
Birthday:
10-23-1887
Deathday:
09-02-1983 (95 years)
Birthplace:
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Aubrey was the son of US born gymnast Robert Aubrey. Later a member of the Fred Karno variety troupe, he first traveled to New York in 1900, then settled permanently after emigrating from London, on August 29, 1908. An early understudy of Charlie Chaplin, he later achieved leading status during the silents era (Oliver Hardy once providing support). Following his career decline as a starring performer, he was initially given work by Laurel & Hardy, before embarking on a career as a bit-part player in over 300 features.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Act like Guard (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6
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A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
The Phantom Cowboy
Act like Ptomaine Pete
event1935
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Bill Collins has a look alike the Phantom who beats Houston robbery plan. However the Phantom is shot by Houston’s men. Bill finding him dying isn’t aware that Houston is just about the get him too…
Broadway Big Shot
Act like Orderly
event1942
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This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
The Little Wild Girl
Act like Posty McKnuffle
event1928
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Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.)
The Girl He Didn't Buy
Act like Hans (as James Aubrey)
event1928
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Produced by small-scale firm Peerless, this silent melodrama told the ancient story of the girl whose refusal to "put out" loses her a chance for stage prominence.
The Invisible Man Returns
Act like Plainclothesman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.2
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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Act like Wedderburn, the Innkeeper (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.6
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A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Soup to Nuts
Act like Revolutionary (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.8
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Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Crazy House
Act like Cameo Appearance
event1943 star_border 5
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Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Code of Honor
Act like Nosey (as Jimmie Aubrey)
event1930
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Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden through the gambling weakness of Bradfield's son Tom.
Million Dollar Racket
Act like Melton
event1937 star_border 6
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Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Act like Newsboy
event1938 star_border 5.7
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The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Smoky Trails
Act like Deputy Jeff (as Jim Aubrey)
event1939
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Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
Tracy Rides
Act like Sandy, the Cook
event1935
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Sheriff Tom Tracy is summoned to the sheep camp where he finds Old Man Jenkins fatally wounded and, with his dying breath, accuses Ned Hampton, brother of the girl to whom Tom is engaged, of having shot him in the back.
Aces and Eights
Act like Lucky
event1936 star_border 6
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A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
The Suspect
Act like Pogson (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.7
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Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
Blake of Scotland Yard
Act like The Hag / Baron Polinka
event1937 star_border 3
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Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".
The Midnight Special
Act like Joe
event1930
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A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Act like Tramp (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.5
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An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
Swamp Woman
Act like Tod Appleby
event1941 star_border 4.8
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Famed striptease artist Ann Corio stars as Annabelle, a cabaret dancer who returns to the Florida bayous whence she came.
The Rangers' Round-Up
Act like The Drunk
event1938 star_border 6
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Working undercover, the Rangers are after Bull and his gang. Ted successfully joins Dr. Aikmans traveling medicine show, but Jim's identity has been exposed and he is in danger.
Enter Arsène Lupin
Act like Marqet (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6
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A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Two Tickets to London
Act like Lorry Driver (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6
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Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
A Musical Mixup
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A short silent starring Jimmy Aubrey attempting to step out on his wife the night before she come back to town.
Navy Bound
Act like British Fisherman at Lounge Counter (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6
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A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
The Last Alarm
event1926
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Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his sweetheart's hand. In a drawn out fight he bests the rival, who steals the revenue from the firemen's ball (of which Tom is treasurer) and hides the money in the storage warehouse in which Tom's sister works as a stenographer. While Tom, Joe, and their sweethearts search for the money, the villain also returns for his loot, and, in his haste, he sets the building afire--trapping the foursome behind a steel door. Their calls for help reach the street, an alarm is turned in, firemen come to the rescue, and the money is found in a blazing desk.
Shadows of Death
Act like Town Drunk (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.6
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With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his friend Fuzzy who is the town's sheriff, judge, and barber. When the man that sent Billy is murdered and the railroad location map stolen, broken match sticks point to Vic Landreau. While Billy tries to find the missing map, Landreau suspects Billy is on to him and plans to have him killed.
