
Birthday:
09-05-1901
Deathday:
10-24-1945 (44 years)
Birthplace:
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography
A Broadway stage actor, Costello entered films in 1935 and in 1939 was put under contract with MGM. Known for his wicked sense of humor, Costello often times played the role of a menace or a tough guy.
Date of Death 24 October 1945, Hollywood, California
Date of Death 24 October 1945, Hollywood, California
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Johnny Eager
Act like Billiken
event1941 star_border 6.1
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A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Another Thin Man
Act like "Diamond Back" Vogel
event1939 star_border 7.1
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Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
A-Haunting We Will Go
Act like Doc Lake
event1942 star_border 6
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Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Air Raid Wardens
Act like Heydrich
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
The Blue Dahlia
Act like Leo
event1946 star_border 6.6
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Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
The Red Dragon
Act like Charles Masack
event1945 star_border 6.1
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Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Act like Lefty
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Texas Masquerade
Act like Ace Maxson
event1944
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A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
Mystery Man
Act like Bud Trilling
event1944 star_border 4
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Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
Along Came Jones
Act like Leo Gledhill
event1945 star_border 5.8
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An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Whistling in the Dark
Act like 'Noose' Green
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Crime Doctor
Act like Nick Ferris / Jim Warren
event1943 star_border 6.2
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Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
A Night to Remember
Act like Eddie Turner
event1942 star_border 6.5
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A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Unholy Partners
Act like Georgie Pelotti
event1941 star_border 7
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A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
Sleepers West
Act like Carl Izzard
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Just Off Broadway
Act like George Dolphin
event1942 star_border 5
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Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Truck Busters
Act like Anthony 'Tony' Bonetti
event1943 star_border 6
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An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
I'll Wait for You
Act like Police Sergeant Brent
event1941 star_border 6.8
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A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Murder on the Waterfront
Act like Gordon Shane
event1943 star_border 5
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A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
Wildcat Bus
Act like Sid Casey
event1940 star_border 4.6
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A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Ride on Vaquero
Act like Redge
event1941 star_border 4.2
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The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
Last of the Duanes
Act like Jim Bland
event1941 star_border 6
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Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Crime of the Century
Act like Joe, Bartender
event1946 star_border 5
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Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
Hot News Margie
Act like Football Player (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6
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Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.
Joe Smith, American
Act like Mead
event1942 star_border 5.7
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Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
The Whistler
Act like Lefty Vigran aka Gorss (Uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.9
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A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
Great Stagecoach Robbery
Act like Jed Quinlan
event1945
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In this western, Red Ryder tries to be a good example for a young man who idolizes his father, an outlaw. The boy wants to follow in his father's footsteps when the hero intervenes.
Marshal of Laredo
Act like Henchman Pretty Boy Murphy
event1945
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Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Laredo. This time, Red comes to the aid of a frontier lawyer, who is suspected of being an outlaw
Sundown Jim
Act like Dobe Hyde
event1942
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US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
A Lady Takes a Chance
Act like Drunk
event1943 star_border 5.7
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A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Incendiary Blonde
Act like Gus Vettori (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.1
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Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
One Crowded Night
Act like Lefty
event1940 star_border 4
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The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Follow That Woman
Act like Nick
event1945 star_border 6
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A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Act like Fred
event1939 star_border 2
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Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Here Come the Co-eds
Act like Diamond (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.6
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Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
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