Ben Erway

Ben Erway

Born: April 25, 1892
Died: February 6, 1981

Movies for Ben Erway...

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Title: The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Character: Pete Van Horn (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Pete Van Horn
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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The FBI Story
Title: The FBI Story
Character: Justice Dept. Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Rimfire
Title: Rimfire
Character: Deputy Sheriff Harry Wilson
Released: March 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.
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The Undercover Man
Title: The Undercover Man
Character: Court Clerk
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
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Unto Thyself Be True
Title: Unto Thyself Be True
Character: Mr. Burton
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A Christian movie produced in 1949 by Family Films that shows a teenager named Bill who takes out the family car without a drivers license or his father's permission. Bill then gets into a accident and runs. Later young Bill has to deal with the authorities and his father!
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Shep Comes Home
Title: Shep Comes Home
Character: Mr. Gardner
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
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Pitfall
Title: Pitfall
Character: Doctor
Released: August 11, 1948
Type: Movie
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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The Bishop's Wife
Title: The Bishop's Wife
Character: Mr. Perry
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Holmby (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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The Brasher Doubloon
Title: The Brasher Doubloon
Character: Shaw (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Lou Latham - Bank (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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The Dark Mirror
Title: The Dark Mirror
Character: Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Harris (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Dentist
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Immigration Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Son of Dracula
Title: Son of Dracula
Character: Charlie the Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Title: The Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Prison Warden Root (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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The Unknown Guest
Title: The Unknown Guest
Character: Bar Customer at Lodge (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
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So This Is Washington
Title: So This Is Washington
Character: Congressman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Heckler (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Sharkey
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Alton
Released: January 8, 1943
Type: Movie
The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.