John Wray

John Wray

Born: February 12, 1887
Died: April 5, 1940
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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John Wray (13 February 1887 - 5 April 1940) was an American character actor of stage and screen.

Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly made an indelible impression on the era in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in The Czar of Broadway (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of The Miracle Man (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. During this period he was one of the many actors mentioned for the title role in Dracula (1931).

Wray's roles grew increasingly smaller as the decade progressed but he was very visible as the starving farmer threatening to kill Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and as the warden in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937).

Other films include Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Frisco Kid (1935), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Boys Town (1938), Each Dawn I Die (1939), The Cat and the Canary (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939).

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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Joe - Farmer
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Man from Dakota
Title: The Man from Dakota
Character: Mr. Carpenter
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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Swiss Family Robinson
Title: Swiss Family Robinson
Character: Ramsey
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
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Know Your Money
Title: Know Your Money
Character: Bowers the Printer
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
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Remember the Night
Title: Remember the Night
Character: Hank
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Stanley
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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The Cat and the Canary
Title: The Cat and the Canary
Character: Hendricks
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Convict Diggs
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Chocolate Drop's Manager
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Smuggled Cargo
Title: Smuggled Cargo
Character: Chris Hays
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Pete Kassock
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Winter Carnival
Title: Winter Carnival
Character: Poultry Truck Driver
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: 'Crack' Williams
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Silas
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Pacific Liner
Title: Pacific Liner
Character: Metcalfe
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Tom Johnson
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Crime Takes a Holiday
Title: Crime Takes a Holiday
Character: Howell
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
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Boys Town
Title: Boys Town
Character: Weasel (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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Spawn of the North
Title: Spawn of the North
Character: Dr. Sparks
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Tenth Avenue Kid
Title: Tenth Avenue Kid
Character: Joe Turner
Released: August 22, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Head Lawyer
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Gangs of New York
Title: Gangs of New York
Character: Maddock
Released: May 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Making the Headlines
Title: Making the Headlines
Character: Herbert Sandford
Released: March 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
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What Price Safety!
Title: What Price Safety!
Character: J. Z. Wray
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
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The Black Doll
Title: The Black Doll
Character: Walling
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
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The Women Men Marry
Title: The Women Men Marry
Character: Brother Nameless
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Guard Rumann
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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The Devil Is Driving
Title: The Devil Is Driving
Character: Joe Peters
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.
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Circus Girl
Title: Circus Girl
Character: Roebling
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Hank Simmerson
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Warden Wheeler
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Jerry Daley
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Sparks
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character: George Darnley
Released: October 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Shane
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Priest
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Lang, a Gangster
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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A Son Comes Home
Title: A Son Comes Home
Character: Gas Station Owner
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Flagin
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Farmer
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Ladies Love Danger
Title: Ladies Love Danger
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Fox comedy about an adventurous young woman
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: The Weasel
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Fred Larkin
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Mitts Coster
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Men Without Names
Title: Men Without Names
Character: Sam Hammond
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Mike Gibbons
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Feets Moore
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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I Am a Thief
Title: I Am a Thief
Character: Antonio Poricci
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
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I'll Fix It
Title: I'll Fix It
Character: Fletcher
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Title: The Captain Hates the Sea
Character: Mr. Jeddock
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Slug
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
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Fifteen Wives
Title: Fifteen Wives
Character: Jason Getty
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Michael Cooney
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Most Precious Thing in Life
Title: Most Precious Thing in Life
Character: Carter
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Inspector Crofton
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
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The Crosby Case
Title: The Crosby Case
Character: Willie McGuire
Released: March 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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The Big Shakedown
Title: The Big Shakedown
Character: Higgins
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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Bombay Mail
Title: Bombay Mail
Character: Giovanni Martini
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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Lone Cowboy
Title: Lone Cowboy
Character: Bill O'Neal
Released: December 2, 1933
Type: Movie
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After Tonight
Title: After Tonight
Character: Mitika, the Gypsy Contact
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Foreman of Janitors
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Robert Smiley
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Detective Lieut. Sheehan
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.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Nordine (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Doctor X
Title: Doctor X
Character: Dr. Haines
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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Miss Pinkerton
Title: Miss Pinkerton
Character: Hugo
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
Title: The Rich Are Always with Us
Character: Clark Davis
Released: May 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Character: The Frog
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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The Mouthpiece
Title: The Mouthpiece
Character: Mr. Barton
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
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High Pressure
Title: High Pressure
Character: Jimmy Moore
Released: January 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Cmdr. Brambourg
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Safe in Hell
Title: Safe in Hell
Character: Eagan
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Harry Silvers
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Kenneth Stone
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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The Czar of Broadway
Title: The Czar of Broadway
Character: Morton Bradstreet
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Himmelstoss
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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New York Nights
Title: New York Nights
Character: Joe Prividi
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.