John Darrow

John Darrow

Born: July 17, 1907
Died: February 24, 1980
in Leonia, New Jersey, USA

Movies for John Darrow...

Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Character: Jim
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Annapolis Farewell
Title: Annapolis Farewell
Character: Porter
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
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Eight Bells
Title: Eight Bells
Character: Carl
Released: April 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
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A Notorious Gentleman
Title: A Notorious Gentleman
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
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Square Shooter
Title: Square Shooter
Character: Johnny Lloyd
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
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Symphony of Living
Title: Symphony of Living
Character: Richard Greig
Released: January 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.
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Flirtation Walk
Title: Flirtation Walk
Character: Chase
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Allan Scorsby
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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I Give My Love
Title: I Give My Love
Character: Alex Blair
Released: July 17, 1934
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
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Monte Carlo Nights
Title: Monte Carlo Nights
Character: Larry Sturgis
Released: May 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
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The Big Race
Title: The Big Race
Character: Bob Hamilton
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
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Midshipman Jack
Title: Midshipman Jack
Character: Clark Simpson
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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The Big Chance
Title: The Big Chance
Character: Knockout Frankie (Rocky) Morgan
Released: August 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: Jimmy Allen - the Auto Salesman
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: Bob King
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Alias Mary Smith
Title: Alias Mary Smith
Character: Robert Hayes
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
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The Midnight Lady
Title: The Midnight Lady
Character: Bert
Released: May 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds herself accused of murdering her daughter's no-good boyfriend.
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Probation
Title: Probation
Character: Nick Jarrett
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
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Fanny Foley Herself
Title: Fanny Foley Herself
Character: Teddy
Released: October 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
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The Bargain
Title: The Bargain
Character: Roderick White
Released: July 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Billy Lowe
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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The Lady Refuses
Title: The Lady Refuses
Character: Russell Courtney
Released: March 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Character: Frank Slade
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
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The Primrose Path
Title: The Primrose Path
Character: Buck Randall
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: Karl Armstedt
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Character: Tom
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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The Argyle Case
Title: The Argyle Case
Character: Bruce Argyle
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
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Prep and Pep
Title: Prep and Pep
Character: Flash Wells
Released: November 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A boy finds it difficult to live up to his father's reputation at his school.
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Avalanche
Title: Avalanche
Character: Verde
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Cub Reporter Dave Ames
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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High School Hero
Title: High School Hero
Released: October 16, 1927
Type: Movie