
Birthday:
03-08-1897
Deathday:
12-02-1970 (73 years)
Birthplace:
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography
Edmund Joseph Flaherty (March 8, 1897 – December 2, 1970) was an American film actor who appeared in about 200 films.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Act like Deputy (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.8
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Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
The Thin Man
Act like Fighter at Party (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.
A Star Is Born
Act like Cuddles (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.1
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Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
The Lemon Drop Kid
Act like Police Captain Swain (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Act like Sunset High Coach (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.9
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Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
My Man Godfrey
Act like Mike Flaherty
event1936 star_border 7.6
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Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
All My Sons
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.2
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During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Only Angels Have Wings
Act like Mike
event1939 star_border 7.3
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A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Something in the Wind
Act like Cop at Desk (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Blondie's Hero
Act like Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.3
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Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Sergeant York
Act like Sergeant Harry Parsons
event1941 star_border 7.2
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Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Tea for Two
event1950 star_border 6
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In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Highway West
Act like Eddie, Motorcycle Cop
event1941 star_border 5.8
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A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Storm Warning
Act like Walker (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Pigskin Parade
Act like Referee (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
Pardon My Stripes
Act like Coach (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6
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Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Two Tickets to London
Act like Mulvaney (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6
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Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Flight Command
Act like 2nd Duty Officer
event1940 star_border 5.4
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A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
The Big Guy
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1939
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A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Convict's Code
Act like Sniffy Johnson
event1939 star_border 6.5
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On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
Love Before Breakfast
Act like Bouncer (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Forsaking All Others
Act like Turkish Bath Attendant (Uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.4
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A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
O. Henry's Full House
Act like Irish Cop (Prologue) (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.5
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Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Harvey
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.7
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The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
San Quentin
Act like Cop Clearing May (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
The Petty Girl
Act like Policeman #2 (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 4.1
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An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Yankee Ballplayer (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.
Air Hawks
Act like Frank Dunlap
event1935 star_border 5.6
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A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
Shadow of Doubt
Act like Peters - Taxi Driver
event1935 star_border 6.2
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When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Telephone Operator
Act like Tom Sommers
event1937 star_border 4.7
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A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
Boys' Reformatory
Act like Mr. Barnes
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Police Guard at Courtroom Entrance (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Always in Trouble
Act like Gideon Stubbs
event1938 star_border 6
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Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Three Little Words
Act like Coach (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
Where There's Life
Act like Joe O'Brien (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.6
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In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
Merrily We Live
Act like Pat
event1938 star_border 7.1
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Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Act like (archive footage)
event1984 star_border 10
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Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Act like Ace Cummings
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.
She's Got Everything
Act like Van Driver (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.3
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The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Call of the Wild
Act like Dandy on Street (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
On Again—Off Again
Act like Mr. Green
event1937 star_border 7
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This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Twentieth Century
Act like Flannigan (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Roseanna McCoy
Act like Joe McCoy (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.1
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It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
Miracle on Main Street
Act like Detective
event1939 star_border 5.4
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On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
China Seas
Act like Second Officer Kingston (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
The Asphalt Jungle
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.5
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Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Tell No Tales
Act like Printer (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Detective Story
Act like Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 7
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Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Navy Blue and Gold
Act like Coach of Southern Institute
event1937 star_border 5.9
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Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
Dodge City
Act like Cowhand (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.9
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In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Kid Nightingale
Act like Soxey - Tavern Owner (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Gentleman Jim
Act like Harry Corbett
event1942 star_border 7.2
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As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Act like Detective
event1939 star_border 3.5
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A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
She Loved a Fireman
Act like Duggan
event1937 star_border 6
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A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
After Office Hours
Act like Police Guard at Gate (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
Angel and the Badman
Act like Baker Brother (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.4
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Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Act like Customer in Bar Who Warns Curtin and Dobbs about Pat McCormick (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 8
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Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.7
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When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
The Great Dictator
Act like Friendly Storm Trooper (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 8.3
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Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Ball of Fire
Act like Deputy (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.4
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A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
It Happened in Flatbush
Act like Pat O'Hara - Pitcher
event1942 star_border 4.8
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A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
His Girl Friday
Act like Frank the Policeman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.4
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Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
April Showers
Act like Mike (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6
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A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Act like Crusher's Handler
event1939 star_border 6
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Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
The Good Humor Man
Act like Officer Rhodes
event1950 star_border 6
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Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Pat and Mike
Act like Golf Course Commentator (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.3
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Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Jungle Gents
Act like Police Officer Flaherty
event1954 star_border 4
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When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.
