Charles Judels

Charles Judels

Born: August 16, 1882
Died: February 14, 1969
in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Charles Judels was born in Amsterdam on 17 August 1882. He starred on vaudeville in the early 1900s. His Broadway stage debut was in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1912. Judels appeared in more than 130 American comedy and drama movies and was an expert with dialects. That talent served him well throughout his career. His first film was a comedy, Old Dutch, in 1915.

Judels is perhaps best remembered as the cheese store proprietor in Laurel & Hardy's 1938 film Swiss Miss. He also did extensive work as a voice actor in animated films, most notably as the voice of "Stromboli" in Disney's Pinocchio (1940). His final appearance on screen was as a Danite merchant in Samson and Delilah in 1949.

Judels died in San Francisco, California on 14 February 1969.

Movies for Charles Judels...

Once Upon a Studio
Title: Once Upon a Studio
Character: Stromboli (voice) (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: Botticelli - the Barber
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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The Mighty McGurk
Title: The Mighty McGurk
Character: First Brewer
Released: January 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan recently arrived in the United States. Director John Waters' 1946 period comedy, set in New York's Bowery, stars Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Aline MacMahon, Edward Arnold, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Patrick, Aubrey Mather, Clinton Sundberg, Milton Parsons, Morris Ankrum and Oliver Blake.
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The Plainsman and the Lady
Title: The Plainsman and the Lady
Character: Manuel Lopez
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
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Tangier
Title: Tangier
Character: Dimitri
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
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Her Adventurous Night
Title: Her Adventurous Night
Character: Petrucci
Released: June 5, 1946
Type: Movie
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
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In Old Sacramento
Title: In Old Sacramento
Character: Tony Marchetti
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
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Whistle Stop
Title: Whistle Stop
Character: Sam Veech
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
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A Bell for Adano
Title: A Bell for Adano
Character: Afronti
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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Knickerbocker Holiday
Title: Knickerbocker Holiday
Character: Renasaler
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
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Career Girl
Title: Career Girl
Character: Felix Black
Released: January 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Nick - Barber (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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I Dood It
Title: I Dood It
Character: Pete, Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Innkeeper
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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Swing Your Partner
Title: Swing Your Partner
Character: Digby
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese." Lane, the factory manager, cannot find the culprit, and so Caroline goes with her secretary, Dale Evans, to Dairyville.
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Something to Shout About
Title: Something to Shout About
Character: Brother Hunkafer
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Nick
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Mr. Flores (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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American Empire
Title: American Empire
Character: Storekeeper (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
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Baby Face Morgan
Title: Baby Face Morgan
Character: 'Deacon' Davis
Released: September 15, 1942
Type: Movie
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Title: A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Character: Corday
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
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Kathleen
Title: Kathleen
Character: Manager
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
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Law of the Tropics
Title: Law of the Tropics
Character: Captain of River Boat
Released: October 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
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This Woman Is Mine
Title: This Woman Is Mine
Character: Cafe Propietor
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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Sweetheart of the Campus
Title: Sweetheart of the Campus
Character: Tomasso
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: A. Bardosch, Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Herr Wyler
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Dr. Arturo Padilla
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Pie Vendor
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Photographer
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Ivan
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Nick Nanbajan, the Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Hula Paradise Cafe Owner
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Editor
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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On Their Own
Title: On Their Own
Character: Giuseppe Galentoni
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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Viva Cisco Kid
Title: Viva Cisco Kid
Character: Don Pancho
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
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It All Came True
Title: It All Came True
Character: Henri Pepi de Bordeaux
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Renard (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: Batoff (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: The Great Beldini (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Luigi (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Cafe Owner Pere Mathieu (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Gaston Lubois
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Title: The Ice Follies of 1939
Character: Makeup Man (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Daka
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Flirting with Fate
Title: Flirting with Fate
Character: Don Luis Garcia
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
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Gold Diggers in Paris
Title: Gold Diggers in Paris
Character: Barman (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
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Swiss Miss
Title: Swiss Miss
Character: Cheese Shop Owner
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Title: Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Character: Schlitz
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.
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Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Otto Schmidt
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Reckless Living
Title: Reckless Living
Character: Harry Myron
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Oscar
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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You're Only Young Once
Title: You're Only Young Once
Character: Captain Swenson
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
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Ebb Tide
Title: Ebb Tide
Character: Port Doctor
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
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High Flyers
Title: High Flyers
Character: Mr. Fontaine
Released: November 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
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Fight for Your Lady
Title: Fight for Your Lady
Character: Felix Janos
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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Live, Love and Learn
Title: Live, Love and Learn
Character: Pedro Felipe
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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The Bride Wore Red
Title: The Bride Wore Red
Character: Cordellera Bar Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Chef
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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Porky's Garden
Title: Porky's Garden
Character: Chicken farmer (voice)
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Porky decides to start a garden. Mayhem ensues.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Maitre d'Hotel
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Mr. Appadelius
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Marry the Girl
