Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro

Born: December 22, 1917
Died: December 25, 1976
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born into a show-business family - his parents were circus aerialists - Frankie Darro appeared in his first film at age six. Due to his small size and youthful appearance, he played teenagers well into his 20s. Always a physical performer, Darro often did his own stunts, many times out of necessity - his small stature made it difficult to find stunt doubles his size. He was an accomplished horseman and, in addition to westerns, made several films where he played jockeys. In 1933 he played the lead as a troubled teen in a major film for Warner Brothers, "Wild Boys Of The Road." It is a pre-code film with a realistic look at "The Great Depression," from the point of view of the youth of the time. This film seems to have been rediscovered only recently and has received critical acclaim.That same year, he played a troubled youth in the James Cagney classic, "The Mayor Of Hell". Later in 1935, he had a key role in the cult serial classic "The Phantom Empire"(1935). As Darro got older, however, he found it increasingly difficult to secure employment, and by the late 1940s was doing uncredited stunt work and bit parts. He had a recurring role on The Red Skelton Hour (1951), unrecognized by his fans, he played "Robby The Robot" in the groundbreaking sci-fi film "The Forbidden Planet" (1956), though Marvin Miller, best remembered as Michael Anthony of TVs "Millionaire"(1955-60), was the robot's voice. After that Frankie appeared sporadically in films and on TV .

Movies for Frankie Darro...

Fugitive Lovers
Title: Fugitive Lovers
Character: Lester the Drunk
Released: November 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Title: The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Character: Studio Guard
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Character: Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Title: Batman
Character: Newsman
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Title: The Addams Family
Character: Delivery Boy
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
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Title: Going My Way
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series
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Title: Mister Ed
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: TV
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
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Operation Petticoat
Title: Operation Petticoat
Character: Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Dooley
Released: December 5, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
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Title: Mr. Lucky
Released: October 24, 1959
Type: TV
Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Edward 'Snapper' Garrison
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Peter Gunn
Released: September 22, 1958
Type: TV
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Messenger
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Caddy
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Forbidden Planet
Title: Forbidden Planet
Character: Robby the Robot (interior) (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Little Dandy Dorf
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Boots
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Lawless Rider
Title: The Lawless Rider
Character: Jim Bascom
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Johnny Carpenter plays a taciturn sheriff who disguises himself as a notorious gunslinger. His mission: to stem a series of violent raids on local cattle ranchers.
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Title: Public Defender
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Two Gun Marshal
Title: Two Gun Marshal
Character: Clint Slocum
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
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Westward the Women
Title: Westward the Women
Character: Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: Movie
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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Across the Wide Missouri
Title: Across the Wide Missouri
Character: Cadet (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Pride of Maryland
Title: Pride of Maryland
Character: Steve Loomis
Released: January 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Frankie, a young jockey with a new style of riding that brings him acclaim, is barred from the track when he starts betting on himself. Since he's been donating his winnings to an old flame and her father to help them raise a colt, the forced retirement is quite a blow.
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Wyoming Mail
Title: Wyoming Mail
Character: Rufe
Released: October 18, 1950
Type: Movie
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Jockey Williams
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Sons of New Mexico
Title: Sons of New Mexico
Character: Gig Jackson
Released: December 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Not quite as memorable as his previous Riders in the Sky, Gene Autry's Sons of New Mexico is still well up to the star's standard. This time, Gene tries to reform Randy Pryor, a would-be juvenile delinquent, played by Autry-protégé Dick Jones (who later starred in the Autry-produced TV series Range Rider and Buffalo Bill Jr). To this end, Pryor is enrolled at the New Mexico Military Institute, where much of this film was lensed. The kid chafes at the school's regimen and escapes, heading back to his criminal mentor Pat Feeney (Robert Armstrong).
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Hold That Baby!
Title: Hold That Baby!
