Ole Olsen

Ole Olsen

Born: November 6, 1892
Died: January 26, 1963

Movies for Ole Olsen...

Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Johnny at the Fair
Title: Johnny at the Fair
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities.
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See My Lawyer
Title: See My Lawyer
Character: Ole
Released: March 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
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Ghost Catchers
Title: Ghost Catchers
Character: Himself
Released: June 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Himself
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Ole Olsen
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Fighting Mad
Title: Fighting Mad
Character: Chess Player
Released: November 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canada where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly, of the Canadian Mounties, rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan, sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.
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Paroled from the Big House
Title: Paroled from the Big House
Character: Torchy
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent poses as a criminal to infiltrate a gang of parolees seeking vengeance on the lawmen who jailed them.
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All Over Town
Title: All Over Town
Character: Olsen
Released: August 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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Cinema Circus
Title: Cinema Circus
Character: Himself (as Olsen)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
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Country Gentlemen
Title: Country Gentlemen
Character: J.D. McAllister
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
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Gold Dust Gertie
Title: Gold Dust Gertie
Character: George Harlan
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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50 Million Frenchmen
Title: 50 Million Frenchmen
Character: Simon Johanssen
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.
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Oh, Sailor Behave!
Title: Oh, Sailor Behave!
Character: Simon
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."