Arthur Hohl

Arthur Hohl

Born: May 20, 1889
Died: March 11, 1964
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Arthur Hohl (May 21, 1889 – March 10, 1964) was an American stage and motion-picture character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and began appearing in films in the early 1920s. He played a great number of villainous or mildly larcenous roles, although his screen roles usually were small, but he also played a few sympathetic characters.

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You Gotta Stay Happy
Title: You Gotta Stay Happy
Character: Cemetery Man
Released: October 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Dragon Rouge Host (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Real Estate Agent
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Vigilantes Return
Title: The Vigilantes Return
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Brady - Gates Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Brady (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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The Frozen Ghost
Title: The Frozen Ghost
Character: The Drunk in the Audience
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.
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Salome, Where She Danced
Title: Salome, Where She Danced
Character: Bartender
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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Mystery of the Riverboat
Title: Mystery of the Riverboat
Character: Clayton
Released: October 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
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Shadows in the Night
Title: Shadows in the Night
Character: Riggs
Released: July 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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The Scarlet Claw
Title: The Scarlet Claw
Character: Emile Journet
Released: May 18, 1944
Type: Movie
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Robert Wright
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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The Spider Woman
Title: The Spider Woman
Character: Adam Gilflower
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Spike Madagan
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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Whispering Ghosts
Title: Whispering Ghosts
Character: Inspector Norris
Released: May 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Title: Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Character: Captain Greenough
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
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We Go Fast
Title: We Go Fast
Character: Hold-Up Man
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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Ride on Vaquero
Title: Ride on Vaquero
Character: Sheriff Johnny Burns
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
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Men of Boys Town
Title: Men of Boys Town
Character: Guard
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Title: Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Character: Eric Vaughn
Released: July 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Salters
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Olivier
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Two Thoroughbreds
Title: Two Thoroughbreds
Character: Thaddeus Carey
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
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Fugitive at Large
Title: Fugitive at Large
Character: Curtis
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Rawlins
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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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Henchman Bassick
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Miller
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Burr
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Boy Slaves
Title: Boy Slaves
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
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Stablemates
Title: Stablemates
Character: Mr. Gale
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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Crime Takes a Holiday
Title: Crime Takes a Holiday
Character: Joe Whitehead
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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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Riach
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Penitentiary
Title: Penitentiary
Character: Finch
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
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The Bad Man of Brimstone
Title: The Bad Man of Brimstone
Character: Doc Laramie
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Walter Whittaker
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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Trapped by G-Men
Title: Trapped by G-Men
Character: Henchman Blackie
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Grimes
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Heinrich
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: First Captain
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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The Devil-Doll
Title: The Devil-Doll
Character: Victor Radin
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Pete
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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It Had to Happen
Title: It Had to Happen
Character: Honest John Pelkey
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Conroy (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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We're Only Human
Title: We're Only Human
Character: John Martin
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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Guard That Girl
Title: Guard That Girl
Character: Reynolds
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
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Case of the Missing Man
Title: Case of the Missing Man
Character: Steve
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Frank Julian
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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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Louie
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Village Tale
Title: Village Tale
Character: Elmer Stevenson
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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One Frightened Night
Title: One Frightened Night
Character: Arthur Proctor
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and proclaims that she will receive his entire fortune. A second lady appears at the estate, claiming that she is actually Whyte's granddaughter, Doris Waverly, and the first woman is found murdered in her room! With each guest possessing a motive, the mystery of the killer's identity briskly unfolds through a stirring series of surprises.
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Eight Bells
Title: Eight Bells
Character: Williams
Released: April 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
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I'll Love You Always
Title: I'll Love You Always
Character: Jergens
Released: March 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He finally acquires a position that will require him to go to Russia for a period of time, while Nora goes back to the stage during his absence. But he loses out on the job at the last minute, and rather than tell Nora he has failed again, he steals a roll of money from his prospective employer to buy some things for Nora and go out and have a good time before, she things, his departure. His departure is to jail rather than Russia and he hides the truth from Nora by having an acquaintance mail his letters from Russia. He then finds out that Nora is pregnant.
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In Spite of Danger
Title: In Spite of Danger
Character: Steve Lynch
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
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The Whole Town's Talking
Title: The Whole Town's Talking
Character: Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Romance in Manhattan
Title: Romance in Manhattan
Character: Halsey J. Pander
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Mike Callahan
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
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Against the Law
Title: Against the Law
Character: Kelly
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with his friend, Doctor Bill Barie (the house surgeon in the Emergency Ward), for the attentions of nurse Martha Gray. Despite their rivalry, Steve still endeavors to free his friend from the grip of a merciless racketeer and a gambling gang. But Steve fails in his efforts and then sets out to avenge his friend and smash-up the gang.
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Lady by Choice
Title: Lady by Choice
Character: Kendall
Released: October 15, 1934
Type: Movie
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Brutus
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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Among the Missing
Title: Among the Missing
Character: Gordon
Released: September 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Beckett
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Dr. Sothern
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: James Randolph
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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A Modern Hero
Title: A Modern Hero
Character: Homer Flint
Released: April 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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Jimmy the Gent
Title: Jimmy the Gent
Character: Monty Barton
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: George
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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Massacre
Title: Massacre
Character: Dr. Turner
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
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The World Changes
Title: The World Changes
Character: Mr. Patten
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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Man's Castle
Title: Man's Castle
Character: Bragg
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Character: Seymour Young
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 Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Gamble the Butler
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Footlight Parade
Title: Footlight Parade
Character: Al Frazer
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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Wild Boys of the Road
Title: Wild Boys of the Road
Character: Dr. Henry A. Heckel
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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Brief Moment
Title: Brief Moment
Character: Steve Walsh
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
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Captured!
Title: Captured!
Character: Cocky
Released: August 19, 1933
Type: Movie
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Ed Sipple
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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The Narrow Corner
Title: The Narrow Corner
Character: Captain Nichols
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Dan Hogan
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Title: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Character: Herman Malvin
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
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The Silk Express
Title: The Silk Express
Character: Wallace Myton
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
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Infernal Machine
Title: Infernal Machine
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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Island of Lost Souls
Title: Island of Lost Souls
Character: Montgomery
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
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The Sign of the Cross
Title: The Sign of the Cross
Character: Titus
Released: November 30, 1932
Type: Movie
After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are caught, and about to be hauled off, when Marcus, the highest military official in Rome, comes upon them. When he sees their stepdaughter Mercia, he instantly falls in love with her and frees them. Marcus pursues Mercia, which gets him into trouble with Emperor (for being easy on Christians) and with the Empress, who loves him and is jealous.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
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It Is the Law
Title: It Is the Law
Character: Albert Woodruff / 'Sniffer' Evans
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
This silent mystery is considered a lost film.