Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly

Born: August 8, 1899
Died: November 6, 1956
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Paul Michael Kelly was an American child actor who later as an adult became a stage, film, and television actor.

Movies for Paul Kelly...

Bailout at 43,000
Title: Bailout at 43,000
Character: Colonel William Hughes
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.
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Curfew Breakers
Title: Curfew Breakers
Character: Police Lieutenant Lacey
Released: March 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas station attendant in an aborted hold-up attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. With the aid of some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice.
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Storm Center
Title: Storm Center
Character: Judge Robert Ellerbe
Released: July 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.
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The Square Jungle
Title: The Square Jungle
Character: Jim McBride
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
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Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
Title: Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
Character: John Vernon
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the peaceful aspects of atomic energy.
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The Steel Cage
Title: The Steel Cage
Character: Warden Clinton T. Duffy
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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The High and the Mighty
Title: The High and the Mighty
Character: Donald Flaherty
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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Johnny Dark
Title: Johnny Dark
Character: William Scott
Released: June 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.
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Duffy of San Quentin
Title: Duffy of San Quentin
Character: Warden Clinton T. Duffy
Released: March 16, 1954
Type: Movie
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
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Gunsmoke
Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Dan Saxon
Released: May 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to setting a wildfire to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.
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Split Second
Title: Split Second
Character: Bart Moore
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
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Springfield Rifle
Title: Springfield Rifle
Character: Lt. Col John Hudson (Ft. Hedley CO)
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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The Painted Hills
Title: The Painted Hills
Character: Jonathan Harvey
Released: May 4, 1951
Type: Movie
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
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Frenchie
Title: Frenchie
Character: Pete Lambert
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Title: Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
Character: Melville Goodwin
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: TV
An American television anthology drama series which offered adaptations of Pulitzer Prize winning plays, stories and novels.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Capt. Walter Anderson
Released: March 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
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The Secret Fury
Title: The Secret Fury
Character: Eric Lowell
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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Guilty of Treason
Title: Guilty of Treason
Character: Tom Kelly
Released: February 20, 1950
Type: Movie
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Miles Scott
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Crossfire
Title: Crossfire
Character: The Man
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
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Adventure Island
Title: Adventure Island
Character: Donald Lochlin
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
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Spoilers of the North
Title: Spoilers of the North
Character: Matt Garraway
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally selling their catch to him.
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Fear in the Night
Title: Fear in the Night
Character: Cliff Herlihy
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.
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Strange Journey
Title: Strange Journey
Character: Lucky Leeds
Released: October 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
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Deadline for Murder
Title: Deadline for Murder
Character: Lt. Jerry E. McMullen
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
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The Cat Creeps
Title: The Cat Creeps
Character: Ken Grady
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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The Glass Alibi
Title: The Glass Alibi
Character: Max Anderson
Released: April 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Character: Roy Stuart
Released: December 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Allotment Wives
Title: Allotment Wives
Character: Major Pete Martin
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
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China's Little Devils
Title: China's Little Devils
Character: Big Butch Dooley
Released: May 27, 1945
Type: Movie
In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
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Grissly's Millions
Title: Grissly's Millions
Character: Joe Simmons
Released: January 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Released: December 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1942 American serial film of the same title, prepared for the export market, never seen in any media format in the United States, and apparently a lost film.
