Blackie Whiteford

Blackie Whiteford

Born: April 27, 1889
Died: March 21, 1962
in New York City, New York, USA
Blackie Whiteford was born on April 27, 1889 in New York City, New York, USA as John P. Whiteford. He is known for his work on Thundering Taxis (1933), Crazy Like a Fox (1944) and One Glorious Scrap (1925). He was married to Alma Bennett. He died on March 21, 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Movies for Blackie Whiteford...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Title: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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The Big Land
Title: The Big Land
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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Of Cash and Hash
Title: Of Cash and Hash
Character: Second Policeman (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1955
Type: Movie
The Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the Stooges must rescue her.
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The Violent Men
Title: The Violent Men
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
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Pals and Gals
Title: Pals and Gals
Character: Pinto (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
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The Wild One
Title: The Wild One
Character: Bystander at Art's Accident (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
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Pardon My Backfire
Title: Pardon My Backfire
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to capture them and use the reward money to marry their sweethearts. It appears to be an early attempt at 3D with the closeups and effects used.
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Raiders of the Seven Seas
Title: Raiders of the Seven Seas
Character: Pirate
Released: May 27, 1953
Type: Movie
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (Donna Reed), intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo (Gerald Mohr), for a handsome ransom. But Barbarossa falls in love with Alida, who meanwhile discovers that the roguish swashbuckler is more honorable than her erstwhile betrothed.
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The Juggler
Title: The Juggler
Character: Refugee (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1953
Type: Movie
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
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A Perilous Journey
Title: A Perilous Journey
Character: Blackie, the Blacksmith
Released: April 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A ship of women embarks on a voyage to California. Director R. G. Springsteen's 1953 adventure drama stars Vera Ralston, David Brian, Virginia Grey, Charles Winninger, Veda Ann Borg and Hope Emerson.
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Booty And The Beast
Title: Booty And The Beast
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Title: Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich father's plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.
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Fair Wind to Java
Title: Fair Wind to Java
Character: Sailor
Released: January 28, 1953
Type: Movie
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Caught on the Bounce
Title: Caught on the Bounce
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe Besser needs money to pay back a loan of $2500 and travels to ask his aunt for the money. She boards the train, along with a man who looks like a wanted bank-robber, and tells Joe she needs $2500 herself and can not help him. Between them they capture the bank robber and split the $5,000 reward.
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The Old West
Title: The Old West
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Autry in an effort to clean up the town of Sadderlock.
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Captain Pirate
Title: Captain Pirate
Character: Pirate (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
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The Sniper
Title: The Sniper
Character: Man at Darr Murder Scene (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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Man in the Saddle
Title: Man in the Saddle
Released: December 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
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Merry Mavericks
Title: Merry Mavericks
Character: Al (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock them out.
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Slaphappy Sleuths
Title: Slaphappy Sleuths
Character: Crook (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Title: The Killer That Stalked New York
Character: Observer on Street (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
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Three Hams on Rye
Title: Three Hams on Rye
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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The Gunfighter
Title: The Gunfighter
Character: Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Punchy Cowpunchers
Title: Punchy Cowpunchers
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1950
Type: Movie
It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
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South of Death Valley
Title: South of Death Valley
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1949
Type: Movie
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranchers and the miners. Ashton has had the water poisoned killing cattle. When Ashton's men find Steve's hat, they kill Tom Tavish and frame Steve for the murder. Escaping jail the Durango Kid goes into action.
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The Lost Tribe
Title: The Lost Tribe
Character: Crewman with Rifle (uncredited)
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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Desert Vigilante
Title: Desert Vigilante
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the rustlers who are now going to have the Durango Kid to contend with.
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Riders of the Whistling Pines
Title: Riders of the Whistling Pines
Character: Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1949
Type: Movie
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright, Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning.
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The Man from Colorado
Title: The Man from Colorado
Released: August 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
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Flat Feat
Title: Flat Feat
Character: Bartender
Released: June 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has.
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The Lady from Shanghai
Title: The Lady from Shanghai
Character: Big Coke Drinker with Vest (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Hold That Lion!
Title: Hold That Lion!
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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Out West
Title: Out West
Character: Pinto (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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The Three Troubledoers
Title: The Three Troubledoers
Character: Quirt (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges become marshals in a town with a high death rate for lawmen. The boys set out prevent a marriage between the villain Blackie and the heroine Nell, who's father Blackie has kidnapped. The stooges manage to defeat Blackie and his henchmen, but when Nell's father learns she promised to marry Curly if he could save her, he decides death would be a preferable fate.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: Crap Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Uncivil War Birds
Title: Uncivil War Birds
Character: Union Soldier (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
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A Hit with a Miss
Title: A Hit with a Miss
Character: Fighter (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Title: Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Character: Barfly
Released: April 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.
