Edward Pawley

Edward Pawley

Born: March 16, 1901
Died: January 27, 1988
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Movies for Edward Pawley...

The Desperadoes
Title: The Desperadoes
Character: Deputy Blackie
Released: May 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
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Eyes of the Underworld
Title: Eyes of the Underworld
Character: Lance Merlin
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
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Romance on the Range
Title: Romance on the Range
Character: Jerome Banning
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
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True to the Army
Title: True to the Army
Character: Junior
Released: March 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.
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Treat 'Em Rough
Title: Treat 'Em Rough
Character: Martin (as Ed Pawley)
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: High Collar (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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Hit the Road
Title: Hit the Road
Character: Spike the Butcher
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
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San Francisco Docks
Title: San Francisco Docks
Character: Monte March
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Title: The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Character: Palo Pete
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Collins
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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River's End
Title: River's End
Character: Frank Crandell
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Black Jack
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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The Big Guy
Title: The Big Guy
Character: Buckhart
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Dale
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Help Wanted
Title: Help Wanted
Character: Harry
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
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Unmarried
Title: Unmarried
Character: Swade (as Ed Pawley)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.
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The Lady's from Kentucky
Title: The Lady's from Kentucky
Character: Spike Cronin
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.
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Money to Loan
Title: Money to Loan
Character: Calumette
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Doolin
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character: Brace Dunlap
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Title: Angels with Dirty Faces
Character: Edwards
Released: November 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
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Sons of the Legion
Title: Sons of the Legion
Character: Gunman Baker
Released: September 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Chin Martin
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Little Tough Guy
Title: Little Tough Guy
Character: Jim Boylan
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Joe Fenderson
Released: July 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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White Banners
Title: White Banners
Character: Bill Ellis
Released: June 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
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Romance of the Limberlost
Title: Romance of the Limberlost
Character: Corson
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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Gun Law
Title: Gun Law
Character: The Raven
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.
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Dangerous to Know
Title: Dangerous to Know
Character: John Rance
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Cronin
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Hoosier Schoolboy
Title: Hoosier Schoolboy
Character: Captain Fred Carter
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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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Tod Miller
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Second Detective
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Police Captain Bill Royce
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: 'Dutch' McTurck
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Tough Guy
Title: Tough Guy
Character: Tony, Gangster
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
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King Solomon of Broadway
Title: King Solomon of Broadway
Character: 'Ice' Larson
Released: September 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An underworld character wins a Broadway nightclub in a card game.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Danny Leggett
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Joe Patterson
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Helldorado
Title: Helldorado
Character: Miner
Released: January 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to rain. As they approach a bridge, Art notices a few stalled cars, and when the storm worsens, the bridge washes away, leaving Art, Glenda, Van and several others stranded in a canyon.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Pirate of the Spanish Main
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Waterfront Diner Wanting Sugar (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Murders in the Zoo
Title: Murders in the Zoo
Character: Bob Taylor (Uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
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Tess of the Storm Country
Title: Tess of the Storm Country
Character: Ben Letts
Released: November 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
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Thirteen Women
Title: Thirteen Women
Character: Burns
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.