Si Jenks

Si Jenks

Born: September 22, 1876
Died: January 6, 1970
in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Si Jenks...

Oklahoma Annie
Title: Oklahoma Annie
Character: Old Man
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Kentucky Jubilee
Title: Kentucky Jubilee
Character: Constable
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
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The Inspector General
Title: The Inspector General
Character: Deaf Villager (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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Black Bart
Title: Black Bart
Character: Tobacco-Chewing Barfly (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.
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Son of Zorro
Title: Son of Zorro
Character: Fred [Ch. 1]
Released: January 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
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Duel in the Sun
Title: Duel in the Sun
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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My Dog Shep
Title: My Dog Shep
Character: Western Union Clerk
Released: November 1, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.
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God's Country
Title: God's Country
Character: Timber Cross
Released: March 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce, kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley, the niece of Sandy McTavish who runs the trading post. Lee learns the reason why this is good trapping country is because the timber barons across the lake are ruthlessly cutting the trees and driving the animals across the river. The trappers appeal to him to take a petition to the Governor which would prohibit the timber people from coming to their side of the lake. At first, because he is a wanted man, he refuses but does so later for the sake of the people even though he knows it will lead to his arrest.
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Detour to Danger
Title: Detour to Danger
Character: Walt the Storekeeper
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young men set out on a fishing trip. They run into a gang of criminals who are menacing two young women.
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Released: December 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Jeep-Herders
Title: Jeep-Herders
Character: Telegrapher (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A wildcat oil outfit is seeking to take over the ranch belonging to Pop Martin and his son Bob and daughter Helen. Bob sends his ex-army pals a "stay-way" message, which brings them on the double. The WW II vets use their jeeps, first for a cattle roundup, and then to round up the gang of crooks, including the crooked family-lawyer Thatcher, brains of the gang.
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Bandits of the Badlands
Title: Bandits of the Badlands
Character: Banty Jones
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Sunset Carson is a wandering cavalier who rides into the Badlands. Hallie Wayne is bedeviled by bandits who've been raiding the livestock of her ranch.
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Oregon Trail
Title: Oregon Trail
Character: Andy Kline
Released: July 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town that is controlled by Dalt Higgins and his crony judge. When he stands up to Higgins, he's made sheriff only to be shot in the back. After recovering he returns to get the man that shot him. When the gang attacks, he fights back from the newspaper office. When a stray bullet nicks the printing press plate, Jim sees that it's solid gold and it's not long before the masquerades on both sides of the law are revealed.
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Man from Oklahoma
Title: Man from Oklahoma
Character: Jeff Whittaker
Released: July 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
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Murder, He Says
Title: Murder, He Says
Character: 80-Year-Old Townsman (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1945
Type: Movie
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: Frank, the Bank Guard (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Title: Eve Knew Her Apples
Character: The Grocer (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
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Zorro's Black Whip
Title: Zorro's Black Whip
Character: Zeke Hayden
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling's identity as "The Black Whip," righting the wrongs of Crescent City very much in the manner of her famous ancestor, Zorro.
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Wild Horse Stampede
Title: Wild Horse Stampede
Character: Rawhide
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Two cowboys try to protect railroad workers from rampaging Indians.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Jenks (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Ice Capades Revue
Title: Ice Capades Revue
Character: Homer
Released: December 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Square Dance Caller
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Old Man (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.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Telegraph Deliveryman
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Gateman at Sanitarium (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Freckles Comes Home
Title: Freckles Comes Home
Character: Lem Perkins
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Man at Church (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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The Great Train Robbery
Title: The Great Train Robbery
Character: Whiskers
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Farmer
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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The Trail Blazers
Title: The Trail Blazers
Character: T.L. Johnson (dentist)
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
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Blondie Plays Cupid
Title: Blondie Plays Cupid
Character: Newton Banks - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1940
Type: Movie
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
Title: The Old Swimmin' Hole
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper. Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper sends his attorney Baker to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy's dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty's plans to see her father and the widow get married. Written by Les Adams
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Title: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
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Girl from God's Country
Title: Girl from God's Country
Character: Trapper
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
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The Ranger and the Lady
Title: The Ranger and the Lady
Character: Freighter Hank Purdy
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Train Conductor
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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Millionaire Playboy
Title: Millionaire Playboy
Character: Motorist
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Yankee on Street (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Title: Drums Along the Mohawk
Character: Jacob Small
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Prospector
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Old Prospector (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Hillbilly (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Title: Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Character: Jenkins
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character: Farmer Sykes
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Cowboy at Rodeo (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Slim
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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The Old Prospector
Title: The Old Prospector
Character: The Old Prospector
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
An old prospector who never made a strike, and his mule, revisit the old ghost towns from their prospecting past.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Buckboard Driver
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Rawhide
Title: Rawhide
Character: Pop Mason
Released: April 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher that will stand up with him against Saunders. He finds him when Lou Gehrig retires from baseball to take up ranching. Lou expects to relax on his ranch but quickly joins Larry in the fight.
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The Lady Fights Back
Title: The Lady Fights Back
Character: Villager with Automobile
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
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Behind the Mike
Title: Behind the Mike
Character: Hec
Released: September 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: YWCA Janitor (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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Saratoga
Title: Saratoga
Character: Gardener (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Rustic
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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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Deputy
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character: Kentuck
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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Secret Agent X-9
Title: Secret Agent X-9
Character: 'Jolly Roger' Ticket Barker [Chs. 1, 4, 7-9]
Released: April 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
