
Birthday:
10-10-1884
Deathday:
02-14-1967 (82 years)
Birthplace:
Hamburg, Germany
Biography
Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypical Teutonic officials or villains. Ruman made his film debut in Lucky Boy (1929).
He became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and A Night in Casablanca. His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers.
During this period, he also appeared in several films by director Ernst Lubitsch including Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be. Ruman continued playing over-the-top German characters later in his career for Billy Wilder in The Emperor Waltz, Stalag 17, and The Fortune Cookie.
He became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and A Night in Casablanca. His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers.
During this period, he also appeared in several films by director Ernst Lubitsch including Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be. Ruman continued playing over-the-top German characters later in his career for Billy Wilder in The Emperor Waltz, Stalag 17, and The Fortune Cookie.
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The Last of the Secret Agents?
Act like Prof. Werner von Koenig
event1966 star_border 3.3
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Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.
To Be or Not to Be
Act like Col. Ehrhardt
event1942 star_border 7.8
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During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Stalag 17
Act like Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz
event1953 star_border 7.7
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It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
House of Frankenstein
Act like Burgomeister Hussman
event1944 star_border 6
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Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Ninotchka
Act like Comrade Iranoff
event1939 star_border 7.5
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A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
It Happened Tomorrow
Act like Mr. Beckstein
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
The Great Waltz
Act like Wertheimer
event1938 star_border 5.6
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Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Love Crazy
Act like Dr. Wuthering
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
The Princess Comes Across
Act like Steindorf
event1936 star_border 6.1
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A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
A Day at the Races
Act like Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg
event1937 star_border 7.1
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Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Comrade X
Act like Emil Von Hofer
event1940 star_border 5.8
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An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
A Night in Casablanca
Act like Count Pfefferman / Heinrich Stubel
event1946 star_border 6.8
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The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Border Incident
Act like Hugo Wolfgang Ulrich
event1949 star_border 6.8
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The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Act like Van Cleve
event1940 star_border 4
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Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.
Crossroads
Act like Dr. Alex Dubroc
event1942 star_border 5.9
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A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Houdini
Act like Schultz
event1953 star_border 6.5
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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.
Nothing Sacred
Act like Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer
event1937 star_border 6.2
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When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
That Uncertain Feeling
Act like Kafka (as Sig Rumann)
event1941 star_border 6.6
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A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
Only Angels Have Wings
Act like Dutchy
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.
36 Hours
Act like German Guard
event1964 star_border 6.9
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Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
A Night at the Opera
Act like Gottlieb
event1935 star_border 7.4
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The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Thin Ice
Act like Prime Minister
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
3 Ring Circus
Act like Fritz Schlitz
event1954 star_border 5.5
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Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.
The Wings of Eagles
Act like Manager
event1957 star_border 6.2
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The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
The Glenn Miller Story
Act like W. Kranz
event1954 star_border 6.9
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A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
The Saint in New York
Act like Hutch Rellin
event1938 star_border 6.2
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A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Act like Heinrich, Spy Leader
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
Summer Storm
Act like Kuzma
event1944 star_border 5.1
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It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Many Rivers to Cross
Act like Spectacle Man
event1955 star_border 6.2
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Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
China Girl
Act like Jarubi
event1942 star_border 5.4
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Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
Government Girl
Act like Ambassador
event1943 star_border 5.2
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An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Tarzan Triumphs
Act like Sergeant
event1943 star_border 6.1
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Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth. Tarzan, the isolationist, becomes involved after the Nazis shoot at him and capture Boy: "Now Tarzan make war!"
The World in His Arms
Act like General Ivan Vorashilov
event1952 star_border 6.5
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A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
The Wagons Roll at Night
Act like Hoffman the Great
event1941 star_border 6.4
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An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Act like Nicolas Marloff
event1937 star_border 6.1
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When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, glittering gems and deadly assassins. Making his way from the mysterious streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to the dark and dangerous alleys of Shanghai, Mr. Moto will stop at nothing to bring the culprits to justice...even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice!
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Act like Colonel Tchernov
event1937 star_border 6.3
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Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Act like Dr. Hans Wolfert
event1940 star_border 6.3
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True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Mother Wore Tights
Act like Papa
event1947 star_border 5.3
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In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1972 star_border 6
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A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Lancer Spy
Act like Lt. Col. Gottfried Hollen
event1937 star_border 6
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An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Four Sons
Act like Newmann
event1940 star_border 7
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Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
Never Say Die
Act like Poppa Ingleborg
event1939 star_border 6.8
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Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Carolina Cannonball
Act like Stefan
event1955
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Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. When the trolley breaks down, Judy and Grandpa unwittingly install the engine from the nearby crashed missile.
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Act like Blacksmith (as Siegfried Rumann)
event1935 star_border 6.1
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A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Girls on Probation
Act like Roger Heath
event1938 star_border 5.9
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A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Spy Chasers
Act like King Rinko
event1955 star_border 7
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Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
The Bold Caballero
Act like Commandante Sebastian Golle
event1936 star_border 5.7
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The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Remember?
Act like Dr. Schmidt
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Desperate Journey
Act like Preuss
event1942 star_border 5.8
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During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Act like Arthur Dinkel
event1948 star_border 7
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A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
Paradise for Three
Act like Mr. Bold
event1938 star_border 6.8
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A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
Shining Victory
Act like Professor Herman Von Reiter
event1941 star_border 5.9
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In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Honolulu
Act like Psychiatrist
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Bitter Sweet
Act like Herr Schlick
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
She Went to the Races
Act like Dr. Gurke
event1945 star_border 5.5
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A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
Suez
Act like Sergeant Pellerin
event1938 star_border 5.2
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Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
They Came to Blow Up America
Act like Dr. Herman Holger
event1943 star_border 6.2
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Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
The Girl on The Roof
event1953 star_border 4.4
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A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slader. Both men are determined to bed the young woman, but they quickly discover Patty is more interested in engaging in spirited discussions about the pressing moral and sexual issues of the day than surrendering her virginity to either one of them. After resisting their amorous advances throughout the night, Patty leaves and returns to the Empire State Building, where Donald finds her and proposes marriage.
