John Hamilton

John Hamilton

Born: January 16, 1887
Died: October 15, 1958
in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
John Rummel Hamilton was an American actor, who played in many movies and television programs. He is probably best remembered for his role as the blustery newspaper editor Perry White for the 1950s television program “Adventures of Superman.”

Movies for John Hamilton...

Title: New York Confidential
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: TV
New York Confidential is a British-American crime drama series that aired from 1958 to 1959. The series aired in syndicated in the United States and was broadcast on London's local ITV station, Associated-Rediffusion, in the UK. It was co-produced by ITC Entertainment, Metropolis Productions, Inc., and Television Programs of America.
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Outcasts of the City
Title: Outcasts of the City
Released: January 10, 1958
Type: Movie
In this drama, set just after the end of WWII, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair is disrupted when her German ex-lover returns and tries to exact his jealous revenge upon the Yankee. When the ex-lover shows up dead, the American is blamed.
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Chicago Confidential
Title: Chicago Confidential
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
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Title: State Trooper
Character: Oscar
Released: September 25, 1956
Type: TV
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Mr. Barker
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Bobby Ware Is Missing
Title: Bobby Ware Is Missing
Character: Stearns - Goodwin's Associate (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1955
Type: Movie
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The police are contacted, and a ransom letter is received.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Mr. Campo (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Sitting Bull
Title: Sitting Bull
Character: Ulysses S. Grant
Released: October 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf. Written by Jim Beaver
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Title: Captain Midnight
Released: September 4, 1954
Type: TV
Captain Midnight is an American televisions series that aired on CBS from September 9, 1954 to January 21, 1956. The series stars Richard Webb as Captain Midnight.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: 'Jeroboam' Captain
Released: May 14, 1954
Type: Movie
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
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City Story
Title: City Story
Released: May 5, 1954
Type: Movie
When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the pastor she doesn't come to church because the congregation is too cold and unfriendly. Realizing that she has spoken the truth, the pastor tries to inject new life into the church and brings up the idea of widened community services before the church board. There is opposition, at first because of the cost, but they vote to give the new plan a chance.
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The Miami Story
Title: The Miami Story
Character: Clifton Staley
Released: May 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
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Title: Passport to Danger
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: TV
A diplomatic courier travels to exotic locales, where danger (and women) seem ever present.
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Stamp Day for Superman
Title: Stamp Day for Superman
Character: Perry White
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Superman's commitment to promote US Savings Stamps is temporarily delayed when Lois is kidnapped.
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Man of Conflict
Title: Man of Conflict
Character: Mr. Cornwall
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.
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Donovan's Brain
Title: Donovan's Brain
Character: Mr. McNish (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Charlie
Released: July 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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Run for the Hills
Title: Run for the Hills
Character: Mr. Harvester
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
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Iron Mountain Trail
Title: Iron Mountain Trail
Character: Circuit Judge
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
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Jack McCall, Desperado
Title: Jack McCall, Desperado
Character: Col. Cornish
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, a Southerner joins the Union Army and is accused of leaking information to the Confederates.
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Title: Marshal of Cedar Rock
Character: Stover - Prison Warden
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
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Never Wave at a WAC
Title: Never Wave at a WAC
Character: Senator Holbrook
Released: January 28, 1953
Type: Movie
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
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Never Wave at a WAC
Title: Never Wave at a WAC
Character: Sen. Holbrook (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1953
Type: Movie
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
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Title: I Led Three Lives
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: TV
I Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from October 1, 1953 to January 1, 1956. The series stars Richard Carlson. The show was a companion piece of sorts to the radio drama I Was a Communist for the FBI, which dealt with a similar subject and was also syndicated by Ziv from 1952 to 1954.
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The Studebaker Story
Title: The Studebaker Story
Character: Father Studebaker
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into automobiles.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Porter
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Colonel Norton
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Perry White
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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The Rose Bowl Story
Title: The Rose Bowl Story
Character: Dr. Lansing
Released: August 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
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Target
Title: Target
Character: Bailey
Released: April 20, 1952
Type: Movie
A female marshal and a newspaper editor help heroic Tim Holt fight an evil land agent. Western.
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The Pace That Thrills
Title: The Pace That Thrills
Character: Sour Puss
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.
