Minor Watson

Minor Watson

Born: December 22, 1889
Died: July 28, 1965
in Marianna, Arkansas, USA
Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor. He appeared in 111 movies made between 1913 and 1956. His credits included Boys Town (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Kings Row (1942), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Bewitched (1945), The Virginian (1946), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).

Movies for Minor Watson...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: Gen. Andrew Harvey
Released: July 26, 1956
Type: Movie
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
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The Rawhide Years
Title: The Rawhide Years
Character: Matt Comfort
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
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Trapeze
Title: Trapeze
Character: John Ringling North
Released: May 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Judge Thatcher
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brothers right before Huck takes off down the Mississippi River to try and get away from his abusive father. Along his journey Huck comes across a wide range of characters including The Duke.
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Ten Wanted Men
Title: Ten Wanted Men
Character: Jason Carr
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
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Roar of the Crowd
Title: Roar of the Crowd
Character: Cyrus Mackey
Released: May 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.
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The Star
Title: The Star
Character: Joe Morrison
Released: December 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Scratchy Wilson
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.
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Untamed Frontier
Title: Untamed Frontier
Character: Matt Denbow
Released: July 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
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My Son John
Title: My Son John
Character: Dr. Carver
Released: April 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
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Little Egypt
Title: Little Egypt
Character: Cyrus Graydon
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Bright Victory
Title: Bright Victory
Character: Mr. Paterson
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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As Young as You Feel
Title: As Young as You Feel
Character: Harold P. Cleveland
Released: June 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
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Mister 880
Title: Mister 880
Character: Judge O'Neil
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Title: The Jackie Robinson Story
Character: Branch Rickey
Released: May 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Judge Calvin H. Blackwell
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Beyond the Forest
Title: Beyond the Forest
Character: Moose
Released: October 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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A Southern Yankee
Title: A Southern Yankee
Character: Gen. Watkins
Released: August 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
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Courage of Lassie
Title: Courage of Lassie
Character: Sheriff Ed Grayson
Released: November 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
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Boys' Ranch
Title: Boys' Ranch
Character: Mr. Harper
Released: July 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: J.P. Reynolds (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Bewitched
Title: Bewitched
Character: Governor
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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You Came Along
Title: You Came Along
Character: Uncle Jack
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
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A Bell for Adano
Title: A Bell for Adano
Character: Maj. Gen. McKay
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Title: God Is My Co-Pilot
Character: Col. Caleb V. Haynes
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Title: The Thin Man Goes Home
Character: Sam Ronson
Released: December 24, 1944
Type: Movie
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Here Come the Waves
Title: Here Come the Waves
Character: Superior Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
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That's My Baby!
Title: That's My Baby!
Character: R. P. (Phineas) Moody
Released: September 14, 1944
Type: Movie
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton Payne. In addition, Betty's dad, Phineas Moody suffers from severe melancholy; and an emergency cure of laughter is required to save his health.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Townsend
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Shadows in the Night
Title: Shadows in the Night
Character: Frederick Gordon
Released: July 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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The Falcon Out West
Title: The Falcon Out West
Character: Dave Colby
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Title: Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Character: Ramsey Kent
Released: January 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
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Happy Land
Title: Happy Land
Character: Judge Colvin
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Col Wallace E. Grayson
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Mr. Washburn
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Yanks Ahoy
Title: Yanks Ahoy
Character: Capt. Scott
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Rear Adm. Williams (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Loy Henderson
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Adm. Bob Stewart
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Power of the Press
Title: Power of the Press
Character: John Cleveland Carter (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Buck Ware
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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To the Shores of Tripoli
Title: To the Shores of Tripoli
Character: Christopher Winters
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Warden George Booth
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Character: Albee
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Frisco Lil
Title: Frisco Lil
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: District Attorney Orville Beamish
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: William J. Harding
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Kings Row
Title: Kings Row
Character: Sam Winters
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Senator Smith
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Henri Lambert
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Character: Uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her roommate, Gwen Abbott, is hired to be secretary to Top Rumson, the show's financial backer. Gwen tells Cindy that the director, Lloyd Lloyd, and composer, Dick Rayburn, have been sent to the South on a talent search for a classic Southern belle type to star in the show, although their shows usually feature Myra Stanhope, an actress whose style is hopelessly inappropriate for this show. Desperate for work, Cindy returns to her aunt Lily Lou and uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany's home in the South and schemes to get Lloyd and Rayburn to audition her.
