Warner Richmond

Warner Richmond

Born: January 10, 1886
Died: June 19, 1948
in Racine, Wisconsin, USA
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Warner Richmond (January 11, 1886 – June 19, 1948) was an American actor. He appeared in 141 films between 1912 and 1946. He was born in Racine, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Warner Richmond...

Wild West
Title: Wild West
Character: Judge Templeton
Released: December 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop them. When Eddie and the boys catch three of Dawson's men destroying telegraph equipment, the Judge releases them and this leads to the showdown between the two sides.
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Colorado Serenade
Title: Colorado Serenade
Character: Dad Dillon
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job and they are aided by undercover man Nevada.
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Outlaw Trail
Title: Outlaw Trail
Character: Judd Hansen
Released: April 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, they find that 'Honest John' controls everything. He even prints his own money. He also has a gang and they set out to finish off the heroes.
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Rainbow Over the Range
Title: Rainbow Over the Range
Character: Gene Griffin
Released: July 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A U.S. marshal is sent to investigate a gang that is stealing horses from the cavalry.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: Henchman Chris
Released: July 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The dangerous Ceegareet gang has control of Boom Town. No miner with rich diggings is safe from this murderous gang. Tex Roberts and his pal Slim Hunkafeller strike a pay vein and find themselves marked as the gang's next victims.
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Men with Steel Faces
Title: Men with Steel Faces
Character: Rab
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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Pals of the Silver Sage
Title: Pals of the Silver Sage
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.
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Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Title: Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Character: Buck
Released: March 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Tex and Shorty ride into Cinco Valley, a gold rich area terrorized by marauders ostensibly lead by one Pablo. Tex, however, recognizes Blackie, whose boss is Bannister, an American. Suspecting that Bannister and his henchmen are trying to drive the settlers off their potentially valuable land by posing as Mexican banditos, Tex convinces Pablo to help him set a trap for the marauders.
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Fighting Mad
Title: Fighting Mad
Character: Henchman Trigger
Released: November 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canada where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly, of the Canadian Mounties, rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan, sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: General Sherman
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Trigger Smith
Title: Trigger Smith
Character: Gallop
Released: March 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.
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Water Rustlers
Title: Water Rustlers
Character: Wiley
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying. But Shirley has a second plan to return water to the valley.
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Prairie Moon
Title: Prairie Moon
Character: Lead Henchman Mullins
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
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The Singing Cowgirl
Title: The Singing Cowgirl
Character: Henchman Garrick
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
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Six Shootin' Sheriff
Title: Six Shootin' Sheriff
Character: Ace Kendal
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Title: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Character: Zandar
Released: March 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
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The Secret of Treasure Island
Title: The Secret of Treasure Island
Character: Capt. Tom Stanton, alias Capt. Tom Faxton [Ch.1]
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A variety of people are searching for a long-hidden treasure somewhere on an island. Chapters: 1. The Isle of Fear, 2. The Ghost Talks, 3. The Phantom Duel, 4. Buried Alive, 5. The Girl Who Vanished, 6. Trapped by the Flood, 7. The Cannon Roars, 8. The Circle of Death, 9. The Pirate's Revenge, 10. The Crash, 11. Dynamite, 12. The Bridge of Doom, 13. The Mad Flight, 14. The Jaws of Destruction, 15. Justice
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Child Bride
Title: Child Bride
Character: Jake Bolby
Released: March 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her crusade. One of these men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on little Jennie and plots to make her his bride.
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Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Title: Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Character: Karl Haage, Richter Henchman
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
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Federal Bullets
Title: Federal Bullets
Character: Henchman Burke
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Harrigan, investigates a seemingly respectable charitable organization. In fact, the enterprise is a front for a crime ring, headed by Ma Barker clone Zeffie Tilbury (Trivia note: Ms. Tilbury was totally blind, and had to learn her "blocking" by rote).
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Where Trails Divide
Title: Where Trails Divide
Character: Mississippi Blackie Wilson
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.
