Wilton Graff

Wilton Graff

Born: August 13, 1903
Died: January 13, 1969
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Wilton Graff (13 August 1903 – 13 January 1969) was an American actor. He was born as Wilton Calvert Ratcliffe on 13 August 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, US. He died in Pacific Palisades, California on 13 January 1969.

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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: George Chaney
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Sail A Crooked Ship
Title: Sail A Crooked Ship
Character: Simon J. Harrison
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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Bloodlust!
Title: Bloodlust!
Character: Dr.Albert Balleau
Released: September 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
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Return to Peyton Place
Title: Return to Peyton Place
Character: Dr. Fowkles
Released: May 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Dr. Alvin Lesley
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Compulsion
Title: Compulsion
Character: Mr. Steiner
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.
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Tip on a Dead Jockey
Title: Tip on a Dead Jockey
Character: Phyllis's Father
Released: September 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
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Something of Value
Title: Something of Value
Character: Capt. Hillary
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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The Benny Goodman Story
Title: The Benny Goodman Story
Character: John Hammond Sr.
Released: February 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Fulton Agnew
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mr. Pinkson
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Sea Chase
Title: The Sea Chase
Character: Consul General Hepke
Released: June 4, 1955
Type: Movie
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Shrine Auditorium Emcee (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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King Richard and the Crusaders
Title: King Richard and the Crusaders
Character: Duke Leopold of Austria
Released: August 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Miss Sadie Thompson
Title: Miss Sadie Thompson
Character: Governor
Released: December 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
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Scandal at Scourie
Title: Scandal at Scourie
Character: Leffington
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
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Lili
Title: Lili
Character: M. Tonit
Released: March 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
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The I Don't Care Girl
Title: The I Don't Care Girl
Character: Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld
Released: January 14, 1953
Type: Movie
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
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Million Dollar Mermaid
Title: Million Dollar Mermaid
Character: Garvey
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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Operation Secret
Title: Operation Secret
Character: Capt. Chiron
Released: November 5, 1952
Type: Movie
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
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Springfield Rifle
Title: Springfield Rifle
Character: Col. George Sharpe
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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Fearless Fagan
Title: Fearless Fagan
Character: Col. Horne
Released: August 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the army. Comedy.
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Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Mr. Cardy
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Mask of the Avenger
Title: Mask of the Avenger
Character: Count Dimorna (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
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My True Story
Title: My True Story
Character: George Trent
Released: March 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
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The West Point Story
Title: The West Point Story
Character: Lieutenant Colonel Martin
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.
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The Screen Writer
Title: The Screen Writer
Character: Producer / Screenwriter (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1950
Type: Movie
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
Title: Fortunes of Captain Blood
Character: Capt. Alvarado
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: General Chester Jans (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Reign of Terror
Title: Reign of Terror
Character: Marquis de Lafayette (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
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Once More, My Darling
Title: Once More, My Darling
Character: Frobisher
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
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Blondie's Big Deal
Title: Blondie's Big Deal
Character: Joe Dillon
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
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Caught
Title: Caught
Character: Gentry (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
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The Dark Past
Title: The Dark Past
Character: Frank Stevens
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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The Mozart Story
Title: The Mozart Story
Character: Antonio Salieri
Released: November 13, 1948
Type: Movie
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The Gallant Blade
Title: The Gallant Blade
Character: Duc d'Orleans
Released: October 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
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The Gentleman from Nowhere
Title: The Gentleman from Nowhere
Character: Larry Hendricks
Released: September 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.
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Another Part of the Forest
Title: Another Part of the Forest
Character: Sam Taylor
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Title: Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Character: Prosecutor
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
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The Return of the Whistler
Title: The Return of the Whistler
Character: Dr. Grantland
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Defending Counselor (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Title: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Character: Caleb Cross
Released: February 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Dr. Mervin
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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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: Albert Loring
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Cedric Mason
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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High Conquest
Title: High Conquest
Character: Mr. Douglaston
Released: June 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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The Web
Title: The Web
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Title: The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Character: Maxwell Kenyon
Released: June 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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Shadowed
Title: Shadowed
Character: Tony Montague
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Fred J. Johnson (Lloyd Corrigan) scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Ralph Martin
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
"The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
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Avalanche
Title: Avalanche
Character: Jeremy Austin
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.
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Traffic in Crime
Title: Traffic in Crime
Character: Nick Cantrell
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
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Valley of the Zombies
Title: Valley of the Zombies
Character: Dr. Lucifer Garland
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
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The Phantom Thief
Title: The Phantom Thief
Character: Rex Duncan
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
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Just Before Dawn
Title: Just Before Dawn
Character: Alexander 'Alec' Girard (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
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Pillow of Death
Title: Pillow of Death
Character: Police Captain McCracken
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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Strange Confession
Title: Strange Confession
Character: Brandon
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
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Gangs of the Waterfront
Title: Gangs of the Waterfront
Character: Police Commissioner Hogan
Released: July 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Mr. Thayer
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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A Royal Scandal
Title: A Royal Scandal
Character: Russian General (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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Earl of Puddlestone
Title: Earl of Puddlestone
Character: Mr. Thayer (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.