Gordon Westcott

Gordon Westcott

Born: November 6, 1903
Died: October 31, 1935
in Saint George, Utah, USA
Gordon Westcott (born Myrthus Hickman, November 6, 1903 – October 30, 1935) was an American film actor.

Movies for Gordon Westcott...

This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Ed Revier
Released: October 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
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Two-Fisted
Title: Two-Fisted
Character: George Parker
Released: October 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Wellington
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Maitland Coulter
Released: July 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Going Highbrow
Title: Going Highbrow
Character: Sam Long
Released: July 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Fred
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Scurvin
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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The White Cockatoo
Title: The White Cockatoo
Character: Dr. Roberts
Released: January 29, 1935
Type: Movie
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: George Wexley
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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6 Day Bike Rider
Title: 6 Day Bike Rider
Character: Harry
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Character: Arthur Cartwright
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Jimmy the Dude aka Frankie Smith
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Call It Luck
Title: Call It Luck
Character: 'Lucky' Luke Bartlett
Released: July 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Frank Madison
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Joe Bello
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Registered Nurse
Title: Registered Nurse
Character: Jim Benton
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
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I've Got Your Number
Title: I've Got Your Number
Character: Nicky
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Harry Brent
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: Joe
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Phil Lorraine / Frank Wilson
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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The World Changes
Title: The World Changes
Character: John Nordholm
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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Footlight Parade
Title: Footlight Parade
Character: Harry Thompson
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Voltaire
Title: Voltaire
Character: The Captain
Released: August 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
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Heroes for Sale
Title: Heroes for Sale
Character: Roger Winston
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Tony Bandor
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Rex Durkee
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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The Working Man
Title: The Working Man
Character: Fred 'Freddie' Pettison
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
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He Learned About Women
Title: He Learned About Women
Character: Eddie Clifford
Released: March 2, 1933
Type: Movie
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Susan Fleming, Alison Skipworth, Gordon Westcott, Grant Mitchell and Sidney Toler. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Character: Gilbert Reid
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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Heritage of the Desert
Title: Heritage of the Desert
Character: Snap Naab
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Credit Manager (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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The Devil and the Deep
Title: The Devil and the Deep
Character: Lt. Toll
Released: August 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Party Boy (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.