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The Last Horseman
Title: The Last Horseman
Character: Henchman Slade (as J. P. Whiteford)
Released: June 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.
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Days of Glory
Title: Days of Glory
Character: Guerrilla (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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Riding West
Title: Riding West
Character: Sgt. Dobbs (as J.P. Whiteford)
Released: May 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to sabotage the new Pony Express mail service, and hard-ridin' Steve Jordan (Charles Starrett) aims to find out who.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
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Phony Express
Title: Phony Express
Character: Red's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
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Arizona Trail
Title: Arizona Trail
Released: September 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Barfly
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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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Bartender
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Townsman
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Down Texas Way
Title: Down Texas Way
Character: Lyncher
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams
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The Adventures of Martin Eden
Title: The Adventures of Martin Eden
Released: February 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
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Stagecoach Buckaroo
Title: Stagecoach Buckaroo
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Townsman Watching Street Brawl
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Deputy
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Lottery Thug
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: James Brown - Voter (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Posse Rider
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Across the Sierras
Title: Across the Sierras
Character: Barfly
Released: February 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Bruiser in Audience
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Thundering Frontier
Title: Thundering Frontier
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
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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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Court Spectator
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Henchman
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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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Spike (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Henchman
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: Henchman
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Title: Riders of Pasco Basin
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Townsman Standing by Stagecoach (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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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Miner Client
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Convict in Machine Shop
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Oklahoma Frontier
Title: Oklahoma Frontier
Character: Barfly
Released: October 9, 1939
Type: Movie
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to make sure he gets it. When Jeff gives Rankin a map, the outlaws kill Rankin, steal the map, and frame Jeff for the murder. Scheduled to be hung the day of the land rush, Jeff's pal Frosty has a plan to free him.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Pringle's Henchman
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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In Old Caliente
Title: In Old Caliente
Character: Settler
Released: June 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: Construction Camp Henchman
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Irishman on Dance Floor (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Landring
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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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Convict
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Romance of the Rockies
Title: Romance of the Rockies
Character: Henchman
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A doctor comes to the aid of local ranchers who are fighting to protect their water rights.
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The Luck of Roaring Camp
Title: The Luck of Roaring Camp
Character: Saloon Bully
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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The Shadow Strikes
Title: The Shadow Strikes
Character: Gunman
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
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The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Convict (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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Heart of the Rockies
Title: Heart of the Rockies
Character: Dawson Clan Member
Released: September 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the criminals' deeds. But when a ranger is shot and Stony is framed for the crime, it's up to Lullaby and Tucson to prove his innocence.
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Jungle Menace
Title: Jungle Menace
Character: Henchman
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Drilling Soldier (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Blacksmith
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
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Valley of Terror
Title: Valley of Terror
Character: Bartender
Released: January 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A cowboy is arrested for rustling cattle. A lynch mob is formed by his buddy to try and arrange an escape in the confusion. Things go wrong.
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Grips, Grunts and Groans
Title: Grips, Grunts and Groans
Character: Tony's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The Stooges become trainers of Bustoff, a champion wrestler. The big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to take good care of him. Instead they accidentally knock him out and Curly must disguise himself as Bustoff and wrestle in his place. The match doesn't go very well until Curly smells "Wild Hyacinth" perfume on a lady fan at ringside. This drives him crazy and he knocks out his opponent and half the people in the stadium.
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Midnight Blunders
Title: Midnight Blunders
Character: 1st Bank Robber (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
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The Black Coin
Title: The Black Coin
Character: Quinn McGuire
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
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For the Service
Title: For the Service
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
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The Peppery Salt
Title: The Peppery Salt
Character: Eye-patched Henchman
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Last of the Warrens
Title: Last of the Warrens
Character: Slip Gerns
Released: May 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who intercepted his mail, rustled the Warren cattle, took over the Warren ranch, and is now after Ted's girl friend. When Kent's henchmen fail to kill Ted, Kent shoots Ted's father and leaves him for dead. But only wounded, the plan is to have Warren appear as a ghost to get a confession from Kent.
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Share the Wealth
Title: Share the Wealth
Character: Big Henchman
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Prospector
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.
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Step on It
Title: Step on It
Character: Henchman
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A cop is fired from the force and attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.
