William Gould

William Gould

Born: May 2, 1886
Died: May 15, 1969
in Ontario, Canada
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William Gould (May 2, 1886 – May 15, 1969) was a Canadian-American film actor. He appeared in more than 240 films during his career.

In films, Gould portrayed Jed Scott, a leader of homesteaders, in the serial The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939) and Air Marshal Kragg in the serial Buck Rogers (1939).

Movies for William Gould...

Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Marshal Kragg
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Edited version of the 1939 Universal serial "Buck Rogers." A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
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Planet Outlaws
Title: Planet Outlaws
Character: Air Marshal Kragg
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Feature version of the film serial Buck Rogers by Universal Pictures, 1940.
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Heart of the Rockies
Title: Heart of the Rockies
Character: Warden Parker
Released: March 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.
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And Then There Were Four
Title: And Then There Were Four
Character: Dr. Harry Marks
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to learn who the victim is. The film gives considerable discussion to careless driving habits and depicts Angelenos from different walks of life as well as their homes, neighborhoods, streets, and freeways.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Title: The Man Who Cheated Himself
Character: Doc Munson
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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Outcasts of Black Mesa
Title: Outcasts of Black Mesa
Character: Walt Dorn
Released: April 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid disguise, whereupon stunt-double Jock Mahoney swings into action. Outcasts of Black Mesa is distinguished by the presence of a relative newcomer to the film game, leading lady Martha Hyer.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Coroner
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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I Cheated the Law
Title: I Cheated the Law
Character: First Judge
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
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Yellow Sky
Title: Yellow Sky
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
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For the Love of Mary
Title: For the Love of Mary
Character: Sen. Benning
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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The Winner's Circle
Title: The Winner's Circle
Character: Tom Trent
Released: June 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A Thoroughbred makes the long journey from initial training and workout to ultimate triumph as a champion horse.
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Wild Horse Mesa
Title: Wild Horse Mesa
Character: Marshal Bradford
Released: November 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking for then also. When Dave finds them first, Olmstead buys them from Melburn and then kills him. A clue leads Dave to Olmstead's where he breaks in and finds the murder weapon. When he takes his evidence to the Marshal he learns Olmstead has been murdered and he is the one under arrest.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Pop (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Title: Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Character: Collins (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
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Violence
Title: Violence
Character: Mr. X
Released: May 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
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A Likely Story
Title: A Likely Story
Character: Robert (Doorman) (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Title: Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Title: The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Character: Police Capt. Martin, San Diego Police
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
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Beauty and the Bandit
Title: Beauty and the Bandit
Character: Doc Wells
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The stagecoach is ambushed by a band of men whose leader, a mysterious bandido known as Cisco (Gilbert Roland), claims the silver is money that was extorted over a period of years from the poor people of California. The bandits take the money and escape, but Cisco stays behind with the Frenchman -- who, it turns out, is actually a lovely mademoiselle, Jeanne DuBois (Ramsay Ames). She follows him to the bandit's lair, where Cisco tells her he intends to return the stolen money to the poor people. The two rivals are irresistibly drawn to each other, however, and as a token of love Cisco offers to return the money to Jeanne instead. Now she must decide whether to complete her business deal, or to comply with Cisco's wishes and redistribute the wealth.
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Colt Comrades
Title: Colt Comrades
Character: Rancher
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
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Captive Wild Woman
Title: Captive Wild Woman
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Isolationist (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Texas Sheriff
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Gem-Jams
Title: Gem-Jams
Character: Mr. Stone, Leon's boss
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: First Detective
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Fighting Frontier
Title: Fighting Frontier
Character: Commissioner Daniel Slocum
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched.
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Mug Town
Title: Mug Town
Character: Detective #1
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Lawyer
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Minister
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
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City of Silent Men
Title: City of Silent Men
Character: Mayor Hendricks
Released: October 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The mayor of the town welcomes the former cons with open arms, helping them re-open a dormant canning factory and encouraging them to hire other reformed criminals.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Col. Medford
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: New Marshal (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Murder in the Big House
Title: Murder in the Big House
Character: Prison Warden
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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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Character: Colonel
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Dist. Atty. Mason
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Chicago Pedestrian
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Sealed Lips
Title: Sealed Lips
Character: Dist. Atty. Slater
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Fire Chief (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Dr. Lamar (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Parkhill - Abilene Cattle Buyer
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Man from Montana
Title: Man from Montana
Character: Winchester Thompson
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
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No Greater Sin
Title: No Greater Sin
Character: District Attorney Benton
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Freeman (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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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Sheriff Brennan
