Sumner Getchell

Sumner Getchell

Born: October 20, 1906
Died: September 21, 1990
in Oakland, California, USA

Movies for Sumner Getchell...

Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Lieutenant Cord
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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Bannerline
Title: Bannerline
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
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Chain of Circumstance
Title: Chain of Circumstance
Character: Fred Martindale
Released: August 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Rancher
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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Insurance Investigator
Title: Insurance Investigator
Character: Insurance Agent
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
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Union Station
Title: Union Station
Character: Police Car Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Title: The Fuller Brush Girl
Character: Magazine Salesman (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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No Sad Songs for Me
Title: No Sad Songs for Me
Character: George Spears (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
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Perfect Strangers
Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: John Simon
Released: March 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: John Larrimore (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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The Crooked Way
Title: The Crooked Way
Released: April 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: Georgie
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Harvey Cushman--Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
Title: Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
Character: Tank Tinker
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Title: The Diary of a Chambermaid
Character: Pierre (Uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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Remedy for Riches
Title: Remedy for Riches
Character: First Hotel Clerk
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Fat Boy
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Wedding Celebrant
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: 'Blimpy'
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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There Goes the Groom
Title: There Goes the Groom
Character: Billy Rapp
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Harry
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Fat Boy Tourist
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Circus Shadows
Title: Circus Shadows
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.
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The Spectacle Maker
Title: The Spectacle Maker
Character: The Lens Buyer
Released: September 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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Desirable
Title: Desirable
Character: Frederick
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Harry
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Clark & McCullough hired to save love as the Judge refuses to marry Fanny Bender and Fanny refuses her daughter to marry the Judge's son unless the Judge marries her.
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That's My Boy
Title: That's My Boy
Character: Carl
Released: November 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
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Vanity Street
Title: Vanity Street
Character: Scottie (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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You're Telling Me
Title: You're Telling Me
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Emil
Released: May 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Whiskers
Released: October 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus. Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy's father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield's campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown's famous "Yeeeeowww" was heard -- but certainly not the last).
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Character: Paul
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Schoolmates
Title: Schoolmates
Released: April 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Judy (Ann Christy), dresses as a boy in order to attend the ceremony where "Cudgie" (Sumner Getchell) is being inducted into a fraternity at the college. The sign over the door at the fraternity has been moved, to fool her, to a building where, unknown to the frat boys, a notorious criminal is hiding.
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Steeplechase
Title: Steeplechase
Released: January 6, 1930
Type: Movie
This entry of Universal's Sporting Youth series goes to the racetrack. The father of Cudgie (Sumner Getchell) has a horse entered in the Big Steeplechase. Judy (Ann Christy, Cudgie's girlfriend, learns that the jockey has taken a bride to throw the race, so she replaces him and wins the stock-footage race from a Universal feature film.
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College Love
Title: College Love
Character: Fat
Released: July 7, 1929
Type: Movie
college love movie
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New Year's Eve
Title: New Year's Eve
Character: Edward's Friend
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishes at home. She runs into rich gambler Larry Harmon and rejects his overtures. She later finds a wallet with 10 $100 bills belonging to Edward Warren.
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The Flying Fleet
Title: The Flying Fleet
Character: Kewpie (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
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The College Widow
Title: The College Widow
Character: Jimmie Hopper
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, the professor's beautiful daughter, uses her personal charm to draw noted football stars from neighboring schools by a series of ruses at a vacationing spot. Billy Bolton, son of a financial magnate, falls for Jane and to prove himself registers under another name and works his way through school, attaining scholastic and athletic honors. Through the jealousy of another girl, Billy learns of Jane's trickery and persuades the athletes not to play;
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Flashing Oars
Title: Flashing Oars
Character: Fat
Released: February 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Series #1, Episode #9 of The Collegians with the main focus on rowing and clubbing.
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The Cinder Path
Title: The Cinder Path
Character: Fat
Released: February 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Series #1, Episode #8 of The Collegians.
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The Relay
Title: The Relay
Character: Fat
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
When the freshman girls beat the sophomore girls in the big relay race, the 'Frosh' start lording it over the 'Sophs.' Will the 'Sophs' take that kind of treatment? Not a chance!
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The Last Lap
Title: The Last Lap
Character: Freshmen Cheer Leader
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Series #1, Episode #4 of The Collegians.