Character: Bananas Stewart
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
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Fighting Fools
Title: Fighting Fools
Character: Johnny Higgins
Released: March 17, 1949
Type: Movie
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
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Trouble Makers
Title: Trouble Makers
Character: Ben Feathers
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
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Heart of Virginia
Title: Heart of Virginia
Character: Jimmy Easter
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
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Angels' Alley
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: Cousin Jimmy
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
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Smart Politics
Title: Smart Politics
Character: Roy Donne
Released: January 3, 1948
Type: Movie
The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.
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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Jockey
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Sarge Goes to College
Title: Sarge Goes to College
Character: Roy Donne
Released: May 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
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Vacation Days
Title: Vacation Days
Character: Roy Donne
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Miss Hinklefink invites the Teen Agers to stay at her new ranch for the summer. Freddie is mistaken for a famed bank-robber and hijinx ensue.
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High School Hero
Title: High School Hero
Character: Roy Donne
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.
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Junior Prom
Title: Junior Prom
Character: Roy Donne
Released: July 28, 1946
Type: Movie
During the Whitney High School student government election, a rich man’s son tries to pay his way into office with promises of new athletic uniforms. His desperate competitors decide to stage a series of song and dance spectacles to try to garner votes.
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Freddie Steps Out
Title: Freddie Steps Out
Character: Roy Donne
Released: June 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A high school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing.
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Take It or Leave It
Title: Take It or Leave It
Character: Radio Listener
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Dead End Kids Go To War
Title: Dead End Kids Go To War
Character: Jack
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
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Junior G-Men of the Air
Title: Junior G-Men of the Air
Character: Jack
Released: June 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
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Tuxedo Junction
Title: Tuxedo Junction
Character: Jack 'Sock' Anderson
Released: November 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
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Let's Go Collegiate
Title: Let's Go Collegiate
Character: Frankie Monahan
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Frankie O'Malley
Released: June 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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You're Out of Luck
Title: You're Out of Luck
Character: Frankie O'Reilly
Released: January 20, 1941
Type: Movie
An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.
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Up in the Air
Title: Up in the Air
Character: Frankie Ryan
Released: September 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
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Laughing at Danger
Title: Laughing at Danger
Character: Frankie Kelly
Released: August 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operators, Florence, is found in the dumbwaiter. She had been shot just before she was to give Detective Dan Haggerty information about a blackmail gang. Since Mary Baker, Frankie's girl friend saw her last, she is suspected, and Frankie determines to clear her using his own sleuthing methods. He has hardy begun when Pierre, another member of the staff, and Florence's fiancée is found dead.
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On the Spot
Title: On the Spot
Character: Frankie 'Doc' Kelly
Released: June 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
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Men with Steel Faces
Title: Men with Steel Faces
Character: Frankie Baxter
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: Lampwick (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.
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Chasing Trouble
Title: Chasing Trouble
Character: Jimmy O'Brien
Released: January 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
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Irish Luck
Title: Irish Luck
Character: Buzzy O'Brien
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
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Boys' Reformatory
Title: Boys' Reformatory
Character: Tommy Ryan
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
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Tough Kid
Title: Tough Kid
Character: 'Skipper' Murphy
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Murphys when Red runs up against a gambling syndicate and is put on the spot to throw the fight.
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Wanted by the Police
Title: Wanted by the Police
Character: Danny Murphy
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Stubby
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 Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Title: The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Jerry
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
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Reformatory
Title: Reformatory
Character: Louie Miller
Released: June 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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Young Dynamite
Title: Young Dynamite
Character: Freddie Shields
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. John and Tom set out in their patrol cars in hopes of capturing the killers, followed by Freddie who hopes some day to qualify as a trooper. Freddie encounters the two two bandits, Spike Doland and Butch and manages to get away with the bag of gold they had stolen. While chasing Freddie they are recognized by John who they kill when he tries to arrest them. Freddie then takes matters into his own hands in seeking to capture the killers of his brother.
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Title: Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Character: "Dink" Reid
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.
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Headline Crasher
Title: Headline Crasher
Character: James 'Jimmy' Forbush Tallant, Jr.