Thundering Gun Slingers
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1944
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When Billy Carson's uncle is lynched as a supposed rustler, Billy arrives looking for the murderers. He finds that Steve Kirby holds a forged note on his Uncle's ranch. When Kirby sees that Billy means trouble for him, he has him framed for murder. Then just as he is inciting the mob to lynch him, Billy's new friend Doc Jones is trying to break him out of jail.
Along the Sundown Trail
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1942
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Three lawmen hunt down thieves who are robbing a tungsten mine.
Law of the Saddle
Act like Jailer (uncredited)
event1943
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With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones, Rocky Cameron rides into a small town plagued by cattle rustlers. He can expect no help from the sheriff as he is the head of the rustlers.
The Grand Parade
Act like The Drunk
event1930
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No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
The King's Thief
Act like Little Man (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.2
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An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Fast Bullets
Act like Jake
event1936 star_border 4.5
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Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a runaway wagon.
The Way of the West
Act like Sheriff #1 / Bartender Jim
event1934
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Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit is Horton and when Horton kills Parker he frames Gordon. His identity revealed, the Sheriff lets Gordon escape to go after the real killer.
Riders of the Sage
Act like Steve Reynolds
event1939 star_border 5
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In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from the gang known as the Riders of the Sage.
The Test
Act like Donovan
event1935 star_border 3.2
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A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.
Two Fresh Eggs
event1930 star_border 5
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Slapstick comedy with St. John and Jimmy Aubrey dropping dishes in a restaurant with two patrons, one boss and a floor show of eight. There's singing and dancing too.
Gun Grit
Act like The Janitor
event1936 star_border 4.3
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Big city gangster muscle in on ranch territory with a cattle protection racket. Out to stop them is federal agent Jack Perrin.
The Lion Man
Act like Simmonds
event1936 star_border 4.8
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A young British boy whose father was murdered by a treacherous Aran sheik finds himself in a position to exact revenge as an adult.
Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Act like Reggie Parks
event1936 star_border 5
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Reporter Steve Haines, on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Microspook
event1949
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As a publicity gimmick, Harry has to announce his radio show from a real haunted house.
Amateur Crook
Act like Ben Armand, Junk Dealer
event1937 star_border 1
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Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Frontier Marshal
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Hot Ice
Act like Gorilla Keeper
event1955 star_border 6.2
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The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
Jungle Raiders
Act like Mark
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.
Courage of the North
Act like Constable Jimmy Downs (as James Aubrey)
event1935
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A Mountie (John Preston) catches fur thieves with the help of his horse, Dynamite, and dog, Captain.
Out of Singapore
Act like Bloater, Drunken Sailor
event1932 star_border 5.5
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While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
Blake of Scotland Yard
Act like The Hag / Baron Polinka
event1937 star_border 2
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A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
The Legion of Missing Men
Act like Bilgey
event1937 star_border 5
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Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
Personal Property
Act like Third English Cabby (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.9
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Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
A Demon for Trouble
Act like Deputy Jimmy
event1934 star_border 5
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Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and gets blamed for the murder. Fleeing from the Sheriff, Bob teams up with the Mexican outlaw Golinda. Having seen Dyer pay off his men, he has a plan to trap him and Golinda is just the man he needs to make it work.
Danger Valley
Act like Australia
event1937
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When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake to file the claim. Dana is in the Recorder's office and overhears. He and his men kill Jake and forge new deeds. Now owning everything Dana tries to kick the Temple group off their land. But Jack and sidekick Lucky are on hand and plan to help them fight back.
Knight of the Plains
Act like Henchman
event1938 star_border 4.7
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Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.
On the Great White Trail
Act like Mountie
event1938 star_border 5
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Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.
The Border Menace
Act like Polecat Pete
event1934 star_border 3
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Ranger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.
