
Birthday:
04-05-1889
Deathday:
05-17-1947 (58 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Ben Taggart was an American stage and screen actor, his film career spanning the years 1915 to 1945.
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Monkey Business
Act like Capt. Corcoran (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7
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Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
The Overland Express
Act like Postal Agent Adams
event1938
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It's 1861 and Buck gets the business men of Sacramento to establish the Pony express. Hawley runs the stage line over the same route and has the U. S. mail contract. When it looks like the Pony Express will be awarded the mail contract, he gives guns to the Indians and has them attack both the riders and the stations.
Silence
Act like Alderman Conners
event1931 star_border 7.5
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A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Neighborhood House
Act like Cop
event1936
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Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Escape from Crime
Act like Warden Kirby
event1942 star_border 5.2
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An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Act like Severn
event1940
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The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!
She
Act like Leo Vincey
event1917 star_border 6
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A centuries-lasting relationship between Ayesha and her oft-reincarnated true love. She, H. Rider Haggard's fanciful novel about the immortal queen of a lost tribe, has been filmed at least 10 times, with seven versions emerging between the years 1910 and 1930. A lost film.
The Mayor of Hell
Act like Sheriff (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.1
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Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Under Eighteen
Act like Detective French (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
The Big Guy
Act like Owner of Station (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.
I'll Say She Is
Act like Mr. Lee, Theatrical Agent
event1931 star_border 5.2
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In the office of Mr. Lee, a talent agent, Zeppo bursts through the door, proclaiming to be a great musical actor. He gives a terrible impression of Maurice Chevallier. Chico arrives, also proclaiming to be a great musical talent, and gives an even worse impression of the same musical act. This is followed by Groucho and finally Harpo, all adding to the growing confusion in the office.
Youth on Parole
Act like Convict (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 3.2
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Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
Michael O'Halloran
Act like Officer Reardon (uncredited)
event1937
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A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
A Tragedy at Midnight
Act like Cop (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4
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The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Conductor (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.
Wives Under Suspicion
Act like Fred - Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.4
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A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Nobody's Children
Act like Mr. Millar
event1940
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A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Act like Dixon
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Topper Takes a Trip
Act like Policeman in Bank (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.4
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Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
Souls at Sea
Act like Ship's Officer (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6
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Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
The House That Shadows Built
Act like Mr. Lee, Theatrical Agent
event1931 star_border 7
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The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
The Women Men Marry
Act like Lieutenant Haggerty (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Before I Hang
Act like Warden Thompson
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Rattling Romeo
Act like J. Banning Buttle
event1939
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Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
Slightly Static
Act like Mr. Sidney, Manager of Radio Station (uncredited)
event1935
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Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Hold That Kiss
Act like Apartment Doorman
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Act like Rancher
event1936 star_border 4.7
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In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Tell No Tales
Act like Police Lieutenant (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.
So This Is Washington
Act like Senator Vickers (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 4.8
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Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
Men Without Names
Act like Police Lieutenant
event1935 star_border 6
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A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Stolen Harmony
Act like Sergeant / Cop at Motel (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
The Man Who Returned to Life
Act like Horace Turner
event1942 star_border 6
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An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
The Saint Strikes Back
Act like New York Detective Vance (Uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Act like Policeman
event1939 star_border 5.5
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The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Pompous Man (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Sailor's Holiday
event1944
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In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
Sergeant Madden
Act like Detective
event1939 star_border 6
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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Act like Policeman
event1939 star_border 3.5
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A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Man-Made Monster
Act like Detective Sergeant Regan
event1941 star_border 6.1
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Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
The Wildcat of Tucson
Act like Judge John Barlow
event1940
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When his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged with attempted murder when the other man drew first. Judge Barlow put him there and Bill gets the Judge to confess. Bill learns that Rance McKee is behind all the trouble and he forces the Judge into the decisions he wants. So Bill heads out by himself to face McKee in the showdown.
Among the Missing
Act like Officer Flannagan
event1934 star_border 6.5
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Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
Fast Workers
Act like Millie's Dance Partner (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.3
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Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Horse Feathers
Act like Police Officer (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
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Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
The Green Hornet
Act like Phil Bartlett
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
The Thin Man
Act like Police Captain (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.
Amateur Daddy
Act like Deputy Sheriff
event1932
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Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
Babies for Sale
Act like Police Sgt. Mike Burke
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
The Medico of Painted Springs
Act like John Richards
event1941
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Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe. Riding into a small town, Dr. Monroe finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.