The Emperor Waltz
Act like Dr. Zwieback
event1948 star_border 5.9
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At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
The Wedding Night
Act like Mr. Jan Novak
event1935 star_border 6
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While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
I'll Give a Million
Act like Anatole Primerose
event1938 star_border 5.7
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After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
I Was an Adventuress
Act like Herr Protz
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
Under Pressure
Act like Doctor
event1935 star_border 5
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Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
Midnight Taxi
Act like John B. Rudd
event1937 star_border 5
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A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
The Hitler Gang
Act like General von Hindenburg
event1944 star_border 5.9
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The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
Faithful in My Fashion
Act like Professor Boris Riminoffsky
event1946 star_border 6.3
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A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
The Great Hospital Mystery
Act like Dr. Taggert
event1937 star_border 4
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A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
On the Avenue
Act like Herr Hanfstangel
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
The Song of Bernadette
Act like Louis Bouriette
event1943 star_border 7
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In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Berlin Correspondent
Act like Dr. Dietrich
event1942 star_border 5.9
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Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Act like Krogman
event1939 star_border 6
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FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
O. Henry's Full House
Act like Menkie (segment "The Gift of the Magi") (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".
Remember Pearl Harbor
Act like Dirk Van Hoorten
event1942 star_border 6
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A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
Victory
Act like Mr. Schomberg
event1940
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A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
One, Two, Three
Act like Count von Droste Schattenburg (voice) (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 7.5
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C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
The World Moves On
Act like Baron von Gerhardt (as Siegfried Rumann)
event1934 star_border 5.7
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Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Father Is a Bachelor
Act like Jericho Schlosser
event1950 star_border 7.4
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Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Love Under Fire
Act like General Montero
event1937 star_border 5.5
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A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
This Is My Affair
Act like Gus
event1937 star_border 7.3
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President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Living It Up
Act like Dr. Emile Egelhofer
event1954 star_border 6.4
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Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
Breakdowns of 1941
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
If You Knew Susie
Act like Count Alexis
event1948 star_border 7.5
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In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Marie Galante
Act like Brogard
event1934 star_border 4.8
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On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
The Dolly Sisters
Act like Ignatz Tsimmis
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Act like Cyrus Kraft
event1952 star_border 7.2
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The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.
This Woman Is Mine
Act like John Jacob Astor
event1941 star_border 3.2
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Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Way... Way Out
Act like Russian Delegate
event1966 star_border 5.7
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A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Act like Joe Flugelman
event1943 star_border 6
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An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
So Ends Our Night
Act like Ammers
event1941 star_border 6
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An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
The Man Who Lost Himself
Act like Dr. Simms (as Sig Rumann)
event1941 star_border 4
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John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Heidi
Act like Police Captain
event1937 star_border 6.9
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Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
Maytime
Act like Fanchon (as Sig Rumann)
event1937 star_border 6.2
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An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
The Fortune Cookie
Act like Professor Winterhalter
event1966 star_border 7.2
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A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
On the Riviera
Act like Gapeaux
event1951 star_border 6
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In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.
Seventh Heaven
Act like Durand (as Sig Rumann)
event1937 star_border 6.6
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A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Men in Her Diary
Act like Mme. Irene
event1945
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Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
The Errand Boy
Act like Baron Elston Carteblanche
event1961 star_border 6.1
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Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
White Christmas
Act like Landlord (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 7.2
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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.
A Royal Scandal
Act like General Ronsky
event1945 star_border 6.9
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Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
East of Java
Act like Hans Muller
event1935 star_border 6
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Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Doom of Dracula
Act like The Burgomaster (archive footage)
event1966
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An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
Night and Day
Act like Wilowski
event1946 star_border 5.7
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When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Act like Hammacher (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6
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Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
World Premiere
Act like Franz von Bushmaster
event1941 star_border 5
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A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
Spring Tonic
Act like Matt Conklin
event1935 star_border 5.3
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Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
Servants' Entrance
Act like Hans Hansen (as Siegfried Rumann)
event1934
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Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Lucky Boy
Act like Bridge player (Unbilled)
event1929 star_border 4.7
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A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
Maverick
(4 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.
Petticoat Junction
Act like Professor Lieberschmit (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.8
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The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
General Electric Theater
Act like Dr. Haegendorff (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Johnny Staccato
(1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.6
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Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.
Daniel Boone
Act like Van Coot (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 6.9
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Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
One Step Beyond
Act like Franz Schuldorf (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.6
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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
Pete and Gladys
(2 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.5
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Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.
Private Secretary
(1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5
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Private Secretary is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program on Sundays at 7:30pm EST. The series stars Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by Don Porter.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5.3
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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
Lawman
(2 ep.)
event1958 star_border 5.4
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Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin.
Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
The Addams Family
Act like Eric Von Bissell (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 8
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A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
Hank
(1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 3.5
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Hank is an American situation comedy which is perhaps most notable for being an early example of a program with a true series finale, in which the underlying premise of the series reaches a natural conclusion with its final episode.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
(1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.8
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis.
The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.
The Danny Kaye Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 6.3
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The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.
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