Kenneth Howell

Kenneth Howell

Born: February 21, 1913
Died: September 28, 1966
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Kenneth Howell...

In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: Phil Hills
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Sweater Girl
Title: Sweater Girl
Character: Miles Tucker
Released: July 13, 1942
Type: Movie
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
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Scattergood Rides High
Title: Scattergood Rides High
Character: Phillip Dane
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
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Girls' Town
Title: Girls' Town
Character: Kenny Lane
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: College Boy
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Henry Aldrich for President
Title: Henry Aldrich for President
Character: Irwin Barrett
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
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Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
Title: Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
Character: Jerry Grant
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.
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Her First Beau
Title: Her First Beau
Character: Roger Van Vleck
Released: May 8, 1941
Type: Movie
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
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Nice Girl?
Title: Nice Girl?
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
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Pride of the Bowery
Title: Pride of the Bowery
Character: Allen
Released: December 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Harry Trent
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Title: Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Character: Harry Trent
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!
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On Their Own
Title: On Their Own
Character: Jack Jones
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Jack Jones
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Jack Jones
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Jack Jones (as Ken Howell)
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Jack Jones
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Jack Jones
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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The Wrong Way Out
Title: The Wrong Way Out
Character: Windy Brown
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they start on a downward spiral of crime.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Jack Jones
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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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Edgar Brown
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Jack Jones
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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A Trip to Paris
Title: A Trip to Paris
Character: Jack Jones
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Jack Jones
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Jack Jones
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Jack Jones
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Jack Jones
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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Off to the Races
Title: Off to the Races
Character: Jack Jones
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Four Days Wonder
Title: Four Days Wonder
Character: Tom Fenton
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
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Back to Nature
Title: Back to Nature
Character: Jack Jones
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
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Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Jack Jones
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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Every Saturday Night
Title: Every Saturday Night
Character: Jack Evers
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
Title: The Little Red Schoolhouse
Character: Schuyler Tree
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
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Flicker Fever
Title: Flicker Fever
Character: Sidney Roth
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
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Old Man Rhythm
Title: Old Man Rhythm
Character: College Boy
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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She Had to Choose
Title: She Had to Choose
Character: Announcer
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
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I Give My Love
Title: I Give My Love
Character: Frank Howard
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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Pardon My Pups
Title: Pardon My Pups
Character: Harry Vanderpool
Released: January 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.
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What's to Do?
Title: What's to Do?
Character: Harry Vanderpool
Released: November 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Student
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Title: The Eagle and the Hawk
Character: Lt. John Stevens
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: Dance Extra
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.