Boyd Davis

Boyd Davis

Born: June 19, 1885
Died: January 25, 1963

Movies for Boyd Davis...

Born to the Saddle
Title: Born to the Saddle
Character: Judge Trumbull
Released: March 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western.
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Bright Leaf
Title: Bright Leaf
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Engagement Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: First Priest of Dagon
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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The Reckless Moment
Title: The Reckless Moment
Character: Tall Man in Post Office (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Ma and Pa Kettle
Title: Ma and Pa Kettle
Character: Mr. Simpson
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.
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A Foreign Affair
Title: A Foreign Affair
Character: Giffin
Released: August 20, 1948
Type: Movie
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Title: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Character: Gov. Lincoln
Released: February 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
Title: The Senator Was Indiscreet
Character: Politico
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Blondie in the Dough
Title: Blondie in the Dough
Character: Premier Biscuit Board Member (uncredited)
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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Fun on a Weekend
Title: Fun on a Weekend
Character: Jefferson Van Orsdale Sr. (Uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Mr. Dawson (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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The Secret Heart
Title: The Secret Heart
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
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Terror by Night
Title: Terror by Night
Character: "Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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The Crime Doctor's Warning
Title: The Crime Doctor's Warning
Character: Dr. Forday Booth (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
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Captain Eddie
Title: Captain Eddie
Character: Mr. Frost
Released: June 18, 1945
Type: Movie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Title: Eve Knew Her Apples
Character: Mr. Birch (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
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The Ghost Ship
Title: The Ghost Ship
Character: Charles Roberts
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Colonel Mason (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Title: Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character: Mr. Coleman (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Colonel Humphrey (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Chamberlain (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Junior Army
Title: Junior Army
Character: Maj. E.C. Carter - Academy Commandant
Released: November 26, 1942
Type: Movie
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Mr. Brighton (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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You're Telling Me
Title: You're Telling Me
Character: Driscoll
Released: May 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
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Hello, Annapolis
Title: Hello, Annapolis
Character: Executive Officer
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Blondie Goes to College
Title: Blondie Goes to College
Character: Man Who Lost Gold Football Charm
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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Harvard Here I Come
Title: Harvard Here I Come
Character: Professor Hayworth
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Title: Two Latins from Manhattan
Character: Charles Miller
Released: October 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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You'll Never Get Rich
Title: You'll Never Get Rich
Character: Colonel Shiller
Released: September 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
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Roaming Lady
Title: Roaming Lady
Character: Swanson
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Young Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Corn on the Cop
Title: Corn on the Cop
Character: Bob
Released: April 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.