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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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Chalmers (attorney) (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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The Sea Wolf
Title: The Sea Wolf
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Garner - Landlord Agent
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Recruiting Major (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Tom (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Nobody's Children
Title: Nobody's Children
Character: Dr. Tovar
Released: December 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Police Sergeant on Courthouse Steps (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Policeman
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Chief of Detectives
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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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Detective (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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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Deputy on Train
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Chief Detective Dyer
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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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Title: Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Character: Dr. Webster
Released: August 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
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Lightning Strikes West
Title: Lightning Strikes West
Character: Marshal Jim Correy
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's boot. Joe Laikon and his men are also after the gold and they overpower Morgan, get the map, and head for the treasure. But Morgan and Tod Grant are soon on their trail
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Island of Doomed Men
Title: Island of Doomed Men
Character: Parole Board Member (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Tear Gas Squad
Title: Tear Gas Squad
Character: Captain Henderson
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: First Banker
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Title: Riders of Pasco Basin
Character: Editor Caleb Scott
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Title: Brother Rat and a Baby
Character: Second Doctor
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Dr. Lewis
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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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Title: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Character: Daniel Talbert
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: Fire Chief (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Doctor
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Col. Moffett
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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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Policeman
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Detective
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: FBI Agent (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Palmer
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Streets of New York
Title: Streets of New York
Character: Police Detective (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Air Marshal Kragg
Released: April 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Conference Room Businessman
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Jed Scott
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: The Judge (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Deputy Warden Michaels (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Swedish Captain (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Gangster's Boy
Title: Gangster's Boy
Character: District Attorney
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
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Tarnished Angel
Title: Tarnished Angel
Character: Jewelry Fence
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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Red Barry
Title: Red Barry
Character: Commissioner Tom
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
Title: Mr. Wong, Detective
Character: Theodore Meisle
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: Dr. Judd (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Romance of the Limberlost
Title: Romance of the Limberlost
Character: Lawyer
Released: June 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
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Blind Alibi
Title: Blind Alibi
Character: Police Detective
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
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Night Spot
Title: Night Spot
Character: Policeman
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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The Purple Vigilantes
Title: The Purple Vigilantes
Character: Jenkins, Saloon Owner
Released: January 24, 1938
Type: Movie
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Wild Horse Rodeo
Title: Wild Horse Rodeo
Character: Harkley
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A champion rodeo rider returns home to track down a legendary wild horse called "Cyclone."
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: 1925 Police Chief
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
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Hoosier Schoolboy
Title: Hoosier Schoolboy
Character: John Matthews Sr.
Released: July 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
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The 13th Man
Title: The 13th Man
Character: Dist. Atty. Robert E. Sutherland
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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The Wildcatter
Title: The Wildcatter
Character: Real Estate Agent
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.
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Let Them Live
Title: Let Them Live
Character: Pullman Conductor
Released: April 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: First Dog Show Judge
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Ranger Courage
Title: Ranger Courage
Character: Daniel Harper
Released: January 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Harper wagon train is carrying money and Bull and his gang are after it. When their first attack is foiled by the rangers, Allen trails them. But he is captured and his ranger badge used to divert the rangers away leaving the wagon train unprotected.
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The Fugitive Sheriff
Title: The Fugitive Sheriff
Character: Lawyer Ross (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Court Clerk
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Pinto Rustlers
Title: Pinto Rustlers
Character: Inspector
Released: May 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Tom Evans is a young cowboy orphaned by a band of rustlers. Seeking revenge, Tom pretends to be a notorious ex-con and manages to worm his way into the gang in order to get the goods on the bunch.
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Roaming Lady
Title: Roaming Lady
Character: McLaughlin
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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Desert Justice
Title: Desert Justice
Character: Hugo Cohn - Auctioneer
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A gang of bank robbers holes up at a cowboy's ranch. One of the robbers turns out to be his brother. After the brother is killed by the gang, the cowboy tracks them across the desert.
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Love on a Bet
Title: Love on a Bet
Character: Estimator
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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Wildcat Saunders
Title: Wildcat Saunders
Character: Joe Pipp - Jack's Manager
