
Birthday:
02-27-1903
Deathday:
05-26-1959 (56 years)
Birthplace:
Chester County, Tennessee, USA
Biography
Joe Gilbert was an American actor who starred in hundreds of movies and shows but in largely uncredited roles.
Read morearrow_drop_down
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
The Blue Dahlia
Act like Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
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 Mask of Dimitrios
Act like Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
top_panel_open
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Experiment Perilous
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Act like Cafe Patron (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
The Yellow Mountain
Act like (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.1
top_panel_open
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.
Phantom Lady
Act like Attendant (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
top_panel_open
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
The Stooge
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
Broken Lance
Act like Juror (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
The Garment Jungle
Act like Buyer (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
The Tattered Dress
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
The Lady Gambles
Act like Stickman (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6
top_panel_open
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Act like Ship Passenger (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Pot o' Gold
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Backfire
Act like Fight Fan (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Nazi Agent
Act like Submarine Radioman (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Wells Fargo
Act like Practical Telegraph Operator
event1937 star_border 5.1
top_panel_open
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
The Phantom of 42nd Street
Act like Theatre Patron (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 4.5
top_panel_open
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
A Star Is Born
Act like Audience Member (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Union Pacific
Act like Telegrapher (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Roaring City
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
In the Good Old Summertime
Act like Supper Club Patron (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
Trapped
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
Love Affair
Act like Theatre Patron
event1939 star_border 7
top_panel_open
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Race Street
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
The Payoff
Act like Gambling House Patron (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Monsieur Verdoux
Act like Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Our Relations
Act like Pirates Club Patron (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Rhapsody in Blue
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Nora Prentiss
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
The Farmer's Daughter
Act like Announcer (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Lured
Act like Concertgoer (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Jungle Goddess
Act like Bar Patron (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 2.6
top_panel_open
When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.
Hellzapoppin'
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Witness for the Prosecution
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 8.2
top_panel_open
An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Alice Adams
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Act like Court Clerk (uncredited)
event1948
top_panel_open
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Holiday Inn
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7
top_panel_open
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
The Milky Way
Act like Todd Fight Spectator (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.3
top_panel_open
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Holy Matrimony
Act like Spectator (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Jailhouse Rock
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
A Stolen Life
Act like Wedding Reception Guest (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Dead Reckoning
Act like Croupier (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
White Christmas
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
The Star
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen, and one-time professional colleague Jim Johannsen, Margaret remains convinced that she can regain her former glory. As she sets her sights on a coveted Hollywood role, Johannsen tries doggedly to get his unrequited love to see the folly of her ways.
Someone to Remember
Act like Club Patron (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7
top_panel_open
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
Carrie
Act like Bar Patron (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
Houdini
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
Out of the Past
Act like Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
The Palm Beach Story
Act like Store Employee (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7
top_panel_open
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
State of the Union
Act like Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
The Crime Doctor's Warning
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
City for Conquest
Act like Concert Spectator (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
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?
Around the World in Eighty Days
Act like Extra (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Act like Train Passenger (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5
top_panel_open
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Act like Cafe Patron
event1943 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
Walk Softly, Stranger
Act like Gambler (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5
top_panel_open
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
The Big Sleep
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7.6
top_panel_open
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Hold That Ghost
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
The Naughty Nineties
Act like Dealer (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
I Married a Witch
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Romance on the High Seas
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Reunion in France
Act like Citizen (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
The Ghost Comes Home
Act like Club Patron (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5
top_panel_open
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 5
top_panel_open
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Flying with Music
Act like Club Patron
event1942 star_border 3.2
top_panel_open
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with several pretty young ladies. Marjorie Woodworth plays the girl who helps Marshall in his escape, pausing occasionally to participate in a some lively but forgettable musical numbers.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Club Patron (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
top_panel_open
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down