Carlton Griffin

Carlton Griffin

Born: May 22, 1893
Died: July 24, 1940
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Carlton Griffin...

Angels Over Broadway
Title: Angels Over Broadway
Character: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Mr. Barnes
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Bank Clerk (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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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: Director
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Desk Man (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Deputy (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Socialite (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Ship Cafe
Title: Ship Cafe
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Slightly Static
Title: Slightly Static
Character: Second Announcer (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
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It Happened One Day
Title: It Happened One Day
Character: Office Clerk
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
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Another Wild Idea
Title: Another Wild Idea
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
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Maid in Hollywood
Title: Maid in Hollywood
Character: Man with False Teeth (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Babes in the Goods
Title: Babes in the Goods
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
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Arabian Tights
Title: Arabian Tights
Character: American Consul
Released: June 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
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Nature in the Wrong
Title: Nature in the Wrong
Character: Ronnie
Released: March 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
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First in War
Title: First in War
Character: Lt. Griffin
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there.
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Rough Seas
Title: Rough Seas
Character: Lieutenant
Released: April 24, 1931
Type: Movie
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
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The Pip from Pittsburg
Title: The Pip from Pittsburg
Character: Griff
Released: March 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
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High C's
Title: High C's
Character: The Lieutenant
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
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Shivering Shakespeare
Title: Shivering Shakespeare
Character: Man inside bull costume (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
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The Impostor
Title: The Impostor
Character: Morris
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling debts and uses a valuable family jewel as security for a loan from Prince Borkoff, but it is stolen by Morris, a gambler.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Character: Roger Caldwell (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
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Her Big Adventure
Title: Her Big Adventure
Character: Count Fontaine
Released: January 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Ralph Merriwell (Herbert Rawlinson) has an argument with his wealthy father, Silas (William Turner), and decides to go live on his own terms. He finds work as a bellhop in a fancy Los Angeles hotel. Meanwhile, Silas' secretary, Betty Burton (Grace Darmond), wins a thousand dollars in a contest and uses the money to vacation in the very same hotel.
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Girl Shy
Title: Girl Shy
Character: Ronald De Vore
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
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Forbidden Paradise
Title: Forbidden Paradise
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Shackles of Gold
Title: Shackles of Gold
Character: Donald Valentine (as C. Elliott Griffin)
Released: April 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Gibbs is a laborer at the docks who, through his hard work and good judgment, becomes a millionaire on Wall Street. He becomes acquainted with the Van Dusens, who have lost their fortune. Mrs. Van Dusen pushes her daughter Marie into a loveless marriage with Gibbs so that the family can retain its social standing. Gibbs realizes, however, that his money cannot buy his wife's affection.