
Birthday:
11-06-1890
Deathday:
07-15-1956 (65 years)
Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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The Time of Your Life
Act like Tippler
event1948 star_border 5.8
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Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Tobacco Road
event1941 star_border 6.6
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
The Raging Tide
Act like Houlihan (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.2
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A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
We Who Are About to Die
Act like Macy
event1937 star_border 6.8
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John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Desirable
Act like Dan - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7.3
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A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Maybe It's Love
Act like Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Heritage of the Desert
Act like Postmaster John Twerk
event1939 star_border 5.8
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John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
The Return of Doctor X
Act like Newspaper Vendor (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.9
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When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
All the King's Men
Act like Drunk at Football Game (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7
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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.
Top o' the Morning
Act like Dowdler
event1949 star_border 5.8
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A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Act like Skins / Idiot #1 (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.3
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A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Son of a Sailor
Act like Sailor (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5
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A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
The Devil's Saddle Legion
Act like Spooks Wilkins
event1937 star_border 0.5
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Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Act like San Francisco Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
King of the Lumberjacks
Act like 'Cooky', the Camp Cook
event1940 star_border 3
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Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Act like Station Attendant (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.5
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With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Three Men from Texas
Act like Herman
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Sunset Boulevard
Act like Hog-Eye Electrician (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 8.3
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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
It's in the Air
Act like Skinny (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5
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Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
The Purchase Price
Act like Accordion Player Skins (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Act like Sound Effects Man in Grand Hotel Spoof (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 4.2
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Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
You May Be Next!
Act like Man with Duck Act (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 2.5
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Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Arizona Mahoney
Act like Human Bullet Applicant (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
Something to Sing About
Act like Dancer in Drag in 'Deck Number' (as Skins Miller)
event1937 star_border 6.2
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James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
The Merry Widow
Act like Drunken Man (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.7
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A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Central Airport
Act like Hotel Desk Clerk #2 (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.1
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Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Internes Can't Take Money
Act like Weasel (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.4
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Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
Heroes for Sale
Act like Angry Laundry Worker (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7
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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.
Gift of Gab
Act like Stooge (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 1
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Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Act like Man in Irish's Store (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
Every Day's a Holiday
Act like Quartet member
event1937 star_border 5.4
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When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Stand Up and Cheer!
Act like Hill-Billy
event1934 star_border 4.8
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President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Don't Bet on Love
Act like Bigsby (uncredited)
event1933
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A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
San Francisco
Act like Man on Stretcher (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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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.
The Conquerors
Act like Skins (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.7
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A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
Sophie Lang Goes West
Act like Passenger
event1937 star_border 6
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Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Act like Kassel (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5
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A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Devil Pays Off
Act like Flop-House Night Clerk
event1941 star_border 3.3
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A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Coney Island
Act like Drunken Bricklayer
event1943 star_border 5.3
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Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
The Navy Way
Act like Recruit Pop Lacy
event1944 star_border 5.7
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The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
The Jury's Secret
Act like Juror Simms
event1938 star_border 3
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A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Sorrowful Jones
Act like Head Telephone Man (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.1
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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.
Criss Cross
Act like Midget
event1949 star_border 7.1
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An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Lost in a Harem
Act like Sousaphonist (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.5
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Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Johnny Come Lately
Act like Tramp
event1943 star_border 6.7
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Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
The Big Street
Act like Truck Driver (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
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