George O'Hanlon

George O'Hanlon

Born: November 23, 1912
Died: February 11, 1989
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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George Samuel O'Hanlon (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American actor, comedian, writer and director. He was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Bros.' live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects from 1942 to 1956 and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series The Jetsons and its 1985 revival.

Movies for George O'Hanlon...

Jetsons: The Movie
Title: Jetsons: The Movie
Character: George Jetson (voice)
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
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Rockin' with Judy Jetson
Title: Rockin' with Judy Jetson
Character: George Jetson
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
There's intergalactic trouble when the lyrics Judy Jetson wrote for teen heartthrob Sky Rocker are swapped with a secret message from a music-hating witch. Now it's up to Judy, her family, and friends to save rock-and-roll.
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The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
Title: The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
Character: George Jetson (voice)
Released: November 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes him back to prehistoric times, where he meets the Flintstone family.
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A Jetson Christmas Carol
Title: A Jetson Christmas Carol
Character: George Jetson (voice)
Released: December 13, 1985
Type: Movie
What do Santa Claus and George Jetson have in common? They both have to work on Christmas eve! That mean old Mr. Spacely forces George to work late, while the family wonders what has happened to him, while Astro opens one of his presents early, breaks it, accidentally swallows a piece of it (a Spacely Sprockett) and becomes very ill. It seems the Jetsons may lose their Tiny Tim-like dog. Plus, Mr. Spacely is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marsley, who tells him of three spirits that will visit him. And they do, first the Past ghost robot who shows him young Spacely picking on young George, Present (which is an Xmas present) shows him of dying Astro, and Future shows the Jetsons very rich after sueing Mr. Spacely. When Spacely wakes up after seeing all this, he's a changed man! A sadder, wiser, nicer and happier Cosmo Spacely! At least until the next episode.
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Title: The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: TV
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
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Rocky
Title: Rocky
Character: TV Commentator
Released: November 21, 1976
Type: Movie
An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion.
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Charley and the Angel
Title: Charley and the Angel
Character: Police Chief
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Title: Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Character: Ted
Released: July 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.
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Title: Sanford and Son
Released: January 14, 1972
Type: TV
The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
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The Million Dollar Duck
Title: The Million Dollar Duck
Character: Parking Attendant
Released: June 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
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Title: The Odd Couple
Character: Drunk
Released: September 24, 1970
Type: TV
Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.
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Title: Love, American Style
Character: Sid Doff
Released: September 29, 1969
Type: TV
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
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Title: Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character: Mrs. Pate
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: TV
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: Drunk
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Manager
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Title: Reporter
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: TV
The Reporter is an American drama series that aired on CBS from September 25 to December 18, 1964. The series was created by Jerome Weidman and developed by executive producers Keefe Brasselle and John Simon.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Harry Harmon
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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Title: The Lieutenant
Character: Jeweler
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: TV
The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike. The series was released on DVD in two half-season sets by the Warner Archive Collection on August 14, 2012.
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Title: The Gallant Men
Released: October 5, 1962
Type: TV
The Gallant Men is a 1962–1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in World War II.
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Title: The Jetsons
Character: George Jetson (voice)
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: TV
Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who gets into one comical misadventure after another!
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Title: Mister Ed
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: TV
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
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Title: The Roaring 20's
Released: October 15, 1960
Type: TV
The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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Title: The Ann Sothern Show
Character: Ace
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
The Ann Sothern Show is an American sitcom starring Ann Sothern that aired on CBS for 93 episodes. The series began on October 6, 1958, and ended on September 25, 1961. The Ann Sothern Show was Sothern's second sitcom for CBS. Her first series, Private Secretary, ended in 1957 after a contract dispute occurred between Sothern and Secretary's producer Jack Chertok. Several of Private Secretary's cast members appeared in the show.
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Title: Bronco
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: TV
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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The Vanishing Duck
Title: The Vanishing Duck
Character: George (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1958
Type: Movie
George gives Joan a baby duck for her birthday. While they are out celebrating, Tom goes after the duck, but his plans are thwarted when it (and, later, Jerry) finds a jar of vanishing cream and uses it to get even.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Caldwell
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Morton Connors
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Cousin Elmo
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Dick
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Yamp Dooley
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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Bop Girl Goes Calypso
Title: Bop Girl Goes Calypso
Character: Barney
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring Judy Tyler. It featured Calypso music, and music by the Bobby Troup Trio and bassist Jim Aton. The calypso craze of the late 1950s drives this fun musical about grad student Bob Hilton (Bobby Troup), who sets out to prove that rock 'n' roll and bop are going the way of the dinosaur, to be replaced by the refreshing rhythms of calypso.