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Faces in the Fog
Title: Faces in the Fog
Character: Tom Elliott
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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Dead Man's Eyes
Title: Dead Man's Eyes
Character: Dr. Alan Bittaker
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
Title: The Story of Dr. Wassell
Character: Murdock
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Victor Marsh
Released: October 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
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Flying Tigers
Title: Flying Tigers
Character: Hap Smith
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Lt. Dan Barton / The Black Commando
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Tough as They Come
Title: Tough as They Come
Character: Dan Stevens
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Not a Ladies' Man
Title: Not a Ladies' Man
Character: Robert Bruce
Released: May 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
Title: Tarzan's New York Adventure
Character: Jimmie Shields
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
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Call Out the Marines
Title: Call Out the Marines
Character: Jim Blake
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
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Mr. and Mrs. North
Title: Mr. and Mrs. North
Character: Lieutenant Weigand
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
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Parachute Battalion
Title: Parachute Battalion
Character: Tex McBride
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
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Mystery Ship
Title: Mystery Ship
Character: Allan Harper
Released: September 3, 1941
Type: Movie
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: Lieutenant McFarley
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: John Slayton
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Flight Command
Title: Flight Command
Character: Lieut. Cmdr. 'Dusty' Rhodes
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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Girls Under 21
Title: Girls Under 21
Character: Johnny Cane
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Capt. Jabez Allen
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Wyoming
Title: Wyoming
Character: General Custer
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Tom Webster
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Ed Kruger
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Nick Brown
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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6,000 Enemies
Title: 6,000 Enemies
Character: Dr. Malcolm Scott
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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Forged Passport
Title: Forged Passport
Character: Dan Frazer
Released: April 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Butch Brannen
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Joe Garson
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Steve McBride (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Jim Wilson
Released: November 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Gary Franklin
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 Missing Guest
Title: The Missing Guest
Character: 'Scoop' Hanlon
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
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The Devil's Party
Title: The Devil's Party
Character: Jerry Donovan
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Title: Torchy Blane in Panama
Character: Detective Lieutenant Steve 'Stevie' McBride
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
Title: The Nurse from Brooklyn
Character: Jim Barnes
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Johnny Doyle
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Tommy Milton
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Briggs
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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It Happened Out West
Title: It Happened Out West
Character: Richard P. 'Dick' Howe
Released: May 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
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The Frame-Up
Title: The Frame-Up
Character: Mark MacArthur
Released: May 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective investigates a racing scam.
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Parole Racket
Title: Parole Racket
Character: Lt. Anthony Roberts
Released: March 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: Phil Donlon
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Douglas Goodwin
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Murder with Pictures
Title: Murder with Pictures
Character: I.B. McGoogin
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
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Women Are Trouble
Title: Women Are Trouble
Character: Bill Blaine
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Sgt. Cassidy
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
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Song and Dance Man
Title: Song and Dance Man
Character: Hap Farrell
Released: March 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Here Comes Trouble
Title: Here Comes Trouble
Character: Duke Donovan
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
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My Marriage
Title: My Marriage
Character: Barney Dolan
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Rockie Johnson
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps.
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Silk Hat Kid
Title: Silk Hat Kid
Character: Tim Martin
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
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Speed Devils
Title: Speed Devils
Character: Martin Gray
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A race car driver, injured during an accident, opens up a repair shop only to become the target of crooked government agents.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Special Agent James Duff
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Star of Midnight
Title: Star of Midnight
Character: Jimmy 'Jim' Kinland
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
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When a Man's a Man
Title: When a Man's a Man
Character: Phil Acton, Foreman Cross Triangle
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. But Phil, jealous of Kitty's attraction to Larry, lets Cambert know of the scheme.
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Chick Moffat
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Death on the Diamond
Title: Death on the Diamond
Character: Jimmy Downey
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: Tim O'Hara
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Bill Lowry
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Garry Waltham
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Title: Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Character: Frank Rocci
Released: November 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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The Girl from Calgary
Title: The Girl from Calgary
Character: Larry Boyd
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Title: Slide, Kelly, Slide
Character: Dillon
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
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The New Klondike
Title: The New Klondike
Character: Bing Allen
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.
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The Great Adventure
Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Another Leek Son
Released: January 6, 1921
Type: Movie
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
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Anne of Green Gables
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Character: Gilbert Blythe
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.
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Fit to Win
Title: Fit to Win
Character: Hank Simpson
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A film on venereal disease made by the United States government. - From IMDB
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Polishing Up
Title: Polishing Up
Character: The Bellhop
Released: August 14, 1914
Type: Movie
When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing around" and winds up at a resort hotel with two young girls. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is at the same hotel, planning a little "playing around" of her own.
