Charles C. Wilson

Charles C. Wilson

Born: July 28, 1894
Died: January 7, 1948
in New York City, New York, USA
Charles Cahill Wilson (July 29, 1894 – January 7, 1948) was an American screen and stage actor. He appeared in numerous films during the Golden Age of Hollywood from the late 1920s to late 1940s. Born in New York City in 1894, the white-haired, burly actor was often typecast as an earnest police officer, newspaper editor or principal. He appeared in over 250 films between 1928 and 1948, mostly playing small supporting roles with a few sentences. Charles Wilson began his acting career at the theatre, including roles in six Broadway plays between 1918 and 1931. In 1928, he directed the Hollywood comedy Lucky Boy (1928), where he also made his film debut. According to the Internet Movie Database, Lucky Boy was Wilson's only film as a director.

His most notable role was probably Clark Gable's "wonderfully aggravated" newspaper boss in Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night, which won five Academy Awards in 1935. He was also cast in small roles in other Capra movies such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Shortly before his death, Wilson appeared as the boss of the Three Stooges in the two-reel comedy Crime on Their Hands (1948).

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Commotion On The Ocean
Title: Commotion On The Ocean
Character: J.L. Cameron - Managing Editor (archive footage)
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
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Crime on Their Hands
Title: Crime on Their Hands
Character: J.L. Cameron
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
The Stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft of a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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Blazing Across the Pecos
Title: Blazing Across the Pecos
Character: Mayor Ace Brockway
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.
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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Editor of the Chronicle (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: Warden (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Meet Mr. Mischief
Title: Meet Mr. Mischief
Character: Harry's Boss
Released: January 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Gas House Kids
Title: Gas House Kids
Character: Inspector Shannon
Released: October 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The Gas House Kids tackle a gang of criminals in the hope of winning the reward and helping a returning war veteran make a life with his girl.
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Blonde for a Day
Title: Blonde for a Day
Character: Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
Released: June 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.
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Larceny in Her Heart
Title: Larceny in Her Heart
Character: Chief Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
Released: May 20, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
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Passkey to Danger
Title: Passkey to Danger
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: May 11, 1946
Type: Movie
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
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Crime of the Century
Title: Crime of the Century
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
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Road to Utopia
Title: Road to Utopia
Character: Official Policeman (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1946
Type: Movie
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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Scarlet Street
Title: Scarlet Street
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Hi Johns
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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A Gun in His Hand
Title: A Gun in His Hand
Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Mac Ellis (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Crime by Night
Title: Crime by Night
Character: District Attorney Hyatt
Released: September 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
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Hey, Rookie
Title: Hey, Rookie
Character: Sam Jonas
Released: April 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Mr. Hawkins
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Captain Arnold
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Gurney (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Desk Sgt. Cullen
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Escape from Crime
Title: Escape from Crime
Character: C.L. Reardon - Managing Editor (as Charles Wilson)
Released: July 25, 1942
Type: Movie
An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: District Attorney McNamara
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Police Captain
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Lady Gangster
Title: Lady Gangster
Character: Detective
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
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Rings on Her Fingers
Title: Rings on Her Fingers
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Blondie Goes to College
Title: Blondie Goes to College
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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The Officer and the Lady
Title: The Officer and the Lady
Character: Police Captain Hart
Released: October 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Newspaper Editor
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Released: June 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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Broadway Limited
Title: Broadway Limited
Character: Detective (as Charles Wilson)
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
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Federal Fugitives
Title: Federal Fugitives
Character: Bruce Lane
Released: March 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Charlie Dawson
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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The Face Behind the Mask
Title: The Face Behind the Mask
Character: Chief O'Brien
Released: January 16, 1941
Type: Movie
In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his face is horribly scarred; his terrifying appearance makes it impossible for him to get a job. With nowhere else to turn, Janos begins working for the criminal underworld. Janos begins having second thoughts about his life of crime when he falls in love.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Owen
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: George Martin (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Bill - Man Behind MacPherson at Fight (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Mike Williams (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: R.J. Reynolds, Sunday Editor (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Vincent Brady, Commissioner of Police
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Sandy Is a Lady
Title: Sandy Is a Lady
Character: Sergeant
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
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Gangs of Chicago
Title: Gangs of Chicago
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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He Married His Wife
Title: He Married His Wife
Character: Warden
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Return of Doctor X
Title: The Return of Doctor X
Character: Det. Kincaid
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Capt. Kilrane
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Managing Editor
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Hotel for Women
Title: Hotel for Women
Character: Albert
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Coach Hap Farrell
Released: July 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Police Chief
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Mike Cavanaugh
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Fighting Thoroughbreds
Title: Fighting Thoroughbreds
Character: Spencer Bogart
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky Derby against another horse owned by its sire.
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The Spider's Web
Title: The Spider's Web
Character: Chase
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
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The Night Hawk
Title: The Night Hawk
Character: Lonigan
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
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Hold That Co-ed
Title: Hold That Co-ed
Character: Coach Burke
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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Tenth Avenue Kid
Title: Tenth Avenue Kid
Character: Commissioner
Released: August 22, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Inspector
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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When Were You Born
Title: When Were You Born
Character: Inspector Jim C. Gregg
Released: June 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: Reardon
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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Little Miss Thoroughbred
Title: Little Miss Thoroughbred
Character: Becker
Released: June 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Captain Halstead
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Covered Wagon Cafe Manager
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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The Adventurous Blonde
Title: The Adventurous Blonde
Character: Mortimer Gray
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Inspector Simpson
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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Life Begins in College
Title: Life Begins in College
Character: Tom Burke
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Title: Broadway Melody of 1938
Character: Horse Auctioneer (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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One Mile from Heaven