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The McGurk Way
Title: The McGurk Way
Character: Speaker
Released: February 3, 1952
Type: Movie
At the dedication of a new road sign, Dan McGurk tells the story of his forebears and how they helped transform rutted dirt roads into the modern highways of today. He speaks of the benefits of the trucking industry and how it depends on the nation's roadways, and he rails against regulations that make the industry less efficient and profitable. After recounting the amounts the trucking industry pays in taxes, he watches the unveiling of the sign naming the highway The McGurk Way.
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Title: The Roy Rogers Show
Released: December 30, 1951
Type: TV
Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of the German shepherd dog Bullet and his horse Trigger. Roy, supported by his friend Pat Brady, is often helping the weakest usually threatened by cattle thieves, dishonest sheriffs and villains of various kinds. Pat Brady works as a cook at the Eureka Café, owned by Dale Evans.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: "Jeroboam" Captain
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Criminal Lawyer
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Character: Police Captain Loomis
Released: August 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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Million Dollar Pursuit
Title: Million Dollar Pursuit
Character: Police Inspector Morgan
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
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Badman's Gold
Title: Badman's Gold
Character: The Marshal
Released: April 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A marshal searches for stagecoach robbers.
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Sugarfoot
Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Judge Backus
Released: February 11, 1951
Type: Movie
The lawless west had never met a gun-throwing gent like...
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The Flying Missile
Title: The Flying Missile
Character: Senator
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Flying Missile
Title: The Flying Missile
Character: Second Senator
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Missourians
Title: The Missourians
Character: Mayor Grant McDowall
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: John Mitchell
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Thomas T. Trimble
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Bunco Squad
Title: Bunco Squad
Character: John Deming (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
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The Men
Title: The Men
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Ken, an ex-WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
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Title: The Gene Autry Show
Character: Dan Parker
Released: July 23, 1950
Type: TV
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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Title: The Gene Autry Show
Character: Jonathan Diggers
Released: July 23, 1950
Type: TV
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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Annie Get Your Gun
Title: Annie Get Your Gun
Character: Ship Captain (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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The Invisible Monster
Title: The Invisible Monster
Character: "Henry Miller"
Released: May 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
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The Reformer and the Redhead
Title: The Reformer and the Redhead
Character: Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
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Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Title: Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Character: Col. Pollard
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.
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Pioneer Marshal
Title: Pioneer Marshal
Character: Man with Bracelet
Released: November 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote frontier town that serves as an outlaw hideaway. All previous lawmen have been disposed of by town boss Bruce Burnett (Damian O'Flynn), who demands a hefty price for his services.
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Strange Bargain
Title: Strange Bargain
Character: Employee at Meeting (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
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Alias the Champ
Title: Alias the Champ
Character: Police Commissioner Bronson
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who was already on the scene to investigate the Mob’s influence on pro wrestling.
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Title: The Ed Wynn Show
Character: Self - Ed's Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: TV
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The James Brothers of Missouri
Title: The James Brothers of Missouri
Character: Lon Royer [Ch.1]
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a prominent member) to become normal everyday citizens. Of course, there's no room in the Wild West for reformed outlaws, and the duo inevitably find themselves caught up in showdowns and robberies.
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Bandit King of Texas
Title: Bandit King of Texas
Character: John Turner
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed by McCabe's gang. When Rocky comes to Elko to find his friend Jim, he winds up in Jail on a charge of stealing money from the new Marshal. The only person in town that is on his side is Nugget, but there is little that he can do by himself. When Rocky escapes from the jail with another prisoner and the Marshal is shot, he has to find who is behind his problems and what has happened to Jim and Emily.
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The Wyoming Bandit
Title: The Wyoming Bandit
Character: Marshal
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't commit, only to find his son on his deathbed. Seeking revenge for his son's murder, Dan enlists the help of Rocky Lane (Allan Lane), who poses as an outlaw to try to uncover the truth. When the duo manage to track down the killer, they find him armed to the teeth.
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Law of the Golden West
Title: Law of the Golden West
Character: Isaac Cody, Bill's father
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
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Canadian Pacific
Title: Canadian Pacific
Character: Pere Lacomb
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Character: Lt. Edwards
Released: January 31, 1949
Type: Movie
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
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Sheriff of Wichita
Title: Sheriff of Wichita
Character: Prison Warden
Released: January 22, 1949
Type: Movie
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy. While claiming that he gave the money to Major Bishop, neither the money or Bishop have ever been found and Raymond was convicted of the theft. Now he is at the abandoned fort, an escaped convict with a letter, looking to find the truth about the robbery. Members of his old command are also there and Rocky shows up to return Raymond to prison.
