
Birthday:
09-27-1898
Deathday:
01-03-1958 (59 years)
Birthplace:
Albany, New York, USA
Biography
Charles Williams was born on September 27, 1898 in Albany, New York. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood and Vine (1945) and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). He was married to Isabel and Virginia Josephine Evans. He died on January 3, 1958 in Hollywood, California.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Act like Cousin Eustace
event1946 star_border 8.3
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A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Act like The Pitchman
event1942 star_border 6
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A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
End of the Road
Act like Jordan
event1944 star_border 5.2
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A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Hitchhike to Happiness
Act like Park Magician (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5
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An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Main Street to Broadway
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.5
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In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Strangers of the Evening
Act like 1st Passerby
event1932 star_border 4.8
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Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Undercover Doctor
Act like Pinky Valkus
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
Without Reservations
Act like Louis Burt (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.2
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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.
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Act like Meeker, Burke's Lawyer
event1937 star_border 7
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Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
The Judge
Act like Reporter
event1949 star_border 5.8
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A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
Blossoms On Broadway
event1937 star_border 4
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A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Wedding Present
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Moon Over Manhattan
event1935
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A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
Hip Zip Hooray
event1933 star_border 5
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Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon.
Call of the Canyon
event1942 star_border 7
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A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Fighting Trouble
event1956 star_border 6
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An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Night and Day
Act like Music Store Customer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.7
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When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Those High Grey Walls
Act like Stranger (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Task Force
Act like Luggage Salesman (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7
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After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
Song of the Open Road
Act like Man Saying 'It's a Trick' (uncredited)
event1944
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A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
The Old Homestead
Act like Gabe Waters
event1922
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Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Act like Gabby Marden
event1938 star_border 6.3
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Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
The Mad Genius
Act like Stagehand (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.3
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A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
The Nuisance
Act like Skating Rink Official (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5
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Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Career Girl
Act like Louis Horton
event1944 star_border 5
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Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
The Girl from Monterrey
Act like Harry Hollis
event1943
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Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...
Stand-In
Act like Mr. Mack
event1937 star_border 6.3
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An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
The Magnetic Monster
Act like Cabbie
event1953 star_border 5.6
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The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Little Strength Machine Contestant (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.4
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The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Heading for Heaven
Act like Eddie Williams
event1947 star_border 4.9
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A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
Woman in the Dark
Act like Hotel Desk Clerk
event1934 star_border 6.1
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A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
Queen of Burlesque
Act like Carr, manager of Regent Hotel
event1946
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Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
Amateur Crook
Act like Drunk Witness
event1937 star_border 1
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Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Flying Fists
Act like Meggs, the Reporter
event1937 star_border 5
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A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Act like Agent
event1938 star_border 6.6
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Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Born to Be Wild
Act like Company Spotter
event1938 star_border 7
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Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Act like Mr. Stone
event1946 star_border 4.5
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During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
Little Miss Broadway
Act like Mike Brody
event1938 star_border 6.6
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An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
The Flying Irishman
Act like Car Repo Man
event1939 star_border 4.6
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This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Sleepless Hollow
Act like Doctor (uncredited)
event1936
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Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
Girls' Town
Act like Coffer
event1942
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A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Love and Hisses
Act like Irving Skolsky
event1937
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As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
The Accused
Act like Dorgan's Assistant (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.1
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A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Girl in 313
Act like Henry, Husband
event1940 star_border 5.6
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A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Primrose Path
Act like (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
History Is Made at Night
event1937 star_border 6.6
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An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Women Without Names
Act like Hugh Gilman
event1940 star_border 4.8
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Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Rhythm on the Range
Act like Gopher Mazda
event1936 star_border 4
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Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Gasoline Alley
Act like Mortie
event1951 star_border 5.5
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A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Strictly Unreliable
Act like Billy Freeman - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.5
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Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Vogues of 1938
Act like Customs Man in Fall Show
event1937 star_border 5.3
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
A Very Honorable Guy
Act like Druggist
event1934 star_border 2
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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.
Johnny Apollo
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Whispering Footsteps
Act like Second Bank Teller
event1943 star_border 5.3
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An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
Greenwich Village
Act like Author
event1944 star_border 6
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In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Wife, Husband and Friend
Act like Jaffee
event1939 star_border 6
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Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Wedlock Deadlock
Act like Chester
event1947
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Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
One Thrilling Night
Act like Theatre Manager (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.2
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A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Blue, White, and Perfect
Act like Theodore H. Sherman Jr.- Printer
event1942 star_border 6.3
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In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Lady Chaser
Act like Apartment House Manager
event1946 star_border 6
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A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.
