Off
Title: The Tip-Off
Character: Swanky Jones
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
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The Star Witness
Title: The Star Witness
Character: Henchman Mickey (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
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Sweepstakes
Title: Sweepstakes
Character: The Dude
Released: July 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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Iron Man
Title: Iron Man
Character: McNeil
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
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The Widow from Chicago
Title: The Widow from Chicago
Character: Dominic's Lookout at the Crystal Palace (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
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Up the River
Title: Up the River
Character: Upstate Baseball Manager (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
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Her Man
Title: Her Man
Character: Bartender
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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Hot Curves
Title: Hot Curves
Character: Baseball Team Scout
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Fingy Moscovitz
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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Thunderbolt
Title: Thunderbolt
Character: Kentucky Sampson
Released: June 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
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Spite Marriage
Title: Spite Marriage
Character: Man in Ship's Engine Room
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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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Sandy
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: Crook
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Beggars of Life
Title: Beggars of Life
Character: Bill
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
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White Flannels
Title: White Flannels
Character: Coach (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the wife of Jacob Politz, an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Title: Slide, Kelly, Slide
Character: Mike Donlin
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: Union General
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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Ella Cinders
Title: Ella Cinders
Character: Film Studio Gateman
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
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The Sea Beast
Title: The Sea Beast
Character: Flask
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
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The Primrose Path
Title: The Primrose Path
Character: Federal Officer Parker
Released: September 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
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Fifth Avenue Models
Title: Fifth Avenue Models
Character: Crook's Henchman
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
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Oh, Doctor!
Title: Oh, Doctor!
Character: Buzz Titus
Released: February 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
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Hit and Run
Title: Hit and Run
Character: Red McCarthy
Released: August 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat becomes a success because of his exceptional hitting. When Swat begins a romance with the scout's daughter, he and the girl are kidnapped by gamblers intent on winning the series.
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The Trouble Shooter
Title: The Trouble Shooter
Character: Chet Conners
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Tom Mix, the most popular screen cowboy of his era, played a lineman for a power company in this action melodrama which was a Western in name only.
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Woman-Proof
Title: Woman-Proof
Character: Foreman
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
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The Unknown Purple
Title: The Unknown Purple
Character: Burton
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
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Jack Spurlock, Prodigal
Title: Jack Spurlock, Prodigal
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: February 10, 1918
Type: Movie
George Walsh plays the "prodigal" hero in this fast-moving star vehicle from the Fox factory. An incurable cut-up, Jack Spurlock throws a college campus in an uproar when he shows up the first day of classes with his pet bear. Needless to say, Jack is immediately booted out of college, infuriating his big-businessman father (Dan Mason).
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Title: Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Character: Crawshay
Released: December 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives.
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Right Off the Bat
Title: Right Off the Bat
Character: Self - Mike Donlin
Released: September 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the life of real-life major league baseball player Mike Donlin.