Russell Gleason

Russell Gleason

Born: February 6, 1908
Died: December 26, 1945
in Portland, Oregon, USA
Russell Gleason (February 6, 1908 – December 25, 1945) was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era. Born into an acting family, one of his earliest roles was in the 1930 classic film, All Quiet on the Western Front.

While still in the middle of a successful acting career, Gleason joined the U.S. Army in late 1943, during World War II. While awaiting deployment to Europe in December 1945 in New York City, Gleason fell to his death from a hotel window. He was the son of actors Lucille and James Gleason.

Movies for Russell Gleason...

Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Inspector (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Salute to the Marines
Title: Salute to the Marines
Character: Pvt. Hanks
Released: September 2, 1943
Type: Movie
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
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Seeing Hands
Title: Seeing Hands
Character: Ben Helwig (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Ogilvie
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Dudes Are Pretty People
Title: Dudes Are Pretty People
Character: Brad Benton
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
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Unexpected Uncle
Title: Unexpected Uncle
Character: Tommy Turner
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
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Earl of Puddlestone
Title: Earl of Puddlestone
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
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Grandpa Goes To Town
Title: Grandpa Goes To Town
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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Money To Burn
Title: Money To Burn
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
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The Covered Trailer
Title: The Covered Trailer
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Tom Sortwell
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Should Husbands Work?
Title: Should Husbands Work?
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: July 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Albert Hockman
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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My Wife's Relatives
Title: My Wife's Relatives
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
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Undercover Agent
Title: Undercover Agent
Character: Bill Trent
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Herbert Thompson
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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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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A Trip to Paris
Title: A Trip to Paris
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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The Higgins Family
Title: The Higgins Family
Character: Sidney Higgins
Released: March 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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Off to the Races
Title: Off to the Races
Character: Herbert Thompson
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Fury Below
Title: Fury Below
Character: Jim Cole III
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.
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A Tenderfoot Goes West
Title: A Tenderfoot Goes West
Character: Wellington Pike
Released: October 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about. Rancher Ann Keith and her cowhands, who have read and laughed at Pike's "wild" west, decide to give him a shock impression that is even wilder than depicted in his imaginative literary flights. Gang leader "Killer" Madden and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled. Written by Les Adams for IMDb.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Daniel Delaney
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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Condemned to Live
Title: Condemned to Live
Character: David
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Ben Johnson
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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I Can't Escape
Title: I Can't Escape
Character: Tom Martin
Released: July 4, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
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Private Jones
Title: Private Jones
Character: Williams
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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Always Kickin'
Title: Always Kickin'
Released: October 9, 1932
Type: Movie
When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.
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Off His Base
Title: Off His Base
Character: Jerry Minor Smith
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Title: The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Character: Norman Ware
Released: May 6, 1932
Type: Movie
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
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Nice Women
Title: Nice Women
Character: Bill Wells
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
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Homicide Squad
Title: Homicide Squad
Character: Joe Riley
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
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Beyond Victory
Title: Beyond Victory
Character: Bud
Released: April 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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Laugh and Get Rich
Title: Laugh and Get Rich
Character: Larry Owens
Released: March 27, 1931
Type: Movie
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Mueller
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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Officer O'Brien
Title: Officer O'Brien
Character: Johnny Dale
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
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Seven Faces
Title: Seven Faces
Character: Georges Dufeyel
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929.
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The Sophomore
Title: The Sophomore
Character: Dutch
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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The Flying Fool
Title: The Flying Fool
Character: Jimmy Taylor
Released: July 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Hungerford
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)