Forgotten Women
Act like Stagehand
event1931
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Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
Kentucky Jubilee
Act like Yes Man
event1951 star_border 5.5
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A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Act like Charlie
event1951 star_border 5
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A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Four Days Wonder
Act like Kasky
event1936
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Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
The Thin Man
Act like Fighter Manager (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7.5
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A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Marked Men
Act like Charlie Sloane
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Days of Jesse James
Act like Northern Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Hazard
Act like Little Motorist (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 8
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A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Act like Jake
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.
Trade Winds
Act like Reporter Jones (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.3
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After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Men with Wings
Act like Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
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Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
It Happened in Hollywood
Act like Hymie - Photographer
event1937 star_border 6.1
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A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Parole, Inc.
Act like Titus Jones
event1948 star_border 4.6
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A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
Lullaby of Broadway
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.8
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Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Espionage
Act like Simmons (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Hollywood Boulevard
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 2.5
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With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Act like Peters (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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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.
The Lady from Cheyenne
Act like Clerk
event1941 star_border 5.2
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Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Call of the Rockies
Act like Burton Witherspoon
event1944 star_border 6
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Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
Love Is News
Act like Joe Brady
event1937 star_border 6
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When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Dance Team
Act like Benny Weber
event1932
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Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing and decide to team up. As “Mulligan & Kirk” they have their highs and lows while falling in love but eventually find enormous success. Their personal relationship, however, hits a few snags on the way to a happy ending.
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Act like Brackett
event1937 star_border 5.9
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Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Gateway
Act like Reporter
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Gambling Ship
Act like Baby Face (Charles T. Pearson Jr.)
event1933 star_border 5.2
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Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
Big Business
Act like Florist Shop Customer
event1937 star_border 5
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A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Grand Ole Opry
Act like Politician (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
The Trespasser
Act like Joe, the stage manager
event1947 star_border 5
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Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
Passkey to Danger
Act like Mr. Williams
event1946
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An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Atlantic City
Act like Chalmers
event1944 star_border 5
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In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Redhead from Manhattan
Act like Box Office Attendant
event1943 star_border 4.7
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Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Sinner Take All
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 4.8
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A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
The Missourians
Act like Postmaster Walt
event1950 star_border 6
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In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
Sabotage
Act like (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Saddle Pals
Act like Leslie
event1947 star_border 5
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Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
Fair Warning
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1937 star_border 6
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In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
The Fleet's In
Act like Photographer
event1942 star_border 7
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Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Sky Racket
Act like Nightclub Entertainer
event1937 star_border 3.3
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A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
Marshal of Amarillo
Act like Hiram Short
event1948
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Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
The Great Man's Lady
Act like Assayer
event1941 star_border 6.3
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In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Act like Juror
event1948 star_border 6
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Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Blondie of the Follies
Act like Lottie's Friend Mr. Kinskey (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
Mr. District Attorney
Act like Detective in Café (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.2
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An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
My Favorite Spy
Act like 3rd Speaker in Park
event1942 star_border 5.2
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The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Act like Mr. Pike
event1944 star_border 4
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A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Time to Kill
Act like Dentist
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Central Airport
Act like Hotel Desk Clerk
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.
The West Side Kid
Act like Reporter
event1943
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Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1988 star_border 6
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Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
The Big Parade of Comedy
Act like Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6.3
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Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Night in New Orleans
Act like Citizen (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4
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A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Identity Unknown
Act like Auctioneer
event1945 star_border 5.8
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A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
Hollywood and Vine
Act like Chick Jones
event1945 star_border 4.4
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A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
The Man Who Walked Alone
Act like Reporter
event1945 star_border 5.5
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A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
The Ice Follies of 1939
Act like Max Morton
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Wake Up and Live
Act like Charlie Alberts, Agent
event1937 star_border 5.3
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Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
A Lawless Street
Act like Mr. Willis (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Act like Secretary
event1943 star_border 5.5
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A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
The Gay Nighties
Act like Timid Man
event1933 star_border 3
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This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Merry Go Round of 1938
Act like Dave Clark
event1937 star_border 5
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Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Act like Doctor (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7
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A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Flying Cadets
Act like Mr. Prim / Primmie, Bookkeeper
event1941 star_border 3
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Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
Scared Stiff
Act like Reporter (Uncredited)
event1945 star_border 4.5
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A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Sadie McKee
Act like Pest in Café (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7
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A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Made on Broadway
Act like Photographer
event1933 star_border 6.5
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A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
Mr. & Mrs. North
(1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 4.3
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Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
The Cisco Kid
Act like Hotel Manager (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
Public Defender
Act like Sam (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 6
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The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
Adventures of Superman
Act like Tim (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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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."
The Abbott and Costello Show
Act like Duncan (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 7.1
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Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
Annie Oakley
Act like Fred (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 5.2
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Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
Topper
Act like Harlon (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars Leo G. Carroll in the title role.
The Gene Autry Show
Act like Reporter Lewis (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 4.2
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The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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