Freddie Steele

Freddie Steele

Born: December 18, 1912
Died: August 23, 1984
in Seattle, Washington, USA

Movies for Freddie Steele...

Demolition
Title: Demolition
Released: June 21, 1979
Type: Movie
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
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Whiplash
Title: Whiplash
Character: Duke Carney (as Fred Steele)
Released: December 24, 1948
Type: Movie
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
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Race Street
Title: Race Street
Character: Monty
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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A Foreign Affair
Title: A Foreign Affair
Character: Military Police
Released: August 20, 1948
Type: Movie
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Holdup Man (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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I Walk Alone
Title: I Walk Alone
Character: Tiger Rose (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
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Desperate
Title: Desperate
Character: Shorty
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: Freddie Steele
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Black Angel
Title: Black Angel
Character: Lucky, Manager of Rio's
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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Story of G.I. Joe
Title: Story of G.I. Joe
Character: Sgt. Steve Warnicki
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: South American Sailor (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Title: Hail the Conquering Hero
Character: Bugsy
Released: August 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Pin Up Girl
Title: Pin Up Girl
Character: Sergeant in Canteen (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Fighter (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Plant Worker (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Quartermaster
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Marine (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Referee (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.