John Ellis

John Ellis

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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Lloyd Kennar
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Men of the Timberland
Title: Men of the Timberland
Character: Forest Ranger
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
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Man-Made Monster
Title: Man-Made Monster
Character: Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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The Devil Bat
Title: The Devil Bat
Character: Roy Heath
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
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Diamond Frontier
Title: Diamond Frontier
Character: Hamilton
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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Ski Patrol
Title: Ski Patrol
Character: Knut Vallgren
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Title: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Character: Gustav Schultz
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.