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The Parson of Panamint
Title: The Parson of Panamint
Character: Sheriff Nickerson
Released: July 25, 1941
Type: Movie
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.
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Moon Over Miami
Title: Moon Over Miami
Character: Mr. Jim Reynolds
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Arthur Barret
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Judge Pulver
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Pat Grogan
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Barton Newbold
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Clem Bowdry
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Dakin
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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Hidden Gold
Title: Hidden Gold
Character: Ed Colby
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Marshal
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Viva Cisco Kid
Title: Viva Cisco Kid
Character: Jesse Allen
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Joshua Speed
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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The Llano Kid
Title: The Llano Kid
Character: Sheriff Robert McLane
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. They have been searching for the long-lost son of a rich Mexican widow and they get the Kid to claim it is him. All goes according to plan until greed and jealousy raise their heads.
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Television Spy
Title: Television Spy
Character: Burton Lawson
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Evans
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Maloney
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Charles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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Maisie
Title: Maisie
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: June 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Boy Friend
Title: Boy Friend
Character: Capt. Duffy
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
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The Hardys Ride High
Title: The Hardys Ride High
Character: Terry Archer
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Airport Personnel Manager
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Capt. Brandy
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: U.S. Marshal Cole
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Charles MacFarland
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Stablemates
Title: Stablemates
Character: Barney Donovan
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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Boys Town
Title: Boys Town
Character: Bishop
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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Touchdown, Army
Title: Touchdown, Army
Character: Col. Denby
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Steve Langner
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Love, Honor and Behave
Title: Love, Honor and Behave
Character: Dr. MacConaghey
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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Of Human Hearts
Title: Of Human Hearts
Character: Captain Griggs
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
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Checkers
Title: Checkers
Character: Dr. Smith
Released: December 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Lt. Milburn
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Saturday's Heroes
Title: Saturday's Heroes
Character: Doc Thomas
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
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That Certain Woman
Title: That Certain Woman
Character: Clark Tilden
Released: August 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Mr. Griswald
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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The Woman I Love
Title: The Woman I Love
Character: Deschamps
Released: April 15, 1937
Type: Movie
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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When's Your Birthday?
Title: When's Your Birthday?
Character: Regan
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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The Longest Night
Title: The Longest Night
Character: Hardy
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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Rose of the Rancho
Title: Rose of the Rancho
Character: Jonathan Hill
Released: January 9, 1936
Type: Movie
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
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Annapolis Farewell
Title: Annapolis Farewell
Character: Cmmdre. Briggs
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
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Pursuit
Title: Pursuit
Character: Hale
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
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Lady Tubbs
Title: Lady Tubbs
Character: Fishbaker
Released: July 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
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Age of Indiscretion
Title: Age of Indiscretion
Character: Mr. Adams
Released: May 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Kenneth Marvin
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Mister Dynamite
Title: Mister Dynamite
Character: Clark Lewis
Released: April 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
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Charlie Chan in Paris
Title: Charlie Chan in Paris
Character: Insp. Renard
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: Paul 'Paulivus' F. Reisling
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Character: Colonel Sherwood
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
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24 Hours
Title: 24 Hours
Character: David Melbourn
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
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Dollars-Pounds-Sense
Title: Dollars-Pounds-Sense
Character: Charles Watson
Released: November 26, 1913
Type: Movie
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him unless he would marry a girl and settle down, and if he married inside of thirty days.
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Cupid and Three
Title: Cupid and Three
Character: Ben
Released: October 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to discourage Arthur. Arthur is a little bit peeved when the girl he loves passes him up for Ben, and the soldier of love determines that revenge will be sweet. That afternoon Arthur borrows his sister's dress and makes Ben take him for a ride in his roadster. Of course Celia sees Ben with the supposed lady and proceeds to get jealous. You can imagine the surprise and humiliation Celia suffers when at "Patricola's Tango Tea" she finds a photograph of Ben with the lady of the afternoon.
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Day by Day
Title: Day by Day
Character: Frank
Released: October 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Day by Day film
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Love Incognito
Title: Love Incognito
Character: Jack Fuller
Released: September 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Love Incognito
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Hollywood Classic Special
Title: Hollywood Classic Special
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie