Moroni Olsen

Moroni Olsen

Born: June 26, 1889
Died: November 22, 1954
in Ogden, Utah, USA
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Moroni Olsen (June 27, 1889 – November 22, 1954) was an American actor.

Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah, to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Martha Hoverholst, who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, but there appears to be no support for this claim.

Olsen studied at Weber Stake Academy, the predecessor of Weber State University. He then went to study at the University of Utah, where one of his teachers was Maud May Babcock. During World War I, he sold war bonds for the United States Navy. He also studied and performed in the Eastern United States around this time.

In 1923, Olsen organized the "Moroni Olsen Players" out of Ogden. They performed at both Ogden's Orpheum Theatre and at various other locations spread from Salt Lake City to Seattle.

After having worked on Broadway, he made his film debut in a 1935 adaptation of The Three Musketeers. He later played a different role in a 1939 comedy version of the story, starring Don Ameche as D'Artagnan and the Ritz Brothers as three dimwitted lackeys who are forced to substitute for the musketeers, who have drunk themselves into a stupor.

His most famous role was the voice of the Slave in The Magic Mirror in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Olsen also provided the voice of the senior angel in It's a Wonderful Life.

Olsen was an active member of the LDS Church, being a teacher of youth in the Hoolwood Ward. He also was director of the Pilgramage Play of Hollywood for several years.

Movies for Moroni Olsen...

Sign of the Pagan
Title: Sign of the Pagan
Character: Pope Leo I
Released: November 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.
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The Long, Long Trailer
Title: The Long, Long Trailer
Character: Mr. Tewitt
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
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Marry Me Again
Title: Marry Me Again
Character: Mr. Courtney
Released: September 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Arnold Reuben
Released: July 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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Lone Star
Title: Lone Star
Character: Sam Houston
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
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Washington Story
Title: Washington Story
Character: Speaker Of The House
Released: July 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.
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At Sword's Point
Title: At Sword's Point
Character: Porthos
Released: April 22, 1952
Type: Movie
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford
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Submarine Command
Title: Submarine Command
Character: Rear Adm. Joshua Rice
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Judge
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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No Questions Asked
Title: No Questions Asked
Character: Henry Manston
Released: June 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A young lawyer's primrose path to success gets him framed for murder.
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Father's Little Dividend
Title: Father's Little Dividend
Character: Herbert Dunstan
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
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Payment on Demand
Title: Payment on Demand
Character: Mr. Barton
Released: February 3, 1951
Type: Movie
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Herbert Dunstan
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Targil
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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Task Force
Title: Task Force
Character: Adm. Ames
Released: August 30, 1949
Type: Movie
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Chairman
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Command Decision
Title: Command Decision
Character: Congressman Stone
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
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Up in Central Park
Title: Up in Central Park
Character: Big Jim Fitts
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Parole Board Chairman
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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High Wall
Title: High Wall
Character: Dr. Philip Dunlap
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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That Hagen Girl
Title: That Hagen Girl
Character: Trenton Gateley
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Don Toland
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
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Life with Father
Title: Life with Father
Character: Dr. Humphries
Released: September 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Dr. Ames - Mrs. Smith's psychiatrist
Released: May 29, 1947
Type: Movie
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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The Long Night
Title: The Long Night
Character: Chief of Police Bob McManus
Released: May 28, 1947
Type: Movie
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Senior Angel (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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The Strange Woman
Title: The Strange Woman
Character: Rev. Thatcher
Released: October 25, 1946
Type: Movie
In early 19th century New England, an attractive unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to deceive and control the men around her.
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Walter Beardsley
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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Boys' Ranch
Title: Boys' Ranch
Character: Judge Henderson
Released: July 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Character: Bishop Martin
Released: June 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
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From This Day Forward
Title: From This Day Forward
Character: Tim Bagley
Released: March 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Inspector Peterson
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Don't Fence Me In
Title: Don't Fence Me In
Character: Henry Bennett
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: House Detective
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Pride of the Marines
Title: Pride of the Marines
Character: Capt. Burroughs
Released: August 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Title: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Character: General (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Title: Roger Touhy, Gangster
Character: Riley
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
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Cobra Woman
Title: Cobra Woman
Character: MacDonald
Released: May 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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Buffalo Bill
Title: Buffalo Bill
Character: Sen. Frederici
Released: April 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Caliph Hassan
Released: January 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: President of Businessman's Board (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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We've Never Been Licked
Title: We've Never Been Licked
Character: Commandant
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Col. Faymonville
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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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Col. Blake
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Paul Grebeau
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Dr. Henry Olcott
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Ralph Henry
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Major Allen
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Sundown Jim
Title: Sundown Jim
Character: Andrew Barr
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Brenner
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: Mr. John Goodwin
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Dr. John Romer
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Dive Bomber
Title: Dive Bomber
Character: Senior Surgeon at San Diego
Released: August 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
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Three Sons o' Guns
Title: Three Sons o' Guns
Character: Philip G. Talbot
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Sylvanus Q. Sattherwaite
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Respect the Law
Title: Respect the Law
Character: Dr. Walter Terriss
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Robert E. Lee
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Judge R.D. Davis
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Doc Richards
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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If I Had My Way
Title: If I Had My Way
Character: Mr. Blair
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Cameron
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Title: Brother Rat and a Baby
Character: Major Terry
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: The Warden
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Barricade
Title: Barricade
Character: Managing Editor
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Jonathan Forbes
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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Allegheny Uprising
Title: Allegheny Uprising
Character: Tom Calhoon
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Slim Jones
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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The Bill of Rights
Title: The Bill of Rights
Character: Royal Governor Dunmore
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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Susannah of the Mounties
Title: Susannah of the Mounties
Character: Supt. Andrew Standing
Released: June 13, 1939
Type: Movie
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: The friar
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Buck Russell
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Bailiff
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Juvenal Court Judge
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Homicide Bureau
Title: Homicide Bureau
Character: Captain Haines
Released: January 5, 1939
Type: Movie
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: John Dillon - 1938
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: The Fleet Captain
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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That Certain Age
Title: That Certain Age
Character: Fullerton's Associate (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Bearded Leader of the People (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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What Do You Think? Tupapaoo
Title: What Do You Think? Tupapaoo
Character: Kurt Larsen
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Douglas
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Senator Hearst
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Character: Magic Mirror (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.
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Adventure's End
Title: Adventure's End
Character: First Mate Rand Husk
Released: December 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
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The Last Gangster
Title: The Last Gangster
Character: Detective Danny Shea (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Tartar Chief (Voice) (Uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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The Plough and the Stars
Title: The Plough and the Stars
Character: General Connally
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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Mummy's Boys
Title: Mummy's Boys
Character: Dr. Edward Sterling
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
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Grand Jury
Title: Grand Jury
Character: Davis, the bodyguard
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
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Mary of Scotland
Title: Mary of Scotland
Character: John Knox
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Jake
Released: July 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
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The Witness Chair
Title: The Witness Chair
Character: Lt. Poole
Released: April 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
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Two in Revolt
Title: Two in Revolt
Character: Cyrus Benton
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.
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The Farmer in the Dell
Title: The Farmer in the Dell
Character: Chester Hart
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
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Yellow Dust
Title: Yellow Dust
Character: Missouri
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
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We're Only Human
Title: We're Only Human
Character: R.J. Curran
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Character: Mayor Jim Cargen
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Annie Oakley
Title: Annie Oakley
Character: Col. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Porthos
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.