Joseph Vitale

Joseph Vitale

Born: September 6, 1901
Died: June 5, 1994

Movies for Joseph Vitale...

Apache Rifles
Title: Apache Rifles
Character: Victorio (as Joseph A. Vitale)
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
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Alias Jesse James
Title: Alias Jesse James
Character: Sam Hiawatha (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
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Hong Kong Confidential
Title: Hong Kong Confidential
Character: Youseff
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.
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Wild Is the Wind
Title: Wild Is the Wind
Character: Party Guest
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Chenwakee
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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The Deerslayer
Title: The Deerslayer
Character: Huron chief
Released: September 10, 1957
Type: Movie
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
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Rumble on the Docks
Title: Rumble on the Docks
Character: Marchese
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: Baritone (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1956
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
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Forbidden Moon
Title: Forbidden Moon
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the station is filled with deadly radiation brought by an evil ruler who is immune to the radiation, and plans to use it to take over the universe.
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The Square Jungle
Title: The Square Jungle
Character: Tony Adamson
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
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A Bullet for Joey
Title: A Bullet for Joey
Character: Nick Johonus
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
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New York Confidential
Title: New York Confidential
Character: Batista
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Character: Red Eagle
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Make Haste to Live
Title: Make Haste to Live
Character: Big Man
Released: March 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Title: The Stranger Wore a Gun
Character: Shorty
Released: July 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
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Stop, You're Killing Me
Title: Stop, You're Killing Me
Character: Giuseppe
Released: December 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Cap
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Yankee Buccaneer
Title: Yankee Buccaneer
Character: Scarjack
Released: September 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas; but the arrival of one of Porter's ex-students, the willful and independent Lieutenant David Farragut, brings a new mission: to disguise the ship and crew as a pirate ship and help the Navy locate the criminals who have been robbing America's merchant fleet. But as Farragut's disobedience threatens the safety of the crew, they stumble upon an international conspiracy.
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Fancy Pants
Title: Fancy Pants
Character: Wampum
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
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My Friend Irma Goes West
Title: My Friend Irma Goes West
Character: Slim
Released: June 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
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Red Hot and Blue
Title: Red Hot and Blue
Character: Carr
Released: September 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
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Illegal Entry
Title: Illegal Entry
Character: Joe Bottsy
Released: June 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
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The Lost Tribe
Title: The Lost Tribe
Character: Calhoun
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: Sir Logris
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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The Paleface
Title: The Paleface
Character: Indian Scout
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Road to Rio
Title: Road to Rio
Character: Tony
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
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Dangerous Years
Title: Dangerous Years
Character: August Miller
Released: December 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
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Where There's Life
Title: Where There's Life
Character: Albert Miller
Released: November 21, 1947
Type: Movie
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
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Lady Luck
Title: Lady Luck
Character: Happy Johnson
Released: October 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
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Zombies on Broadway
Title: Zombies on Broadway
Character: Joseph
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.
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The Falcon in Mexico
Title: The Falcon in Mexico
Character: Anton
Released: August 4, 1944
Type: Movie
The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
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Days of Glory
Title: Days of Glory
Character: Seminov (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
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Gildersleeve's Ghost
Title: Gildersleeve's Ghost
Character: Lennox
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
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Passport to Destiny
Title: Passport to Destiny
Character: Lt. Bosch
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Daredevil O'Dare
Title: Daredevil O'Dare
Character: Kovack Tomar
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.