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Rusty Leads the Way
Title: Rusty Leads the Way
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
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Desperadoes of Dodge City
Title: Desperadoes of Dodge City
Character: Land Agent
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is stolen but Rocky knows one of the four men on the stagecoach has it. When Rocky and the four get trapped in a shack by the outlaw gang, he learns that one of the four is the gang leader. Rocky has to learn his identity and retrieve the message.
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Walk a Crooked Mile
Title: Walk a Crooked Mile
Character: G.W. Hunter
Released: September 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
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The Checkered Coat
Title: The Checkered Coat
Character: Marcus Anson
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that explains his problem, he inadvertently implicates himself in the crimes.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Speaker of the House
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Song of My Heart
Title: Song of My Heart
Character: Czar
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
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High Wall
Title: High Wall
Character: Police Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Diner on Train (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
Title: Bandits of Dark Canyon
Character: Ben Shaw
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him. As Rocky is bringing him in, Archer is attacked again. Somebody wants Archer killed and Rocky, now suspecting Archer is innocent, decides to find out who and why.
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Blondie in the Dough
Title: Blondie in the Dough
Character: Premier Biscuit Board Member (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1947
Type: Movie
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: R. C. Hurlbert - Coroner (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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News Hounds
Title: News Hounds
Character: Timothy X. 'Big Tim' Donlin
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.
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Too Many Winners
Title: Too Many Winners
Character: Albert Payson
Released: May 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
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Violence
Title: Violence
Character: Dr. Chalmers
Released: May 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Harper (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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The Devil On Wheels
Title: The Devil On Wheels
Character: Mr. Davis
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A teenager is involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
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Raiders of the South
Title: Raiders of the South
Character: George Boone
Released: January 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the reconstruction years to obtain evidence against a gang of raiders who have been making life difficult for the local carpet-baggers. He saves the life of Shorty Kendall, an unreconstructed rebel about to be hanged, and this wins him the gratitude of Belle Chambers, a widow whose husband was killed in the Civil War who hates all Yankees with a fever.
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Magnificent Doll
Title: Magnificent Doll
Character: Mr. Witherspoon
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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The Secret of the Whistler
Title: The Secret of the Whistler
Character: McLaren aka Mac (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
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Wife Wanted
Title: Wife Wanted
Character: Judge
Released: November 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
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The Brute Man
Title: The Brute Man
Character: Professor Cushman (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
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Step by Step
Title: Step by Step
Character: Police Capt. Edmonds
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
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One Exciting Week
Title: One Exciting Week
Character: Dr. Jones (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Commissioner Taylor (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Home on the Range
Title: Home on the Range
Character: State Official
Released: April 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. Trouble lies ahead.....
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Johnny Comes Flying Home
Title: Johnny Comes Flying Home
Character: C.H. Metters (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.
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The Madonna's Secret
Title: The Madonna's Secret
Character: Lambert
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: Senator Williams
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.
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Northwest Trail
Title: Northwest Trail
Character: John Owens
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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Sensation Hunters
Title: Sensation Hunters
Character: Night Court Judge
Released: October 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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First Yank into Tokyo
Title: First Yank into Tokyo
Character: Dr. Stacey (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Mr. Smoothasilk (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Sheriff of Ironville (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Gov. Hanlon
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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The Great Flamarion
Title: The Great Flamarion
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
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Mom and Dad
Title: Mom and Dad
Character: Dr. Burnell
Released: January 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child.
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Sheriff of Las Vegas
Title: Sheriff of Las Vegas
Character: Judge Homer T. Blackwell
Released: December 31, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father.
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Meet Miss Bobby Socks
Title: Meet Miss Bobby Socks
Character: R.N. Swanson
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A teenage fan sets out to boost her favorite radio singer's career. Comedy with songs.
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Crazy Knights
Title: Crazy Knights
Character: Mr. Gardner
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
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Zorro's Black Whip
Title: Zorro's Black Whip
Character: Mr. Walsh
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling's identity as "The Black Whip," righting the wrongs of Crescent City very much in the manner of her famous ancestor, Zorro.
