
Birthday:
06-30-1898
Deathday:
06-10-1985 (86 years)
Birthplace:
Waukegan, Illinois, USA
Biography
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George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985), born in Waukegan, Illinois, was an American actor. He made his screen debut in 1928, ultimately appearing, throughout his career, in over 140 films, usually in smaller supporting roles. Chandler is perhaps best known for playing the character of Uncle Petrie Martin on the television series Lassie.
Early in his performing career he had a vaudeville act, billed as "George Chandler, the Musical Nut", which featured comedy and his violin. He served in the United States Army during World War I.
In addition to many film roles throughout the years 1928-1979, Chandler appeared, from 1951 onward, in numerous television series.
He was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1960.
George Chandler died in Panorama City, California, the result of cancer, on June 10, 1985. He was 86.
George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985), born in Waukegan, Illinois, was an American actor. He made his screen debut in 1928, ultimately appearing, throughout his career, in over 140 films, usually in smaller supporting roles. Chandler is perhaps best known for playing the character of Uncle Petrie Martin on the television series Lassie.
Early in his performing career he had a vaudeville act, billed as "George Chandler, the Musical Nut", which featured comedy and his violin. He served in the United States Army during World War I.
In addition to many film roles throughout the years 1928-1979, Chandler appeared, from 1951 onward, in numerous television series.
He was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1960.
George Chandler died in Panorama City, California, the result of cancer, on June 10, 1985. He was 86.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Act like Bob
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.
Dead Reckoning
Act like Louis Ord
event1946 star_border 6.7
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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.
Strange Impersonation
Act like J W Rinse, plaintiffs' atty.
event1946 star_border 6
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A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
The Bastard
Act like Seadog
event1978 star_border 5
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Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Dead Ringer
Act like George, Chauffeur
event1964 star_border 6.9
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The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
The Princess Comes Across
Act like Film Man (uncredited)
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.
Three Loves Has Nancy
Act like Jim, the Baggage Master (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 4.2
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A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Act like Sam Caldwell
event1942 star_border 4.5
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Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Crashing Hollywood
event1931 star_border 1
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Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Hollow Triumph
Act like Aubrey - Assistant
event1948 star_border 6.5
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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Across the Wide Missouri
Act like Gowie
event1951 star_border 5.9
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In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
Triple Trouble
Act like 'Squirrely' Davis, convict
event1950 star_border 6.2
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Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
Lady Killer
event1933 star_border 6.7
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An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
The Murder Man
Act like Sol Hertzberger
event1935 star_border 6.9
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Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
Little Giant
Act like O'Brien (salesman)
event1946 star_border 5.3
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Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Rose of Cimarron
Act like Deputy Sheriff
event1952 star_border 5
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A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
Don't Be a Sucker!
event1943 star_border 6.8
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Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
Fury
Act like Milton Jackson
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Act like Mailman (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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Gildersleeve has jury duty.
Blessed Event
Act like Hanson
event1932 star_border 6.5
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A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Western Union
Act like Herb
event1941 star_border 6
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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Elmer, the Great
Act like Cubs Player (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.9
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Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Hans Christian Andersen
Act like Farmer
event1952 star_border 6.3
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A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
The High and the Mighty
Act like Ben Sneed
event1954 star_border 5.9
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Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
Westward the Women
Act like Mackeral Face (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 7
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There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
event1943 star_border 6.4
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A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
The Fatal Glass of Beer
Act like Chester Snavely
event1933 star_border 5.9
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The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
Road to Rio
Act like Ship's Steward
event1947 star_border 6.7
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Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
The Kennel Murder Case
Act like Reporter at Police Station (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.2
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Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Miss Polly
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5
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A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Roxie Hart
Act like Amos Hart
event1942 star_border 6.9
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A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
The Lure of Hollywood
Act like George
event1931 star_border 2
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Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
Apache Uprising
Act like Jace Asher
event1965 star_border 6.4
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Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
The Great Gildersleeve
Act like Messenger
event1942 star_border 5.9
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A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
Lady of Burlesque
Act like Jake, stage hand (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.4
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After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
Knock on Any Door
Act like Cashier (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.1
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An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Danger – Love at Work
Act like Garage attendant
event1937 star_border 7.3
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A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
The Light of Western Stars
Act like Slig Whalen
event1930 star_border 2.8
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A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
Singing Guns
Act like Smitty, Piano Player
event1950 star_border 5.8
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Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Behind the Mask
Act like Shrevvie
event1946 star_border 4.6
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Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
The Missing Lady
Act like Shrevvie
event1946 star_border 4.8
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While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
The Tenderfoot
Act like Beggar (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
Tell It to a Star
Act like Al Marx
event1945
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Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
Isle of Missing Men
Act like Ship's bartender
event1942 star_border 6.2
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A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Pretty Baby
Act like Henderson
event1950 star_border 6
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A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
So You Want to Be in Pictures
Act like Assistant Director Sammy (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.8
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Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
The Back Page
Act like The Aspiring Reporter
event1931
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The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.
