Stephen Chase

Stephen Chase

Born: April 11, 1902
Died: April 1, 1982
in Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA

Movies for Stephen Chase...

The Glory Guys
Title: The Glory Guys
Character: Gen. Hoffman
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
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Bachelor Flat
Title: Bachelor Flat
Character: District Attorney
Released: January 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.
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The Blob
Title: The Blob
Character: Dr. T. Hallen
Released: September 10, 1958
Type: Movie
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
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Appointment with a Shadow
Title: Appointment with a Shadow
Character: Sam Carewe
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sheriff Sam Gilford
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Character: Gen. Augur
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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El Paso Stampede
Title: El Paso Stampede
Character: Doc Ramsey
Released: September 6, 1953
Type: Movie
The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, in his last B western, is on the job and he is assisted as usual by Nugget Clark.
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The Caddy
Title: The Caddy
Character: George Garrison Sr.
Released: August 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.
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The Great Sioux Uprising
Title: The Great Sioux Uprising
Character: Major McKay
Released: July 17, 1953
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union just as Cook decides to steal a herd of Sioux horses. Ex-army doctor Jonathan Westgate opposes Cook’s unscrupulous methods as well as being Cook’s rival for the affections of Joan. It seems Westgate is the only one able to prevent a new Indian war.
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Hiawatha
Title: Hiawatha
Character: Lakku
Released: December 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.
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Stop, You're Killing Me
Title: Stop, You're Killing Me
Character: Cal Ritter
Released: December 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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Old Oklahoma Plains
Title: Old Oklahoma Plains
Character: Geneal William Parker
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.
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You for Me
Title: You for Me
Character: Dr. Bretherton (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
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No Room for the Groom
Title: No Room for the Groom
Character: Mr. Taylor
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock of mostly obnoxious relatives with whom she's filled the house.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Donald Bailey
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
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When Worlds Collide
Title: When Worlds Collide
Character: Dr. George Frye
Released: September 14, 1951
Type: Movie
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
Title: According to Mrs. Hoyle
Character: Judge "Billy" Guthrie
Released: May 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
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Cavalry Scout
Title: Cavalry Scout
Character: Col. Drumm
Released: May 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to the Soiux and Cheyenne. The trail leads him to Red Bluff where, aided by Claire Corville, he and the audience discover together and real quick like that Martin Gavin, a supposedly-honest operator of a freight line, has the guns and intends to exchange them to the Indians for furs.
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Belle Le Grand
Title: Belle Le Grand
Character: Montgomery Crame
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
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Frisco Tornado
Title: Frisco Tornado
Character: Jim Crail
Released: September 6, 1950
Type: Movie
U.S. marshal sets out to end an insurance scam: salesmen provide cow town folk with insurance against outlaw activity, outlaws who work for the insurance salesmen.
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Sideshow
Title: Sideshow
Character: McGregor
Released: June 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
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Tarnished
Title: Tarnished
Character: Sheriff McBride
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
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Outside the Wall
Title: Outside the Wall
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
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The Pilgrimage Play
Title: The Pilgrimage Play
Character: Simon called Peter
Released: December 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Puckett (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Alias the Champ
Title: Alias the Champ
Character: Dist. Atty. Gould
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who was already on the scene to investigate the Mob’s influence on pro wrestling.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Secret Service Chief (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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Flame of Youth
Title: Flame of Youth
Character: Charles Howard
Released: September 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: Detective
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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The Daring Caballero
Title: The Daring Caballero
Character: Major Bruce Brady
Released: June 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles they'd carry over into a popular 1950s TV series. Once more stumbling into a dangerous situation, Cisco and Pancho risk their own necks by saving an innocent man from hanging. Eventually, our heroes learn that a corrupt political machine is behind the killing. Leading lady Kippie Valez is cast as "herself," which must have meant more in 1949 than it does today. Unlike the subsequent TV series, Daring Caballero does not end with the leading actors reciting their standard mantra "Oh, Pancho! Oh, Cisco!"
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Cop in Patrol Car (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Doctors Don't Tell
Title: Doctors Don't Tell
Released: September 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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They Met in Bombay
Title: They Met in Bombay
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: Detective Joe Kent
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Title: The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Character: Sinclair
