Roy Gordon

Roy Gordon

Born: October 18, 1884
Died: July 23, 1972
in Beaver Village, Pike County, Ohio, USA

Movies for Roy Gordon...

What a Way to Go!
Title: What a Way to Go!
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1964
Type: Movie
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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Hand of Death
Title: Hand of Death
Character: Dr. Frederick Ramsey
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A scientist spills a new serum in his lab, accidentally inhales its fumes, and turns into a murderous monster who kills anyone he touches.
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All in a Night's Work
Title: All in a Night's Work
Character: Albright
Released: March 15, 1961
Type: Movie
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
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The Wasp Woman
Title: The Wasp Woman
Character: Paul Thompson
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
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The FBI Story
Title: The FBI Story
Character: Emmett Reese (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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The Fearmakers
Title: The Fearmakers
Character: Sen. Walder
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
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War of the Colossal Beast
Title: War of the Colossal Beast
Character: Mayor of Los Angeles
Released: June 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Title: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Character: Dr. Isaac Cushing
Released: May 18, 1958
Type: Movie
When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
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War of the Satellites
Title: War of the Satellites
Character: The President
Released: May 18, 1958
Type: Movie
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
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Zero Hour!
Title: Zero Hour!
Character: Frank Graham
Released: November 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
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The Unearthly
Title: The Unearthly
Character: Dr. Loren Wright
Released: June 28, 1957
Type: Movie
A mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls.
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The Iron Sheriff
Title: The Iron Sheriff
Character: Sorenson
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
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Wetbacks
Title: Wetbacks
Character: Hoppy
Released: May 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif with drunken Shanks, and his companion Sally (Gates). Shanks takes off into a small Mexican village after a fight with Jim, stranding both Sally and him with no money. Two local men hear of Jim's plight, and offer him money to smuggle a batch of illegal aliens, called Wetbacks, into the U.S. He agrees but is blackmailed into continuing to run the smuggling operation. Afraid, Jim decides to make a run for it, but someone close to him reveals themselves as a US Immigration agent and asks him to assist them in shutting down the smugglers for good.
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The Crooked Web
Title: The Crooked Web
Character: Richard V. Atherton (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant takes in puts a hold on that plan. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but Stan - an inveterate gambler - finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist…
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The Gun That Won the West
Title: The Gun That Won the West
Character: Colonel Carrington
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
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Murder Is My Beat
Title: Murder Is My Beat
Character: Abbott
Released: February 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
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The Big Combo
Title: The Big Combo
Character: Audubon
Released: February 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Andrew V. McMahon
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Silver Lode
Title: Silver Lode
Character: Dr. Elmwood
Released: July 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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Jesse James vs. the Daltons
Title: Jesse James vs. the Daltons
Released: April 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Joe Branch, reputed to be the son of Jesse James, comes riding into Coffeyville Kansas, looking for proof one way or the other regarding the question of who his father was.
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Paris Playboys
Title: Paris Playboys
Character: Senior UN Official
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Otto Kahn
Released: July 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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The Vanquished
Title: The Vanquished
Character: Doctor Colfax
Released: June 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.
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Sangaree
Title: Sangaree
Character: Dr. Tyrus
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
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Fangs of the Arctic
Title: Fangs of the Arctic
Character: Mountie Chief
Released: January 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
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Army Bound
Title: Army Bound
Character: Minister
Released: October 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Postello
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Yukon Gold
Title: Yukon Gold
Character: Inspector
Released: August 30, 1952
Type: Movie
In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female gambler. Action ensues, but justice prevails.
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Insurance Investigator
Title: Insurance Investigator
Character: George Sullivan
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
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Texans Never Cry
Title: Texans Never Cry
Character: Frank Bagley
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger tries to bring down counterfeiters selling fake lottery tickets.
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Law of the Badlands
Title: Law of the Badlands
Character: Secretary of Treasury (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1951
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. They arrive posing as wanted outlaws and this gets them into the gang. But as soon as they uncover the operation and locate the printing press, one of Chito's girl friends arrives to expose their identity and they find themselves trapped by the entire gang.
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Two Flags West
Title: Two Flags West
Character: Capt. Stanley (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
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Indian Territory
Title: Indian Territory
Character: Major Farrell
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading a group of renegade Indians on a series of destructive raids.
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Beyond the Purple Hills
Title: Beyond the Purple Hills
Character: Judge Beaumont
Released: July 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.
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Title: The Gene Autry Show
Released: July 23, 1950
Type: TV
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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The Invisible Monster
Title: The Invisible Monster
Character: Mr. Moore
Released: May 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
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Buccaneer's Girl
Title: Buccaneer's Girl
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
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The Blonde Bandit
Title: The Blonde Bandit
Character: Otto Thorndyke
Released: December 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
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Apache Chief
Title: Apache Chief
Character: Colonel Martin
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief must deal with renegade Apache Black Wolf.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Vice-President (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Character: Senator Flagstedt (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Riders of the Whistling Pines
Title: Riders of the Whistling Pines
Character: Supt. John Hoaglund (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1949
Type: Movie
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright, Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning.
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Railroaded!
Title: Railroaded!
Character: Jackland Ainsworth
Released: September 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
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Danger Street
Title: Danger Street
Character: John Matthews
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
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Never Say Goodbye
Title: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Editor Post
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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Night Editor
Title: Night Editor
Character: Benjamin Merrill (Uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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The Shanghai Cobra
Title: The Shanghai Cobra
Character: Walter Fletcher
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
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The Caribbean Mystery
Title: The Caribbean Mystery
Character: Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr.
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr. Smith, a Columbo-like Brooklyn detective who pops up on a tropical island to track down some missing geologists.
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Take It or Leave It
Title: Take It or Leave It
Character: Dr. Edward Preston
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Ship's Captain (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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Lucky Jordan
Title: Lucky Jordan
Character: Colonel
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Major Updyke
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Powder Town
Title: Powder Town
Character: Dr. Wayne
Released: June 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
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Two-Faced Woman
Title: Two-Faced Woman
Character: Man Standing at Lodge Counter (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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The Night of January 16th
Title: The Night of January 16th
Character: Roger Wakefield
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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Married Bachelor
Title: Married Bachelor
Character: Hudkins
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Sky Raiders
Title: Sky Raiders
Character: Maj. Gen. Fletcher [Chs. 1-2, 4, 11-12]
Released: April 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Col. Jefferson
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Judge J. Doran Fox
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: McCreery
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Mr. Brood
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Mr. Milliken
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Maj. Gen. Taylor (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Title: The Lone Wolf Strikes
Character: Phillip Jordan
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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Wolf of New York
Title: Wolf of New York
Character: Governor of New York
Released: January 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Title: Blondie Brings Up Baby
Character: Mr. Mason
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: New York City Mayor (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Col. Jasper White
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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The Real Glory
Title: The Real Glory
Character: Col. Hatch
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
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5th Ave Girl
Title: 5th Ave Girl
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: Third Trial Judge
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Dean Wixby
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Dr. Howard
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: The Judge
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: John Nast
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Boy Slaves
Title: Boy Slaves
Character: Judge
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: Byrne
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Cocoanut Grove
Title: Cocoanut Grove
Character: Robert Grayson
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.