Gunsight Ridge
Act like Gus Withers
event1957 star_border 6
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An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
Up Pops the Duke
event1931
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Up Pops the Duke is a 1931 Comedy short.
Patrick the Great
Act like Bellboy
event1945 star_border 4
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A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
He Was Her Man
Act like Highway Service Station Counterman
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Spring Reunion
Act like Zimmie (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 5.8
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A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Lady on a Train
event1945 star_border 6.5
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While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Swing Fever
Act like Hamburger Vendor
event1943 star_border 5
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Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Somebody Loves Me
Act like Stagehand
event1952 star_border 8.5
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Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
Rails Into Laramie
Act like Grimes
event1954 star_border 6.3
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A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
The Woman in Red
Act like First Reporter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.1
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A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
Lover Come Back
Act like Bit Role
event1946 star_border 6.2
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A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Too Many Cooks
Act like Ned
event1931 star_border 2.5
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A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
Apache Ambush
Act like Chandler
event1955 star_border 5.6
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Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
Small Town Boy
Act like Bill Clipper
event1937
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Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
The Mind Reader
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform.
Man of the World
Act like Fred
event1931 star_border 5.9
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A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
The Flying Irishman
Act like Airport Gas Attendant
event1939 star_border 4.6
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This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Union Depot
Act like Panhandler Wanting One Dollar (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.1
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Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Magic Town
Act like Bus Driver
event1947 star_border 6.7
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Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
Shooting High
Act like Charley
event1940 star_border 8
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A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
The Great Junction Hotel
Act like The Elevator Operator
event1931
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A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Act like Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
event1939
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Women Are Trouble
Act like Reporter
event1936 star_border 6
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A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
My Man and I
Act like Bartender Frankie
event1952 star_border 6.8
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In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
The Mad Miss Manton
Act like Newspaper Staff (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.4
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When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
While New York Sleeps
Act like Gus - Piano Player
event1938
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Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
The Florodora Girl
Act like Georgie Smith
event1930 star_border 5.6
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A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
In Gay Madrid
Act like Enrique
event1930 star_border 5
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Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.
Speed
Act like 'Shorty', Bystander at Barn Dance
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
Dark Hazard
Act like Soapy Sam Lambert
event1934 star_border 5.4
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Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Capone
Act like Robert E. Crowe
event1975 star_border 5.9
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Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
A Holy Terror
Act like Joe, Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.7
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Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
Pickup on 101
Act like Pawnshop owner
event1972 star_border 3.5
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An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
The Wide Open Spaces
Act like Townsman in Saloon
event1931
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A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Act like Ship's Radio Operator
event1937 star_border 6.7
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Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
The Country Doctor
Act like Greasy
event1936 star_border 6
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A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Flicker Fever
Act like Bob Adams
event1935
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A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
The Powers Girl
Act like Harry, Nancy's Boyfriend (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
The WAC From Walla Walla
Act like Jud Canova
event1952
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An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
Good-bye, My Lady
Act like Reporter
event1956 star_border 7.7
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An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.
Escape to Witch Mountain
Act like Grocer
event1975 star_border 6.4
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Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
One Wild Night
Act like Rutherford (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Canadian Pacific
Act like Telegraph Operator
event1949 star_border 5.3
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A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
Arizona
Act like Haley
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Woman Chases Man
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.6
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A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
They Gave Him a Gun
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.2
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With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Broadway Gondolier
Act like Photographer
event1935 star_border 5.4
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A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Exile Express
Act like Marvln McGee
event1939 star_border 5
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A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Act like Elderly Man
event1979 star_border 6.4
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Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
Hi, Nellie!
Act like Sullivan
event1934 star_border 6.5
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Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
The French Key
Act like Roomer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5
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Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
The Sport Parade
Act like Pullman Ticket Agent (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.3
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Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Sworn Enemy
Act like Lunch Stand Man (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.3
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A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Charter Pilot
Act like Bob, the soundman
event1940 star_border 6
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US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Stars Over Broadway
Act like Charlie
event1935 star_border 5.2
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An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Men with Wings
Act like Cody
event1938 star_border 6
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Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Act like Mr. Jones (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.7
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Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Three Comrades
Act like First comic with singer (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.2
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A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Only Saps Work
Act like Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.5
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.
