Robert Fiske

Robert Fiske

Born: October 20, 1889
Died: September 12, 1944
in Griggsville, Illinois, USA

Movies for Robert Fiske...

The Texas Kid
Title: The Texas Kid
Character: Naylor
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Marshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The Texas Kid is part of the gang and Sandy thinks he is bad but Nevada knows him and thinks he may be good.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Foster
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Telegrapher (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Investigator Ryan
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Vengeance of the West
Title: Vengeance of the West
Character: Gil Kirby
Released: August 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: Phillip Wallace
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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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Walter Cabot
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: Grover Duncan (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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The Big Boss
Title: The Big Boss
Character: George Fellows
Released: April 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Why did the Governor want to resign?
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The Apache Kid
Title: The Apache Kid
Character: Joe Walker
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
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Along the Rio Grande
Title: Along the Rio Grande
Character: Doc Randall
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' murder.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Ed Deal
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
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Texas Terrors
Title: Texas Terrors
Character: Defense Attorney Barker
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice. But he can no longer sate his thirst for vengeance, fueled by the death of his parents at the hands of a bloodthirsty mine jumper. Frustrated and fed up, Bob decides it's time to dust off his guns and holsters.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Savini
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: District Attorney
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Mr. Carter
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Committeeman Ashton
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Carolina Moon
Title: Carolina Moon
Character: Barrett
Released: July 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
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Passport to Alcatraz
Title: Passport to Alcatraz
Character: Reed
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
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East Side Kids
Title: East Side Kids
Character: Cornwall
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Stanford Marshall
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Prosecuting Attorney Gerald Storm
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Radio Actor (uncredited)
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 from Sundown
Title: The Man from Sundown
Character: Captain Prescott
Released: July 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
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Timber Stampede
Title: Timber Stampede
Character: Matt Chaflin
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
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Racketeers of the Range
Title: Racketeers of the Range
Character: Roger Whitlock
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.
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They Made Her a Spy
Title: They Made Her a Spy
Character: Davis
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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Sunset Trail
Title: Sunset Trail
Character: Monte Keller
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
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I Am a Criminal
Title: I Am a Criminal
Character: Attorney Phil Collins
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Lt. Dumond
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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The Lady Objects
Title: The Lady Objects
Character: Mr. Horn
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
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West of the Santa Fe
Title: West of the Santa Fe
Character: Banker Frank Parker
Released: October 2, 1938
Type: Movie
US marshal Lawlor (Starrett) takes on a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Taylor (Dick Curtis). His reasons are partly personal: Conway (Edward LeSaint), the cattle-baron father of Lawlor's sweetheart Madge (Meredith), has been murdered by Taylor's minions.
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Colorado Trail
Title: Colorado Trail
Character: Deacon Webster
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
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Religious Racketeers
Title: Religious Racketeers
Character: The Great LaGagge aka Louis LaGagge aka The Great Garno
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Title: The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Morrell
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
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Numbered Woman
Title: Numbered Woman
Character: Bob Wetherby
Released: May 22, 1938
Type: Movie
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
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Flight Into Nowhere
Title: Flight Into Nowhere
Character: Dr. Butler
Released: April 19, 1938
Type: Movie
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he ends up running out of gas and crashing. The members of a nearby tribal village save Bill from the wreckage, but arent willing to help him get home.
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Cassidy of Bar 20
Title: Cassidy of Bar 20
Character: Clay Allison
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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The Purple Vigilantes
Title: The Purple Vigilantes
Character: George Drake
Released: January 24, 1938
Type: Movie
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.
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The Luck of Roaring Camp
Title: The Luck of Roaring Camp
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 17, 1937
Type: Movie
When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
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Roaring Six Guns
Title: Roaring Six Guns
Character: Banker Jake Harmon
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Sinclair has a government lease on range land that is about to expire. George Ringold wants the land and hires Roberts and his men. But they turn out to be a gang of killers and trouble soon arises.
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Raw Timber
Title: Raw Timber
Character: Bart Williams
Released: July 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Forest Ranger Tom Corbin patrols the lumber grant of the McFarland and Williams Lumber Company, party owned by Dale McFarland. Tom discovers that Bart Williams is systematically cutting excess timber and falsifying his timber reports to the government. Williams is assisted by "Bull" Riley, who, suspecting that Tom has discovered their thievery, gives Tom a beating in an unfair fight.
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Drums of Destiny
Title: Drums of Destiny
Character: Bill Holston
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
In this war film, set in 1817, an American Army captain searches throughout Spanish-ruled Florida for his brother who has been abducted by an evil Don. En route he begins to romance the daughter of the Don.
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The Law Commands
Title: The Law Commands
Character: John Abbott
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doctor the town sheriff and tells him to clean up the gang.
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Old Louisiana
Title: Old Louisiana
Character: Luke E. Gilmore, Louisana Fur Co.
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Officer
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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The Devil Diamond
Title: The Devil Diamond
Character: John Henry Morgan
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
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Battle of Greed
Title: Battle of Greed
Character: Hammond
Released: January 4, 1937
Type: Movie
When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
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Song of the Gringo
Title: Song of the Gringo
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
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The Sky Parade
Title: The Sky Parade
Character: Scotty Allen
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
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Adventure in Manhattan
Title: Adventure in Manhattan
Character: Dario - Henchman (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
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Alibi for Murder
Title: Alibi for Murder
Character: Aviator (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.