Fred F. Sears

Fred F. Sears

Born: July 7, 1913
Died: November 30, 1957
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Frederick Francis Sears (1913-1957) was an American film actor and director. Though a marginalized figure in 1950s cinema, he created 52 feature films in a number of genres for Columbia Pictures from 1949 to 1957, before his premature death at the age of 44.

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The Giant Claw
Title: The Giant Claw
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
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The Werewolf
Title: The Werewolf
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
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Flame of Calcutta
Title: Flame of Calcutta
Character: Opening Off-Screen Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1953
Type: Movie
A British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.
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The Rough, Tough West
Title: The Rough, Tough West
Character: Pete Walker / Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a former Texas Ranger who comes to a wide-open mining town to visit an old friend (Jack -- later Jock -- Mahoney). Alas, said friend has turned bad, and is busy arranging a major land grab when Steve arrives on the scene. With deep regret, our hero dons his Durango disguise to thwart his ex-friend's criminal activities.
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Brave Warrior
Title: Brave Warrior
Character: Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1952
Type: Movie
In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area. Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Rubbell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood. Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British. Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura. But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter. Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe.
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Laramie Mountains
Title: Laramie Mountains
Character: Major Markham
Released: April 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Markham and his men have found gold on the Indian reservation and are trying to get rid of them by starting an Indian war. Dressed as Indians they are attacking the soldiers. Steve Holden is the Indian agent sent to prevent a war. After finding proof that white men posing as Indians were responsible, he is able to locate the gang's hideout but quickly becomes a prisoner slated to be killed. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
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The Kid from Amarillo
Title: The Kid from Amarillo
Character: Jonathan Cole
Released: October 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader of the gang in his den.
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Released: October 21, 1951
Type: Movie
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Cyclone Fury
Title: Cyclone Fury
Character: Captain Barham
Released: August 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A late entry in Columbia's seemingly endless Durango Kid Western series, Cyclone Fury was augmented with a hefty dose of stock footage from an earlier Durango effort, Galloping Thunder (1946), footage that included sidekick Smiley Burnette warbling "Hear the Wind (Singing a Cowboy Song)" accompanied by Merle Travis and his Bronco Busters.
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Bonanza Town
Title: Bonanza Town
Character: Henry Hardison
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman's boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.
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Fort Savage Raiders
Title: Fort Savage Raiders
Character: Col. Sutter (as Fred Sears)
Released: March 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Fort Savage Raiders is another entry in Charles Starrett's "Durango Kid" western series. Starrett once again does double duty as a peacekeeper named Steve (this time his last name is Drake) and as masked avenger Durango. The heavy of the piece is escaped military prisoner Craydon (John Dehner) who, with several other fugitives from justice, forms an army of terrorists.
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My True Story
Title: My True Story
Character: E. H. Carlyle
Released: March 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
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Gasoline Alley
Title: Gasoline Alley
Character: Smite (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Frontier Outpost
Title: Frontier Outpost
Character: Major Copeland
Released: December 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Federal agent Steve Lawton works undercover with his assistant, Smiley Burnette, to track down an outlaw gang that is raiding government gold shipments bound for Fort Navajo.
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A Snitch in Time
Title: A Snitch in Time
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1950
Type: Movie
The Stooges are painters who are re-staining some furniture at a boarding house, unaware that a gang of bank robbers has its hideout there.
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Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
Title: Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
Character: Peters
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A federal agent joins forces with a British lawman to foil a spy ring.
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On the Isle of Samoa
Title: On the Isle of Samoa
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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David Harding, Counterspy
Title: David Harding, Counterspy
Character: Peters
Released: July 13, 1950
Type: Movie
A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory.
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Texas Dynamo
Title: Texas Dynamo
Character: Hawkins
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego" Steve Drake, but also takes on a third identity, that of a hired gun in the employ of the film's bad guys. As one critic noted, this may be the only western in which the hero is obliged to chase himself. Jock O'Mahoney -- later known as Jock Mahoney -- plays a secondary role, and also doubles for Starrett during the riskier stunt sequences.
