Michael Vallon

Michael Vallon

Born: July 21, 1897
Died: November 13, 1973

Movies for Michael Vallon...

Snowfire
Title: Snowfire
Character: Poco
Released: May 18, 1958
Type: Movie
A little girl living on an isolated ranch claims to have formed a bond of friendship with a pure white, "wild" stallion. The horse is well known in the area, almost legendary, and supposedly vicious. Is she just making it up, or is she telling the truth? If it's real, isn't it dangerous for her with a "killer" horse? Or is the horse as vicious as he's been portrayed?
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Character: Dr. Azzui (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
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Black Widow
Title: Black Widow
Character: Coal Dealer (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Two Gun Marshal
Title: Two Gun Marshal
Character: Papa Antonelli
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
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Six Gun Decision
Title: Six Gun Decision
Character: Charlie Rogers
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A compilation of two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, Border City Election and Pony Express vs. Telegraph, edited together and released as a feature film.
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Appointment in Honduras
Title: Appointment in Honduras
Character: Stranger (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
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Topeka
Title: Topeka
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
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Rebel City
Title: Rebel City
Character: Sam - the Barber
Released: May 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: Homesteader August Gormley
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.
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The Steel Fist
Title: The Steel Fist
Character: Old Man on Train Station
Released: January 6, 1952
Type: Movie
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
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The Sword of Monte Cristo
Title: The Sword of Monte Cristo
Character: Viard
Released: March 3, 1951
Type: Movie
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the members of a group of rebels. A Masked Cavalier, the niece, Lady Christianne, of the Marquis De Montableau, announces at a secret meeting of the Normandy underground leaders that the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo was willed to her and she will use it to finance their cause. Her uncle, the only one who can decipher the symbols on the sword of Monte Cristo, the key to the treasure, derides her stand against the Emperor. La Roche takes possession of the sword and has the Marquis put into the dungeon. Christianne, as the Masked Cavalier, regains the sword from La Roche, but Captain Renault apprehends her and returns to sword to La Roche.
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Tarnished
Title: Tarnished
Character: Steve Barron
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
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Treasure of Monte Cristo
Title: Treasure of Monte Cristo
Character: Papa Torecelli
Released: August 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
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Ringside
Title: Ringside
Character: Bettor
Released: July 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.
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Tuna Clipper
Title: Tuna Clipper
Character: Papa Pereira
Released: April 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.
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Gunsmoke Mesa
Title: Gunsmoke Mesa
Character: Judge Plymouth
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
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Trigger Trail
Title: Trigger Trail
Character: Bender
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his town from being taken over by a villainous railroad financier.
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Marshal of Gunsmoke
Title: Marshal of Gunsmoke
Character: Ezra Peters
Released: January 22, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections.
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The Lone Star Trail
Title: The Lone Star Trail
Character: Jonathan Bentley
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to gain control of all of the valley land before a dam is constructed. When Blaze raises the money to pay off the taxes on his ranch, he finds it has been marked to incriminate him.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Preston
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Border Buckaroos
Title: Border Buckaroos
Character: Seth Higgins
Released: June 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele, and Panhandle Perkins are en route to Boulder City to investigate the murder of rancher Dan Clark when they happen upon Trigger Farley, a gunslinger hired by Cole Melford, the chief suspects in Clark's murder.
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Raiders of San Joaquin
Title: Raiders of San Joaquin
Character: Marshal Clark
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad
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Cheyenne Roundup
Title: Cheyenne Roundup
Character: Miner
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the upright Gils.
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Title: Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Character: John Hobbs
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
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The Old Chisholm Trail
Title: The Old Chisholm Trail
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.
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Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Title: Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Character: Lawyer Clint Rayner
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.
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The Silver Bullet
Title: The Silver Bullet
Character: Nevada
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
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The Dawn Express
Title: The Dawn Express
Character: Argus
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
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The Spider Returns
Title: The Spider Returns
Character: Henchman
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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Three Men from Texas
Title: Three Men from Texas
Character: Town Mayor
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
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Lightning Strikes West
Title: Lightning Strikes West
Character: Butch Taggart
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's boot. Joe Laikon and his men are also after the gold and they overpower Morgan, get the map, and head for the treasure. But Morgan and Tod Grant are soon on their trail
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Title: Drums of Fu Manchu
Character: Temple Guard
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
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Boss of Bullion City
Title: Boss of Bullion City
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
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Death Rides the Range
Title: Death Rides the Range
Character: Dr. Wahl
Released: December 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave. Investigating his death, Ken and his friends encounter a land dispute between a pair of neighboring ranches, an arrogant German baron and a mysterious shack that houses a great secret.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.