Iris Meredith

Iris Meredith

Born: June 3, 1915
Died: January 22, 1980
in Sioux City, Iowa, USA
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Iris Meredith (June 3, 1915 in Sioux City, Iowa – January 22, 1980) was a B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s film era. She starred mostly in heroine roles, in westerns. Born as Marie Shunn, Meredith began her film career in the early 1930s, often starring in film serials while on contract with Columbia Pictures. Her best-known roles were in the 1938 serial The Spider's Web, and in the 1939 serial Overland with Kit Carson. In 1940 she starred in the serial The Green Archer, as well as in several westerns opposite Charles Starrett, Bill Elliott, and Bob Allen. Most of her films were with Starrett, from 1936 through 1940, most notably Riders of the Black River and Spoilers of the Range.

Her career slowed mid-way through the 1940s. In 1941 she starred in The Son of Davy Crockett with Bill Elliott, and Caught in the Act opposite Henry Armetta. In 1942 she starred alongside Dave O'Brien in The Texas Rangers Take Over. Her last credited role was the 1943 film The Kid Rides Again, in which she starred opposite Buster Crabbe. She had one uncredited role afterward, in the 1951 film Chain of Circumstance.

She married television director Abby Berlin, and retired from acting shortly thereafter. In total, she starred in over 50 films, 32 of which were westerns.

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The Kid Rides Again
Title: The Kid Rides Again
Character: Joan Ainsley
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
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The Rangers Take Over
Title: The Rangers Take Over
Character: Jean Lorin
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
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Louisiana Purchase
Title: Louisiana Purchase
Character: Lawyer's secretary
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Doris Matthews
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Lucy Ripportella
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.
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Thundering Frontier
Title: Thundering Frontier
Character: Norma Belknap
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett plays Jim Fillmore, kind to old ladies, small animals and heroine Norma Belknap (Iris Meredith). In contrast, the villains are kind to no one, least of all struggling building contractor Square Deal Scottie (Alex Callam), whose projects are continually targeted for demolition and his payroll is forever being stolen at gunpoint. A good 25 percent of the film's running time is given over to Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, whose C&W croonings are pleasant but a bit much. One of the film's few surprises is that Starrett's perennial screen sparring partner Dick Curtis isn't one of the bad guys.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Valerie Howett
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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His Bridal Fright
Title: His Bridal Fright
Character: Mary
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
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The Return of Wild Bill
Title: The Return of Wild Bill
Character: Sammy Lou Griffin
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Jean Harper
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: 'Spunky' Cameron
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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Blazing Six Shooters
Title: Blazing Six Shooters
Character: Janet Kenyon
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Nita Lavore
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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Two-Fisted Rangers
Title: Two-Fisted Rangers
Character: Betty Webster
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns that Jack Rand, powerful overlord of the town is to blame. After Rand murders newspaper publisher Jordan Webster, Thad sets out to put him behind bars.
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The Taming of the West
Title: The Taming of the West
Character: Pepper Jenkins
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
When the marshal of the lawless town of Prairie Port is shot while trying to break up a saloon brawl, Wild Bill Saunders, a newcomer to town, rides in pursuit of Turkey, the marshal's assailant.
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Riders of Black River
Title: Riders of Black River
Character: Linda Holden
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
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Those High Grey Walls
Title: Those High Grey Walls
Character: Mary MacAuley
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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Outpost of the Mounties
Title: Outpost of the Mounties
Character: Norma Daniels
Released: September 12, 1939
Type: Movie
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupulous trader whose price mark-ups are beginning to hurt the community. They fight so frequently that when the avaricious proprietor is killed, the young man becomes the prime suspect.
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Overland with Kit Carson
Title: Overland with Kit Carson
Character: Carmelita Gonzalez
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
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The Man from Sundown
Title: The Man from Sundown
Character: Barbara Kellogg
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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Western Caravans
Title: Western Caravans
Character: Joyce Thompson
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the settlers. Kohler re-ignites the feud by making settler Winters appear to be a rustler and then by killing Winter's son. Once more the two sides appear headed for a war and Jim is caught in the middle.
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Spoilers of the Range
Title: Spoilers of the Range
Character: Madge Patterson
Released: April 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Hero Jeff Strong (Starrett) comes to the rescue of a group of victimized ranchers. The villains are a gang of crooked gamblers, who demand a valuable dam as payment for a $50,000 debt. The ranchers hope to earn the money by getting their cattle to market on time, but head bad guy Cash Fenton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his flunkey Lobo (Dick Curtis) intend to prevent this.
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First Offenders
Title: First Offenders
Character: Mary Kent
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
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Texas Stampede
Title: Texas Stampede
Character: Joan Cameron
Released: February 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Sheep raisers, resentful of old injuries from the cattlemen, bar the way to water when dry ranges force the cattle ranchers to drive their herds into the lowlands.
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The Spider's Web
Title: The Spider's Web
Character: Nita Van Sloan
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
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West of the Santa Fe
Title: West of the Santa Fe
Character: Madge Conway
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: Joan Randall
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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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Eddie's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Murder Is News
Title: Murder Is News
Character: Ann Leslie
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.
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Outlaws of the Prairie
Title: Outlaws of the Prairie
Character: Judy Garfield
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of gold-shipment robberies. So does heroine Judy Garfield (Iris Meredith), whose stage transport business faces foreclosure if the holdups continue. It comes as no surprise that the crimes are being orchestrated by the very people who want to force Judy out of business.
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The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Title: The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Character: Nancy Wilson
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be arrested by the Sheriff who thinks he's one of the gang.
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A Lawman Is Born
Title: A Lawman Is Born
Character: Beth Graham
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
An outlaw falsely accused of murder realizes the only way to clear himself is to become a lawman.
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Trail of Vengeance
Title: Trail of Vengeance
Character: Jean Warner
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted outlaw Dude Ramsey arrives and joins up with Tilden. First he saves the ranchers from Carson's trap and then exposes Pearson as Carson's informant and killer of Steve Warner.
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The Gambling Terror
Title: The Gambling Terror
Character: Betty Garret
Released: February 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Brett runs a protection racket for an unknown boss. When Jeff Hayes arrives and opens a gambling den, they try to shut him down. Unlike the others who have given in, he plans to fight back.
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Rio Grande Ranger
Title: Rio Grande Ranger
Character: Sandra Cullen
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent across the border where he poses as an outlaw hoping to lure the gang back into Texas. He gets into Sayres' gang displacing the gang boss but the disgruntled ex-boss is able to expose the hoax and Bob is made a prisoner.
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The Cowboy Star
Title: The Cowboy Star
Character: Mary Baker
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
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George White's 1935 Scandals
Title: George White's 1935 Scandals
Character: Miss Smith - Secretary (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.