Cowboy Canteen
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1944
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Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley. Steve is about to enter the army and he and Tex Coulter compete for the love of Connie Grey.
Mystery Sea Raider
Act like Cop
event1940 star_border 3
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June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
Junior G-Men
Act like Severn
event1940 star_border 6.1
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A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Act like General Lupi (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.6
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A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
Gabriel Over the White House
Act like Cabinet Member (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.1
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A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Afraid to Talk
Act like Detective Burke (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Strangers in Love
Act like Crenshaw
event1932 star_border 5.1
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Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
No Time for Love
event1943 star_border 6.7
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An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Hold Your Man
Act like Policeman at Reformatory (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.1
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Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
From Headquarters
Act like Third-Degree Detective (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
One Mysterious Night
Act like Traffic Cop (Uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6
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After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
The Fighting Seabees
Act like Aircraft Carrier Captain (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.2
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Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Alias Boston Blackie
Act like Warden
event1942 star_border 5.5
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It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Act like Train Conductor
event1941 star_border 6
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A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
Three Girls About Town
Act like Doorman
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Overland Mail
Act like Lamont [Chs. 7-8]
event1942
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Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Carnival
Act like Policeman
event1935
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"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
The Miracle Kid
Act like J. Hamilton Gibbs
event1941 star_border 5
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A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
The Spoilers
Act like Banker (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.2
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When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
Don Winslow of the Navy
Act like John Blake
event1942
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A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
San Francisco
Act like Cop (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
S.O.S Tidal Wave
event1939 star_border 5.7
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A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
I Stole a Million
Act like Police Guard at Hospital (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Double Alibi
Act like Policeman
event1940 star_border 4.5
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A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
The Remarkable Andrew
Act like Bailiff
event1942 star_border 8.2
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When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Harmon of Michigan
Act like Mr. Davis
event1941
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A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Million Dollar Legs
Act like Ship's Captain (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Act like Capt. Thomson
event1934 star_border 6
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After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.
The Fixer
Act like Mr. William Fowler
event1915 star_border 4
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When Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor dinner. And the dinner degenerated into a quiet game with sugar for dice until constable Zack arrived with sleuths galore and landed them everyone safe and sound in the local calaboose. This was an early five-reeler that featured the famous George Bickel and Harry Watson duo.
The Perfect Set-Up
Act like Police Detective (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
Something to Shout About
Act like Train Conductor
event1943 star_border 5.8
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A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
The Public Pays
Act like Chief's Assistant (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7
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In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
Mission to Moscow
Act like Guest at Davies' Speech (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Faithless
Act like Officer Clancy
event1932 star_border 6.8
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Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Act like Postal Inspector
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.
The Jury's Secret
Act like Jenkins
event1938 star_border 3
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A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
The Chaser
Act like Policeman Reading Law to Motorman
event1938 star_border 6
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
The Durango Kid
Act like Flynn (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
Newly Rich
Act like Mr. Black (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 3
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Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
A Criminal Is Born
Act like First Shooting Victim
event1938 star_border 7.5
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An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Central Park
Act like Policeman Mike (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.2
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Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Shoot the Works
Act like Detective
event1934 star_border 5
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The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
Oh Boy!
Act like Charles Hartley
event1919
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Oh Boy! 1919 film
The Ghost Comes Home
Act like Tim Leary (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5
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Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Hard Guy
Act like Ben Sherwood
event1941 star_border 5
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Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.
The Sentimental Lady
Act like Tom Woodbury
event1915
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When he wasn't churning out "Curses, foiled again!" melodramas, playwright Owen Davis Sr. specialized in such social dramas as The Sentimental Lady. Irene Fenwick stars as Amy Cary, who has invested her life savings in a utility stock. Amy's fiance Norman Van Aulsten (John Davidson) is saddled with a crooked father (Thomas McGrath), whose Wall Street shenanigans threaten to wipe out Amy and the rest of the stockholders. Fortunately, crusading attorney Bob Nelson (Jack Devereaux) manages to prevent this financial catastrophe.
Vagabond Lady
Act like Hotel Detective (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.2
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Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
King of Chinatown
Act like Henchman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.8
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A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
The Face Behind the Mask
Act like Burn Treatment Doctor (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.5
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A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
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