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Stars Over Arizona
Title: Stars Over Arizona
Character: Ace Carter
Released: September 22, 1937
Type: Movie
When the Governor gets Dawson to go after Ace Carter and his gang, Dawson gets him to release four prisoners into his custody. Arriving in town, Carter frames Dawson for murder and his stooge Judge sentences him to be hung. The four ex-convicts arrive in time to save Dawson but one of the four is a double-crosser and this means more trouble for Dawson.
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Jim Danti
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw.
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Doomed at Sundown
Title: Doomed at Sundown
Character: Jim Hatfield
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Dave Austin hunts down the varmint who murdered his father in this B Western. Austin tracks killer Jim Hatfield to his hideout, a Mexican cantina where Hatfield and his ruthless gang terrorize the locals. After being deputized, the courageous Austin allows himself to be captured by the gang and devises an ingenious plan to turn the bad guys against one another.
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The 13th Man
Title: The 13th Man
Character: George Crandall the Bookie
Released: June 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
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A Lawman Is Born
Title: A Lawman Is Born
Character: Kane Briscoe
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
An outlaw falsely accused of murder realizes the only way to clear himself is to become a lawman.
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The Gold Racket
Title: The Gold Racket
Character: Doc Johnson
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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Trail of Vengeance
Title: Trail of Vengeance
Character: Link Carson
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted outlaw Dude Ramsey arrives and joins up with Tilden. First he saves the ranchers from Carson's trap and then exposes Pearson as Carson's informant and killer of Steve Warner.
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Song of the Gringo
Title: Song of the Gringo
Character: Henchman 'Cherokee'
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
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White Legion
Title: White Legion
Character: Burke
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
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Missing Girls
Title: Missing Girls
Character: Ray Hanson
Released: September 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Diamond Dutch
Released: June 7, 1936
Type: Movie
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
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Wolves of the Sea
Title: Wolves of the Sea
Character: Snowden
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A young socialite, marooned on a desert island after her passenger ship sinks, is rescued by a sailing vessel looking for salvage and finds herself dealing with a mutinous crew and a semi-insane captain.
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The Peppery Salt
Title: The Peppery Salt
Character: Kidnap Gang Leader
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Heart of the West
Title: Heart of the West
Character: Johnson
Released: February 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when Hoppy roots out the troublemaker.
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Headin' for the Rio Grande
Title: Headin' for the Rio Grande
Character: Ike Travis
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Western - Singing cowboy Tex Saunders (Tex Ritter) finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of a lovely lady (Eleanor Stewart). As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner (Warner Richmond) for killing bad guy Red Dugan (James Mason) and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo (Syd Saylor), show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows? - Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, Eleanor Stewart
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So Red the Rose
Title: So Red the Rose
Character: Confederate Sergeant
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a widow.
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The Singing Vagabond
Title: The Singing Vagabond
Character: Buck LaCrosse
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
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The Courageous Avenger
Title: The Courageous Avenger
Character: Gorman
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Kirk Baxter has been sent to investigate murder and robbery involving gold shipments. Identifying a gang member by his bullets, he uses that man's horse to locate and join the gang. He learns the gang is tipped off to the shipments by a mine employee using carrier pigeons. But the next message reveals his true identity and he is made a prisoner.
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The Fighting Marines
Title: The Fighting Marines
Character: Metcalf
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
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The New Frontier
Title: The New Frontier
Character: Ace Holmes
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Captain of the Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Rainbow's End
Title: Rainbow's End
Character: Thomas Stark
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all because of the father's crooked partner.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Detective
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Bradley
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Smokey Smith
Title: Smokey Smith
Character: Kent
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while traveling with a wagon train that is attacked by outlaws. Smokey swears revenge but his only possible chance lies in finding the member of the border-gang who took a ring from his father's finger. The sheriff (Earl Dwire) of a nearby border town makes Smokey a deputy after the latter saves his life when outlaws attack a stagecoach the sheriff is escorting. This enables Smokey to find the hideout of the gang that killed his parents, and he, posing as a wanted man, is able to join the gang. He soon incurs the wrath of gang-member Kent(Warner Richmond), who is jealous over the attention that Bess Bart (Mary Kornman, step-daughter of the gang-leader, "Blaze" Bart (George 'Gabby' Hayes), is showing Smokey.