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Kronos
Title: Kronos
Character: Dr. Arnold Culver
Released: March 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
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So Your Wife Wants to Work
Title: So Your Wife Wants to Work
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: July 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?
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So You Want to Play the Piano
Title: So You Want to Play the Piano
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: May 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
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So You Want to Be Pretty
Title: So You Want to Be Pretty
Character: Joe McDoakes aka Roger
Released: March 10, 1956
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
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Battle Stations
Title: Battle Stations
Character: Patrick Mosher
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
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So You Think the Grass is Greener
Title: So You Think the Grass is Greener
Released: January 28, 1956
Type: Movie
When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.
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Your Safety First
Title: Your Safety First
Character: Man (voice)
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumers.
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So You Want to Be a Policeman
Title: So You Want to Be a Policeman
Released: December 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.
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So You Want to Be a V.P.
Title: So You Want to Be a V.P.
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: October 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
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So You Want a Model Railroad
Title: So You Want a Model Railroad
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: August 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumb waiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice to solve her problem.
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So You Want to Be on a Jury
Title: So You Want to Be on a Jury
Released: May 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.
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So You Want to Be a Gladiator
Title: So You Want to Be a Gladiator
Released: March 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the lyre for King Nero.
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So You Don't Trust Your Wife
Title: So You Don't Trust Your Wife
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.
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So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Title: So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: December 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
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So You're Taking in a Roomer
Title: So You're Taking in a Roomer
Released: October 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Herb Evans
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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So You Want to Be a Banker
Title: So You Want to Be a Banker
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by Harrington Arrington Farrington Jr, a former classmate.
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So You Want to Go to a Nightclub
Title: So You Want to Go to a Nightclub
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.
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So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
Title: So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
Released: March 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.
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So You're Having Neighbor Trouble
Title: So You're Having Neighbor Trouble
Released: January 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.
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So You Want to Be an Heir
Title: So You Want to Be an Heir
Released: December 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
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So You Think You Can't Sleep
Title: So You Think You Can't Sleep
Released: October 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Sam Brown
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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So You Love Your Dog
Title: So You Love Your Dog
Released: August 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with him.
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So You Want a Television Set
Title: So You Want a Television Set
Released: May 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.
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So You Want to Learn to Dance
Title: So You Want to Learn to Dance
Released: March 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office.
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So You Want to Be a Musician
Title: So You Want to Be a Musician
Released: January 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.
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Title: The Life Of Riley
Character: Calvin
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: TV
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
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Title: The Life Of Riley
Character: Calvin Dudley
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: TV
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
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So You Want to Wear the Pants
Title: So You Want to Wear the Pants
Character: Corporal Joe McDoakes
Released: November 8, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
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So You're Going to the Dentist
Title: So You're Going to the Dentist
Released: September 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
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Cattle Town
Title: Cattle Town
Character: Shiloh
Released: September 6, 1952
Type: Movie
The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.
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Park Row
Title: Park Row
Character: Steve Brodie
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
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So You Never Tell a Lie
Title: So You Never Tell a Lie
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: August 2, 1952
Type: Movie
When a watch intended for a contest winner at the office gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
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So You Want to Go to a Convention
Title: So You Want to Go to a Convention
Released: June 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.
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The Lion and the Horse
Title: The Lion and the Horse
Character: 'Shorty' Cameron
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.
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So You Want to Enjoy Life
Title: So You Want to Enjoy Life
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: March 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
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So You Want to Get It Wholesale
Title: So You Want to Get It Wholesale
Released: January 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
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Room for One More
Title: Room for One More
Released: January 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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So You Want to Be a Plumber
Title: So You Want to Be a Plumber
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: November 10, 1951
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
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The Tanks Are Coming
Title: The Tanks Are Coming
Character: Sgt. Tucker
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Charlie Appleby (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Dave, pawnbroker
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: The Red Skelton Show
Character: US Corporal
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: TV
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.
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So You Want to Be a Bachelor
Title: So You Want to Be a Bachelor
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: September 22, 1951
Type: Movie
"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.
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So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
Title: So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
Released: June 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.
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So You Want to Be a Cowboy
Title: So You Want to Be a Cowboy
Released: April 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie shown on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGur
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So You Want to Be a Handyman
Title: So You Want to Be a Handyman
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: January 3, 1951
Type: Movie
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.