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I'm from Arkansas
Title: I'm from Arkansas
Character: Harry Cashin
Released: October 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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Maisie Goes to Reno
Title: Maisie Goes to Reno
Character: Judge Carter (Uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
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The Port of 40 Thieves
Title: The Port of 40 Thieves
Character: Mr. Fellows
Released: August 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
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The Girl Who Dared
Title: The Girl Who Dared
Character: Beau Richmond
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
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Wilson
Title: Wilson
Character: Legislator in Wilson's Office (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Foreman
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Action in Arabia
Title: Action in Arabia
Character: Mr. Hamilton
Released: February 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Man In Theatre Lobby
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Standing Room Only
Title: Standing Room Only
Character: General
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Irate Man (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Outraged Director
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Larceny with Music
Title: Larceny with Music
Character: Important banker
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
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So's Your Uncle
Title: So's Your Uncle
Character: Mr. Craig
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: J.C. Allison
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Daredevils of the West
Title: Daredevils of the West
Character: Senator Garfield
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Charlie - American Newsman (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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Aerial Gunner
Title: Aerial Gunner
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
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Phantom Killer
Title: Phantom Killer
Character: John G. Harrison
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Court-Martial President
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Escape from Crime
Title: Escape from Crime
Character: Rafferty
Released: July 25, 1942
Type: Movie
An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Judge
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Inspector
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Police Inspector Millett
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Sen. Grant
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Judge
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Always in My Heart
Title: Always in My Heart
Character: Prison Warden
Released: March 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Police Captain
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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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: William Brooks
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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I Killed That Man
Title: I Killed That Man
Character: District Attorney
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Colonel (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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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: District Attorney Bryan
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Mac - Studio Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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It Started with Eve
Title: It Started with Eve
Character: Thomas - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Title: Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Sucker List
Title: Sucker List
Character: James Sawyer (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.
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Strange Alibi
Title: Strange Alibi
Character: Judge
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Jim (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Judge
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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Flight Command
Title: Flight Command
Character: Pensacola Commander
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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The Great Plane Robbery
Title: The Great Plane Robbery
Character: Dr. Jamison
Released: December 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Defense Attorney Graham (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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You, the People
Title: You, the People
Character: Frank Y. Carter
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Capt. Broad
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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The Flag of Humanity
Title: The Flag of Humanity
Character: Gen. James Garfield
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: McMasters' Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Defense Attorney (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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Murder in the Air
Title: Murder in the Air
Character: Hargrave
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
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Tear Gas Squad
Title: Tear Gas Squad
Character: Chief Ferris
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Night Court Judge
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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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Professor Gordon
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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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Hirsch
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Title: Brother Rat and a Baby
Character: Judge
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Captain Johnson (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Doctor
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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Old Hickory
Title: Old Hickory
Character: Governor Clairborne of Louisiana
Released: December 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: A Co. Maneuvers Colonel (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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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Judge
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Night Captain
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Code Room Instructor
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: First Warden (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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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: The Judge (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Officer H.A. Merton (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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The Bill of Rights
Title: The Bill of Rights
Character: Colonel George Mason
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Wilson
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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The Forgotten Woman
Title: The Forgotten Woman
Character: Dr. May
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Second Trial Judge (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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Blind Alley
Title: Blind Alley
Character: Warden
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: FBI Chief (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Judge
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Forged Passport
Title: Forged Passport
Character: Jack Rogers aka 'Lefty'
Released: April 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Harry - Conference Room Businessman
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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The Spirit of Culver
Title: The Spirit of Culver
Character: Maj. White
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Military Academy. Talked into attending so that he can have free room and board, Allen initially resists the rigid discipline but later softens as he makes friends and sees the value to the hard work and discipline.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Warden Jackson
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Captain of Second Convict Ship
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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I Stand Accused
Title: I Stand Accused
Character: Defense Attorney Brower
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Police Chief
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
Title: Mr. Wong, Detective
Character: Simon Dayton
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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Boys Town
Title: Boys Town
Character: Prison Warden (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Kirby's Dining Guest (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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Hunted Men
Title: Hunted Men
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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Doctor Rhythm
Title: Doctor Rhythm
Character: Insp. Bryce
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Title: Mr. Moto's Gamble
Character: Philip Benton
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Warden Vance
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Murder Is News
Title: Murder Is News
Character: David Corning
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Police Chief Elmer H. Davis (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Night Club Scandal
Title: Night Club Scandal
Character: Governor
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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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Roberts
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Title: The Man Who Cried Wolf
Character: Judge
Released: August 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
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Bad Guy
Title: Bad Guy
Character: Warden
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Judge
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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Fifty Roads to Town
Title: Fifty Roads to Town
Character: Captain Carroll
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Warden
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Criminals of the Air
Title: Criminals of the Air
Character: Captain Wallace
Released: April 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Gendarme
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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Two Wise Maids
Title: Two Wise Maids
Character: Grover Wentworth
Released: February 15, 1937
Type: Movie
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching to the tune of a hickory stick. Though ridiculed for their so-called outmoded methods, the heroines manage to turn out quite a few prize students, earning the undying gratitude of the local citizenry.