Key Largo
Act like The Traveler (first Ziggy henchman) (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7.5
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A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Act like Churchill
event1935 star_border 7.4
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Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Boom Town
Act like Man at Dice Table (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Off Limits
Act like Military Policeman (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.8
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Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.
Code of the Streets
Act like Visiting Guest
event1939 star_border 7
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Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
The Red House
Act like Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.2
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An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
City for Conquest
Act like Dance Floor Guard (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
My Son, My Son!
Act like Joe Baxter
event1940 star_border 4.3
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A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Kitty Foyle
Act like Police Sergeant (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Angels in the Outfield
Act like Boston Braves Manager (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.7
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The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
Castle on the Hudson
Act like Stretcher Attendant (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
They Drive by Night
Act like Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
And One Was Beautiful
Act like Visitor's Room Guard
event1940 star_border 6.2
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A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
Midnight Limited
Act like Train Conductor
event1940 star_border 5
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The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
Black Diamonds
Act like Johnson
event1940
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A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
Sons o' Guns
Act like Apache Dancer
event1936 star_border 4.3
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Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
The Last Crooked Mile
Act like Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 4.7
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A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Act like Sergeant Moore
event1943 star_border 5.8
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A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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.....
Submarine D-1
Act like Louie - Disagreeable Bluejacket at Panama
event1937 star_border 4.7
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Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
Dead Men Tell
Act like Policeman with Checklist at Debarking
event1941 star_border 6.3
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When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Modern Times
Act like Jail Guard (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 8.3
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A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
About Face
Act like Sailor (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
The Main Event
Act like Moran
event1938
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FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
My Favorite Spy
Act like Last Recruit Smelling Gas
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).
Captains of the Clouds
Act like Drill Sergeant
event1942 star_border 6.5
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Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Act like Salvage Foreman (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7.8
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It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Off the Record
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
The Cobra Strikes
Act like Atlas Kilroy
event1948 star_border 5
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A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Act like Sgt. Lewis (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7
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A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Meet John Doe
Act like Mike (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.3
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As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Flying Hostess
Act like 2nd Detective
event1936
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The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Act like Job Maggot
event1952 star_border 5.9
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Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Affectionately Yours
Act like Harmon
event1941 star_border 4.8
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A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Act like Pat
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
Stage Door Canteen
Act like Dubious Army Sergeant (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.1
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A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Home Sweet Homicide
Act like Policeman Murphy
event1946 star_border 4.7
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Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Joy of Living
Act like Autograph Hound Punched by Dan (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
'G' Men
Act like Cop with Farrell (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.6
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James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Bright Leaf
Act like Farmer (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Million Dollar Ransom
Act like Friend in Nightclub (Uncredited)
event1934
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To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Woman-Wise
Act like Duke Fuller
event1937
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A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Hit the Ice
Act like Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.9
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After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
The Desperate Hours
Act like Dutch
event1955 star_border 7
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Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Nocturne
Act like Flannagan, Cop with Susan
event1946 star_border 5.7
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In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
The Noose Hangs High
Act like Tough Driver (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
The Jackie Robinson Story
Act like Karpen
event1950 star_border 6.4
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Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
The Babe Ruth Story
Act like Bill Carrigan, Red Sox Manager
event1948 star_border 5.8
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The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
Trouble for Two
Act like Ship's Officer (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
Invisible Stripes
Act like Worker (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Saboteur
Act like George - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
Naughty Marietta
Act like Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.1
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In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Hold 'Em Navy
Act like Coach Hanley
event1937 star_border 3
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Two football players fight over the same girl.
The Racket
Act like Car 43 Policeman (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.3
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The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
Fly By Night
Act like Taxi Driver at Station (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
The Stratton Story
Act like Western Manager
event1949 star_border 6.7
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Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
Step by Step
Act like Motorcycle Cop #1
event1946 star_border 6.2
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Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
Legion of Lost Flyers
Act like Sam Bradford
event1939 star_border 4
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A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
It's a Great Feeling
Act like Charlie, Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.9
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A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
The Luckiest Girl in the World
Act like Finnigan
event1936 star_border 7.5
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A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Parnell
Act like Parliament Member Parnell Socks
event1937 star_border 4.6
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Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
The Abbott and Costello Show
Act like Jail Guard (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.
Public Defender
Act like Lt. Burrows (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.
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Act like The Store Detective (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
The Life Of Riley
Act like Watchman (2 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
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