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Perrin plays a boxer whose manager takes him out to a ranch for training, but Perrin soon discovers the ranch foreman is responsible for a $100,000 jewel heist.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Captain Jensen
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Don't Gamble with Love
Title: Don't Gamble with Love
Character: Captain of Detectives
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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The Perfect Set-Up
Title: The Perfect Set-Up
Character: San Francisco Police Detective (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
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Chatterbox
Title: Chatterbox
Character: Laughing Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
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Desert Guns
Title: Desert Guns
Character: Jeff Bagley
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kirk Allenby is hired by the Cattleman's Association to track down and arrest a rancher who they believe is stealing cattle. Allenby finds his quarry but is astounded to discover that that man, Bob Enright, looks enough like him to be his twin. He is forced to shoot Enright, but as the man lay dying he gets Allenby to promise that he will help Enright's sister, who is being forced to marry the real boss of the cattle rustling operation, who has framed Enright in order to take over his ranch.
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Fast Bullets
Title: Fast Bullets
Character: Drummond
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a runaway wagon.
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Hit-and-Run Driver
Title: Hit-and-Run Driver
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.
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Trigger Tom
Title: Trigger Tom
Character: Mose Jeckyl
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Tom Hilton and Stub Macey are heading to the Jergenson ranch to buy his cattle. But Jeckyl and Sheriff Slater control the cattle market forcing the ranchers to buy at their price and they intend to keep the newcomers out.
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Swifty
Title: Swifty
Character: Cheevers
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Swifty is framed for the murder of Alec MeNiel by the Lawyer Cheevers and the stepson Price. Then they incite the locals to form a lynch mob, but Swifty has an unexpected ally in the Sheriff who knows Price was after his stepfather's land.
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Valley of Wanted Men
Title: Valley of Wanted Men
Character: Prison Warden
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
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Western Frontier
Title: Western Frontier
Character: Jed
Released: August 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden hair Girl only to find that she's his long lost sister.
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Rio Rattler
Title: Rio Rattler
Character: Banker Mason
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to assume the Marshal's identity. Mason, the chief, now sends Rattler, the killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom. But when he overhears Tom is a fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder of the Marshal.
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Men of Action
Title: Men of Action
Character: Rancher
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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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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Stone of Silver Creek
Title: Stone of Silver Creek
Character: Croupier
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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Baby Face Harrington
Title: Baby Face Harrington
Character: Country Club Patron
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
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Strangers All
Title: Strangers All
Character: Bailiff
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Wolf Riders
Title: Wolf Riders
Character: Butch Weldon
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Deputy Indian Agent is framed for the murder of a captured fur thief actually killed by his boss in rivalry for affections of a saloon girl.
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Loser's End
Title: Loser's End
Character: Bill Meeker
Released: January 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits.
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Big Boy Rides Again
Title: Big Boy Rides Again
Character: Lawyer Burt Hartecker
Released: January 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets out to find who did it.
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Terror of the Plains
Title: Terror of the Plains
Character: Kirk Cramer, aka 'Butcher' Wells
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
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Hat, Coat and Glove
Title: Hat, Coat and Glove
Character: Assistant Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
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Smoking Guns
Title: Smoking Guns
Character: Silas Stone
Released: June 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.
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Wheels of Destiny
Title: Wheels of Destiny
Character: Deacon
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later identifies Rocky and his men as the attackers. Expelled from the wagon train, they stampede a buffalo herd puting the Indians on the warpath. After the Indians attack the wagon train, Rocky thinks he can get the map.
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Gun Justice
Title: Gun Justice
Character: Jones
Released: December 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the real Ken Lance.
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The Trail Drive
Title: The Trail Drive
Character: 'Honest' John
Released: September 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash. Ken is leading the cattle drive not knowing that when they cross the state line Honest John's plan will have succeeded.
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Phantom Thunderbolt
Title: Phantom Thunderbolt
Character: 'Red' Matthews
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy called The Thunderbolt Kid comes to the aid of a town that is being threatened by outlaws who don't want a railroad to go through the town.
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The Lost Special
Title: The Lost Special
Character: Steele [Ch. 1]
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: Track Doctor
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Dr. Weldon
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
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The Sunrise Trail
Title: The Sunrise Trail
Character: Joe - Card Player
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.
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The Red Lily
Title: The Red Lily
Character: Arresting Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
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The Desert Outlaw
Title: The Desert Outlaw
Character: The Sheriff
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A prospector is falsely accused of murder.
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Flirting with Love
Title: Flirting with Love
Character: John Williams
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamont's first stage success, she attempts to revenge herself by affecting another personality and earning his confidence. He assigns her a role in an improvised production of a new play as an unknown actress, derails her attempt to expose him, and ends by winning her heart.
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Back Fire
Title: Back Fire
Character: Steve Rollins
Released: November 2, 1922
Type: Movie
Two cowboys drift into town. Both are broke, and one of them jokingly suggests they rob the local express office. A citizen overhears them, and when the office is robbed soon afterwards, the cowboys are blamed for it.