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. The town is an outlaw gang's hideout, and they scare folks away to protect their mine.
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The Spider Returns
Title: The Spider Returns
Character: Jenkins, Wentworth's Butler
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Jack
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
Title: The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
Character: Deputy Hatfield
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron, aka the Lone Rider, and his faithful sidekick, Fuzzy Jones, flee across the Rio Grande to avoid assassination by crooked lawman Deputy Hatfield, only to have the Mexican cops accuse Cameron of being the notorious bandit El Puma. At Hatfield's behest, they are also accused of kidnapping the local mayor's son, and now the pair must prove their innocence and find a way to stop Hatfield's lawless ways.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Walter Sender
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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Billy the Kid's Range War
Title: Billy the Kid's Range War
Character: Dave Hendrix (as Alden Chase)
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy sees the wanted posters and learns of the murders he supposedly committed, he sets out to find the imposter. His sidekick Fuzzy is there to help him but his friend Jeff, now a Marshal, is also after him.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Mr. Evans - Construction Engr.
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Riders of Black Mountain
Title: Riders of Black Mountain
Character: Emmett (as Alden Chase)
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the outlaws. So he sets up a fake shipment knowing that if the stage is robbed the contact person will be identiifed. But the day the stage is due the Sheriff arrests the gang Tim was expecting to do the robbery.
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Gun Code
Title: Gun Code
Character: James M. Bradley - Banker (as Alder Chase)
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Jim Harrison
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Citizen
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Professor Lange
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Title: Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Character: Ambulance Interne (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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East Side Kids
Title: East Side Kids
Character: Joe
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Producer (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Dr. Robert Lee
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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Straight Shooter
Title: Straight Shooter
Character: Saloon Patron (archive footage)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Before he was killed, Martin hid a half million dollars worth of bonds on his ranch. Brainard, who killed him, Inspector Carson posing as Sam Brown, and Martin's niece Margaret all want the ranch, and it's being sold at auction.
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Code of the Cactus
Title: Code of the Cactus
Character: James
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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The Terror of Tiny Town
Title: The Terror of Tiny Town
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: December 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Using a conventional Western story with an all dwarf cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.
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Six-Gun Trail
Title: Six-Gun Trail
Character: Jim Wilson
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
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Frontier Scout
Title: Frontier Scout
Character: Mort Bennett
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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Heart of Arizona
Title: Heart of Arizona
Character: Dan Ringo
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.
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Under Western Stars
Title: Under Western Stars
Character: Tom Andrews
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
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Forty Naughty Girls
Title: Forty Naughty Girls
Character: Tommy Washburn
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
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Rogue of the Range
Title: Rogue of the Range
Character: Lige Branscomb
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Doran and the Sheriff have a scheme to bring in an outlaw gang. Doran is sent to prison so he and the gang leader Mitchell can break out. This gets him into the gang but he is in trouble when it's revealed he is working with the Sheriff.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Continental Palace Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
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Foolproof
Title: Foolproof
Character: Terry Spencer (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting twists to the crime. Part of the Crime Does Not Pay series
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Ship Cafe
Title: Ship Cafe
Character: Mr. Blackstone (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Fighting Youth
Title: Fighting Youth
Character: Louis Markoff
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Mr. Graham (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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The Cowboy Millionaire
Title: The Cowboy Millionaire
Character: Hadley Thornton (as Alden Chase)
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Englishwoman falls for dude ranch cowboy but goes back to England when she thinks he's only pretending. But he follows her to England.
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The Little Colonel
Title: The Little Colonel
Character: Hull
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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Prescott Kid
Title: Prescott Kid
Character: Ed Walton
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
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A Man's Game
Title: A Man's Game
Character: Kelton
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Mr. Victor Pritchard
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Wallach (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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The Right To Romance
Title: The Right To Romance
Character: Bunny Allen
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.