Joe De Stefani

Joe De Stefani

Movies for Joe De Stefani...

A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Hans - Gauss' Assistant (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Sky Bandits
Title: Sky Bandits
Character: Professor Burton Lewis
Released: July 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
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Babies for Sale
Title: Babies for Sale
Character: Dr. John Gaines (as Joseph Stefani)
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
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Rancho Grande
Title: Rancho Grande
Character: Jose (as Joseph De Stefani)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Title: Drums of Fu Manchu
Character: High Lhama
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Title: Five Little Peppers at Home
Character: Hart
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Everything Happens at Night
Title: Everything Happens at Night
Character: Norden Servant
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: German Officer
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Manager
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Pawn Broker (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
Title: The Man They Could Not Hang
Character: Dr. Stoddard
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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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Dentist Juror (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Head Porter (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Rovitch
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Monk
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: First Dockworker (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Homicide Bureau
Title: Homicide Bureau
Character: Miller - the Junk Dealer
Released: January 5, 1939
Type: Movie
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Edis
Released: November 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Jorgensen
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Franz
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Immigrant
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Bar 20 Justice
Title: Bar 20 Justice
Character: Perkins
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Dennis mine, has Dennis killed. Hoppy steps in to take over running the Dennis mine and learns Frazier's men sneak into and work the Dennis mine at night. Hoppy captures one of Frazier's men only to be captured in return by Frazier and left to die in a burning building.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Foreman
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Frenchman (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: J.E. Glattner - the Florist (uncredited)
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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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: Prosecuting Attorney (as Joseph De Stefani)
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.