Ernest Hilliard

Ernest Hilliard

Born: January 31, 1890
Died: September 3, 1947
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Ernest Hilliard...

Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: English Cartel Member (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Assistant Hazard Banker (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Man in Waiting Room
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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Let's Have Fun
Title: Let's Have Fun
Character: 'Pepe' J. Morgan
Released: March 4, 1943
Type: Movie
When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Mr. Oliver (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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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Salesman
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Title: The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Character: Banker Ed Randall
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
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Sea Spoilers
Title: Sea Spoilers
Character: Reggie Winton
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
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Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Title: Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Character: Walter Bernard, the Editor
Released: June 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Reporter Steve Haines, on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Racing Luck
Title: Racing Luck
Character: Walker Hammond
Released: November 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name, Dan runs into many difficulties and incidents, including a blazing barn filled with valuable horses, before he is able to gather the needed evidence against the guilty man.
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Smart Girl
Title: Smart Girl
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
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Flirting with Danger
Title: Flirting with Danger
Character: James E. Dawson
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
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Parole Girl
Title: Parole Girl
Character: Mr. Hoss - Millard's Manager
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Mother and Son
Title: Mother and Son
Character: Jameson
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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The Drums of Jeopardy
Title: The Drums of Jeopardy
Character: Prince Ivan Petroff
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
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Second Honeymoon
Title: Second Honeymoon
Character: Maj. Pat Lovering
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
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Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: Davison - Tailor Shop Owner
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
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The Broadway Hoofer
Title: The Broadway Hoofer
Character: Morton
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.
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Wall Street
Title: Wall Street
Character: Savage
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically. According to future Three Stooges director Edward Bernds, who worked as a sound mixer on Wall Street, Ince's reaction to his rival's suicidal jump from a window ledge was changed from a sneering "I didn't think he had the guts" to the more respectful "I didn't think he'd do it" due to derisive laughter from the film's crew.
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Red Hot Rhythm
Title: Red Hot Rhythm
Character: Eddie Graham
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Released: August 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
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Say It with Songs
Title: Say It with Songs
Character: Radio Station Employee
Released: August 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
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The Big Diamond Robbery
Title: The Big Diamond Robbery
Character: Rodney Stevens
Released: May 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Tom Mix starred in this late-silent Wild West melodrama from poverty row company FBO as a ranch foreman assigned to escort his employer's daughter (Kathryn McGuire) from the big city back to the ranch. The girl, Ellen, is carrying the valuable Regent diamond, and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves led, it turns out, by Ellen's former fiancée Rodney (Ernest Hilliard).
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Weary River
Title: Weary River
Character: Literary Club Host (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
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The Big Hop
Title: The Big Hop
Character: Ben Barnett
Released: August 31, 1928
Type: Movie
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
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The Divine Sinner
Title: The Divine Sinner
Character: Prince Josef Miguel
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
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Lady Raffles
Title: Lady Raffles
Character: Dick
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace. Also in attendance are Lillian and Dick, two jewel thieves who recognize Lady Raffles and fear that she is there to rob Warren as well. But sparks fly between Warren and Lady Raffles, despite Dick and Lillian's attempts at sabotage.
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Dugan of the Dugouts
Title: Dugan of the Dugouts
Character: Sgt. Davis
Released: April 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any action, he and his girlfriend are kidnapped by enemy soldiers, and devise an unusual method of escape from capture.
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The Matinee Idol
Title: The Matinee Idol
Character: Arnold Wingate
Released: March 14, 1928
Type: Movie
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Craig
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
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The Wheel of Destiny
Title: The Wheel of Destiny
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling carnival, Stanley manages to land a job as a fast-talking spieler. In this capacity, he meets and falls in love with fellow "carnie" Georgia Hale.
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Smile, Brother, Smile
Title: Smile, Brother, Smile
Character: Mr. Saunders
Released: September 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of money, he may soon be out of a job.
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The Silent Hero
Title: The Silent Hero
Character: Wade Burton
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."
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Let It Rain
Title: Let It Rain
Character: Crook
Released: February 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
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The Fighting Failure
Title: The Fighting Failure
Released: December 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch.
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The Frontier Trail
Title: The Frontier Trail
Character: Capt. Blackwell
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A 1926 silent Western.
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White Mice
Title: White Mice
Character: Colonel Vega
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Roddy Forrester has formed the White Mice club with a pal. The purpose of the club is to help those in trouble. When Roddy's father sends him to the South American republic of Montebello, he gets his chance to be of service. General Rojas, the former president, is locked away in a prison and slowly dying. Roddy decides to rescue him, especially since he has been inspired by the general's pretty daughter, Inez.
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A Broadway Lady
Title: A Broadway Lady
Character: Martyn Edwards
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking. However, after being brazenly insulted by his family, she accepts his proposal, just to get under their skin. She finds out that Bob's sister Phyllis is planning to run off with Martyn Edwards, a cad who once betrayed a close friend of Rosalie's. Rosalie goes to Phyllis' apartment to talk her out of it, but soon finds herself involved in, and arrested for, a murder.
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Man and Wife
Title: Man and Wife
Character: Walter Powell
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.
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Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Walter Stanley
Released: May 5, 1922
Type: Movie
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Tropical Love
Title: Tropical Love
Character: Carlos Blasco
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Tropical Love is a 1921 Romance film
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Annabelle Lee
Title: Annabelle Lee
Character: David Granger
Released: May 20, 1921
Type: Movie
This drama was based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.