Pat West

Pat West

Born: April 19, 1888
Died: April 10, 1944
in Paducah, Kentucky, USA
Pat West (born Arthur Pat West; April 19, 1888 - April 10, 1944) was an American actor.

Movies for Pat West...

Road to Utopia
Title: Road to Utopia
Character: Bartender (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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To Have and Have Not
Title: To Have and Have Not
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Title: Moon Over Las Vegas
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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Presenting Lily Mars
Title: Presenting Lily Mars
Character: Bartender in Bar
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Man getting on bus and dropping penny (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Soldier with Demolition Squad (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
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The Forest Rangers
Title: The Forest Rangers
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: German Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
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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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Bartender
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Eddie (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Bum
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Trading Post Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Ship's Bartender (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Assistant Director
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Christmas in July
Title: Christmas in July
Character: Man with Phone (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Pete - Restaurant Counterman
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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La Conga Nights
Title: La Conga Nights
Character: Barney
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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My Favorite Wife
Title: My Favorite Wife
Character: Caretaker at Arden's Mountain Place (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
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King of the Lumberjacks
Title: King of the Lumberjacks
Character: Second Waiter
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Warden Cooley
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Soldier
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Babes in Arms
Title: Babes in Arms
Character: Vaudevillian Veteran (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
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Only Angels Have Wings
Title: Only Angels Have Wings
Character: Baldy
Released: May 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Locker Attendant
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: Announcer at Fight
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Jake, Gym Trainer (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: First Bystander
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Thanks for the Memory
Title: Thanks for the Memory
Character: Refuse Man
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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Illegal Traffic
Title: Illegal Traffic
Released: November 2, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Bit Part
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Watchman
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Expressman (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Photographer
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: Station Agent
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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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Ferry Boat Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Santa Claus
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Fight Trainer
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Neighbor with Water (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Oil Man at Well
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character: Man in Automat
Released: October 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Bum
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Wolves of the Sea
Title: Wolves of the Sea
Character: Jim Lane
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A young socialite, marooned on a desert island after her passenger ship sinks, is rescued by a sailing vessel looking for salvage and finds herself dealing with a mutinous crew and a semi-insane captain.
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Three of a Kind
Title: Three of a Kind
Character: Beef Smith
Released: May 19, 1936
Type: Movie
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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Devil's Squadron
Title: Devil's Squadron
Character: Dugan - Gateman
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Curley
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Broadway Hostess
Title: Broadway Hostess
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
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Stars Over Broadway
Title: Stars Over Broadway
Character: Man at Champ's Table
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Black Widow Henchman
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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Red Morning
Title: Red Morning
Character: Glibb
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
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Maid in Hollywood
Title: Maid in Hollywood
Character: Workman on Set (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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The Undie-World
Title: The Undie-World
Character: Gangster
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.
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Thundering Taxis
Title: Thundering Taxis
Character: Blocker Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Wreckety Wrecks
Title: Wreckety Wrecks
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Sailor
Released: March 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Comedian Pat West performs his vaudeville act.