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The Phantom Empire
Title: The Phantom Empire
Character: Rab
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
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Under Pressure
Title: Under Pressure
Character: Weasel
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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The Bands Plays On
Title: The Bands Plays On
Character: Lumberjack
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
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Happy Landing
Title: Happy Landing
Character: Powell
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
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The Lost Jungle
Title: The Lost Jungle
Character: Sharkey
Released: June 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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The Lost Jungle
Title: The Lost Jungle
Character: Sharkey
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
12 part movie serial where Clyde Beatty encounters obstacles and adventure on his way to rescue his damsel in distress.
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Police Call
Title: Police Call
Character: Sammy
Released: July 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: The Radical
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
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Life in the Raw
Title: Life in the Raw
Character: Harvey (H.B.) Lamson
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: Regan
Released: June 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
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Fast Workers
Title: Fast Workers
Character: Feets Wilson
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Gus (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Hell's Highway
Title: Hell's Highway
Character: Captain Pop-Eye Jackson
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
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Night Court
Title: Night Court
Character: Frame-Up Man Ed (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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Strangers of the Evening
Title: Strangers of the Evening
Character: Dr. Chandler
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
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Scarface
Title: Scarface
Character: Cesca's Dance Partner (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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The Beast of the City
Title: The Beast of the City
Character: Police Lt. Tom
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Fourdylis
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Pap Finn
Released: August 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: 'Nails' Markey
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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Remote Control
Title: Remote Control
Character: Max
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Bob Ballinger
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
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Men Without Women
Title: Men Without Women
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Briddwell
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
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Big News
Title: Big News
Character: Phelps
Released: September 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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Little Mother
Title: Little Mother
Character: Father
Released: June 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Little Mother was the 87th Our Gang short to be released. A silent film, it followed Our Gang's first sound film, Small Talk, on the release schedule.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Neil Stoker
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
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The Redeeming Sin
Title: The Redeeming Sin
Character: Lupine
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
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Stark Mad
Title: Stark Mad
Character: First Mate
Released: February 2, 1929
Type: Movie
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
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The Apache
Title: The Apache
Character: Gaston Laroux
Released: November 19, 1928
Type: Movie
The Apache (1928)
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Shadows of the Night
Title: Shadows of the Night
Character: Feagan
Released: October 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.
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The Crowd
Title: The Crowd
Character: Mr. Sims (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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Chicago
Title: Chicago
Character: Asst. District Attorney
Released: December 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.
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The Heart of Maryland
Title: The Heart of Maryland
Character: Capt. Fulton Thorpe
Released: July 13, 1927
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
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Irish Hearts
Title: Irish Hearts
Character: Emmett
Released: May 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However, when he loses his job, Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant. There she meets Rory, a poor American boy who works in a shipyard. Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett. Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy "flapper" named Clarice.
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White Flannels
Title: White Flannels
Character: Ed
Released: March 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the wife of Jacob Politz, an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Title: Slide, Kelly, Slide
Character: Cliff Macklin
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
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Finger Prints
Title: Finger Prints
Character: Andy 'Annie Laurie' Norton
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
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The Fire Brigade
Title: The Fire Brigade
Character: Jim O'Neil
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
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Good and Naughty
Title: Good and Naughty
Character: Bad News Smith
Released: June 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
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The Pace That Thrills
Title: The Pace That Thrills
Character: Jack Van Loren
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
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The Making of O'Malley
Title: The Making of O'Malley
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his newfound joys.