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Buddy's Downfall
Title: Buddy's Downfall
Character: Buddy Watson
Released: July 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Left behind by his brothers on their fishing trip, Buddy is disconsolate until he sees Lilly, a stylish young lady from the city, who is visiting Mrs. Boyd, their next-door neighbor. He awkwardly makes her acquaintance, and it proves to be a case of love at first sight on his part. She is older than he and although secretly amused, is gracious to Buddy and he acquires such a swelled head that he passes haughtily by his old friends, Grace and Elsa Forster.
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Lillian's Dilemma
Title: Lillian's Dilemma
Character: Dick Denby
Released: July 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)
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Buddy's First Call
Title: Buddy's First Call
Character: Buddy Watson
Released: May 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Buddy Watson, the youngest of three brothers, and just getting accustomed to long pants, meets Elsie Forster at a church social and is smitten by the young lady's charms. He writes, addressing the letter simply, "Miss Forster," asking permission to call. Elsie gets the note and joyously answers "yes," but Grace, her sister, sees the letter and is quite sure he means her.
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A Good Little Devil
Title: A Good Little Devil
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: March 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
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Heartsease
Title: Heartsease
Character: One of the Sons
Released: December 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Eric Temple is a composer whose rival, both in romance and work, is Sir Geoffrey Pomfret , a nobleman with few scruples. The woman they both love is Margaret, the daughter of Lord Neville. To get rid of his competition, Pomfret tells Lord Neville that his wife, Lady Neville, is in love with Eric. Then, when Eric is attacked by thugs and lays unconscious in a hospital, he steals his opera too.
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The Feudists
Title: The Feudists
Character: Young Boy
Released: August 23, 1913
Type: Movie
The Craigs and Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their children fraternize as if all belonged to one large family. Sidney Craig manages to set loose Smith's chickens, who get into Craig's garden and work havoc among his pet seedlings.
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The Mouse and the Lion
Title: The Mouse and the Lion
Character: The Mouse - Tim - Burling's Hallboy
Released: March 17, 1913
Type: Movie
John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street waif, entering the saloon where the gang are consulting with Maime, a female accomplice, overhears some of their threats. He is discovered and kicked out of the place by Hanks. The next day, Tim, half starving, picks up a purse in the street which he has seen a lady drop. He is tempted to steal it, but in the end gives it back to her. Burling sees this, is struck with the boy's honesty, and being in need of a page boy, hires him and dubs him "Buttons."' Maime visits Burling and leaves him an address to come to investigate a robbery which has occurred at her home. Tim recognizes her as she goes out, follows her and has his suspicions confirmed by seeing her with one of the gang on the street. He goes to warn his master, but Burling has already gone.
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Captain Barnacle's Waif
Title: Captain Barnacle's Waif
Released: September 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Tommy is bright and good-looking and he attracts the notice of a lady in a London slumming party. While she is talking to him, he steals her watch and chain. The loss is discovered and the police get on Tommy's track. A pal warns him. He pawns the watch and gets out of London. Wandering off into the country he is met by a tramp who, seeing him count over the money, takes it from him and knocks him down. He is left half dead beside the road. Captain Barnacle and Bunce, driving home from the village, find the waif and Barnacle takes him home. Ruth bandages his wounds and gives him food and they let him sleep on a couch in the kitchen. He attempts to steal some old silver of the captain's. He is discovered and the captain is going to cast him out, when Ruth pleads for him and the captain resolves to give him another chance.
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A Juvenile Love Affair
Title: A Juvenile Love Affair
Character: Jaspar's Son
Released: July 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Two little children, who think themselves very much in love with each other, imbued with the ideas of their elders, plan a romantic marriage. Alvin Strong, the boy, confides his intentions to the family's servant, Jaspar. Alvin arranges with Jane, his sweetheart, to elope in the usual way, through a window, with the assistance of a ladder.