Noel Madison

Noel Madison

Born: April 29, 1897
Died: January 6, 1975
in New York City, New York, USA
Noel Madison (born Noel Nathaniel Moscovitch; April 30, 1897 – January 6, 1975) was an American character actor in the 1930s and 1940s and appeared in 75 films, often as a gangster.

Born in New York City, Madison was the son of actor Maurice Moscovitch and his wife Rose.

Besides his theatrical work in the United States, he acted on stage in England and Australia.

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The Gentleman from Nowhere
Title: The Gentleman from Nowhere
Character: Vincent Sawyer
Released: September 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.
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Jitterbugs
Title: Jitterbugs
Character: Tony Queen
Released: June 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
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Black Raven
Title: Black Raven
Character: Mike Bardoni
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
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Shantytown
Title: Shantytown
Character: Ace Lambert
Released: April 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
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Miss V from Moscow
Title: Miss V from Moscow
Character: Fritz Kleiss
Released: November 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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Bombs Over Burma
Title: Bombs Over Burma
Character: Me-Hoi
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Title: A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Character: George Belden
Released: May 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
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Secret Agent of Japan
Title: Secret Agent of Japan
Character: Saito
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Ricci (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Schricker
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Salvo, Henchman
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Sucker List
Title: Sucker List
Character: Mr. Brown
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Al Martin
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Title: Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Character: Gordon Cobb
Released: March 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Leopold Fissue
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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The Great Plane Robbery
Title: The Great Plane Robbery
Character: Joe Colson
Released: December 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
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Know Your Money
Title: Know Your Money
Character: Dominic
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
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Missing Evidence
Title: Missing Evidence
Character: Paul Duncan
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
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City in Darkness
Title: City in Darkness
Character: Belescu
Released: November 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
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Anything to Declare?
Title: Anything to Declare?
Character: Dr. Klee
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
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Climbing High
Title: Climbing High
Character: Gibson
Released: October 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
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Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Sculpie
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Sailing Along
Title: Sailing Along
Character: Windy
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him
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Kate Plus Ten
Title: Kate Plus Ten
Character: Gregori
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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Nation Aflame
Title: Nation Aflame
Character: Frank Sandino
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
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Gangway
Title: Gangway
Character: Mike Otterman
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Benny Silvers
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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The House of Secrets
Title: The House of Secrets
Character: Dan Wharton
Released: October 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
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Our Relations
Title: Our Relations
Character: Second Gangster at Pirate's Club
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Missing Girls
Title: Missing Girls
Character: Ben Davis
Released: September 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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Straight from the Shoulder
Title: Straight from the Shoulder
Character: Trim
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: 'Duke' Trotti
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Pedro Gorini
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Gus Colleti
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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Muss 'em Up
Title: Muss 'em Up
Character: Tony Spivali, Gambler
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
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My Marriage
Title: My Marriage
Character: Marty Harris
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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The Pace That Kills
Title: The Pace That Kills
Character: Nick - The Pusher
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Stanley
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Hal Brewster
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Joe Metz
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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What Price Crime
Title: What Price Crime
Character: Douglas Worthington
Released: May 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Durfee
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Four Hours to Kill!
Title: Four Hours to Kill!
Character: Anderson
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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The Morals of Marcus
Title: The Morals of Marcus
Character: Tony Pasquale
Released: February 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Manny Arnold
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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I Like it That Way
Title: I Like it That Way
Character: Jimmy Stuart
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Costelli
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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The Important Witness
Title: The Important Witness
Character: Gus Miranda
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Maxie
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Humanity
Title: Humanity
Character: Sam Bernstein
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
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West of Singapore
Title: West of Singapore
Character: Degama
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
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Laughter in Hell
Title: Laughter in Hell
Character: Brownfield
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Me and My Gal
Title: Me and My Gal
Character: Baby Face Castenega
Released: December 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: D'Amoro, Cell 6
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Tony
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Title: The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Character: Angelo Paroni
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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Symphony of Six Million
Title: Symphony of Six Million
Character: Magnus
Released: April 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
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Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Martie Happ
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
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The Star Witness
Title: The Star Witness
Character: Henchman Horan (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
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Little Caesar
Title: Little Caesar
Character: Killer Peppi (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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The Doorway to Hell
Title: The Doorway to Hell
Character: Rocco
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Sinners' Holiday
Title: Sinners' Holiday
Character: Buck
Released: October 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.