Title: One Mile from Heaven
Character: Fletcher
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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Roaring Timber
Title: Roaring Timber
Character: Sam Garvin
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Title: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: Hamilton Burger
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Police Capt. Wallace (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Police Chief
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Murder Goes to College
Title: Murder Goes to College
Character: Police Inspector Simpson
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Policeman Chiding School Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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They Wanted to Marry
Title: They Wanted to Marry
Character: Clark
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Police Inspector (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Woman in Distress
Title: Woman in Distress
Character: Editor Herbert Claxton
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.
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Mind Your Own Business
Title: Mind Your Own Business
Character: Detective
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
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Legion of Terror
Title: Legion of Terror
Character: Colonel McCollum (as Charles Wilson)
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
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The Magnificent Brute
Title: The Magnificent Brute
Character: Murphy
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
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Down the Stretch
Title: Down the Stretch
Character: Tex Reardon
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
Title: The Gentleman from Louisiana
Character: Diamond Jim Brady
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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I'd Give My Life
Title: I'd Give My Life
Character: Warden
Released: August 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
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Grand Jury
Title: Grand Jury
Character: City Editor
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: F.B.I. Chief
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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Earthworm Tractors
Title: Earthworm Tractors
Character: H.J. Russell
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Detective Pollock
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
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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The Mine with the Iron Door
Title: The Mine with the Iron Door
Character: Pitkins
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.
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Panic on the Air
Title: Panic on the Air
Character: Chief Inspector Fitzgerald
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: County Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Prosecuting Attorney (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: George the Boat Captain (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Hardie
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Hitch Hike Lady
Title: Hitch Hike Lady
Character: Mike - a Racketeer
Released: December 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
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We're Only Human
Title: We're Only Human
Character: Editor of The Daily Star
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Clifford
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Title: Mary Burns, Fugitive
Character: G-Man at dancehall
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Decker - Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
Title: The Case of the Lucky Legs
Character: Police Officer Ricker
Released: October 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Jim McFee aka Mac
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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The Public Menace
Title: The Public Menace
Character: First Detective
Released: September 30, 1935
Type: Movie
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
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Smart Girl
Title: Smart Girl
Character: Morgan (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Chief of Police
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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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: District Attorney Edward J. Farr
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Police Captain Jennings
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Murder in the Fleet
Title: Murder in the Fleet
Character: Commander Brown (Uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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Air Hawks
Title: Air Hawks
Character: Newspaper editor
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Baby Face Harrington
Title: Baby Face Harrington
Character: City Editor
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
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Four Hours to Kill!
Title: Four Hours to Kill!
Character: Taft
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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The Perfect Clue
Title: The Perfect Clue
Character: District Attorney
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Trooper Captain Ryan
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.
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Anthony Wilson
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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The Gilded Lily
Title: The Gilded Lily
Character: Managing Editor
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
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Here Is My Heart
Title: Here Is My Heart
Character: Captain Dodge (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Lackey
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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Men of the Night
Title: Men of the Night
Character: Benson
Released: November 18, 1934
Type: Movie
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
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The St. Louis Kid
Title: The St. Louis Kid
Character: Mr. Harris
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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Port of Lost Dreams
Title: Port of Lost Dreams
Character: Warden
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past. However, a year after they're married and have a child, her ex-boyfriend gets out of jail and comes looking for her.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Furniture Buyer (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Attorney
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
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The Dragon Murder Case
Title: The Dragon Murder Case
Character: Det. Hennessey
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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Name the Woman
Title: Name the Woman
Character: Joel Walker
Released: July 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Sheldon
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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The Hell Cat
Title: The Hell Cat
Character: Graham
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Detective Sergeant O'Hagen
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Affairs of a Gentleman
Title: Affairs of a Gentleman
Character: Inspector Quillan
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Joe Gordon
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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The 9th Guest
Title: The 9th Guest
Character: Burke (Uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Chief of Police
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Havana Widows
Title: Havana Widows
Character: Mr. Timberg
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Private Detective Falihee (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Character: Charles Hauser
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: Detective Hennessy (uncredited)
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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No Marriage Ties
Title: No Marriage Ties
Character: Red Moran, City Desk Editor
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Walter Rising
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Disgraced!
Title: Disgraced!
Character: Thompson, Assistant District Attorney
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Club Bartender (Uncredited)
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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Gold Diggers of 1933
Title: Gold Diggers of 1933
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Mr. Wade (as Charles Wilson)
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Title: The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Character: Detective Doyle (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1932
Type: Movie
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.
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Hot News Margie
Title: Hot News Margie
Character: Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.
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Stolen Heaven
Title: Stolen Heaven
Character: Detective
Released: February 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
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Insurance
Title: Insurance
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Eddie Cantor does a Vaudeville doctor routine.
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Getting a Ticket
Title: Getting a Ticket
Character: Motorcycle Cop
Released: March 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Eddie Cantor tries to fix a speeding ticket.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: Nelson
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
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Broadway Scandals
Title: Broadway Scandals
Character: Jack
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.