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Renegades of the Sage
Title: Renegades of the Sage
Character: Lieutenant Jones
Released: November 24, 1949
Type: Movie
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.
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Tokyo Joe
Title: Tokyo Joe
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
An American returns to Tokyo to try to pick up threads of his pre-World War II life there but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
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Bandits of El Dorado
Title: Bandits of El Dorado
Character: Ranger Captain Richard Henley (as Fred Sears)
Released: October 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Wanted outlaws have mysteriously disappeared. Ranger Captain Henley and Steve have a plan to find them. Steve becomes a wanted man by faking the killing of Henley. Not only is he now in trouble as both the Rangers and the Mexican Rurales are after him, but Smiley knows him and may expose his masquerade to the bad guys.
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South of Death Valley
Title: South of Death Valley
Character: Sam Ashton
Released: August 8, 1949
Type: Movie
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water poisoned killing cattle. When Ashton's men find Steve's hat, they kill Tom Tavish and frame Steve for the murder. Escaping jail the Durango Kid goes into action.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Title: The Secret Of St. Ives
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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The Blazing Trail
Title: The Blazing Trail
Character: Luke Masters (as Fred Sears)
Released: June 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Old Mike Brady built Brady Town and was a leader, but a bullet from an unknown assailant has ended his life. When the will is read, it leaves the bulk of the property to Kirk, the gambling son of Mike. This upsets Sam, the hard working son, but not gambler Full House who always beats Kirk at cards. But even the Sheriff is suspicious of the will, but he needs proof and the Durango Kid will find the proof.
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Johnny Allegro
Title: Johnny Allegro
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
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Laramie
Title: Laramie
Character: Colonel Ron Dennison (as Fred Sears)
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A major Indian uprising is expected and Wyoming military posts are alerted. Colonel Dennison is meeting with Chief Eagle and his son Running Wolf when Chief Eagle is mysteriously shot. Steve Holden, an agent for the government peace commission, with the aid of a wandering shoemaker, Smiley, discover the troubles and the Chief's murder have been instigated by Cronin, the regimental scout, for personal gain for he and his gang of outlaws.
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Home in San Antone
Title: Home in San Antone
Character: Rado Announcer Breezy
Released: April 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
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Slightly French
Title: Slightly French
Character: Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Shockproof
Title: Shockproof
Character: Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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Smoky Mountain Melody
Title: Smoky Mountain Melody
Character: Mr. Crump
Released: December 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody. Not much happens plotwise: Acuff, playing "himself," is a tenderfoot who somehow manages to come out on top when he heads westward. The villains (who aren't all that villainous) try to promote a phony stock deal, but Roy and his pals foils their plans. The comedy honors go to Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as a blowhard sheriff. Smoky Mountain Melody was scripted by Barry Shipman, the son of pioneering female filmmaker Nell Shipman.
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Rusty Leads the Way
Title: Rusty Leads the Way
Character: Jack Coleman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
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The Gallant Blade
Title: The Gallant Blade
Character: Lawrence
Released: October 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
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Singin' Spurs
Title: Singin' Spurs
Character: Mr. Hanson (as Fred Sears)
Released: September 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
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Whirlwind Raiders
Title: Whirlwind Raiders
Character: Tracy Beaumont
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
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Adventures in Silverado
Title: Adventures in Silverado
Character: Hatfield (as Fred Sears)
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.
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Blondie's Anniversary
Title: Blondie's Anniversary
Character: Bert Dalton (as Fred Sears)
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.
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Blondie in the Dough
Title: Blondie in the Dough
Character: Quinn (as Fred Sears)
Released: October 16, 1947
Type: Movie
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Title: The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Character: Det. Dave Short (as Fred Sears)
Released: June 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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Law of the Canyon
Title: Law of the Canyon
Character: Dr. Middleton (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.
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Blondie's Holiday
Title: Blondie's Holiday
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
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Millie's Daughter
Title: Millie's Daughter
Character: Escort Manager (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
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Blondie Knows Best
Title: Blondie Knows Best
Character: Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.