Robert Barron

Robert Barron

Born: November 15, 1923
Died: May 28, 2002

Movies for Robert Barron...

The Ballad of a Gunfighter
Title: The Ballad of a Gunfighter
Character: McCord
Released: March 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
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The Sea Hound
Title: The Sea Hound
Character: The Admiral
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Columbia's 34th serial production starring Buster Crabbe, the Serial King himself
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The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Title: The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Character: Prince Hamil
Released: May 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.
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The Caravan Trail
Title: The Caravan Trail
Character: Joe King
Released: April 19, 1946
Type: Movie
The Caravan Trail stars PRC Pictures' resident singing cowboy Eddie Dean. This time around, wagonmaster Dean is appointed sheriff of a lawless frontier territory. Immediately getting down to business, our hero goes after a band of land-grabbing outlaws who've been terrorizing the homesteaders. The film is stolen hands down by supporting play Al LaRue, who as "Lash" LaRue would eventually be awarded a western series of his own. Like most of Eddie Dean's 1946 releases, The Caravan Trail was lensed in the two-hued Cinecolor process. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-caravan-trail-v8165#ome2SWX8mH31k9yd.99
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Title: Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Character: Caravaneer (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
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Song of Old Wyoming
Title: Song of Old Wyoming
Character: Jesse Dixon
Released: October 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Old Ma Conway champions statehood for Wyoming, believing the measure would put an end to the territory's lawlessness; but the elderly woman is opposed by cattle buyer and tax assessor Lee Landow and greedy banker Dixon. When Ma offers her opinion in a newspaper article, Landow sends his henchman Ringo to put the fear of God in the woman.
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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Cop with Hurley (Uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Sudan
Title: Sudan
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
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Lost in a Harem
Title: Lost in a Harem
Character: Overlord (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Gunsmoke Mesa
Title: Gunsmoke Mesa
Character: Moore
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
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Spook Town
Title: Spook Town
Character: Kurt Fabian
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins transport the money in a strong box which they place in the Wells Fargo safe as Agent Sam Benson assures them that he is the only one who knows the safe combination.
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Boss of Boomtown
Title: Boss of Boomtown
Character: Norton Brett
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Soldiers Steve and Jim are friends but when their enlistment ends, Jim reenlists while Steve doesn't. Instead he takes an assignment to find the local gold rustlers. Robbing the stage and then the bank gets Steve into the gang where he plans a job that will capture the entire gang. But just as he is about to put his plan into action Jim arrives to arrest him.
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Cobra Woman
Title: Cobra Woman
Released: May 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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Guns of the Law
Title: Guns of the Law
Character: Dan Tyndall
Released: March 30, 1944
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers take on a shyster who is trying to bilk a family of their money after he learns that an oil company thinks their land may contain the black gold.
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The Return of the Rangers
Title: The Return of the Rangers
Character: Robert Vanner
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Beachcomber
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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West of Texas
Title: West of Texas
Character: Bart Calloway
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Rangers Tex Wyatt and Jim Steele arrive in Gabe's Crossing, NM, to capture Bent Yeager, a rancher accused of sabotaging the progress of the railroad.
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Cheyenne Roundup
Title: Cheyenne Roundup
Character: Judge Edward Hickem (Hickenbottom in credits)
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the upright Gils.
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Arabian Nights
Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Bidder (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Road to Morocco
Title: Road to Morocco
Character: Giant Bearded Arab (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Charles Darson
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Title: Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Character: Flash Hollister
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Mississippi Gambler
Title: Mississippi Gambler
Character: Henchman Bert
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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House of Errors
Title: House of Errors
Character: Samson
Released: April 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Henchman Prindle
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Blake
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Stick to Your Guns
Title: Stick to Your Guns
Character: Hefty Barfly, drinking with Long Ben
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: Gambler
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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The Pittsburgh Kid
Title: The Pittsburgh Kid
Character: Devlin
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
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Jungle Girl
Title: Jungle Girl
Character: Bombo
Released: June 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.
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Horror Island
Title: Horror Island
Character: Wreck Spectator (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
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Back in the Saddle
Title: Back in the Saddle
Character: Saloon Boss Ward
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Haggis - Crooked Nightclub Owner
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Henchman
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
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Desperate Trails
Title: Desperate Trails
Character: Henchman
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.