Frank Conroy

Frank Conroy

Born: October 13, 1890
Died: February 24, 1964
in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Frank Parish Conroy (14 October 1890 – 24 February 1964) was a British film and stage actor who appeared in many films, notably Grand Hotel (1932), The Little Minister (1934) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). He appeared on the Broadway stage and won a Tony Award for his performance in Graham Greene's The Potting Shed (1957).

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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Padre José
Released: May 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
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The Bramble Bush
Title: The Bramble Bush
Character: Dr. Sol Kelsey
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
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The Young Philadelphians
Title: The Young Philadelphians
Character: Doctor Shippen Stearnes
Released: May 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: O'Flaherty
Released: February 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Released: May 14, 1958
Type: Movie
The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, based upon the Robert Penn Warren-novel.
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Little Moon of Alban
Title: Little Moon of Alban
Character: Father Curran
Released: March 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WW I she finds herself caring for what she considers the enemy. Then she begins to fall in love with soldier Kenneth Boyd.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Character: Mr. Harley, Secretary to the President
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: J.D. Nolan
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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The Threat
Title: The Threat
Character: District Attorney Barker MacDonald
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
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Rogues' Regiment
Title: Rogues' Regiment
Character: Colonel Lemercier
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
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Sealed Verdict
Title: Sealed Verdict
Character: Colonel Pike
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
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The Snake Pit
Title: The Snake Pit
Character: Dr. Jonathan Gifford
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
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For the Love of Mary
Title: For the Love of Mary
Character: Samuel Litchfield
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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All My Sons
Title: All My Sons
Character: Herbert Deever
Released: May 1, 1948
Type: Movie
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
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The Naked City
Title: The Naked City
Character: Captain Donahue
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
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That Hagen Girl
Title: That Hagen Girl
Character: Dr. Stone
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
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Lady of Burlesque
Title: Lady of Burlesque
Character: 'Stacchi' Stacciaro
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Capt. Bryson
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Maj. Tetley
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: John Allan
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Character: Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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The Adventures of Martin Eden
Title: The Adventures of Martin Eden
Character: Carl Brissenden
Released: February 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
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This Woman Is Mine
Title: This Woman Is Mine
Character: First Mate Fox
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Ward, banker
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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The Last Gangster
Title: The Last Gangster
Character: Sid Gorman
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Morton Harding
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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That I May Live
Title: That I May Live
Character: Pop
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Col. Radoff
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Leland Whitney
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: President William McKinley
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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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Title: Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Character: Dan Mallon
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: A.G. Findlay
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Stolen Holiday
Title: Stolen Holiday
Character: Dupont
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
Title: Charlie Chan at the Opera
Character: Mr. Whitely
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: John C. Calhoun
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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Meet Nero Wolfe
Title: Meet Nero Wolfe
Character: Dr. Nathaniel Bradford
Released: July 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Mr. Le Froy
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Jake Cavendish
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Reed
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Gaius Tanno (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Henry Raleigh
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Doctor
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
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Call of the Wild
Title: Call of the Wild
Character: John Blake
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
Title: Charlie Chan in Egypt
Character: Prof. John Thurston
Released: June 4, 1935
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
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West Point of the Air
Title: West Point of the Air
Character: Capt. Cannon
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Lord Rintoul
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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The White Parade
Title: The White Parade
Character: Dr. Thorne
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
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Evelyn Prentice
Title: Evelyn Prentice
Character: District Attorney Farley
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
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Wednesday's Child
Title: Wednesday's Child
Character: Judge
Released: October 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Such Women Are Dangerous
Title: Such Women Are Dangerous
Character: Bronson
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
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Little Miss Marker
Title: Little Miss Marker
Character: Dr. Ingalls
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Stream's Attorney Paul (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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The Crime Doctor
Title: The Crime Doctor
Character: Martin Crowder
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
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Keep 'Em Rolling
Title: Keep 'Em Rolling
Character: Capt. R.G. Deane
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
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The Cat and the Fiddle
Title: The Cat and the Fiddle
Character: Theatre Owner
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Oscar Reid
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Brisbane Coe
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Ace of Aces
Title: Ace of Aces
Character: Wentworth
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Radio Operator
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Midnight Mary
Title: Midnight Mary
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Archduke Franz Ferdinand (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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Ann Carver's Profession
Title: Ann Carver's Profession
Character: Baker
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
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Grand Hotel
Title: Grand Hotel
Character: Rohna
Released: May 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Disorderly Conduct
Title: Disorderly Conduct
Character: Tony Alsotto
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Chaplain
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Bill Brighton
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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West of Broadway
Title: West of Broadway
Character: Judge Barham
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Horace Travers
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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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: Markham King
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
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The Royal Family of Broadway
Title: The Royal Family of Broadway
Character: Gilmore Marshall
Released: December 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.