Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Born: July 27, 1891
Died: May 22, 1955
in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher was an American stage, screen, and television actor.

Movies for Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher...

Duke of Chicago
Title: Duke of Chicago
Character: Gus Weller
Released: March 15, 1949
Type: Movie
To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
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Brooklyn Orchid
Title: Brooklyn Orchid
Character: Tommy Goodweek
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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Zis Boom Bah
Title: Zis Boom Bah
Character: Professor Warren
Released: December 7, 1941
Type: Movie
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
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Citadel of Crime
Title: Citadel of Crime
Character: Chet
Released: July 23, 1941
Type: Movie
A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: 'Don' Navadel
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Danger on the Air
Title: Danger on the Air
Character: Finney Fish
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Jimmy Brown
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Hats Off
Title: Hats Off
Character: Buzz Morton
Released: December 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.
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Polo Joe
Title: Polo Joe
Character: Haywood
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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The Man I Marry
Title: The Man I Marry
Character: Jack Gordon
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
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Yours for the Asking
Title: Yours for the Asking
Character: Perry Barnes
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
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The Perfect Clue
Title: The Perfect Clue
Character: Ronnie Van Zandt
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Wally Richards
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
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Bachelor Bait
Title: Bachelor Bait
Character: Bramwell Van Dusen
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Riptide
Title: Riptide
Character: Erskine
Released: March 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
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Woman Unafraid
Title: Woman Unafraid
Character: Anthony Desmond
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
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The Crosby Case
Title: The Crosby Case
Character: The Reporter--Miller (as 'Skeets' Gallagher)
Released: March 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
Title: The Meanest Gal in Town
Character: Jack Hayden
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Rabbit
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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In the Money
Title: In the Money
Character: Spunk Hobbs
Released: November 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
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Too Much Harmony
Title: Too Much Harmony
Character: Johnny Dixon
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Reform Girl
Title: Reform Girl
Character: Joe Burke
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
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The Past of Mary Holmes
Title: The Past of Mary Holmes
Character: Ben Pratt
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Pete Brown
Released: November 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
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The Conquerors
Title: The Conquerors
Character: Benson
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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The Sport Parade
Title: The Sport Parade
Character: Dizzy
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Eddie Mack
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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The Night Club Lady
Title: The Night Club Lady
Character: Tony
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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Bird of Paradise
Title: Bird of Paradise
Character: Chester
Released: August 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Buck
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Hollywood on Parade
Title: Hollywood on Parade
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A short featuring many stars
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Title: The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Character: Graham McNally
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Wally Stuart
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Hoppie
Released: September 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
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Up Pops the Devil
Title: Up Pops the Devil
Character: Barney Hatfield
Released: May 19, 1931
Type: Movie
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Reporter
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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It Pays to Advertise
Title: It Pays to Advertise
Character: Ambrose Peale
Released: February 18, 1931
Type: Movie
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
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Her Wedding Night
Title: Her Wedding Night
Character: Bob Talmadge
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
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Let's Go Native
Title: Let's Go Native
Character: Jerry, King of the Island
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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Love Among the Millionaires
Title: Love Among the Millionaires
Character: Boots McGee
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
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The Social Lion
Title: The Social Lion
Character: Chick Hathaway
Released: June 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
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Paramount on Parade
Title: Paramount on Parade
Character: Himself / Master of Ceremonies
Released: April 22, 1930
Type: Movie
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Honey
Title: Honey
Character: Charles Dangerfield
Released: March 29, 1930
Type: Movie
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
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Pointed Heels
Title: Pointed Heels
Character: Dash Nixon
Released: December 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wray, but he won't use his influences to take any advantages.... as usual, he's a perfect gentleman. Pointed Heels was supposed to have been a vehicle for "boop-boop-a-doop" girl Helen Kane, but by the time the film was released, Kane's role was reduced to a supporting part.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Released: September 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
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Close Harmony
Title: Close Harmony
Character: Johnny Bay
Released: April 12, 1929
Type: Movie
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Miller
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Coxey Pendleton
Released: July 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Three men join forces to raise an adopted son.
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New York
Title: New York
Character: Buck
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her.
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The Potters
Title: The Potters
Character: Red Miller
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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The Daring Years
Title: The Daring Years
Character: College boy (as Skeets Gallagher)
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
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The Dragon’s Claw
Title: The Dragon’s Claw
Released: October 13, 1915
Type: Movie
A little girl and her father are among the settlers in a small western town. The father is very friendly with the neighboring Indian tribe and is presented with a quaint piece of metal representing a dragon's claw, the tribe's good luck omen. Some time later, while traveling with his daughter, he is held up by a band of bandits and shot dead. A bandit takes from him this dragon's claw. Years pass. The little girl has grown into a beautiful young lady. She marries. Their love is very real and their life most happy. He decides to go out west to see a mine that yields the richest gold and his wife expresses a desire to go along with him. The mine is christened "The Dragon's Claw," because of an Indian charm the man owns. While out on a western desert, he shows the dragon's claw to his wife. She then recognizes it as the kind her father possessed when he was killed. She has understood it to be the only one of its kind. She now believes it is her husband who killed her father.