Wade Crosby

Wade Crosby

Born: August 22, 1905
Died: October 2, 1975
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Wade Crosby (August 22, 1905 – October 2, 1975) was an actor in American films. He was also part of radio programs. He was in several Republic Pictures films.

Movies for Wade Crosby...

Fugitive Lovers
Title: Fugitive Lovers
Character: Politician on Yacht
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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The Manhandlers
Title: The Manhandlers
Character: Buckner
Released: December 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
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Airport 1975
Title: Airport 1975
Character: Andy Birdson (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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Westworld
Title: Westworld
Character: Bartender
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
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J.W. Coop
Title: J.W. Coop
Character: Billy Sol Gibbs
Released: November 5, 1971
Type: Movie
After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost 'prime' years of his career, he doggedly goes forward, and learns that not only has the business of rodeo changed during his incarceration but society as a whole has made dramatic changes as well.
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Title: Secret of Outlaw Flats
Character: Mr. Canfield, Mine Owner
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
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Prisoners of the Casbah
Title: Prisoners of the Casbah
Character: Yagoub
Released: November 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
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The Hitch-Hiker
Title: The Hitch-Hiker
Character: Joe
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
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Old Overland Trail
Title: Old Overland Trail
Character: Draftsman
Released: February 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.
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Invasion, U.S.A.
Title: Invasion, U.S.A.
Character: Illinois Congressman Arthur V. Harroway
Released: December 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
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Rose of Cimarron
Title: Rose of Cimarron
Character: Hostler
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
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Tales of Robin Hood
Title: Tales of Robin Hood
Character: "Little John" Little
Released: December 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Title: I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: The Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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Hit Parade of 1951
Title: Hit Parade of 1951
Character: Jake
Released: October 15, 1950
Type: Movie
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.
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Reign of Terror
Title: Reign of Terror
Character: Danton (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Cactus Gleason
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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Rose of the Yukon
Title: Rose of the Yukon
Character: Alaskan
Released: January 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence that the now-prosperous Clark killed his own comrades to prevent their reporting of a deposit of uranium, which he is now mining with the intention of selling to a foreign power.
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The Paleface
Title: The Paleface
Character: Jeb
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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The Timber Trail
Title: The Timber Trail
Character: Henchman Walt
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has no proof. Ralph, in turn, blames Jed for the attacks on the linemen of his pioneer telegraph company. Big Bart, a ruthless gunman and outlaw-gang leader working for crooked banker Jordan Weatherbee, is actually behind the troubles of both companies. Bart plans to frame Jed for a double-murder and then kill him. Monte saves his life and, together, they devise a plan of their own to bring an end to the reign of lawlessness along the timber trail.
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Under California Stars
Title: Under California Stars
Character: Henchman Lige McFarland
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
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Angels' Alley
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: Henchman-Mechanic Mike
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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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Title: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Character: Squint
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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Along the Oregon Trail
Title: Along the Oregon Trail
Character: Blacksmith Tom
Released: August 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians but Monte Hale breaks up his attack on the supply train. But when they get them by robbing the warehouse, Monte suspects Thuston who had the other key. He follows Thurston only to be caught by him just as Thurston launches his final big attack.
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Web of Danger
Title: Web of Danger
Character: Bixley - Dam Worker
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Title: Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Character: Jigger (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
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Philo Vance Returns
Title: Philo Vance Returns
Character: Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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Traffic in Crime
Title: Traffic in Crime
Character: Dumbo
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
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Rough Riders of Cheyenne
Title: Rough Riders of Cheyenne
Character: Pop Jordan
Released: October 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Sunset returns to find the Carson-Sterling feud still going. Sterling has been killed and it's not long before Andrew Carson is murdered. To end the feud Sunset challenges Martin Sterling to a shootout. Unknown to Sunset, Martin's sister Melinda has waylaid her brother and now appears for the shootout disguised in her brother's clothes.
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Bandits of the Badlands
Title: Bandits of the Badlands
Character: Burl Kohler
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Sunset Carson is a wandering cavalier who rides into the Badlands. Hallie Wayne is bedeviled by bandits who've been raiding the livestock of her ranch.
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Crime, Inc.
Title: Crime, Inc.
Character: Mobster (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Crockett
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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Headin' for God's Country
Title: Headin' for God's Country
Character: Jim Talbot
Released: August 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
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The Sundown Kid
Title: The Sundown Kid
Character: Vince Ganley
Released: December 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A Pinkerton agent masquerades as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters that is using wealthy widow Lucy Randall as a front. Arriving at the gang's hideout the Dawson ranch, Red discovers that the counterfeiting ring is headed by Mrs. Randall's attorney J. Richard Spencer and Dawson himself.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: San Francisco Bartender
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Shepherd of the Ozarks
Title: Shepherd of the Ozarks
Character: Kirk
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Sign of the Wolf
Title: Sign of the Wolf
Character: Mort Gunning
Released: March 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Longstreet
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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Wagon Train
Title: Wagon Train
Character: O'Follard
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Townsman
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Writer (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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The Affairs of Annabel
Title: The Affairs of Annabel
Character: Scriptwriter (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Danton (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.