Walter James

Walter James

Born: June 1, 1882
Died: June 27, 1946
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Walter James was an American stage and screen actor.

Movies for Walter James...

Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Percy Gorringe
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: Leading Citizen
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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The Panther's Claw
Title: The Panther's Claw
Character: Police Captain Tom Henry
Released: March 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Ward Heeler (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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The Kid's Last Ride
Title: The Kid's Last Ride
Character: Bartender
Released: February 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon. Harmon and his henchman Bart Gill are in reality wanted-outlaw brothers Jim and Ike Breedon seeking revenge against Jimmy and his school-teaching sister Sally as their father, a circuit judge in Nebraska, had sentenced their brother Bud to be hanged. Harmon involves Jimmy, because of his gambling debts, in a robbery of a rancher known to keep large amounts of money at his ranch. The Range Busters break up the robbery, Bart is killed, as is Rancher Fleming, and Jimmy is wounded but escapes. Harmon, setting a trap for Crash, tricks Sally and Jimmy to his hideout, and Crash follows them.
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Legion of the Lawless
Title: Legion of the Lawless
Character: Vigilante at Meeting (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Eternally Yours
Title: Eternally Yours
Character: Police Official
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Man with New Hat
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Juror
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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California Mail
Title: California Mail
Character: Man Who Bets $1000 (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Posse Member
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Judge Hooker
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Assembly Line Foreman (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Judge Hooker
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
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Arizona Bad Man
Title: Arizona Bad Man
Character: Jack - Bartender
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Police Court
Title: Police Court
Character: Cappy Hearn
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
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Street Scene
Title: Street Scene
Character: Police Marshal James Henry
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Police Captain Anderson
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Captain of the Guards
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Hell's Heroes
Title: Hell's Heroes
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
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Me, Gangster
Title: Me, Gangster
Character: Police Capt. Dodd
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
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The Wright Idea
Title: The Wright Idea
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Big Killing
Title: The Big Killing
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
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The Patent Leather Kid
Title: The Patent Leather Kid
Character: Officer Riley
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
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The Blood Ship
Title: The Blood Ship
Character: Capt. Angus Swope
Released: July 18, 1927
Type: Movie
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
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The Kid Brother
Title: The Kid Brother
Character: Jim Hickory
Released: January 17, 1927
Type: Movie
The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.
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Battling Butler
Title: Battling Butler
Character: The Mountain Girl's Father
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
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The Seventh Bandit
Title: The Seventh Bandit
Character: Ben Goring
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The story of David Scanlon - a former gunfighter turned farmer, who sells the family homestead in favor of adventure in the California gold fields.
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Charley My Boy!
Title: Charley My Boy!
Character: President T.J.
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
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Charley My Boy!
Title: Charley My Boy!
Character: Old Charley aka Charleyhorse
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
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The Everlasting Whisper
Title: The Everlasting Whisper
Character: Aswin Brody
Released: November 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the location of a secret gold mine. To get to the mine, however, King must fight an evil claim jumper, Gratton (Robert Cain), whose fiance, Gloria (Alice Calhoun), he once saved from falling off a cliff.
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Little Annie Rooney
Title: Little Annie Rooney
Character: Officer Timothy Rooney
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Caliban
Released: March 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
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Secrets of Paris
Title: Secrets of Paris
Character: The Strangler
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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Fair Lady
Title: Fair Lady
Character: Gian Norcone
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
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The Idol Dancer
Title: The Idol Dancer
Character: Chief Wando
Released: March 21, 1920
Type: Movie
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie