Sam McDaniel

Sam McDaniel

Born: January 28, 1886
Died: September 24, 1962
in Wichita, Kansas, USA
Sam McDaniel was an American screen and television actor, as well as a jazz musician. He was the brother of actresses Hattie and Etta McDaniel.

Movies for Sam McDaniel...

Ice Palace
Title: Ice Palace
Character: George, the train porter
Released: January 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
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A Hole in the Head
Title: A Hole in the Head
Character: Andy
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Jesse (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Johnny Trouble
Title: Johnny Trouble
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1957
Type: Movie
An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
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A Man Called Peter
Title: A Man Called Peter
Character: Henry
Released: March 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Porter
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: Amos 'n' Andy
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: TV
A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Porter (Uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Character: Boatright
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Race Street
Title: Race Street
Character: Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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Heavenly Daze
Title: Heavenly Daze
Character: Spiffingham
Released: September 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
Title: Give My Regards to Broadway
Character: Porter
Released: June 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Secret Service Investigator
Title: Secret Service Investigator
Character: Porter
Released: May 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
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Heart of Virginia
Title: Heart of Virginia
Character: 'Sunflower' Jones
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Waiter on Train (Uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Never Say Goodbye
Title: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: Smoky - Second
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Porter (Uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Title: Joe Palooka, Champ
Character: Smoky
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Train Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Freddy (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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My Reputation
Title: My Reputation
Character: The Van Ormans' Butler Jonathan (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Title: She Wouldn't Say Yes
Character: Train Steward (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Matt - Cook-Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Experiment Perilous
Title: Experiment Perilous
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Title: Marriage Is a Private Affair
Character: Train Station Porter (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
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When Strangers Marry
Title: When Strangers Marry
Character: Train Porter
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Charlie the Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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3 Men in White
Title: 3 Men in White
Character: Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Title: Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Character: Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
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Son of Dracula
Title: Son of Dracula
Character: Andy (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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Gangway for Tomorrow
Title: Gangway for Tomorrow
Character: Hank
Released: November 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
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The Ghost and the Guest
Title: The Ghost and the Guest
Character: Harmony Jones
Released: April 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long, they are besieged by a gang of crooks, searching for a fortune in diamonds. With the help of chauffeur Harmony Jones, the honeymooners attempt to outsmart the villains.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Train Porter
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Night Porter (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Johnny Doughboy
Title: Johnny Doughboy
Character: Cook
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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The Traitor Within
Title: The Traitor Within
Character: Melrose
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
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Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Toby
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Black Man in Jail (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Grand Central Murder
Title: Grand Central Murder
Character: Night Watchman (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Kit Carson
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Mokey
Title: Mokey
Character: Uncle Ben
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
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All Through the Night
Title: All Through the Night
Character: Deacon
Released: January 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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Louisiana Purchase
Title: Louisiana Purchase
Character: Sam
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Waiter Serving Custer (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Henry (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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International Lady
Title: International Lady
Character: Waiter
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Wash
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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Broadway Limited
Title: Broadway Limited
Character: Train Porter
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
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South of Panama
Title: South of Panama
Character: Rodriguez Lincoln 'Rod' Jones
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Jefferson Washington
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Golden Hoofs
Title: Golden Hoofs
Character: Henry
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Calling All Husbands
Title: Calling All Husbands
Character: Nappy
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.
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Am I Guilty?
Title: Am I Guilty?
Character: John D. Jones
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Janitor Tripping Fire Alarms (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Too Many Husbands
Title: Too Many Husbands
Character: Porter
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Sam Moore - Black Driver (uncredited)
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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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Black Janitor (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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Pride of the Blue Grass
Title: Pride of the Blue Grass
Character: Domino Jones
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Sam
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Sam - Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Sweepstakes Winner
Title: Sweepstakes Winner
Character: Mose (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: St. Louis Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Hold-Up Witness - Mose (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Splash (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Speedy
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
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Stablemates
Title: Stablemates
Character: Bookie
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Train Waiter (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Four's a Crowd
Title: Four's a Crowd
Character: H. Louis Brown (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Driver (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Walking Down Broadway
Title: Walking Down Broadway
Character: Claybourne's Chauffeur
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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Sergeant Murphy
Title: Sergeant Murphy
Character: Henry H. Henry
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Train porter
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Bargain with Bullets
Title: Bargain with Bullets
Character: Police Capt. Holmes
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster film about the Harlem underworld.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Black Porter
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: 'Doc'
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Dark Manhattan
Title: Dark Manhattan
Character: Jack Jackson
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A low-level gangster determines to let nothing stand in the way of his gaining control of the numbers rackets in Harlem.
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Polo Joe
Title: Polo Joe
Character: Harvey the Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Train Porter
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: Dining Car Waiter
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Train Porter
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Hearts Divided
Title: Hearts Divided
Character: Zachariah
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Exclusive Story
Title: Exclusive Story
Character: Man Threatened by Acello (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Jeff
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Title: The Calling of Dan Matthews
Character: Sam (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Mack's Hostler (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Men's Club Attendant (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Oscar - Show Boat Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Lady Tubbs
Title: Lady Tubbs
Character: Reckless
Released: July 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
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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Unwelcome Stranger
Title: Unwelcome Stranger
Character: Pot Roast (as Sam McDaniels)
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
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Two Hearts in Wax Time
Title: Two Hearts in Wax Time
Character: Deck Attendant (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
In this MGM Colortone Musical short, a department store custodian who overindulges in drink sees the mannequins in the store's display windows come to life.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Title: Gold Diggers of 1935
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Belle of the Nineties
Title: Belle of the Nineties
Character: Jasmine's Admirer (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
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Wagon Wheels
Title: Wagon Wheels
Character: Coachman
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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The Dragon Murder Case
Title: The Dragon Murder Case
Character: Steam Room Attendant (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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Contented Calves
Title: Contented Calves
Character: Eli - the Porter
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.
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Here Comes the Navy
Title: Here Comes the Navy
Character: Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Title: Charlie Chan's Courage
Character: Porter
Released: July 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
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Operator 13
Title: Operator 13
Character: Rufus (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Black Prisoner on Death Row (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Rough Necking
Title: Rough Necking
Character: Anatole
Released: April 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Cleaning Man (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: George, the Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Going Hollywood
Title: Going Hollywood
Character: Rasputin
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Character: Lunch Wagon Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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The Chief
Title: The Chief
Character: Bootblack
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Title: Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Character: Gus - Rocci's Valet
Released: November 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Red Cap Porter (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Footlight Parade
Title: Footlight Parade
Character: Hotel Porter in Stage Act (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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The Vanishing Frontier
Title: The Vanishing Frontier
Character: Whistlin' Zeke
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly returns to see her. Eventually he is captured and now his men must try and rescue him.
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Blondie Johnson
Title: Blondie Johnson
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Man Listening To Radio Broadcast
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Employees' Entrance
Title: Employees' Entrance
Character: Janitor at Hotel Balken (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: McCormick's Butler (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Men's Room Valet (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
Title: The Rich Are Always with Us
Character: Julian's Butler Max (uncredited)
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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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Redcap Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Guilty Hands
Title: Guilty Hands
Character: Jimmy, a Black Servant (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
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A Free Soul
Title: A Free Soul
Character: Casino Valet (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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Dance, Fools, Dance
Title: Dance, Fools, Dance
Character: Luva’s Butler (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.