Birthday:
12-11-1910
Deathday:
01-27-1972 (61 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
David McMahon was born on December 11, 1910 in New York City, New York. He was an actor, known for The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), Patty (1962) and It Conquered the World (1956). He was married to Dorothea McMenamin. He died on January 27, 1972 in Pasadena, California.
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Captain Fathom
Act like Duncan
event1955
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While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a huge bomb lying on the ocean bottom. While Fathom fastens an explosive to destroy the atomic device, his ship is attacked by an enemy submarine. He orders the vessel to flee leaving the Captain and his team of scuba divers behind with a dwindling supply of oxygen in their tanks.
Adam's Rib
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.1
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A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
The Scarf
Act like State Trooper
event1951 star_border 5.7
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A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Something in the Wind
Act like Nolan (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.
Bannerline
event1951 star_border 6
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A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
The Case of Patty Smith
Act like Father O'Brien
event1962
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Poor pretty Patty. An "average American girl," she goes on a quiet date with her boyfriend and ends up getting raped by three psychotic thugs. Too embarrassed to report it to the police and advised by her boyfriend to "forget the whole thing".
Storm Warning
Act like Hollis (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.
The Bonnie Parker Story
Act like Frank - Missouri Deputy (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 4.6
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In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
I Died a Thousand Times
Act like Auto Court Owner (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.1
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After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Best of the Badmen
Act like Ed Perk (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.5
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After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
event1951 star_border 6.4
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A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
The FBI Story
Act like Klansman (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 6.1
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A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
O. Henry's Full House
Act like Cop (segment "The Clarion Call") (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".
The Peacemaker
Act like Sam Davis
event1956 star_border 3.7
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A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.
Cry Danger
Act like Trailer Park Officer (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.7
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After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Act like Barney the Bartender (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.1
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Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Don't Bother to Knock
Act like Uniformed Cop at End (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.6
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An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
Party Girl
Act like Jail Guard (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.8
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Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Operation Mad Ball
Act like MSgt. Pringle (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.4
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In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
The Enforcer
event1951 star_border 7.1
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After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
Dance with Me, Henry
Act like Savoldi (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 5.1
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Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.
It Conquered the World
Act like Gen. Carpenter
event1956 star_border 4.8
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An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Act like Col. Ainsley (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Rebel Without a Cause
Act like Crunch's Father (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 7.5
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After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
The Deadly Mantis
Act like Capt. Frank Carver
event1957 star_border 4.9
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A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Glory Alley
Act like Frank, the Policeman
event1952 star_border 5.8
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A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
I Was a Male War Bride
Act like Army Chaplain (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.9
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After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Birdman of Alcatraz
Act like Inmate (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 7.5
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After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
The Creature Walks Among Us
Act like Capt. Stanley
event1956 star_border 5.3
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Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Act like Harrington (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.2
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A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
The Great Sinner
Act like Station master (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.7
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A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Off Limits
Act like Shore Patrolman (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.
The Monster That Challenged the World
Act like Patterson
event1957 star_border 5.6
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Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Hazard
Act like Bailiff (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.
The Spirit of St. Louis
Act like Lane (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.6
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Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Let's Do It Again
Act like Nightclub Doorman (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 4
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Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
The Sainted Sisters
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7
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Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
Peggy
Act like Cab Driver
event1950 star_border 4.7
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Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
The Thing from Another World
Act like Gen. Fogarty
event1951 star_border 6.7
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Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Roadblock
Act like Police Radio Operator (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.8
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An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
The Lover
Act like Bob
event2016
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An old lover gentleman, Joe receives a ride in order to go back home on time for his perfect wedding anniversary from a good Samaritan, Bob who turns out to be an undercover police officer. Joe enjoys the day with his lover, until Bob fixes and brings him back the car, but he is the last one Joe wants to see at his door. What is Joe hiding? Bob is truly concerned, but his concern could turn Joe's whole life upside down.
Pitfall
Act like Police Lieutenant
event1948 star_border 6.9
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An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
The Breaking Point
Act like Coast Guardsman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.1
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A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Mystery Street
Act like Detective Garrity (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.7
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When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Bus Stop
Act like Ticket Taker at Bus (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.1
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Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Darling, How Could You!
Act like Lieutenant (Uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6
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Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
The War of the Worlds
Act like Minister, First Church (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.8
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The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Top of the World
Act like Brownie
event1955 star_border 6.3
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A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska.
Cowboy
Act like Cattle Buyer
event1958 star_border 6.4
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Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Maverick
Act like Sheriff (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.8
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The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
Wagon Train
Act like Wagon Train Member (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.
The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Mr. Barnes (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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