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Torture Money
Title: Torture Money
Character: Capt. Michael Karnahan (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Mr. Carlton
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
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Lady from Nowhere
Title: Lady from Nowhere
Character: Commissioner
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Desk Lieutenant at Police Station
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Legion of Terror
Title: Legion of Terror
Character: Cummings
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
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Two in a Crowd
Title: Two in a Crowd
Character: Purdy
Released: October 3, 1936
Type: Movie
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
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Two-Fisted Gentleman
Title: Two-Fisted Gentleman
Character: Frank Boyd
Released: August 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger, a female fight promoter, when he becomes involved with June Prentice and her high-society crowd.
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Keep 'Em Rolling
Title: Keep 'Em Rolling
Character: Major in France Battlefield
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Title: The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: August 31, 1932
Type: Movie
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.
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The Crane Poison Case
Title: The Crane Poison Case
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
This entry in the Vitaphone Inspector Carr series, based on the character created by S.S. Van Dyne, finds the detective investigating the death of a rich man by snake-venom poison. Suspicion falls on the victim's stepson, who has just returned from an expedition and is absorbed in snakes.
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The Side Show Mystery
Title: The Side Show Mystery
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: June 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Mystery short with Dr. Crabtree and Inspector Carr.
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Murder in the Pullman
Title: Murder in the Pullman
Character: Detective
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
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The Cole Case
Title: The Cole Case
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Dr. Crabtree (Donald Meek) and Insp. Carr (John Hamilton) are visited by a man who has been receiving notes threatening to kill him. The latest note says he will die at eight o'clock tonight, so Carr sends a couple men to his house. Sure enough, the many is murdered under everyone's noses, so the two men must find out what really happened.
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The Skull Murder Mystery
Title: The Skull Murder Mystery
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
When the skeleton of a young man is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree use the skull of the victim to solve the murder.
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Title: The Studio Murder Mystery
Character: Insp. Carr
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
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The Symphony Murder Mystery
Title: The Symphony Murder Mystery
Character: Insp. Carr
Released: January 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
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The Week End Mystery
Title: The Week End Mystery
Released: December 1, 1931
Type: Movie
During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o'clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card table to take his medicine, promising to return soon. When he doesn't, Claire goes in search of him, and finds his door locked from the inside.
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The Wall Street Mystery
Title: The Wall Street Mystery
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found in the closet, a frightened African-American elevator operator, and a suspicious business associate are among the witnesses questioned.
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The Clyde Mystery
Title: The Clyde Mystery
Character: Inspector Carr
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The wealthy Mr. Clyde is found dead, shot to death in his home. Inspector Carr suspects a conspiracy between the victim's young wife and her lover, Capt. Rugg. But Doctor Crabtree the criminologist never so quick to jump to conclusions as Inspector Carr.
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Success
Title: Success
Character: Mr. Kelly - Molly's Father
Released: June 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into trouble. Elmer also needs a new pair of glasses.
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The Gigolo Racket
Title: The Gigolo Racket
Character: George Burke
Released: June 15, 1931
Type: Movie
As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.
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Heads Up
Title: Heads Up
Character: Capt. Whitney
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.
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Dangerous Nan McGrew
Title: Dangerous Nan McGrew
Character: Grant
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
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At the Villa Rose
Title: At the Villa Rose
Character: Starling
Released: February 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Title: The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Character: Odilion van Belle
Released: May 20, 1929
Type: Movie
In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
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The Three Kings
Title: The Three Kings
Character: Charlie King
Released: November 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: John Lenley
Released: August 29, 1928
Type: Movie
'Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away.' (BFI)
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A South Sea Bubble
Title: A South Sea Bubble
Character: Tony Gates
Released: August 3, 1928
Type: Movie
'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Silver Lining
Title: The Silver Lining
Character: John Hurst
Released: February 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.