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Texas Jack
Title: Texas Jack
Character: Henchman Cal
Released: December 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack is looking for the man that was responsible for the death of his sister after he hired her as a school teacher. When he runs into school teacher Ann who was just hired by Corey, he soon realizes Corey is the man he is after. Lacking proof, he works on Corey's nerves hoping to get a confession from him.
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Hollywood Extra Girl
Title: Hollywood Extra Girl
Character: Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Convict
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Ghost Rider
Title: The Ghost Rider
Character: Bull
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He kills two of them leaving an ace as his calling card. Bull remembers the deck of cards that fell when he fought Dave had no aces and the Rascob's set out after him. Trapped in a cabin, Dave receives unexpected help from Bullard.
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Pals of the Range
Title: Pals of the Range
Character: Joe - Henchman
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes after cattle rustlers he finds changing brands.
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Man at Dance
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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North of Arizona
Title: North of Arizona
Character: Barfly
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.
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When Lightning Strikes
Title: When Lightning Strikes
Character: Hunky
Released: December 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
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The Brand of Hate
Title: The Brand of Hate
Character: Ranch Hand
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.
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A Demon for Trouble
Title: A Demon for Trouble
Character: Henchman Blackie
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and gets blamed for the murder. Fleeing from the Sheriff, Bob teams up with the Mexican outlaw Golinda. Having seen Dyer pay off his men, he has a plan to trap him and Golinda is just the man he needs to make it work.
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Rawhide Mail
Title: Rawhide Mail
Character: Barfly
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.
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St. Louis Woman
Title: St. Louis Woman
Character: First Joe
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown stars as medical student and football star who was expelled after a night club brawl over a woman. He meets her again only to find out she owns the club and is involved with a gambler...
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West of the Divide
Title: West of the Divide
Character: Butch
Released: February 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father.
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Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: Talent Scout in Montage
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
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Fury of the Jungle
Title: Fury of the Jungle
Character: Molango Villager (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
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Thundering Taxis
Title: Thundering Taxis
Character: Boss of Blocker Cab Company
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Crashing Broadway
Title: Crashing Broadway
Character: Henchman
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
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The Gallant Fool
Title: The Gallant Fool
Character: Henchman
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
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Deadwood Pass
Title: Deadwood Pass
Character: Henchman Bull
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
The Hawk has broken out of prison and the Sheriff and Sorrenson have a plan to have Whitlock pose as the Hawk, infiltrate the gang, and recover the stolen bonds. All goes well until The Chief who knows the real Hawk arrives.
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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Breed of the Border
Title: Breed of the Border
Character: Saloon Brawler
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds. Brent's old friend Chuck arrives and the two head out to find the gang and recover the bonds.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Tough Studio Cop (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Attorney for the Defense
Title: Attorney for the Defense
Character: Tall man leaving courtroom
Released: May 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
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Mason of the Mounted
Title: Mason of the Mounted
Character: Dwires Guard
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Title: The Man from Hell's Edges
Character: Henchman Mason
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
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The Scarlet Brand
Title: The Scarlet Brand
Character: Cactus - Henchman
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
In The Scarlet Brand, a young cowpoke tricked into rustling cattle and hell-bent on getting revenge against the poacher who set him up.
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The Man from New Mexico
Title: The Man from New Mexico
Character: Henchman Bat Murchison
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The cattle on the Langton Ranch are mysteriously dying and cowhands are disappearing or being shot. Two Langton riders bring a wounded rider they found wounded and hung up in a barbed-wire fence to Sally Langton and report that her father is missing. A lone rider, Jess Ryder, tops a rise and sees a band of men working on some calves in a secluded corral, and he frowns as he sees what Bat Murchinson is doing.
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Mark of the Spur
Title: Mark of the Spur
Character: Butch - Henchman
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A young ranch foreman, Bud Drake aka The Kid, is wrongfully arrested for the theft of six-thousand dollars from ranch-owner "Hardshell" Beckett. He escapes and with the aid of Beckett's adopted daughter, Alice, sets out to clear his name.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A remake of 1930's "Phantom of the Desert", in which a crooked foreman and the ranch hands are rustling horses, and laying the blame on a wild stallion that roams the surrounding hills.In this one the principals are Jim/Cheyenne(Rex Lease) as the cowhand that comes along and clears the horse,Starlight;the crooked foreman is Clyde Winslow(Harry Woods), while Helen Sutter(Dorothy Gulliver) is the daughter of ranch owner Frank Sutter(Jay Hunt.) This one was remade at least four more times by 1940.
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The Power of the Press
Title: The Power of the Press
Character: Henchman
Released: October 30, 1928
Type: Movie
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
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The Way of the Strong
Title: The Way of the Strong
Character: One of Handsome's
Released: June 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.