Ralph Dumke

Ralph Dumke

Born: July 25, 1899
Died: January 4, 1964
in South Bend, Indiana, USA
Ralph Dumke (July 25, 1899 - January 4, 1964) was an American actor.

Movies for Ralph Dumke...

All in a Night's Work
Title: All in a Night's Work
Character: Baker
Released: March 15, 1961
Type: Movie
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Greendale Mayor Purdy
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Elmer Gantry
Title: Elmer Gantry
Character: Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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Title: The Untouchables
Character: Judge Albert Humboldt (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: TV
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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Title: Dennis the Menace
Character: Mr. Burnley
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Judge Aikens
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Doc Fry
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Title: The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: TV
Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.
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Title: The Ed Wynn Show
Released: September 25, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: The Ed Wynn Show
Character: Hartley
Released: September 25, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Hudson Nichols
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: Roland Carter
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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Loving You
Title: Loving You
Character: Jim Tallman
Released: July 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.
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Title: Annette
Character: Mr. Abernathy
Released: February 8, 1957
Type: TV
Annette is a television serial that ran on The Mickey Mouse Club during the show's third season. It starred Annette Funicello as Annette McCloud, a poor, orphaned country girl who moves into town with her upper-class aunt and uncle. The serial also starred Richard Deacon as Uncle Archie McCleod, Sylvia Field as Aunt Lila McCleod, Mary Wickes as Katie the housekeeper and prolific Disney child stars Tim Considine, David Stollery and Roberta Shore as Annette's friends. The story was adapted by Lillie Hayward from the book Margaret by Janette Sebring Lowrey. Annette was released to DVD in 2008 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures series.
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Title: The Gale Storm Show
Character: Clem Thompson
Released: September 29, 1956
Type: TV
The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
Title: The Solid Gold Cadillac
Character: Warren Gillie
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
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Francis in the Haunted House
Title: Francis in the Haunted House
Character: Mayor Hargrove
Released: July 9, 1956
Type: Movie
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
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When Gangland Strikes
Title: When Gangland Strikes
Character: Walter Pritchard
Released: March 15, 1956
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
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Forever, Darling
Title: Forever, Darling
Character: Henry Opdyke
Released: February 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes an obstacle course for him.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Character: Police Chief Nick Grivett
Released: February 5, 1956
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Artists and Models
Title: Artists and Models
Character: Mr. Trimm (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
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The Desperate Hours
Title: The Desperate Hours
Character: Clint
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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Hell's Island
Title: Hell's Island
Character: Casino Drunk
Released: May 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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Violent Saturday
Title: Violent Saturday
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: April 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
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They Rode West
Title: They Rode West
Character: Dr. Gibson
Released: December 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A young cavalry doctor treats very sick Indians against orders, whom are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.
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Title: December Bride
Character: Dr. Nelson
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Title: December Bride
Character: Henry, Tourist
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Title: Father Knows Best
Character: Howard 'Mac' McGrath
Released: October 3, 1954
Type: TV
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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Title: Lassie
Character: Mr. Tumulty (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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Massacre Canyon
Title: Massacre Canyon
Character: Phineas J. Canfield
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
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Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Character: Frank Logan
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
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Alaska Seas
Title: Alaska Seas
Character: Dad Jackson
Released: January 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business.
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It Should Happen to You
Title: It Should Happen to You
Character: Beckhard (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
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The War of the Worlds
Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Buck Monahan (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Title: Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Character: Alesworth
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
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The President's Lady
Title: The President's Lady
Character: Col. Stark
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
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Lili
Title: Lili
Character: M. Corvier
Released: March 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
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The Mississippi Gambler
Title: The Mississippi Gambler
Character: Caldwell
Released: January 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
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Title: The Life Of Riley
Character: Coach Donovan
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: TV
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Mayor
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Mayor Holcomb
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Hurricane Smith
Title: Hurricane Smith
Character: Ben Hawkins
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: Movie
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Sam
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Holiday for Sinners
Title: Holiday for Sinners
Character: Mike Hennighan
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
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We're Not Married!
Title: We're Not Married!
Character: Twitchell (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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The San Francisco Story
Title: The San Francisco Story
Character: Winfield Holbert (as Ralph E. Dumke)
Released: May 11, 1952
Type: Movie
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan (Yvonne De Carlo), that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!
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Carbine Williams
Title: Carbine Williams
Character: Andrew White
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
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Boots Malone
Title: Boots Malone
Character: Beckett
Released: January 11, 1952
Type: Movie
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Husband (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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The Mob
Title: The Mob
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: September 7, 1951
Type: Movie
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
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The Law and the Lady
Title: The Law and the Lady
Character: James Horace Caighn
Released: July 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
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When I Grow Up
Title: When I Grow Up
Character: Carp
Released: April 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
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Where Danger Lives
Title: Where Danger Lives
Character: Klauber
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
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The Fireball
Title: The Fireball
Character: Bruno Crystal
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Mr. McAfee
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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The Breaking Point
Title: The Breaking Point
Character: Hannagan
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Granger
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Kabner
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Thurston
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Kibbe
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Mystery Street
Title: Mystery Street
Character: Jim Black the Tattooist
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Tiny Duffy
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.