Eddie Acuff

Eddie Acuff

Born: June 3, 1908
Died: December 17, 1956
in Caruthersville, Missouri, USA
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Eddie Acuff (June 3, 1908 – December 17, 1956) was an American actor. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the Blondie movie series that starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake.

Acuff was born Edward DeKalb Acuff in Caruthersville, Missouri. His maternal uncle was a performer on 19th century showboats along the Mississippi River.

Before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, Acuff performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s. His Broadway credits include Jayhawker (1934), Yellow Jack (1934), John Brown (1934), Growing Pains (1933), Heat Lightning (1933), and The Dark Hours (1932).

He was seen in three film serials — as Curly in Jungle Girl, as Red Kelly, in Daredevils of the West, and as Spud Warner in Chick Carter Detective.

On December 17, 1956, Acuff died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Movies for Eddie Acuff...

Stop, You're Killing Me
Title: Stop, You're Killing Me
Character: Cab Driver
Released: December 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Title: Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Character: Golden Egg Doorman (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Title: Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Mac
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
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Johnny Allegro
Title: Johnny Allegro
Character: Sam
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
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Blondie's Big Deal
Title: Blondie's Big Deal
Character: Mailman
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
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Blondie's Secret
Title: Blondie's Secret
Character: Mailman
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
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Bungalow 13
Title: Bungalow 13
Character: José Fernando
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects.
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Leather Gloves
Title: Leather Gloves
Character: Duke
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
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The Timber Trail
Title: The Timber Trail
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has no proof. Ralph, in turn, blames Jed for the attacks on the linemen of his pioneer telegraph company. Big Bart, a ruthless gunman and outlaw-gang leader working for crooked banker Jordan Weatherbee, is actually behind the troubles of both companies. Bart plans to frame Jed for a double-murder and then kill him. Monte saves his life and, together, they devise a plan of their own to bring an end to the reign of lawlessness along the timber trail.
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Blondie's Reward
Title: Blondie's Reward
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: June 3, 1948
Type: Movie
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series.
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Black Bart
Title: Black Bart
Character: Elkins (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.
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Slippy McGee
Title: Slippy McGee
Character: Charlie
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
Title: Bandits of Dark Canyon
Character: Faraday
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him. As Rocky is bringing him in, Archer is attacked again. Somebody wants Archer killed and Rocky, now suspecting Archer is innocent, decides to find out who and why.
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Blondie in the Dough
Title: Blondie in the Dough
Character: Postman
Released: October 16, 1947
Type: Movie
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Policeman at Bentry Mansion Door
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Wells Fargo Cowboy (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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Swing the Western Way
Title: Swing the Western Way
Character: Mr. Spraggs
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Swing the Western Way
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Bells of San Angelo
Title: Bells of San Angelo
Character: Bus Driver
Released: April 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
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Blondie's Holiday
Title: Blondie's Holiday
Character: Postman
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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Suddenly It's Spring
Title: Suddenly It's Spring
Character: Man Retrieving Pajamas from Peter
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
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Blondie's Big Moment
Title: Blondie's Big Moment
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
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Lady in the Lake
Title: Lady in the Lake
Character: Ed, Coroner (Uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: Bus Driver
Released: December 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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The Bamboo Blonde
Title: The Bamboo Blonde
Character: M.P. Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
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Chick Carter, Detective
Title: Chick Carter, Detective
Character: Spud Warner
Released: July 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub.
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Blonde Alibi
Title: Blonde Alibi
Character: Ambulance Attendant (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
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The Flying Serpent
Title: The Flying Serpent
Character: Jerry 'Jonesy' Jones
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.
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Meet Me on Broadway
Title: Meet Me on Broadway
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
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Life with Blondie
Title: Life with Blondie
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
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The Hidden Eye
Title: The Hidden Eye
Character: Whitey
Released: August 31, 1945
Type: Movie
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: George (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Jungle Captive
Title: The Jungle Captive
Character: Bill
Released: June 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Smokey, the Train Engineer (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Honeymoon Ahead
Title: Honeymoon Ahead
Character: Connors
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
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Between Two Women
Title: Between Two Women
Character: Orderly
Released: March 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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Without Love
Title: Without Love
Character: Cabbie
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
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Leave It to Blondie
Title: Leave It to Blondie
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers.
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Her Lucky Night
Title: Her Lucky Night
Character: Chauffeur
Released: February 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Boze, the Photographer
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Can't Help Singing
Title: Can't Help Singing
Character: Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Something for the Boys
Title: Something for the Boys
Character: Blue Army Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
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Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Photographer
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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South of Dixie
Title: South of Dixie
Character: Jay Hatcher
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Title: Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Character: Taxi Driver #1 (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Character: Jim
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Lost Angel
Title: Lost Angel
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Title: Guadalcanal Diary
Character: Pvt. Tex Mcllvoy (uncredited)
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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Headin' for God's Country
Title: Headin' for God's Country
Character: Hugo Higgins
Released: August 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
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Daredevils of the West
Title: Daredevils of the West
Character: Red Kelly
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: - (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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The Traitor Within
Title: The Traitor Within
Character: Tommy
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
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Fall In
Title: Fall In
Character: Sgt. Topps
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Title: Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Character: Clifford Genet
Released: November 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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Girl Trouble
Title: Girl Trouble
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
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Pardon My Sarong
Title: Pardon My Sarong
Character: Wise Guy at Gas Station (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
Title: Calling Dr. Gillespie
Character: Clifford
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
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She's in the Army
Title: She's in the Army
Character: Pete
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Take a Letter, Darling
Title: Take a Letter, Darling
Character: Man Who Picks Teeth (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Title: Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Character: Arthur Guerney (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
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Mississippi Gambler