Title: Marry the Girl
Character: Andre Victor Antoine Descate
Released: July 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
Title: Rhythm in the Clouds
Character: Luigi
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Song of the City
Title: Song of the City
Character: Papa Romandi
Released: April 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family. Drama.
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Maytime
Title: Maytime
Character: Cabby
Released: March 26, 1937
Type: Movie
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
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Swing High, Swing Low
Title: Swing High, Swing Low
Character: Tony Morelli
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
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When's Your Birthday?
Title: When's Your Birthday?
Character: Headwaiter
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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Love on the Run
Title: Love on the Run
Character: Lieutenant of Police
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
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The Plainsman
Title: The Plainsman
Character: Tony - The Barber
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Swartz - Studio Head
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. When cowboy star Tom Ford disappears, Wilson gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio. Original version runs 71 minutes, edited version runs 59 minutes.
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Along Came Love
Title: Along Came Love
Character: Joe Jacobs
Released: November 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The shop girl Emmy Grant meets the handsome doorman John Patrick O'Ryan outside of a theater and she is convinced that he is her true love. O'Ryan is a zealous medical student, soon to be a pediatrician, and is oblivious to Emmy's frantic attempts to gain his attention. O'Ryan is totally focused on babies. Undaunted, she 'borrows' a baby and a buggy, determined to catch O'Ryan.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Tony
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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The Great Ziegfeld
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Character: Pierre
Released: April 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Second Carabiniere
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Salvatore
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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Enchanted April
Title: Enchanted April
Character: Domenico
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
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Symphony of Living
Title: Symphony of Living
Character: Rozzini
Released: January 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.
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The Night Is Young
Title: The Night Is Young
Character: Riccardi (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
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The Mighty Barnum
Title: The Mighty Barnum
Character: Maitre D'Hotel
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
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My Grandfather's Clock
Title: My Grandfather's Clock
Character: Philo Holmes
Released: October 27, 1934
Type: Movie
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a second will and changes have been made as to who will receive what. Philo is the ace detective, and he brings everyone from the nightclub to see him solve the case.
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Daredevil O'Dare
Title: Daredevil O'Dare
Character: Pa
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.
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Pugs and Kisses
Title: Pugs and Kisses
Character: Frenchy Manejer
Released: February 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.
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North of Zero
Title: North of Zero
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
This time Tom Patricola is an ice man in the frozen north, Charles Judels is a Quebecois gambler called 'Frenchy' -- he's using the same accent he used as a Mexican bandito -- and Frances Upton is the lady known as Lou.
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Howd' Ya Like That?
Title: Howd' Ya Like That?
Character: French Sailor
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
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The Good Bad Man
Title: The Good Bad Man
Character: The Bandit (Pancho)
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
The film is set in Mexico. General Pancho is some sort of despot...sort of a Pancho Villa-type. When he arrives in town, some folks are scared...but a local vixen is excited as she thinks violent thugs are hot. Soon after Pancho arrives and shoots a man in the butt for no apparent reason, two singers/dancers, Dolittle and Rosebud, arrive. Rosebud is a hot woman...and General Pancho spends the rest of the time trying to woo her as Dolittle woos the vixen.
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Tomalio
Title: Tomalio
Character: The General
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Roscoe runs afoul of a demented Mexican general.
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Gobs of Fun
Title: Gobs of Fun
Character: French Sailor
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Two sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a husband on the side.
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Close Relations
Title: Close Relations
Character: Uncle Ezra Wart
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
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Salt Water Daffy
Title: Salt Water Daffy
Character: Count Fille du Pax Imposter
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
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Nothing Ever Happens
Title: Nothing Ever Happens
Character: Waistline
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
In this parody of Grand Hotel, despite a dying man's efforts to enjoy his final days, a jewel thief trying to comfort a great dancer, and a big business deal in progress, there are still those who say that "nothing ever happens here."
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Moonlight and Cactus
Title: Moonlight and Cactus
Released: January 10, 1932
Type: Movie
The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
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The Tamale Vendor
Title: The Tamale Vendor
Released: November 26, 1931
Type: Movie
The Tamale Vendor is a 1931 Comedy short.
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War Mamas
Title: War Mamas
Character: German Major
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
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Take 'em and Shake 'em
Title: Take 'em and Shake 'em
Released: September 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Gold Dust Gertie
Title: Gold Dust Gertie
Character: Pestalozzi
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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Women of All Nations
Title: Women of All Nations
Character: Leon
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
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God's Gift to Women
Title: God's Gift to Women
Character: Undertaker
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
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50 Million Frenchmen
Title: 50 Million Frenchmen
Character: Pernasse - Hotel Manager
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.
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The Easiest Way
Title: The Easiest Way
Character: Mr. Gensler (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Ruiz
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Mons. LeMaire
Released: October 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
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College Lovers
Title: College Lovers
Character: Spectator
Released: October 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Romance on a college campus.
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Oh, Sailor Behave!
Title: Oh, Sailor Behave!
Character: De Medici
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Character: Pierre
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Frozen Justice
Title: Frozen Justice
Character: French Sailor
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Drama set in Alaska
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Under the Red Robe
Title: Under the Red Robe
Character: Antoine
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Delmonico
Released: August 1, 1923
Type: Movie
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
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The Commuters
Title: The Commuters
Character: Prof. Anatole 'Sammy' Vermouth
Released: April 26, 1915
Type: Movie
The Commuters is a 1915 silent film comedy directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Irene Fenwick in her film debut. It is based on a 1910 Broadway play, The Commuters, by James Forbes. A copy of the film is saved in the Library of Congress collection.