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
The popular B-flick team of Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond star in the slick quickie Headline Crasher. Little Frankie and Big Kane play a pair of roving journalists who investigate a politician (Richard Tucker) up for re-election. When it seems as though the politico is being set up for a fall by yellow journalists, Darro and Richmond try to get to the truth of the matter. The original story for Headline Crasher is credited to Peter B. Kyne, creator of the "Broncho Billy" western stories.
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Saratoga
Title: Saratoga
Character: Dixie Gordon
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Anything for a Thrill
Title: Anything for a Thrill
Character: Dan Mallory
Released: June 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
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Tough to Handle
Title: Tough to Handle
Character: Mike Sanford
Released: May 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A young reporter's grandfather wins a sweepstakes, but it turns out that his ticket is phony. The reporter finds out that the police are looking for the criminal ring responsible for the phony-sweepstakes racket, so he and his young brother set out to track down the gang responsible and expose them.
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The Devil Diamond
Title: The Devil Diamond
Character: Lee
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
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Mind Your Own Business
Title: Mind Your Own Business
Character: Bob
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
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Racing Blood
Title: Racing Blood
Character: Frankie Reynolds
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
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Born to Fight
Title: Born to Fight
Character: 'Babyface' Madison
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and believing that the police are after him, the horrified boxer runs off and takes to the road, promising never to box again. However, one day he comes upon a small but scrappy young kid who has the potential to be a champion. The former boxer takes the kid under his wing and trains him, but the kid's ensuing success starts to go to his head. Pretty soon he finds himself mixed up with gamblers, too.
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Character: 'Tip' Collins, Jockey
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Title: Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Character: Himself
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Spike Salisbury (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Clifford 'Fishtail' O'Reilly
Released: January 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Blackie
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Valley of Wanted Men
Title: Valley of Wanted Men
Character: Slivers Sanderson
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
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Men of Action
Title: Men of Action
Character: Johnny Morgan
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: James 'Jimmy' Rivers
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Unwelcome Stranger
Title: Unwelcome Stranger
Character: Charlie Anderson
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
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The Phantom Empire
Title: The Phantom Empire
Character: Frankie Baxter
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Johnny
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Jimmy Moore
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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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Ted Williams
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Title: Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Character: Bobbie Riley
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again.
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: Norman Frink
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Feri Ats
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
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The Big Race
Title: The Big Race
Character: Knobby
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Dan
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
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Wild Boys of the Road
Title: Wild Boys of the Road
Character: Eddie Smith
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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The Wolf Dog
Title: The Wolf Dog
Character: Frank Courtney
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
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Tugboat Annie
Title: Tugboat Annie
Character: Alec, as a Child
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Chango
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: James 'Jimmie' Smith
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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The Devil Horse
Title: The Devil Horse
Character: Frankie Graham - The Wild Boy
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Bobby (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
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Hollywood on Parade
Title: Hollywood on Parade
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A short featuring many stars
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Amateur Daddy
Title: Amateur Daddy
Character: Pete Smith
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
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Way Back Home
Title: Way Back Home
Character: Robbie
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
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The Lightning Warrior
Title: The Lightning Warrior
Character: Jimmy Carter
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Larry Claudet - as a Boy (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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The Mad Genius
Title: The Mad Genius
Character: Fedor as a Boy
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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The Vanishing Legion
Title: The Vanishing Legion
Character: Jimmie Williams
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Matt as a Boy (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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Blaze o' Glory
Title: Blaze o' Glory
Character: Jean Williams
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War
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Rainbow Man
Title: Rainbow Man
Character: Billy Ryan
Released: May 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.
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The Circus Kid
Title: The Circus Kid
Character: Buddy
Released: October 7, 1928
Type: Movie
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
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Texas Tornado
Title: Texas Tornado
Character: Buddy Martin
Released: June 24, 1928
Type: Movie
Briscoe leases land from Latimer. When oil is found Latimer tries to stop Briscoe from renewing the lease. Tom arrives and fights off Latimer and his men to renew the lease. But Latimer is not done. Now he shoots Briscoe, kidnaps Buddy, and blames Tom who is arrested and put in jail.