Title: Mississippi Gambler
Character: Everett - Desk Clerk
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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What's Cookin'?
Title: What's Cookin'?
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
Title: Dr. Kildare's Victory
Character: Clifford Genet
Released: February 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Garage Attendantt (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Drafted Devil (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Cpl. Smith (uncredited)
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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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Reports Burns is dead
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Rags to Riches
Title: Rags to Riches
Character: Ace
Released: July 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Peg Leg
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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A Very Young Lady
Title: A Very Young Lady
Character: Sheriff Bill Stone (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
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Jungle Girl
Title: Jungle Girl
Character: Curly Rogers
Released: June 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Title: The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Character: Clifford Genet
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
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The Wagons Roll at Night
Title: The Wagons Roll at Night
Character: Pickpocket Victim (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Cabbie
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Dutiful but Dumb
Title: Dutiful but Dumb
Character: Headquarters Guard - Right of Door (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
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Here Comes Happiness
Title: Here Comes Happiness
Character: Bill
Released: March 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Sam Starr
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Lowery - a Reporter
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Title: The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Character: Bud - Ranger Stenographer (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Ticket Agent
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Title: Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Character: Clifford Genet, Window Cleaner
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
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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One Night in the Tropics
Title: One Night in the Tropics
Character: First S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Earl (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Clifford Genet - an Orderly (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Shorty Smith (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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The Boys from Syracuse
Title: The Boys from Syracuse
Character: Taxi Cab Driver
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Driver in Cafe (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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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Bartley, Bus Driver (Uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Guide
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Title: Buck Benny Rides Again
Character: Truck Driver
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Shooting High
Title: Shooting High
Character: Andy Carson
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Title: Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Character: Counter Man (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Title: Charlie Chan in Panama
Character: Dance Sailor Suspicious of Kathi
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Bill - Prisoner Dispensing Clothing (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Cafe Hostess
Title: Cafe Hostess
Character: Scotty
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Fort Lewis Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Stage Manager
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Meet Dr. Christian
Title: Meet Dr. Christian
Character: Benson
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Cabbie (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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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Minor Role
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Two Bright Boys
Title: Two Bright Boys
Character: Washburn
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Flight at Midnight
Title: Flight at Midnight
Character: Stubby - Passenger Plane Pilot (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Second Taxi Driver
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Pilot
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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Blind Alley
Title: Blind Alley
Character: State Trooper Stopping Fred
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Tommy Ward
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Title: Blondie Meets the Boss
Character: Pots and Pans Peddler (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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Society Smugglers
Title: Society Smugglers
Character: Radio Expert
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Reporter
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: Collins (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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The Mysterious Miss X
Title: The Mysterious Miss X
Character: Pete, a Policeman
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Mac
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Dunk Glover (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Next Time I Marry
Title: Next Time I Marry
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Rhythm of the Saddle
Title: Rhythm of the Saddle
Character: Dixie Erwin
Released: November 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.
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How to Watch Football
Title: How to Watch Football
Character: Yelling fan next to Benchley
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Bum
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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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Sam
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Joe - Hoodlum
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Photographer
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Ladies in Distress
Title: Ladies in Distress
Character: Horace (1st Thug)
Released: June 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
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Law of the Underworld
Title: Law of the Underworld
Character: Henchman Bill
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Hollywood Hotel
Title: Hollywood Hotel
Character: Cameraman
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Corporal Sanger
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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She Loved a Fireman
Title: She Loved a Fireman
Character: Skillet Michaels
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Detective Pete (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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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: 'Dunk' Glover
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Back in Circulation
Title: Back in Circulation
Character: Murphy
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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The Outer Gate
Title: The Outer Gate
Character: Todd
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Musselman - Writer (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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They Won't Forget
Title: They Won't Forget
Character: Drugstore Clerk
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: Sam
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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What Price Vengeance
Title: What Price Vengeance
Character: Tex McGirk
Released: May 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Bob Blair
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Ted Metcalf
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Guns of the Pecos
Title: Guns of the Pecos
Character: Jeff Carter
Released: December 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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Laughing at Trouble
Title: Laughing at Trouble
Character: Jamie Bradford
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
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Let's Make a Million
Title: Let's Make a Million
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Jailbreak
Title: Jailbreak
Character: Sig Patton
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: Alabam
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Title: The Case of the Velvet Claws
Character: Spudsy Drake
Released: July 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Character: Davis
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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The Law in Her Hands
Title: The Law in Her Hands
Character: Eddie O'Malley
Released: May 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Ed Harper
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: 'Betcha'
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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The Petrified Forest
Title: The Petrified Forest
Character: Lineman
Released: February 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Title: Miss Pacific Fleet
Character: Clarence 'Dutch'
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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I Found Stella Parish
Title: I Found Stella Parish
Character: Dimmie
Released: November 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
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Shipmates Forever
Title: Shipmates Forever
Character: Lincoln 'Cowboy'
Released: October 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.