Robert Kent

Robert Kent

Born: December 3, 1908
Died: May 4, 1955
in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Robert Kent, was an American film actor. His career included starring roles in several film serials of the 1940s, including The Phantom Creeps, Who's Guilty?, and The Phantom Rider.

Movies for Robert Kent...

The Country Girl
Title: The Country Girl
Character: Paul Unger
Released: December 15, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.
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Rebel City
Title: Rebel City
Character: Capt. Ramsey
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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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Radar Secret Service
Title: Radar Secret Service
Character: Henchman Benson
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
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Wild Weed
Title: Wild Weed
Character: Lt. Mason
Released: July 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Capt. Bob West
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Tony Richards
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Jake Sebastian
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Dragnet
Title: Dragnet
Character: Police Lt. Ricco
Released: August 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jewels from England to America via a trans-ocean airline. Mary Hogan, an airline hostess, aids him in his quest.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: 'Dixie' Logan aka Judge Joel Conroy (as Douglas Blackley)
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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Who's Guilty?
Title: Who's Guilty?
Released: November 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1945 American serial film of the same name, composed for export only, never seen in the USA and now evidently a long-lost film.
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Title: Joe Palooka, Champ
Character: Ronnie Brewster
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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Blonde Alibi
Title: Blonde Alibi
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: Dr. Jim Sterling
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.
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Who's Guilty?
Title: Who's Guilty?
Character: Bob Stewart
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: Steve Jackson
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Find the Blackmailer
Title: Find the Blackmailer
Character: Mark Harper
Released: November 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
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Stand by for Action
Title: Stand by for Action
Character: Hank Nels (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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Stagecoach Express
Title: Stagecoach Express
Character: Griff Williams
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Ellen has the contract for the South West Stage Line through the panhandle. Her father had the run for years and Haney, who runs the office, worked for him. But Ellen does not know that Haney is in league with Elkins and they want the stage line so they can rob the gold shipments. All they need do is stop the stage and end her contract, but that is not easy with Dave driving for Ellen.
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Blonde Comet
Title: Blonde Comet
Character: Jim Flynn
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Twilight on the Trail
Title: Twilight on the Trail
Character: Henchman Drake
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
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Sunset in Wyoming
Title: Sunset in Wyoming
Character: Larry Drew
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.
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One Million B.C.
Title: One Million B.C.
Character: Mountain Guide
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
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A Chump at Oxford
Title: A Chump at Oxford
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Title: The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Character: Charles Herron
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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Calling All Marines
Title: Calling All Marines
Character: Sgt. Marvin Fox
Released: September 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Title: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Character: Ensign Copley
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Ted Frazier
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Cyrus Barrett Jr.
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: Robert Mabrey
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Dave Tyler
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Capt. Bob West
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Little Orphan Annie
Title: Little Orphan Annie
Character: Johnny Adams
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: John Carter
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Wanted by the Police
Title: Wanted by the Police
Character: Policeman Mike O'Leary
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
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The Gladiator
Title: The Gladiator
Character: Tom Dixon
Released: August 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Character: Marty Weston
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Title: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Character: Gordon Chase
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
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That I May Live
Title: That I May Live
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Gerry Townsend
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Lee Martin
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Nick Moore
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Title: Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Character: Jimmie Wilson
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Tony Luke
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
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Dimples
Title: Dimples
Character: Allen Drew
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.
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King of the Royal Mounted
Title: King of the Royal Mounted
Character: RCMP Sgt. King
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her father. An evil lawyer plans to keep the mine for himself.
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Title: The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Character: Dr. Michael Forbes
Released: July 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Cpl. Robert King
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
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Ship Cafe
Title: Ship Cafe
Character: Jimmy (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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College Scandal
Title: College Scandal
Character: Dan Courtridge
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Trooper Blatzky
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.