G. Pat Collins

G. Pat Collins

Born: December 15, 1895
Died: August 5, 1959
in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
G. Pat Collins, also known as George Pat Collins or Pat Collins (born George Percy Collins; December 16, 1895 – August 5, 1959) was an American actor of the stage and screen.

Movies for G. Pat Collins...

The Sheepman
Title: The Sheepman
Character: Elmer (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
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Yaqui Drums
Title: Yaqui Drums
Character: Bartender
Released: October 13, 1956
Type: Movie
In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper.
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The Fastest Gun Alive
Title: The Fastest Gun Alive
Character: Josh Wilson (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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A Lawless Street
Title: A Lawless Street
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Night Freight
Title: Night Freight
Character: Kelly
Released: August 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Trucker tries to put a railroad man out of business.
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The Naked Street
Title: The Naked Street
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
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The Big Tip Off
Title: The Big Tip Off
Character: Bartender at Scoop's (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
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Ten Wanted Men
Title: Ten Wanted Men
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
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The Great Diamond Robbery
Title: The Great Diamond Robbery
Character: Nightwatchman Connelly (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
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The Wild North
Title: The Wild North
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
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On Dangerous Ground
Title: On Dangerous Ground
Character: Sgt. Wendell (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
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The Whip Hand
Title: The Whip Hand
Character: Nelson - Gate Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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Gambling House
Title: Gambling House
Character: Homicide Detective Jenson (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Indian Territory
Title: Indian Territory
Character: Jim Colton (as Pat Collins)
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading a group of renegade Indians on a series of destructive raids.
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Triple Trouble
Title: Triple Trouble
Character: Bat Armstrong (as Pat Collins)
Released: August 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
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The Woman on Pier 13
Title: The Woman on Pier 13
Character: Charlie Dover
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
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White Heat
Title: White Heat
Character: The Reader (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Flaming Fury
Title: Flaming Fury
Character: Battalion Fire Chief
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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The Dark Past
Title: The Dark Past
Character: Al's Father (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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Jungle Patrol
Title: Jungle Patrol
Character: Sgt. Hanley
Released: November 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
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Romance on the High Seas
Title: Romance on the High Seas
Character: Detective Humphrey (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Title: Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Character: Mike Malone (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.
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The Naked City
Title: The Naked City
Character: Charles Meade (Uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Corporal (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Oil Worker (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Tim O'Hara (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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King of the Lumberjacks
Title: King of the Lumberjacks
Character: Mr. Gregg
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Alec - New 'Fish' (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: McNeil
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Carnival Queen
Title: Carnival Queen
Character: Bert MacGregor
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Detective at Killing (Uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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With Love and Kisses
Title: With Love and Kisses
Character: Joe
Released: December 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Doc
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Mister Dynamite
Title: Mister Dynamite
Character: Rod
Released: April 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
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Baby Face Harrington
Title: Baby Face Harrington
Character: Hank
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
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West Point of the Air
Title: West Point of the Air
Character: Lt. Kelly
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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West of the Pecos
Title: West of the Pecos
Character: Sam Sawtelle
Released: December 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Title: The Captain Hates the Sea
Character: Donlin
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Title: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Soda Jerk
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Ed
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Killer in Prison (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Red Hendrickson
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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The Crime Doctor
Title: The Crime Doctor
Character: Walters
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
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Keep 'Em Rolling
Title: Keep 'Em Rolling
Character: Sgt. Tom Randall
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
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The Big Shakedown
Title: The Big Shakedown
Character: Gyp
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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Fog
Title: Fog
Character: Mullaney
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Man Who Will Kill Wife's Lover (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Brandon
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Heroes for Sale
Title: Heroes for Sale
Character: Leader of Agitators
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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The Silk Express
Title: The Silk Express
Character: Train Guard Harry Burns
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
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Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: Hennessy the Fireman
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Girl Missing
Title: Girl Missing
Character: Crawford (as George Pat Collins)
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Dance Judge (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Parachute Jumper
Title: Parachute Jumper
Character: Tom Crowley (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Death Row Convict Mike (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Gangster Spud (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Male Nurse (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Detective Archie Quinn
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Whitey
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Wicked
Title: Wicked
Character: Cop
Released: October 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Julius Sizzer
Title: Julius Sizzer
Character: Nick
Released: September 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brother, Julius, a greenhorn from the Old Country. Both are played by Benny Rubin.
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The Vice Squad
Title: The Vice Squad
Character: Pete - Detective
Released: May 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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No Limit
Title: No Limit
Character: Charlie
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
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Big Money
Title: Big Money
Character: Smiley
Released: October 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: John Drummond
Released: July 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Bertinck
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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Street of Chance
Title: Street of Chance
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
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Be Yourself!
Title: Be Yourself!
Character: McCloskey
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
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Half Marriage
Title: Half Marriage
Character: Detective Bob Mulhall
Released: October 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Patrolman Johnson
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.