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Don't Tell the Wife
Title: Don't Tell the Wife
Character: Sam Taylor
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Old Man
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Telephone Man
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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Dodge City Trail
Title: Dodge City Trail
Character: Rawhide
Released: December 12, 1936
Type: Movie
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired Donald Grayson to warble Lonesome River, Out in the Cow Country and Pancho's Widow, all by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept.
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The Cowboy Star
Title: The Cowboy Star
Character: Buckshot Williams
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
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Go West Young Man
Title: Go West Young Man
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
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A Tenderfoot Goes West
Title: A Tenderfoot Goes West
Character: Storekeeper
Released: October 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about. Rancher Ann Keith and her cowhands, who have read and laughed at Pike's "wild" west, decide to give him a shock impression that is even wilder than depicted in his imaginative literary flights. Gang leader "Killer" Madden and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled. Written by Les Adams for IMDb.
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Earl
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Follow Your Heart
Title: Follow Your Heart
Character: Mr. Hawks
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Uncle Billy (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Guide (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Special Investigator
Title: Special Investigator
Character: Hiram
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
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Captain January
Title: Captain January
Character: Old Sailor
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
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Panic on the Air
Title: Panic on the Air
Character: Shiny White, Sandwich Man
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Miner
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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An All American Toothache
Title: An All American Toothache
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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Another Face
Title: Another Face
Character: Studio Janitor (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
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Gun Play
Title: Gun Play
Character: Old Timer Swapping Boots (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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The Rider of the Law
Title: The Rider of the Law
Character: Buffalo Brady
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Marlow is sent undercover to an Arizona town where an outlaw gang, comprised of the six Tolliver brothers, have taken over the town and terrorizing the citizens. He comes to town, posing as an Eastern dude, and, through a series of incidents manages to get rid of three of the brothers, mostly through their own ineptness. The remaining brothers decide to get-while-the-gettin'-is good, rob the bank and head for the Mexican border. But Bob isn't far behind.
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Title: Steamboat Round the Bend
Character: Farmer at Demonstration
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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The E-Flat Man
Title: The E-Flat Man
Character: Farmer
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
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Whispering Smith Speaks
Title: Whispering Smith Speaks
Character: Oiler (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Major (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Fighting Shadows
Title: Fighting Shadows
Character: Hank Bascomb
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Square Dance Caller
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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Law Beyond the Range
Title: Law Beyond the Range
Character: Zeke
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Title: Charlie Chan's Courage
Character: Will Holley
Released: July 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
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Rawhide Romance
Title: Rawhide Romance
Character: Cookie
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy at a dude ranch falls for the spoiled daughter of a rich guest at the ranch. Later he uncovers a gang of thieves who are robbing the guests.
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Roast-Beef and Movies
Title: Roast-Beef and Movies
Character: Producer (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Title: Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Character: Sculpin - Crewman in Popeye Outfit
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Furniture Mover
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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Lightning Range
Title: Lightning Range
Character: Hezekiah Simmonds
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Hester and Hezekiah plan to get Dorothy Horton's inheritance. But when Pete and his men rob the stage they learn of the scheme and send Jim to replace Hezekiah. The Deputy Marshal breaks this up but Black Pete arrives wearing the Marshal's badge and has the Sheriff take him away while he flees with the inheritance money.
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Riders of Destiny
Title: Riders of Destiny
Character: Bather
Released: October 10, 1933
Type: Movie
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Gaylord
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Title: Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Character: Well-Wisher (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
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Arizona to Broadway
Title: Arizona to Broadway
Character: Medicine Show Spectator
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
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The Gallant Fool
Title: The Gallant Fool
Character: Abner Cricket
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
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Unknown Valley
Title: Unknown Valley
Character: Man at Bridger's Post
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
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Uncle Jake
Title: Uncle Jake
Released: May 4, 1933
Type: Movie
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Face in the Sky
Title: Face in the Sky
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
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Self Defense
Title: Self Defense
Character: Farmer
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
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Young Blood
Title: Young Blood
Character: Crusty Old Townsman
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Gas Station Man (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Lawless Valley
Title: Lawless Valley
Character: Jebb Huff
Released: March 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.
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Ghost City
Title: Ghost City
Character: Whiskey Pete
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.
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Galloping Thru
Title: Galloping Thru
Character: Doctor
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down in front of him.
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: Barfly
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: Stage Driver
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
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Near the Trail's End
Title: Near the Trail's End
Character: Texas
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When Johnny Day arrives and takes an interest in Jane, Morgan tries to kick him out. Johnny refuses to go and the stage is set for a showdown.
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The Man from Death Valley
Title: The Man from Death Valley
Character: Bank Teller
Released: September 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Dave and Hank ride out of Death Valley, heading for the town of Mesa, but stop to rest in Alkali Springs, twenty miles from Mesa. Walking along the saloon porch, they overhear through an open window, two unseen men plotting to rob the Mesa bank that afternoon. One is a Spanish voice and the other American. Dave and Hank head for Mesa to get there before the hold-up and, there, they see the men whose voices they had heard; Sheriff Jeffries and Ortego.
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Mother and Son
Title: Mother and Son
Character: Faro Dealer
Released: July 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.
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Under Montana Skies
Title: Under Montana Skies
Character: Show Spectator
Released: September 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.
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The Wind
Title: The Wind
Character: Man at the Shindig (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
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Galloping Bungalows
Title: Galloping Bungalows
Character: Valet / Trombone Player
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
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Picking Peaches
Title: Picking Peaches
Character: Beauty Contest Scorekeeper
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
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All Wet
Title: All Wet
Released: September 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent.