Barton Yarborough

Barton Yarborough

Born: October 2, 1900
Died: December 19, 1951

Movies for Barton Yarborough...

Henry, the Rainmaker
Title: Henry, the Rainmaker
Character: The Reverend Bascom
Released: February 13, 1949
Type: Movie
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
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Shed No Tears
Title: Shed No Tears
Character: Second Insurance Investigator (Uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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Kilroy Was Here
Title: Kilroy Was Here
Character: Prof. Thomas Sheperd
Released: July 19, 1947
Type: Movie
"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.
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Wife Wanted
Title: Wife Wanted
Character: Walter Desmond
Released: November 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Doc Long
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
"The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
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The Devil's Mask
Title: The Devil's Mask
Character: Doc Long
Released: May 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
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Hiss and Yell
Title: Hiss and Yell
Character: Barton O'Hara aka Bluebeard the Great
Released: February 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").
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Captain Tugboat Annie
Title: Captain Tugboat Annie
Character: Missouri Jones
Released: November 17, 1945
Type: Movie
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
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The Red Dragon
Title: The Red Dragon
Character: Joseph Brandish
Released: August 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
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I Love a Mystery
Title: I Love a Mystery
Character: Doc Long
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
Title: The Ghost of Frankenstein
Character: Dr. Kettering
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
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Let's Go Collegiate
Title: Let's Go Collegiate
Character: Coach Walsh
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
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They Meet Again
Title: They Meet Again
Character: Bob Webster
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.