Pat Gleason

Pat Gleason

Born: March 14, 1904
Died: February 10, 1993
in California, USA

Movies for Pat Gleason...

Gun Crazy
Title: Gun Crazy
Character: Carnival Barker (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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The Mutineers
Title: The Mutineers
Character: Rogers
Released: April 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.
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Sunset Carson Rides Again
Title: Sunset Carson Rides Again
Character: Referee Brown
Released: September 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Sunset Carson is trying to raise money for a new school and his partner Sam Webster is out to stop him. When Carson plans a benefit prize-fight, Webster plans to make off with the proceeds.
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Spade Gilbert
Released: March 12, 1948
Type: Movie
A Pony Express rider discovers some mysterious goings-on during the construction of a telegraph line. When a murder is committed, he is blamed for it.
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Criminal Court
Title: Criminal Court
Character: Joe West
Released: November 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.
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Danny Boy
Title: Danny Boy
Character: Soldier
Released: December 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A U. S. Marines dog is returned to his young owner in the small town of Monrovia at the end of WWII, but a grouchy neighbor believes the animal's military training makes him a threat to the community and files charges to have the dog destroyed.
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Detour
Title: Detour
Character: Joe
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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Come Out Fighting
Title: Come Out Fighting
Character: Little Pete Vargas
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
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Saddle Serenade
Title: Saddle Serenade
Character: Vaughn
Released: August 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Doris Rogers, half owner of a dude ranch, as Jimmy Wakely, "Lasses" White and Dusty Smith to help run it. U.S. Marshal Tom Logan, posing as a stage driver, is killed during a mock holdup of new arrivals to the ranch. Brenda Amers and Horatio Pennypacker, eastern jewel thieves, bring their loot to Roy Williams, who owns the other half of the ranch as a blind for his gang which resells stolen jewels. Vaughn, the desk clerk, re-cuts the jewels in a secret room in the ice house. Fearing he will be caught, Brenda refuses Williams her stolen diamonds and hides them in a bar of soap.
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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Police Dispatcher (Uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Performer (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Jungle Captive
Title: The Jungle Captive
Character: Tom - Second Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
Title: The Phantom of 42nd Street
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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Rogues' Gallery
Title: Rogues' Gallery
Character: Red
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
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I Accuse My Parents
Title: I Accuse My Parents
Character: Blake's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
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Detective Kitty O'Day
Title: Detective Kitty O'Day
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
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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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Rubber Racketeers
Title: Rubber Racketeers
Character: Curley
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Title: Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Man in Office (Uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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I Killed That Man
Title: I Killed That Man
Character: Bates
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
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The Miracle Kid
Title: The Miracle Kid
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Henchman Marty
Released: June 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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In the Navy
Title: In the Navy
Character: Sentry (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Philadelphia Private Investigator (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Roar of the Press
Title: Roar of the Press
Character: Reporter
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Dopey Perkins
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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Irish Luck
Title: Irish Luck
Character: Banning - Bond Robber
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
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Mystery Plane
Title: Mystery Plane
Character: Detective
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
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The Marines Are Here
Title: The Marines Are Here
Character: One Step
Released: June 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A cocky young Marine who's alienated many of his fellow soldiers with his smart-aleck, wiseguy attitude gets a "wake-up call" when his unit comes under attack by bandits.
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Call The Mesquiteers
Title: Call The Mesquiteers
Character: Henchman Joe, second truck
Released: March 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers are forced to track down a train robbery ring after some of the gang hijack their truck for a getaway and the police conclude they are part of the gang, an identification which is just fine with the gang's nameless chief.
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The Spy Ring
Title: The Spy Ring
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
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Young Dynamite
Title: Young Dynamite
Character: Joseph 'Butch' Barker
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. John and Tom set out in their patrol cars in hopes of capturing the killers, followed by Freddie who hopes some day to qualify as a trooper. Freddie encounters the two two bandits, Spike Doland and Butch and manages to get away with the bag of gold they had stolen. While chasing Freddie they are recognized by John who they kill when he tries to arrest them. Freddie then takes matters into his own hands in seeking to capture the killers of his brother.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Blake
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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23 1/2 Hours Leave
Title: 23 1/2 Hours Leave
Character: Sgt. Squibb
Released: March 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.
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Swing It Professor
Title: Swing It Professor
Character: Toby Brickhead
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up with gangsters.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Newsboy
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.