Frank Sheridan

Frank Sheridan

Born: June 10, 1869
Died: November 24, 1943
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Frank Sheridan...

Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Prison Chaplain
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Heroes in Blue
Title: Heroes in Blue
Character: Mike Murphy
Released: November 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Father Ryan
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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A Night at the Movies
Title: A Night at the Movies
Character: Mr. Baum (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: M. Van Cassell
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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A Fight to the Finish
Title: A Fight to the Finish
Character: Prison Warden
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Father Patrick
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Sam Steubner
Released: November 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
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Country Gentlemen
Title: Country Gentlemen
Character: Chief of Police
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Murder with Pictures
Title: Murder with Pictures
Character: Police Chief
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
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How to Vote
Title: How to Vote
Character: Chairman (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Founders' Club Member (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
Title: The Little Red Schoolhouse
Character: Warden Gail
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Title: The Voice of Bugle Ann
Character: Uncle Nathan (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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The Leavenworth Case
Title: The Leavenworth Case
Character: Silas Leavenworth
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Mulligan - Jailer (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Nevada
Title: Nevada
Character: Tom Blaine
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
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The Spanish Cape Mystery
Title: The Spanish Cape Mystery
Character: Walter Godfrey
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Judge at Baxter's Proceedings (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Warden (uncredited)
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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Men Without Names
Title: Men Without Names
Character: Police Captain
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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Whispering Smith Speaks
Title: Whispering Smith Speaks
Character: Gordon Harrington, Sr.
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
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West Point of the Air
Title: West Point of the Air
Character: General Debbin in the Locker Room
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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The Revenge Rider
Title: The Revenge Rider
Character: Jed Harmon
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Captain of the Salvage Tug
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: George Gorman
Released: January 9, 1935
Type: Movie
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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The Witching Hour
Title: The Witching Hour
Character: Police Chief
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Police Inspector Kellogg
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Wharf Angel
Title: Wharf Angel
Character: The Skipper
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him. He explains that after he spoke out about the rights of man to a crowd, a riot ensued, during which a policeman was killed. Como took the gun from the killer, but is thought to be guilty of the crime himself. Como, who reciprocates Mary's love, spends the night with her, but leaves to keep her out of danger. He joins the crew of a ship sailing to China after he is befriended by Turk, a big lumbering sailor who is also in love with Mary. Each man is unaware that they love the same woman.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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King for a Night
Title: King for a Night
Character: Prison Warden
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Officer Matt Hughes (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: The Mayor
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
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The Man Who Dared
Title: The Man Who Dared
Character: Sen. 'Honest John' McGuiness
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Police Commissioner Garvey
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Leo
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Honest John Kelleher
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Warden Frank Lewis
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Night Court
Title: Night Court
Character: Thomas H. 'Sam' Haskins (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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The Roadhouse Murder
Title: The Roadhouse Murder
Character: District Attorney
Released: April 28, 1932
Type: Movie
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates, Roscoe Karns and Purnell Pratt star in this 1932 thriller, directed by J. Walter Ruben.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Character: Priest
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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Ladies of the Big House
Title: Ladies of the Big House
Character: Warden Hecker
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Joel Clarke
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Charles Harmer
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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Murder by the Clock
Title: Murder by the Clock
Character: Chief of Police
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
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Young Donovan's Kid
Title: Young Donovan's Kid
Character: Father Dan
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
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A Free Soul
Title: A Free Soul
Character: Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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Danger Lights
Title: Danger Lights
Character: Ed Ryan
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
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The Other Tomorrow
Title: The Other Tomorrow
Character: Dave Weaver
Released: February 9, 1930
Type: Movie
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Tom O'Farrell
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Fast Life
Title: Fast Life
Character: Warden
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
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The Man Next Door
Title: The Man Next Door
Character: Curley
Released: May 28, 1923
Type: Movie
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon had recently been made into a hit film. Ranchman Colonel Wright sends his daughter Bonnie to an Eastern college to receive an education. She decides to stay in the city and sends for her father, who arrives with his foreman Curly. Even though they live in the midst of society, they are snubbed by the Easterners as uncouth.
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One Exciting Night
Title: One Exciting Night
Character: Detective
Released: October 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.
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Anne of Little Smoky
Title: Anne of Little Smoky
Character: The Brockton
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
The Brockton clan considers the mountain Little Smoky their own, but then the government comes in and declares it a forest and game preserve. This doesn't stop the family, who swears they will do what they want with the land.
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A Daughter of Two Worlds
Title: A Daughter of Two Worlds
Character: Black Jerry Malone
Released: January 5, 1920
Type: Movie
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Enlighten Thy Daughter
Title: Enlighten Thy Daughter
Character: Daniel Stevens
Released: January 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she becomes pregnant by the reckless Harold Winthrop, her mother takes her to an abortionist. Harold then falls for Ruth Stevens, raised by an attentive and loving mother, who is not so easily taken advantage of.