Rufe Davis

Rufe Davis

Born: December 2, 1908
Died: December 13, 1974
in Vinson, Oklahoma, USA

Movies for Rufe Davis...

Title: Green Acres
Character: Floyd Smoot (archive footage)
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Green Acres
Character: Floyd Smoot
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Floyd Smoot
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Title: Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Character: Deputy Kenny
Released: September 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Pete Lacy
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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The Strawberry Roan
Title: The Strawberry Roan
Character: Chuck
Released: August 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Radio Stars on Parade
Title: Radio Stars on Parade
Character: Pinky
Released: August 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
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Jamboree
Title: Jamboree
Character: Rufe Davis
Released: May 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A trio of competing bands vie for a spot on a rural radio program.
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The Phantom Plainsmen
Title: The Phantom Plainsmen
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1937 the life in out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Captain Marvin herding horses which he sells to Kurt Redman. Marvin will not sell any horses to any army, but the boys find out that Redman is a German agent shipping the horses directly to the Third Reich. When Marvin tries to stop Redman, his son Tad, who is studying medicine in Germany, is arrested and held hostage. Marvin must fire the boys as the sneaky German agents take over the ranch, but the boys will not give up their attempt to stop them.
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Westward Ho
Title: Westward Ho
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
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Raiders of the Range
Title: Raiders of the Range
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: March 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Daggett is out to stop the completion of an oil well. He cheats Foster at poker and then forces him to delay the drilling. But the Mesquiteers are on the job with Lulaby posing as a cleaning lady to get evidence.
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Code of the Outlaw
Title: Code of the Outlaw
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
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West of Cimarron
Title: West of Cimarron
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: December 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and his men are the culprits and join up with Morgan and his men.
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Gauchos of El Dorado
Title: Gauchos of El Dorado
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.
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Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Title: Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Character: 'Lullaby' Joslin
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When the Rangers capture his brother and the jury sentences him to hang, Lemar starts killing the jurists. Then the scoundrels kidnap the Captain's daughter Doris... Written by Tony Fontana
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Gangs of Sonora
Title: Gangs of Sonora
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: July 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
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Saddlemates
Title: Saddlemates
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: May 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both have been riled by someone with a hidden agenda - a renegade chief, who is found to be masquerading as an Army interpreter.
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Pals of the Pecos
Title: Pals of the Pecos
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: April 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.
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Prairie Pioneers
Title: Prairie Pioneers
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: February 16, 1941
Type: Movie
It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Carlos to take the land over. But Tucson is on the side of Roberto and see's that something is not right with all the trouble they have been having. But the situation turns ugly for Don Ortega when Roberto is set up for a murder he did not commit.
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Lone Star Raiders
Title: Lone Star Raiders
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: December 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders finds Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Bob Steele) and Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) defending elderly rancher "Granny" Phelps (Sarah Padden) from greedy neighbor Henry Martin (George Douglas).
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The Trail Blazers
Title: The Trail Blazers
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
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Barnyard Follies
Title: Barnyard Follies
Character: Bucksaw Beechwood
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Lullaby Joslin
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Stoney
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Centerville Sheriff
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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Cocoanut Grove
Title: Cocoanut Grove
Character: Bibb Tucker
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
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Doctor Rhythm
Title: Doctor Rhythm
Character: Al (Zookeeper)
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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The Big Broadcast of 1938
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1938
Character: Turnkey
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Sheriff Jeff Holloway
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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This Way Please
Title: This Way Please
Character: The Sound Effects Imitator
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
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Mountain Music
Title: Mountain Music
Character: Ham Sheppard
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.