Jesse James
Act like Roy
event1939 star_border 6.4
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After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
The Famous Ferguson Case
Act like Depot Loafer (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Everything’s Rosie
Act like Jail Guard
event1931 star_border 4
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A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Blondie Meets the Boss
Act like Laundryman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Three Sons o' Guns
Act like Tailor
event1941 star_border 5
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Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Calling Dr. Kildare
Act like Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Young Mr. Lincoln
Act like Loafer (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.2
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In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
It's a Wonderful World
Act like Photographer at Ferry Landing (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Second Fiddle
Act like Taxi Driver
event1939 star_border 4.5
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Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Act like Cameraman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.9
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Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Beau Geste
Act like Legionnaire Cordier (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Reporter (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.
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Act like Judge Harley Nast
event1966 star_border 6.7
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Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
The Light That Failed
Act like First Man (Voice)
event1939 star_border 6
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A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Act like Pay Orderly (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Everything's on Ice
event1939 star_border 4.8
top_panel_open
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
There Goes My Heart
Act like Tailor (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
While the Patient Slept
Act like Evening Bulletin Reporter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Castle in the Desert
Act like The Bus Driver
event1942 star_border 6.8
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Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Act like First Clerk
event1940 star_border 4
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A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
The Shanghai Cobra
Act like Joe
event1945 star_border 5.7
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Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
Race Street
Act like Herman (Waiter) (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.8
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A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
The Judge Steps Out
Act like Train Station Agent (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
The Slowest Gun in the West
Act like Simpson
event1960 star_border 2
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The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Act like Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
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.
Soak the Poor
Act like Briggs (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
3 Men in White
Act like Attendant (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6
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Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
The Ox-Bow Incident
Act like Jimmy Carnes (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7.7
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A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
Son of a Sailor
Act like Sailor
event1933 star_border 5
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A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
It's in the Bag!
Act like 1st Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5
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The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Suspense
Act like Joe's Pal at Sandwich Counter (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.3
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The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.
Island in the Sky
Act like Rene
event1953 star_border 6.2
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A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Parachute Jumper
Act like Chauffeur (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.1
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An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Libeled Lady
Act like Bellhop
event1936 star_border 7.3
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When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Here Comes Trouble
Act like Purser Brooks
event1936
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Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
High Tension
Act like Man at Honolulu Dock
event1936 star_border 5.4
top_panel_open
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Time Out for Romance
Act like Simpson
event1937 star_border 5.6
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A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Edison, the Man
Act like Gold Exchange Clerk
event1940 star_border 6.6
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In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Act like Boxing Spectator (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.3
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Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Big Town Girl
Act like Red Evans
event1937 star_border 6
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When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Reaching from Heaven
Act like Bert Kestner (as Geo. Chandler)
event1948
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Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
Me and My Gal
Act like Eddie Collins
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Act like Johnny
event1939
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Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Everybody's Baby
Act like G. Randolph (uncredited)
event1939
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The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Happiness Ahead
Act like Window Washer
event1934 star_border 6
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Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Rough Necking
Act like Joe Cuttlehammer Jr.
event1934 star_border 10
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The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
Devil-May-Care
Act like Timid Royalist (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 5.5
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A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
The Pirate
Act like Carriage Driver (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.4
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A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Trail of the Vigilantes
Act like Railroad Station Attendant
event1940
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A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
The Return of Frank James
Act like Roy
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
The Happy Years
Act like Johnny
event1950 star_border 7.7
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Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
The Forest Rangers
Act like Keystone Cop (uncredited)
event1942
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Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
If You Knew Susie
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
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.
The Payoff
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4.9
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An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Act like Stadium Cashier
event1935
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A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
One Mile from Heaven
Act like Herman
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Gateway
Act like Reporter
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
20,000 Men a Year
Act like Soda Jerker
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
It Had to Be You
Act like Bus Passenger with Newspaper (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.5
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A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
It's in the Air
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5
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Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Act like Parkersville Counterman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
The Mad Doctor
Act like Elevator Operator (Uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Melody Ranch
Act like Taxi Driver
event1940 star_border 5.5
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His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Nothing Sacred
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
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.
