Max Hoffman Jr.

Max Hoffman Jr.

Born: December 13, 1902
Died: March 31, 1945
in Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Movies for Max Hoffman Jr....

The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: Sergeant
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: Kearney
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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Man From Headquarters
Title: Man From Headquarters
Character: Gang Leader Louis Padroni
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
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Freckles Comes Home
Title: Freckles Comes Home
Character: Hymie
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Sergeant Reading Telegraph Copy (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Motorcop (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Policeman
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Detective Driving Car (uncredited)
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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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Charlie, the Third Cab Driver (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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A Fugitive from Justice
Title: A Fugitive from Justice
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
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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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Policeman #2 (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Union Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Driver
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Warden's Clerk (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Chauffeur Showing Off Car (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Sergeant in the Trench (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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Kid Nightingale
Title: Kid Nightingale
Character: Fitts
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Guard George Shelden (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Gate Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Lon King - Packers Player
Released: July 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Gladstone Coach (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Soldier at Renz's Arrest (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Undercover Agent
Title: Undercover Agent
Character: Slicker - Henchman
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Drilling Officer
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Motorcycle Officer Sam Moore
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Second Policeman (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: 1st Protection Racket Thug
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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The Daredevil Drivers
Title: The Daredevil Drivers
Character: Joe Bailey
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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Swing It, Sailor!
Title: Swing It, Sailor!
Character: Hardy
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
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Sergeant Murphy
Title: Sergeant Murphy
Character: Sergeant Connors
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Harry Selkirk
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
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The Game That Kills
Title: The Game That Kills
Character: Bill Drake
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
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The Devil's Saddle Legion
Title: The Devil's Saddle Legion
Character: Butch
Released: August 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Macon Navigation officer (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Title: Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Character: Jed, the Apache Kid
Released: May 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Reporter #3 (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Counterfeit Lady
Title: Counterfeit Lady
Character: Kit
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
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King of Hockey
Title: King of Hockey
Character: Torchy Myers
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Old Lace
Title: Old Lace
Released: August 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.