Houseley Stevenson

Houseley Stevenson

Born: July 30, 1879
Died: August 6, 1953
in London, England, UK
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Houseley Stevenson (July 30, 1879 – August 6, 1953) was an American character actor who was born in London on July 30, 1879, and died in Duarte, California on August 6, 1953. He began his movie career in 1936 and had a short career in early television productions. Stevenson performed in live stage productions in New York under the name Houseley Stevens. He was a resident teacher at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He was the father of actors Houseley Stevenson Jr., Edward Stevenson and Onslow Stevens.

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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Pop Polgase
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Oklahoma Annie
Title: Oklahoma Annie
Character: Blinky
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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The Wild North
Title: The Wild North
Character: Old Man
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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Cave of Outlaws
Title: Cave of Outlaws
Character: Cooley
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.
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All That I Have
Title: All That I Have
Character: Charles Grayson
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
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Darling, How Could You!
Title: Darling, How Could You!
Character: Old Man (Uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
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The Secret of Convict Lake
Title: The Secret of Convict Lake
Character: Samuel 'Pawnee Sam' Barlow (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1951
Type: Movie
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
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Hollywood Story
Title: Hollywood Story
Character: John Miller, Studio Guard
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
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The Sun Sets at Dawn
Title: The Sun Sets at Dawn
Character: Pops
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.
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Edge of Doom
Title: Edge of Doom
Character: Mr. Swanson
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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The Gunfighter
Title: The Gunfighter
Character: Mr. Barlow (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Sam Coulter
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Madison, Editor (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Song of Surrender
Title: Song of Surrender
Character: Abernathy
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Title: Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Character: Dakota
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?
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The Gal Who Took the West
Title: The Gal Who Took the West
Character: Ted (as old Timer)
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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Masked Raiders
Title: Masked Raiders
Character: Henry Trevett
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
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Take One False Step
Title: Take One False Step
Character: Montgomery Thatcher
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
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Sorrowful Jones
Title: Sorrowful Jones
Character: Doc Chesley
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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Leave It to Henry
Title: Leave It to Henry
Character: Mr. McCluskey
Released: June 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Henry Latham and town Mayor Colton continue their misadventures in Smalltown, America. This time, twelve-year-old David Latham is testifying at the trial of his father, Henry, who is accused of burning down the McCluskey bridge.
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Colorado Territory
Title: Colorado Territory
Character: Prospector
Released: June 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Bride of Vengeance
Title: Bride of Vengeance
Character: Councillor
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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The Walking Hills
Title: The Walking Hills
Character: Mr. King
Released: March 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Junior (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: The Cardinal of Winchester
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Ebenezer
Released: November 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Title: You Gotta Stay Happy
Character: Jud Tavis
Released: October 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
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Moonrise
Title: Moonrise
Character: Uncle Joe Jingle
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
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Apartment for Peggy
Title: Apartment for Peggy
Character: Prof. T.J. Beck
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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Four Faces West
Title: Four Faces West
Character: Anderson
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
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Smart Woman
Title: Smart Woman
Character: Joe Smith
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Captain Sonnenberg
Released: April 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
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Casbah
Title: Casbah
Character: Anton Duval
Released: April 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
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Secret Beyond the Door...
Title: Secret Beyond the Door...
Character: Andy (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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Thunder in the Valley
Title: Thunder in the Valley
Character: Angus MacIvor
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah’s Garfield County. Gwenn is a crusty shepherd whose struggling relationship with his son McCallister is complicated by a predatory animal that is attacking the flocks of local shepherds.
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Dark Passage
Title: Dark Passage
Character: Dr. Walter Coley
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Title: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Character: Passerby at Fairley Residence (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
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Time Out of Mind
Title: Time Out of Mind
Character: George
Released: May 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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Ramrod
Title: Ramrod
Character: George Smedley
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Doctor
Released: March 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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The Brasher Doubloon
Title: The Brasher Doubloon
Character: Elisha Morningstar (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
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Rendezvous with Annie
Title: Rendezvous with Annie
Character: Dr. Grimes (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Little Miss Big
Title: Little Miss Big
Character: Duncan
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
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Happy Land
Title: Happy Land
Character: Sam Watson (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Martin, Parole Board
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Native Land
Title: Native Land
Character: White Sharecropper
Released: May 11, 1942
Type: Movie
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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The Adventurous Blonde
Title: The Adventurous Blonde
Character: Darell (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Mr. Jones - Witness
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Once a Doctor
Title: Once a Doctor
Character: Magistrate Kendrick
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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Isle of Fury
Title: Isle of Fury
Character: The Rector
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.