
Birthday:
10-06-1896
Deathday:
12-21-1941 (45 years)
Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Daniel Boone
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event1936 star_border 4.9
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In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
Dude Cowboy
Director
event1941 star_border 6
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A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
The Renegade Ranger
Director
event1938 star_border 5.2
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Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit.
The Lost Jungle
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event1934 star_border 3.4
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Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
There Were Thirteen
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event1931 star_border 6.8
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This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
The Mystery Squadron
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event1933 star_border 6
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Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
The Border Patrolman
Director
event1936 star_border 5.8
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When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
The Marines Are Coming
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event1934 star_border 4.5
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Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
In Old Santa Fe
Director
event1934 star_border 5
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Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Director
event1938 star_border 5.7
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A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Bullet Code
Director
event1940 star_border 5.6
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Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
The Rookie Cop
Director
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
Park Avenue Logger
Director
event1937 star_border 6
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Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
Mystery Ranch
Director
event1932 star_border 6
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Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
The Golden West
Director
event1932 star_border 4
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Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Arizona Legion
Director
event1939 star_border 5
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A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town.
Triple Justice
Director
event1940 star_border 6
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Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Director
event1939 star_border 8
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A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Conflict
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event1936 star_border 2
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Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
O'Malley of the Mounted
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event1936
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O'Malley pretends to be an outlaw in order to join a gang terrorizing towns along the American border.
Thunder Mountain
Director
event1935
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Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.
Painted Desert
Director
event1938 star_border 5.8
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A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.
Border G-Man
Director
event1938 star_border 5
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A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Whispering Smith Speaks
Director
event1935
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O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
Timber Stampede
Director
event1939
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Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
Proud Flesh
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event1925 star_border 6
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The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.
Legion of the Lawless
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event1940 star_border 5.2
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Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
Hard Rock Harrigan
Director
event1935 star_border 3
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The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley. At the center of their conflict is their mutual affection for heroine "Andy" Anderson (Irene Hervey). But when the chips are down and Riley is trapped in a tunnel cave-in, it is Harrigan who comes to the rescue.
Six-Gun Gold
Director
event1941
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Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
Crimson Romance
Director
event1934 star_border 6
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After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
Trouble in Sundown
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event1939
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The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.
Lawless Valley
Director
event1938 star_border 5
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After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
The Mine with the Iron Door
Director
event1936
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Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.
The Last of the Vargas
Director
event1930
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A cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife.
When Love Laughs
Director
event1930
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José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
Common Clay
Director
event1930
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A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
Gun Law
Director
event1938 star_border 4.5
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Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.
The Big Trail
Director
event1930
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A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. Spanish-language version of The Big Trail (1930) with an alternate cast and co-director, filmed simultaneously. Raul Coleman (named Breck Coleman in the U.S. version) leads settlers in covered wagons westward across the great prairie and mountains.
Kidnapped by My Father
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In 1986, Jackie lived through every mother's worst nightmare when her husband abducted her three daughters from their home and took them to Yemen.
The Fighting Gringo
Director
event1939 star_border 6
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A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
Slaves of Fashion
Director
event1931
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A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.
The Rainbow Trail
Director
event1932
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The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Prairie Law
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event1940 star_border 5.5
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Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him. Curry then holds a quick election to change the county seat so he can preside at the trial. But Brill gets the Governor to change it back and this leads to the big shootout between Curry's men and Brill and the ranchers.
Robbers' Roost
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event1932 star_border 5.5
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Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
Smoke Lightning
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event1933 star_border 3.5
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After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.
Back from the Dead
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event2011 star_border 6
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The series uncovers some extraordinary warrior skeletons from history: Samurai, Crusaders and The British Navy. The episodes will unleash the full force of modern forensics upon them: battle scars, bone deformations and recoverable scraps of DNA will all be tested and explored.
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