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The Phantom of the Range
Title: The Phantom of the Range
Character: Spuds O'Brien
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Duke Carlton, an actor stranded in a small western town, gets a job as a cowboy on Tim O'Brien's ranch as a reward for beating up "Flash" Corbin, a real estate agent who has been trying to swindle the rancher. A romance develops between the actor and Patsy O'Brien, the rancher's daughter, but it is interrupted by the appearance of his former stage partner, Vera Van Swank, who claims him as her husband. He clears himself of the bigamy charge, foils a plot to cheat the rancher out of a $90,000 land property, and wins the daughter's hand.
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Little Mickey Grogan
Title: Little Mickey Grogan
Character: Mickey Grogan
Released: December 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
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Judgement Of The Hills
Title: Judgement Of The Hills
Character: Tad Dennison
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Spanish Film released in the USA on August 1, 1927
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Tom's Gang
Title: Tom's Gang
Character: Spuds
Released: July 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille. But when he arrives at the ranch with young sidekick Spuds in tow, Dave finds that a distant relative of Lucille's, Ray Foster, has taken his place. Foster hires tough Bart Haywood to kill his rival, and soon our hero is hogtied to a handcar in the path of an approaching train.
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Moulders of Men
Title: Moulders of Men
Character: Sandy Barry
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
In order to raise money for surgery for his crippled brother, Jim Barry accepts a job with Warner, leader of a gang of narcotics smugglers.
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Flesh and the Devil
Title: Flesh and the Devil
Character: Boy who dances with Hertha (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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The Cowboy Cop
Title: The Cowboy Cop
Character: Frankie
Released: July 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A cowboy joins the Low Angeles mounted police unit.
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Hearts and Spangles
Title: Hearts and Spangles
Character: Bobby
Released: June 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.
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Mike
Title: Mike
Character: Boy
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A Modest Comedy Drama
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Kiki
Title: Kiki
Character: Pierre
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
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Memory Lane
Title: Memory Lane
Character: Urchin
Released: February 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
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Born to Battle
Title: Born to Battle
Character: Birdie
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Dennis Terhune, ranch foreman for John Morgan, an eastern capitalist, discovers that there is oil on Morgan's ranch shortly after Morgan has deeded the ranch to Daley, western manager for the Morgan properties. Dennis rides after Daley and retrieves the deed, saving Morgan's ranch and securing for himself the love of the financier's daughter, Eunice.
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The Cowboy Musketeer
Title: The Cowboy Musketeer
Character: Billy Gordon
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
A cowboy saves his female employer from a villainous foreman.
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The Midnight Flyer
Title: The Midnight Flyer
Character: Young Davey
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
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Confessions of a Queen
Title: Confessions of a Queen
Character: Prince Zara
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
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The Wyoming Wildcat
Title: The Wyoming Wildcat
Character: Barnie Finn
Released: January 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Cowboy Phil Stone gets a job as foreman on a ranch owned by pretty young Isabel Hastings. He discovers that ruthless rancher Jeff Kopp has a claim on Isabel's ranch, and that if she dies unmarried before she turns 21, Kopp will get her ranch. When Isabel turns down a marriage proposal by Kopp's son Rudy, Kopp decides to kill her and get the ranch for himself, and hires a notorious killer, "Cyclops", to do the deed.
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So Big
Title: So Big
Character: Dirk DeJong (child)
Released: December 28, 1924
Type: Movie
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
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Roaring Rails
Title: Roaring Rails
Character: Little Bill
Released: September 20, 1924
Type: Movie
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
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Racing for Life
Title: Racing for Life
Character: Jimmy Danton
Released: August 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
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The Signal Tower
Title: The Signal Tower
Character: Sonny Tolliver
Released: July 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
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Judgment of the Storm
Title: Judgment of the Storm
Character: Heath Twin
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
famed for being written by an amateur