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So You're Going to Have an Operation
Title: So You're Going to Have an Operation
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: December 2, 1950
Type: Movie
A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
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So You Want a Raise
Title: So You Want a Raise
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: September 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
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So You Want to Move
Title: So You Want to Move
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: August 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
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So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Title: So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Character: Joe McDoakes / Baby McDoakes
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe, until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
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So You Think You're Not Guilty
Title: So You Think You're Not Guilty
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: April 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
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So You Want to Throw a Party
Title: So You Want to Throw a Party
Released: February 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.
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So You Want to Be an Actor
Title: So You Want to Be an Actor
Released: December 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers
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So You Want to Get Rich Quick
Title: So You Want to Get Rich Quick
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: October 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.
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Zamba
Title: Zamba
Character: Marvin
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a dense jungle and is rescued by a safari headed by two wild-animal collectors, but Tommy is not found. He has amnesia and is lost, but is adopted by Zamba, a huge gorilla. He lives happily with his new family. Jenny comes back with a searching party, and Zamba, the gorilla mother, is determined to protect Tommy from his real mother.
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So You're Having In-Law Trouble
Title: So You're Having In-Law Trouble
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: August 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.
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So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
Title: So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: July 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
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So You Want to Be Popular
Title: So You Want to Be Popular
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: March 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Title: Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Character: Louie
Released: March 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
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So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter
Title: So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: January 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.
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So You Want to Be on the Radio
Title: So You Want to Be on the Radio
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: November 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
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June Bride
Title: June Bride
Character: Scott Davis
Released: October 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
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So You Want to Be in Politics
Title: So You Want to Be in Politics
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: October 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.
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So You Want to Be a Detective
Title: So You Want to Be a Detective
Character: Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)
Released: June 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Frankie Dodge
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
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So You Want to Build a House
Title: So You Want to Build a House
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
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Are You With It?
Title: Are You With It?
Character: Buster
Released: March 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.
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So You Want to Be a Gambler
Title: So You Want to Be a Gambler
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: February 14, 1948
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
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So You Want an Apartment
Title: So You Want an Apartment
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: January 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
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Heading For Heaven
Title: Heading For Heaven
Character: Alvin Ponacress
Released: December 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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So You Want to Hold Your Wife
Title: So You Want to Hold Your Wife
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
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The Spirit of West Point
Title: The Spirit of West Point
Character: Joe Wilson
Released: October 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
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So You Want to Be a Salesman
Title: So You Want to Be a Salesman
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: September 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
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Hollywood Wonderland
Title: Hollywood Wonderland
Character: Dancing Townsman (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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The Hucksters
Title: The Hucksters
Character: Freddie Callahan (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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So You're Going on a Vacation
Title: So You're Going on a Vacation
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: July 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
Title: So You Want to Be in Pictures
Character: Joe McDoakes / Himself
Released: June 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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So You're Going to Be a Father
Title: So You're Going to Be a Father
Character: Joe McDoakes / Josephine McDoakes
Released: May 10, 1947
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
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So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
Title: So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: December 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
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So You Want to Keep Your Hair
Title: So You Want to Keep Your Hair
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
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So You Want to Play the Horses
Title: So You Want to Play the Horses
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
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So You Think You're Allergic
Title: So You Think You're Allergic
Character: Joe McDoakes/MacGregor McDoakes
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
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Once Over Lightly
Title: Once Over Lightly
Character: Narrator
Released: October 14, 1944
Type: Movie
A short compilation movie similar to When Comedy was King (1960), and The Golden Age of Comedy (1957).
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Title: Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Character: American Pilot at Headquarters
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
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Nearly Eighteen
Title: Nearly Eighteen
Character: Eddie
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: RCAL Wireless Operator
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Navy Pilot (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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All by Myself
Title: All by Myself
Character: Buck
Released: June 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
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Reconnaissance Pilot
Title: Reconnaissance Pilot
Character: Jocular Officer
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
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So You Think You Need Glasses
Title: So You Think You Need Glasses
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: December 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems. (Taken from the imdb page)
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So You Want to Give Up Smoking
Title: So You Want to Give Up Smoking
Character: Joe McDoakes
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
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Criminal Investigator
Title: Criminal Investigator
Character: Powers
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
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Man From Headquarters
Title: Man From Headquarters
Character: Weeks, Reporter
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
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New Wine
Title: New Wine
Character: Peppi
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Sailor
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Office Worker at Party (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Eddie Kearney (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Ticket Taker
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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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Young Husband (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Man at Bank After Robbery (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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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Brother Rat
Title: Brother Rat
Character: Orderly
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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Secrets of an Actress
Title: Secrets of an Actress
Character: Flower Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Page (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: Third Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Hollywood Hotel
Title: Hollywood Hotel
Character: Casting Assistant (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Bystander / Man Sitting on Curb
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.