Roland Drew

Roland Drew

Born: August 2, 1900
Died: March 17, 1988
in Elmhurst, New York, USA

Movies for Roland Drew...

Two O'Clock Courage
Title: Two O'Clock Courage
Character: Steve Maitland
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, and Patty's interest becomes more personal, the stranger finds that he is the prime suspect in a murder case.
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Silent Partner
Title: Silent Partner
Character: Harry Keating
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
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The Contender
Title: The Contender
Character: Kip Morgan
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A truck driver turns to prizefighting with hopes of earning enough cash to send his son to military school. 1944.
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Bermuda Mystery
Title: Bermuda Mystery
Character: John Best
Released: May 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: First Airline Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Roland (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Hidden Hand
Title: The Hidden Hand
Character: Walter Channing
Released: November 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
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Secret Enemies
Title: Secret Enemies
Character: Fred Blosser - Chauffeur
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Capt. Harkness
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Title: The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Character: Doctor
Released: July 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Faye
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Spy Ship
Title: Spy Ship
Character: Nils Thorson
Released: June 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
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Murder in the Big House
Title: Murder in the Big House
Character: Mile-Away Gordon
Released: April 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Gordon Locke
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Lady Gangster
Title: Lady Gangster
Character: Carey Wells
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
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Bullet Scars
Title: Bullet Scars
Character: Jake, truck driver henchman
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Man Who Came to Dinner
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: Dr. Murdock
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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Steel Against the Sky
Title: Steel Against the Sky
Character: Weather Man (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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Law of the Tropics
Title: Law of the Tropics
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: October 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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The Smiling Ghost
Title: The Smiling Ghost
Character: Hilton Fairchild
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Citizen Reporting Power Outage (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Bradford
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Gestapo
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Navigating Officer
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Wildcat Bus
Title: Wildcat Bus
Character: Davis
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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The Saint Takes Over
Title: The Saint Takes Over
Character: Albert 'Rocky' Weldon aka Rocks
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Prince Barin
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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The Invisible Killer
Title: The Invisible Killer
Character: Lt. Jerry Brown
Released: November 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Title: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Character: Hans Memling
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.
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Mystery of the White Room
Title: Mystery of the White Room
Character: Dr. Norman Kennedy
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
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The Last Warning
Title: The Last Warning
Character: Paul Gomez
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
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The Lady in the Morgue
Title: The Lady in the Morgue
Character: Sam Taylor
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous
Title: Some Blondes Are Dangerous
Character: Paul Lewis
Released: October 31, 1937
Type: Movie
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
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She Asked for It
Title: She Asked for It
Character: Randolph Stettin
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.
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The Great Gambini
Title: The Great Gambini
Character: Stephen Danby
Released: June 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
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From Nine to Nine
Title: From Nine to Nine
Character: Inspector Vernon
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Ruth Roland in her last role alongside Roland Drew in a mystery about murder, blackmail and stolen jewels.
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Ex-Flame
Title: Ex-Flame
Character: Umberto
Released: November 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
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The Love Trader
Title: The Love Trader
Character: Tonia
Released: September 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
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The Racketeer
Title: The Racketeer
Character: Tony Vaughan
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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Evangeline
Title: Evangeline
Character: Gabriel
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
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Broadway Fever
Title: Broadway Fever
Character: Eric Byron
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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Lady Raffles
Title: Lady Raffles
Character: Warren Blake
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace. Also in attendance are Lillian and Dick, two jewel thieves who recognize Lady Raffles and fear that she is there to rob Warren as well. But sparks fly between Warren and Lady Raffles, despite Dick and Lillian's attempts at sabotage.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Felipe
Released: March 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Title: Fireman, Save My Child
Character: Walter
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false alarms whenever she needs some heavy lifting done so that she can get the responding firemen to do it.
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Fine Manners
Title: Fine Manners
Character: Buddy Murphy
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Randy Furness (as Walter Gross)
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.