Sid Tomack

Sid Tomack

Born: September 8, 1907
Died: November 12, 1962
In addition to credited roles, he appears in the stock episode opening-credits footage for seasons 2 and 3 of "Perry Mason", as a spectator seated immediately behind Lt. Tragg (Ray Collins).

Movies for Sid Tomack...

Sail A Crooked Ship
Title: Sail A Crooked Ship
Character: Sammy
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Title: The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Character: Arthur, Bartender at Kangaroo Club (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
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Title: The Donna Reed Show
Character: Mac
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: TV
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Spring Reunion
Title: Spring Reunion
Character: Caterer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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That Certain Feeling
Title: That Certain Feeling
Character: Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Released: June 4, 1956
Type: Movie
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.
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The Kettles in the Ozarks
Title: The Kettles in the Ozarks
Character: Benny
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
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My Sister Eileen
Title: My Sister Eileen
Character: Counterman (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
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Living It Up
Title: Living It Up
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: July 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Herman
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Jake Corby
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Somebody Loves Me
Title: Somebody Loves Me
Character: Harry Lake
Released: September 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Curtis
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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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Ruffles
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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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Meyers
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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Reunion in Reno
Title: Reunion in Reno
Character: Serge Field
Released: October 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Title: Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Character: Second Trainer
Released: September 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Title: The Fuller Brush Girl
Character: Bangs (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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Title: The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1950
Type: TV
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.
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Appointment with Danger
Title: Appointment with Danger
Character: Trainman
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Louie
Released: March 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Mr. Humes
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
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Title: The Life of Riley
Character: Jim Gillis
Released: October 4, 1949
Type: TV
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"
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Sorrowful Jones
Title: Sorrowful Jones
Character: Waiter at Steve's Place (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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House of Strangers
Title: House of Strangers
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Bartender
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Title: Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Character: The Runt
Released: March 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Duke the Fence (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Force of Evil
Title: Force of Evil
Character: Two and Two (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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Homicide for Three
Title: Homicide for Three
Character: Cabbie
Released: December 8, 1948
Type: Movie
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Artell - Manager
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: BinkaBinka
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Buster Buffin
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Wigmaker
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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For the Love of Rusty
Title: For the Love of Rusty
Character: Moe Hatch
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trailer during the night, and Rusty rescues the vet before he is overcome.
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Blondie's Holiday
Title: Blondie's Holiday
Character: Pete Brody
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: Mike, the waiter-bartender
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.
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The Thrill of Brazil
Title: The Thrill of Brazil
Character: Irikie Bowers
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.
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Song of the Open Road
Title: Song of the Open Road
Character: Makeup Man (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."