Roger Pryor

Roger Pryor

Born: August 27, 1901
Died: January 31, 1974
in New York City, New York, USA
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Roger Pryor (August 27, 1901 – January 31, 1974) was an American film actor. He also appeared in theatre and radio.

Pryor often had leading roles in B movies in the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1930 and 1945.

Movies for Roger Pryor...

Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Man from Oklahoma
Title: Man from Oklahoma
Character: Jim Gardner
Released: July 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
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Scared Stiff
Title: Scared Stiff
Character: Richardson
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
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Identity Unknown
Title: Identity Unknown
Character: Rocks Donnelly
Released: April 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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High Powered
Title: High Powered
Character: Rod Farrell
Released: February 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
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The Cisco Kid Returns
Title: The Cisco Kid Returns
Character: John Harris
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.
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The Kid Sister
Title: The Kid Sister
Character: J. Waldo Barnes
Released: February 6, 1945
Type: Movie
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
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Thoroughbreds
Title: Thoroughbreds
Character: Harold Matthews
Released: December 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his old military mount Sireson. Unfortunately, the father of wealthy socialite Sally Crandall outbids him with plans to train Sireson for a steeplechase race. Sally and Rusty develop a rivalry because she has a favorite horse of her own, but when her horse is hurt she and Rusty declare a truce and begin a romantic relationship.
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Submarine Alert
Title: Submarine Alert
Character: G.B. Fleming
Released: June 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Lady Bodyguard
Title: Lady Bodyguard
Character: George MacAlister
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
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A Man's World
Title: A Man's World
Character: 'Bugsy' Nelson
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
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I Live on Danger
Title: I Live on Danger
Character: Bert Jannings
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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So's Your Aunt Emma!
Title: So's Your Aunt Emma!
Character: Terry Connors
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Title: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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The Officer and the Lady
Title: The Officer and the Lady
Character: Johnny Davis
Released: October 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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Flying Blind
Title: Flying Blind
Character: Rocky Drake
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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The Richest Man in Town
Title: The Richest Man in Town
Character: Tom Manning
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
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Gambling Daughters
Title: Gambling Daughters
Character: Chance Landon
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Mike O'Hara
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Power Dive
Title: Power Dive
Character: Dan McMasters
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
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South of Panama
Title: South of Panama
Character: Mike Lawrence
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
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Bowery Boy
Title: Bowery Boy
Character: J. R. Mason
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Wallace Turnbull
Released: December 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
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Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: James R. Daly
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Charles Patteson
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Gambling on the High Seas
Title: Gambling on the High Seas
Character: Max Gates
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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A Fugitive from Justice
Title: A Fugitive from Justice
Character: Dan Miller
Released: June 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Character: Peter Rennick
Released: May 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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The Man with Nine Lives
Title: The Man with Nine Lives
Character: Dr. Tim Mason
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Willard Corbin
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
Title: The Man They Could Not Hang
Character: District Attorney Drake
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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Sitting on the Moon
Title: Sitting on the Moon
Character: Danny West
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
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Missing Girls
Title: Missing Girls
Character: Reporter Jimmie Dugan
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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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Terry Dodd aka Jack Doe
Released: June 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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To Beat the Band
Title: To Beat the Band
Character: Larry Barry
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
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$1,000 a Minute
Title: $1,000 a Minute
Character: Wally Jones
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
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Case of the Missing Man
Title: Case of the Missing Man
Character: James "Jimmy" Hudson
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
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The Girl Friend
Title: The Girl Friend
Character: George Thorne
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
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The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Bob Grayson
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Tom Marsden
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Straight from the Heart
Title: Straight from the Heart
Character: Andy MacLean
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Strange Wives
Title: Strange Wives
Character: Jimmy King
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
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Lady by Choice
Title: Lady by Choice
Character: Johnny Mills
Released: October 15, 1934
Type: Movie
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: Charlie Sullivan
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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Belle of the Nineties
Title: Belle of the Nineties
Character: Tiger Kid
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
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Gift of Gab
Title: Gift of Gab
Character: Kelly
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Romance in the Rain
Title: Romance in the Rain
Character: Charlie Denton
Released: August 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: William S. Briggs
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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I Like it That Way
Title: I Like it That Way
Character: Jack Anderson
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
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Moonlight and Pretzels
Title: Moonlight and Pretzels
Character: George Dwight
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
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Taxi Talks
Title: Taxi Talks
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to be taken to the precinct house.