Sing, Baby, Sing
Act like Hospital Interne
event1936 star_border 5.6
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The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
The Last Crooked Mile
Act like Roller Coaster Operator (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 4.7
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A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
A Guy Could Change
Act like Gus, Photographer
event1946
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A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Afraid to Talk
Act like Pete (bellhop)
event1932 star_border 6
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Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Kansas Raiders
Act like Willie
event1950 star_border 5.8
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Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Once More, My Darling
Act like Motel Proprietor
event1949 star_border 5.7
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An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
The Glass Alibi
Act like Bartender
event1946 star_border 4.1
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Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
The Woman Between
Act like Sweet - a Waiter
event1931 star_border 5.3
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Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
Saddle Pals
Act like Pickpocket Dippy
event1947 star_border 5
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Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
Fair Warning
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1937 star_border 6
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In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Sons of Adventure
Act like Billy Wilkes
event1948
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This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
The Great Man's Lady
Act like Forbes
event1941 star_border 6.3
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In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Remember the Day
Act like Telegraph clerk
event1941 star_border 6.6
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Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Law of the Lawless
Act like Martin
event1964 star_border 6.1
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A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
The Narrow Margin
Act like Accomplice Running Newsstand (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 7.3
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A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
This Man's Navy
Act like Bert Bland
event1945 star_border 6.4
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During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
Rascals
Act like Waiting Room Patient
event1938 star_border 6
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A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Without Love
Act like Elevator Operator
event1945 star_border 6.8
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In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
Straight, Place and Show
Act like Cabbie
event1938 star_border 6
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The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
I Stole a Million
Act like Herbert (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.
Repent at Leisure
Act like Bus Conductor
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
This Woman Is Dangerous
Act like Dr. Bill Ryan (Uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.7
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A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
Front Page Woman
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.8
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Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1975 star_border 5.7
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Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Obliging Young Lady
Act like Skip - the Bellboy
event1942 star_border 5
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A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Big Hearted Herbert
Act like Murphy (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 3.5
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After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Act like Homer Howard
event1933 star_border 5.6
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Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
The Go-Getter
Act like Business Card Printer (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
The Great Morgan
Act like Roger the Valet (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Design for Scandal
Act like First Cabbie (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
King of the Turf
Act like 2nd Tout
event1939 star_border 7
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Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
Strange Confession
Act like Harper
event1945 star_border 6.8
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A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
Mannequin
Act like 'Swing' Magoo (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
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Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
The Paleface
Act like Patient #1
event1948 star_border 6.1
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Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.9
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A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
In Old Chicago
Act like Onlooker (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.4
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The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Tobacco Road
Act like Hotel Desk Clark
event1941 star_border 6.6
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Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
The House Across the Street
Act like Carl's Boss (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 4.5
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Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
That Other Woman
Act like Man Carrying Rifle in Woods
event1942 star_border 5.5
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A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
The Hunted
Act like Joe, the Bartender
event1948 star_border 5.2
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A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Griffin and Phoenix
Act like Old Man
event1976 star_border 5.3
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Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.
The Keyhole
Act like Joe - Desk Clerk (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.9
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A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Model Wife
Act like Mr. Williams
event1941
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Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Fog Over Frisco
Act like Taxi Driver
event1934 star_border 6.1
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Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Hot Water
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5
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The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
The Accusing Finger
Act like Reporter
event1936 star_border 4.7
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A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Rendezvous with Annie
Act like Sergeant Harrington (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6
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A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
Reaching for the Sun
Act like Jerry
event1941 star_border 6
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Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
Music in the Air
Act like Assistant Stage Manager
event1934 star_border 4.8
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A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
The Miracle of the Bells
Act like Max
event1948 star_border 6.3
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The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Bride by Mistake
Act like Armed Guard
event1944 star_border 6.1
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The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
A Night to Remember
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
The Shining Hour
Act like Press Agent (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.6
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A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Joy of Living
Act like Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Homicide
Act like Police Photographer
event1949 star_border 5.3
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Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
Hellzapoppin'
Act like Movie Cameraman (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.1
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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.
The Whip Hand
Act like Jed (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.6
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A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Every Which Way but Loose
Act like Clerk at D.M.V.
event1978 star_border 6.1
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Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Goin' to Town
Act like Jameson
event1944
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General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
The Next Voice You Hear...