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The Crowded Hour
Title: The Crowded Hour
Character: Operator
Released: April 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents. Billy subsequently arranges for the Broadway debut of the act and falls in love with Peggy, who wholeheartedly returns his affection. When the World War breaks out, Billy remains unconcerned until his younger brother is killed in action. Billy then immediately enlists and is sent to France; Peggy joins the Red Cross to be with him, and Grace Laidlaw, Billy's wife, also goes to France, working with the Y. M. C. A. Billy is assigned to destroy an ammunition dump, and Peggy learns, after he has left on the mission, that he has been recalled.
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The Speed Spook
Title: The Speed Spook
Character: Jud Skerrit
Released: August 30, 1924
Type: Movie
An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
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Luck
Title: Luck
Character: Pollard
Released: March 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
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Tol'able David
Title: Tol'able David
Character: Allen Kinemon
Released: December 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
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A Woman's Business
Title: A Woman's Business
Released: June 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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A Romance of the Air
Title: A Romance of the Air
Released: November 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Bert Hall, an ace American flyer serving in World War I as a member of the French Lafayette Escadrille, is wounded in an aerial battle and forced to land behind enemy lines. Finding his German opponent dead, Hall exchanges uniforms with him and is taken to a German hospital to recover. There he meets his old Kentucky sweetheart, who was unable to escape Berlin when the war broke out. Accompanied by the Countess of Moravia, who claims sympathy with the Allied cause but is actually a German spy, they escape to France in a German plane. Through the countess' duplicity, Hall is accused of betraying the French government and sentenced to be shot, but his American lover uncovers evidence that saves him at the last moment.
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Claxton Madden
Released: January 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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Fifty-Fifty
Title: Fifty-Fifty
Character: Dandy (as W.P. Richmond)
Released: October 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine his bride. When their first baby is born, Naomi becomes so obsessed with motherhood that she completely ignores poor Harmon, who, to offset his loneliness, begins squiring the vampish Helen Carew. Helen manages to convince Harmon that Naomi has been unfaithful, leading inevitably to divorce-court litigation.
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The Great Divide
Title: The Great Divide
Character: Dr. Newberry
Released: December 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at the station of Milford Corners, Mass., and depart for the West, to work over some unredeemed desert land, which was left to the Jordans by their dead father. Arriving in the west, they take up their work, but it proves anything but a success. On the brink of the Great Divide lives Stephen Ghent, an untamed and uncouth man of the West, and on account of his manner is respected by the habitués of Miller's saloon and dance hall in the town, which he and two of his acquaintances in the persons of Pedro, a half-breed Mexican, and Dutch, a brutal type of the West, frequent.
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Lady Audley's Secret
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Character: Sir Michael Audley
Released: August 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Theda Bara melodrama is considered lost
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Song of the Shell
Title: Song of the Shell
Character: A Wealthy Admirer
Released: December 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Suffering with ennui, bored by society, Annie Bradley, a wealthy girl, is anxious to make her time more profitable by doing something worthwhile.
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A Modern Atalanta
Title: A Modern Atalanta
Character: Bill - Second Suitor
Released: November 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Fresh from her college matriculation. Ruth Grantland returns to her country home. She is courted by two of the village beaux, who propose marriage. She likes the boys, but not sufficiently to marry them. Her preference is for Jack Hall, a young man of extreme culture and refinement. She tells the two boys that she will consent to marry them if they can beat her in a footrace, taking each one on separately. They agree, and she, being fleet of foot, runs away from them, crossing the line far in the lead. Jack, riding horseback, happens along and takes in the fun. Later, he proposes to Ruth.
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The Godmother
Title: The Godmother
Character: Dick - Second Boy
Released: October 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Everything is arranged by Dick and his college chums to have their sweethearts from the city, with their chaperone, visit them to spend the day. At the eleventh hour the boys receive a telephone message from the girls informing them that their chaperone has disappointed them, and they will not be able to come. The boys are disconsolate. While they are deploring the matter, their tailor, the ninth part of a man, enters. Struck with a sudden idea, they seize him and compel him to impersonate Dick's godmother.