Richard Rober

Richard Rober

Born: May 14, 1910
Died: May 26, 1952
in Rochester, New York, USA

Movies for Richard Rober...

Jet Pilot
Title: Jet Pilot
Character: FBI Agent George Rivers
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
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The Devil Makes Three
Title: The Devil Makes Three
Character: James Terry
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.
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The Savage
Title: The Savage
Character: Capt. Arnold Vaugant
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.
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The Rose Bowl Story
Title: The Rose Bowl Story
Character: Coach James Hadley
Released: August 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
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O. Henry's Full House
Title: O. Henry's Full House
Character: Chief of Detectives (segment "The Clarion Call")
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Kid Monk Baroni
Title: Kid Monk Baroni
Character: Father Callahan
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
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Outlaw Women
Title: Outlaw Women
Character: Woody Callaway
Released: April 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.
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Man in the Saddle
Title: Man in the Saddle
Character: Fay Dutcher
Released: December 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
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Passage West
Title: Passage West
Character: Mike
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
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The Well
Title: The Well
Character: Ben Kellogg
Released: September 24, 1951
Type: Movie
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
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The Tall Target
Title: The Tall Target
Character: Lt. Coulter
Released: August 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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Father's Little Dividend
Title: Father's Little Dividend
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
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Watch the Birdie
Title: Watch the Birdie
Character: Mr. Hugh Shanway
Released: December 11, 1950
Type: Movie
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
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Dial 1119
Title: Dial 1119
Character: Henry Keiver
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
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Deported
Title: Deported
Character: Bernardo Gervaso
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
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The Woman on Pier 13
Title: The Woman on Pier 13
Character: Jim Travers
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Big Matt
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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Backfire
Title: Backfire
Character: Solly Blayne
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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Port of New York
Title: Port of New York
Character: Jim Flannery
Released: November 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Tony Laredo
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Task Force
Title: Task Force
Character: Lt. Jack Southern
Released: August 30, 1949
Type: Movie
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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Any Number Can Play
Title: Any Number Can Play
Character: Lew 'Angie' Debretti
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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Illegal Entry
Title: Illegal Entry
Character: Dutch Lempo
Released: June 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
Title: Smart Girls Don't Talk
Character: Lt. McReady
Released: October 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
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Larceny
Title: Larceny
Character: Max
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
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Embraceable You
Title: Embraceable You
Character: Sig Ketch
Released: August 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Eddie, a small-time hoodlum is forced to care for Marie he accidentally hits with his car during a crime. He is broke and hits up his very displeased mob boss for cash. To make matters worse, Eddie and Marie begin to fall for each other.
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April Showers
Title: April Showers
Character: Al Wilson
Released: March 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Sgt. Larson (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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Sheik to Sheik
Title: Sheik to Sheik
Character: Golfer / Ali Bin Whoopsie, the Mad Sheik
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.