George Pembroke

George Pembroke

Born: December 27, 1901
Died: June 11, 1972
in Canada

Movies for George Pembroke...

The FBI Story
Title: The FBI Story
Character: Chief of Civil Aeronautics Board (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Showdown at Boot Hill
Title: Showdown at Boot Hill
Character: Sheriff Hinkle
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill him. To collect his reward he needs a statement identifying him. But the man was well liked in town and no one will sign such a statement. When he outdraws another man who thought he was faster, some townsmen decide he should be killed and they organize a mob to go after him.
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Hell Canyon Outlaws
Title: Hell Canyon Outlaws
Character: Jed
Released: October 5, 1957
Type: Movie
In this western, a sheriff attempts to exact his revenge against the desperadoes who cost him his job. The former lawman successfully gets rid of the bad hombres and clears his name.
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All That I Have
Title: All That I Have
Character: Ricard Gorman
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
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A Wonderful Life
Title: A Wonderful Life
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Policeman (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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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Owner
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: Inspector Renard
Released: November 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Fingerprint Man
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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Perils of Nyoka
Title: Perils of Nyoka
Character: John Spencer
Released: June 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...
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The Dawn Express
Title: The Dawn Express
Character: Prof. Karl Schmidt
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: Dr. William Saunders
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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I Killed That Man
Title: I Killed That Man
Character: Lowell King
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Town Constable
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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A Dangerous Game
Title: A Dangerous Game
Character: Olaf Anderson
Released: August 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: Clarence DeWitt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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Invisible Ghost
Title: Invisible Ghost
Character: Lt. Williams
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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Adventures of Captain Marvel
Title: Adventures of Captain Marvel
Character: Dr. Stephen Lang
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Dr. Nagel
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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The Cowboy from Sundown
Title: The Cowboy from Sundown
Character: Cylus Cuttler
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.
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The Last Alarm
Title: The Last Alarm
Character: Wendell
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Title: Drums of Fu Manchu
Character: C.W. Crawford
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Ernie Matthews
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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Darts Are Trumps
Title: Darts Are Trumps
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
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Irish and Proud of It
Title: Irish and Proud of It
Character: Mick Finnegan
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.