Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams

Born: December 16, 1870
Died: March 24, 1958
in Ontario, Canada

Movies for Samuel Adams...

Death of a Saleswoman
Title: Death of a Saleswoman
Character: Ron Kanger
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Top-ranking RubberTubber saleswoman Agatha J. Ruby was brutally beaten and shot on her morning jog by an unknown assailant. Over six thousand dollars worth of her best plastic storage ware was stolen from her trunk. Nearly all 200 residents in her hometown of Mametville, Washington knew her personally. All were named as suspects. See if you can figure out her killer.
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Mutiny in the Arctic
Title: Mutiny in the Arctic
Character: First Officer Swenson (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Van Meer's Impersonator (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Violent Is the Word for Curly
Title: Violent Is the Word for Curly
Character: Professor Feinstein (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.
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Amateur Crook
Title: Amateur Crook
Character: Policeman
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
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Million Dollar Racket
Title: Million Dollar Racket
Character: Tim Henessey
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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Hill-Tillies
Title: Hill-Tillies
Character: Hermit (as Sam Adams)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Title: The Voice of Bugle Ann
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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It's A Small World
Title: It's A Small World
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
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Treasure Blues
Title: Treasure Blues
Character: Pancake House Manager (as Sam Adams)
Released: January 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
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Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Jessup
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.
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Umpa
Title: Umpa
Character: Policeman at trial
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Dialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "The Women Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Secretary of State (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.