Donald Reed

Donald Reed

Movies for Donald Reed...

Nelly Was a Lady
Title: Nelly Was a Lady
Character: Stephen Foster
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The Father of American Music, Stephen Foster created melodies for all the world to sing, most memorably his folk songs about the joys and sorrows of the people of the South. His achievements seem miraculous in that he had no musical training, and except for one short visit had never been to the South.
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Mad Youth
Title: Mad Youth
Character: Club Emcee
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Eve's Chauffer Ferdinand (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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The Firefly
Title: The Firefly
Character: French Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Title: Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Character: Constable MacDonald
Released: September 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson to make a new plate, he inscribes a tiny help message on it. Renfrew catches a henchman who has one of the new bills. A magnifying glass lets him read the message and he heads out alone to round up the counterfeiters.
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Slaves in Bondage
Title: Slaves in Bondage
Character: Phillip Miller
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
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Law and Lead
Title: Law and Lead
Character: Pancho Gonzales, aka The Juarez Kid
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy hears rumors that an old friend who once headed a criminal gang and had since gone straight is now back on the wrong side of the law. He goes to investigate.
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Special Agent K-7
Title: Special Agent K-7
Character: Billy Westrop
Released: May 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
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Darkest Africa
Title: Darkest Africa
Character: Negus
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
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The Fighting Marines
Title: The Fighting Marines
Character: Pedro
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
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The Vanishing Riders
Title: The Vanishing Riders
Character: Frank Stanley
Released: July 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram McDuff, a friend of Bill's. Ranch owner Joan Stanley hires Bill and Tim. Her father has been killed by the gang of Wolf Larson. By mistake, McDuff hires the Larson gang on as ranch hands for Joan. They plan to steal the stock while Bill is away. Tim overhears the plot and informs Bill. Bill and Tim use ghost makeup, skeleton sheets (even outfitting their horses with skeleton-looking blankets) and tricks to rout the superstitious gang members...
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The Devil Is a Woman
Title: The Devil Is a Woman
Character: 'Cousin' Miguelito (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
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The Cyclone Ranger
Title: The Cyclone Ranger
Character: Juan Castalar
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A trio of former cattle rustlers try to go straight, but find that they can't shake off their reputations and trouble follows them.
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Happy Landing
Title: Happy Landing
Character: Paul
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
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The Man from Monterey
Title: The Man from Monterey
Character: Don Luis Gonzales
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers
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The Racing Strain
Title: The Racing Strain
Character: Rival Car Driver
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.
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Flame of Mexico
Title: Flame of Mexico
Released: September 7, 1932
Type: Movie
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Marcelino
Released: March 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Kahea
Released: April 26, 1931
Type: Movie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
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Chiselers of Hollywood
Title: Chiselers of Hollywood
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
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Men Without Law
Title: Men Without Law
Character: Ramon del Rey
Released: October 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
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The Texan
Title: The Texan
Character: Nick Ibarra
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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Little Johnny Jones
Title: Little Johnny Jones
Character: Ramon
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swings from the racetracks of America to England and the historical National Derby, with plenty of red-white-and-blue bunting waving behind the little patriot.
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A Most Immoral Lady
Title: A Most Immoral Lady
Character: Pedro the Gigolo
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires through blackmail and victimization until she mistakenly victimizes Tony Williams (Walter Pidgeon), the man she really loves.
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Evangeline
Title: Evangeline
Character: Baptiste
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
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Hardboiled
Title: Hardboiled
Character: Kyle Stannard
Released: March 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Teena Johnson may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy sweetheart Kyle Stannard tries to buy her off, Sally refuses the money. She sticks by Kyle even after he is disinherited and forced to go to work. The financial strain on the young couple's marriage eventually takes its toll, and before long they separate, with Sally returning to the chorus line to square her husband's debts.
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Show Girl
Title: Show Girl
Character: Alvarez Romano
Released: September 23, 1928
Type: Movie
An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.
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Night Watch
Title: Night Watch
Released: September 9, 1928
Type: Movie
Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
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Mad Hour
Title: Mad Hour
Character: Jack Hemingway Jr.
Released: March 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Paul Carroll
Released: June 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Smith's assistant
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Reggie Smythe
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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His Secretary
Title: His Secretary
Character: Head Clerk
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
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Any Woman
Title: Any Woman
Character: Tom Galloway
Released: May 4, 1925
Type: Movie
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help support the family, and goes to work as a secretary in the brokerage firm of Phillips and Rand. Both partners find themselves attracted to her, but each has a different approach: Phillipls takes the rough, aggressive route and Rand does the opposite, complimenting and flattering her at every opportunity. However, she falls in love with Tom Galloway, a young inventor who has come up with a new type of soft drink, "Here's How". in which Ellen attempts to interest the brokers. Phillips, however, doesn't take rejection lightly and schemes to break up Ellen and Galloway using his unwitting partner.