Act like Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.7
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The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
Pardon My Sarong
Act like George Peabody (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Night in New Orleans
Act like Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4
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A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Footlight Parade
Act like Pharmacist (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.9
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A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Sleepers West
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Star of Midnight
Act like Witness (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
The Mask of Diijon
Act like Diner Counterman (Uncredited)
event1946 star_border 4.9
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A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
A Star Is Born
Act like Deliveryman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.1
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Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
The Girl from Manhattan
Act like Monty
event1948 star_border 5
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A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
Wake Up and Live
Act like Janitor
event1937 star_border 5.3
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Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Meet Me at the Fair
Act like Deputy Leach
event1953 star_border 7
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In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Act like Henry Purdy (Uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5
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Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Swing Shift Maisie
Act like Fred (Uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
The Cowboy and the Lady
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Act like Jonathan Kent
event1975 star_border 4
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TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his enemies, and his self-image problems.
Silver River
Act like Mr. Rice (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.9
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Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
Perfect Strangers
Act like Lester Hubley
event1950 star_border 6.2
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Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
Doctors' Wives
Act like Dr. Roberts
event1931
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The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
The Cloud Dodger
Act like Post Commander
event1928
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Speeding to his own wedding, Wilson is arrested by a sharp-eyed cop and thrown in the slammer for 30 days. This is ample time for the heroine's aunt to arrange a marriage between the girl and a wealthy snob.
Nightmare Alley
Act like Hobo at Stan's Left Hand (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.1
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Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
The Kid from Brooklyn
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.2
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Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
Sob Sister
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1931
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Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
One More Train to Rob
Act like Conductor
event1971 star_border 5.4
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Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
Old Hutch
Act like Cigar Store Clerk
event1936
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Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
Gallant Journey
Act like Man (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.1
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Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
CHiPs
(1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6.8
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Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Act like Doc Baines (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.3
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Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series.
Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
Batman
Act like Grampa (2 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7.3
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Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
Alias Smith and Jones
(2 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6.9
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Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
Petticoat Junction
Act like Dr. Barton Stuart (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.
Mannix
(1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.7
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Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
Tales of Wells Fargo
Act like Captain Billy (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
Gunsmoke
Act like Silas Hubbard (2 ep.)
event1955 star_border 6.6
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
General Electric Theater
Act like Keeley (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.
Lassie
(3 ep.)
event1954 star_border 6.1
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Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
Ironside
Act like George Bentley (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 6.9
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When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
The Waltons
(1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.1
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The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Laredo
(1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 6.3
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Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television.
The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Partygoer (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Run, Buddy, Run
(1 ep.)
event1966
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Run, Buddy, Run is an American situation comedy starring Jack Sheldon, which ran on CBS from September 12, 1966, until January 2, 1967.
Ichabod and Me
(36 ep.)
event1961 star_border 5
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Ichabod and Me is a 36-episode American situation comedy series set in a small New England town and starring Robert Sterling and George Chandler. It aired on CBS from September 26, 1961, to June 5, 1962, and was produced by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, in association with Jack Benny's "JaMco Productions".
Photos are not of George Chandler or Robert Sterling; Leon Ames is one of those pictured.
Rawhide
Act like Reverend Jess Lincoln (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.2
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The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Run for Your Life
Act like Fred Mackey (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7.2
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Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
Switch
Act like Capt. Roberts (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6.7
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Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
Lux Video Theatre
Act like Newspaper Man (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6
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Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Act like Bartender (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
(1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 6.6
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.5
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
Adventures of Superman
(3 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!"
Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
The Donna Reed Show
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 6.1
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Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 6
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The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
Racket Squad
(1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6
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Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.
The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
Wire Service
Act like Hoggard (1 ep.)
event1956
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Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 5.2
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Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
Cavalcade of America
Act like Proprietor (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 3.5
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Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
Telephone Time
(1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 6.3
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Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
The Adventures of Kit Carson
(6 ep.)
event1951 star_border 5.3
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The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
The Twilight Zone
Act like Old Man (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 8.4
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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Bonanza
Act like Gus Schultz (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.5
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The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Adam-12
Act like George Atchison (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7.1
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Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
The Ford Television Theatre
Act like Hiram (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 7
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This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
Studio 57
Act like Mr. Ederly (1 ep.)
event1954
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Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
Dragnet
Act like Forrest Simple (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6.4
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Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Wagon Train
Act like Cleveland 'Clee' McMasters (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.
The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Green Acres
Act like Doc Stuart (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7.2
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Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971.
Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Love, American Style
Act like Harry (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6
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An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
(1 ep.)
event1953
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The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse is an American dramatic anthology series that aired on ABC from 1953 to 1955, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The show was hosted by Arlene Dahl, Anita Colby, and, finally, Polly Bergen
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