Have a Heart
Act like Fledgling Reporter
event1928
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In this lively late silent two-reeler, blundering blowhard Jimmy is "always looking for work; someday he'll find it, then he'll have to quit." But meanwhile he applies for a job at a newspaper whose editor really, really wants to solve the mystery of the "haunted" Klutz Mansion. So our hero and the boss' daughter go to investigate a spooky abode that may not have actual ghosts but does have an actual mad scientist in residence.
45 Calibre Echo
Act like Jim - the Sidekick
event1932
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A cowhand and his sidekick come to the Texas border country looking for the man who had lured the cowhand's sister in bondage in Mexico. But the man doesn't want to be found and has hired some gunmen to see that he isn't.
The Down Grade
Act like The Runt
event1927
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The Down Grade is a 1927 Action film.
Religious Racketeers
Act like Tommy - a Soldier
event1938 star_border 5
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A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
Phantom Ranger
Act like Telegraph Operator
event1938 star_border 4.2
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A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
The Meeting
event1917 star_border 4.5
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Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This seems to be the first film in a short-lived Captain Barnacle series that Vitagraph started at the beginning of 1917. Young Bobby Connelly was one of the first star child actors and his character Sonny Boy links the two series he did for Vitagraph, the "Sonny Jim" series from 1914 to 1915 and the "Bobby" series in 1917.
Six-Gun Trail
Act like Barfly
event1938 star_border 5
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Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
Keep Smiling
Act like Oscar Hatch
event1928
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A comedy short from Weiss Brothers starring Jimmy Aubrey & Al Thompson.
Rudolph's Revenge
Act like Relentless Rudolph
event1928 star_border 1
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Relentless Rudolph is back with another scheme to capture Belinda and humiliate Hairbreadth Harrry.
The Look Out Girl
Act like Valet
event1928
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The lookout girl for the notorious Mowbray gang tries to leave her gangster past by marrying a wealthy doctor, but her past catches up with her very quickly when the gang finds her.
China Slaver
Act like Willie Kegg
event1929
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The Chinese Secret Service sends an undercover agent to investigate reports of an island ruled by a Chinese criminal named The Cobra who holds the residents in virtual slavery while running his illegal narcotics and white-slavery empire.
Book Bozo
event1925 star_border 6
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Jimmy Aubrey plays a book agent and on his rounds of selling is induced to substitute for a local fistic star. His adventures in the prize ring furnish a great deal of comedy.
Pirates of the Sky
Act like Jeff Oldring
event1926
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Daredevil pilot Bob Manning is pressed into service by the Government to track down a missing mail plane. He soon uncovers a gang of aerial hijackers, led by Bruce Mitchell. Exhibiting a repertoire of truly awe-inspiring flying stunts, Manning beats the villains at their own game.
Border Guns
Act like Tulsa Pete Hensen
event1934
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A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.
Rips and Rushes
Act like His Lordship
event1917 star_border 5
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While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.
Calcutta
Act like Mac - Mechanic (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.2
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Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
The Sunrise Trail
Act like Barfly
event1931 star_border 3
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Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.
Terror of the Plains
Act like Henchman
event1934
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A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
Stormy Trails
Act like Henchman Shives
event1936 star_border 6
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A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
Bullies and Bullets
Act like A Person
event1917
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A slapstick comedy directed by Larry Semon and starring Hughie Mack & Patsy De Forest.
Songs and Bullets
Act like First Gunman
event1938 star_border 6
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Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
Wild Mustang
Act like Fence Builder
event1935
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Prison escapee Utah Evans kills Sheriff McClay. Joe Norton was McClay's predecessor and sent Utah to prison. Ma McClay having taken over as Sheriff for her husband, now gets Joe to return. Joe sets out to get Utah and Utah, learning Joe is after him, hopes to get revenge for being sent to prison.
Sweepstakes
Act like Cantina Drunk
event1931 star_border 4.5
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A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Flying Devils
Act like Waiter
event1933 star_border 4.4
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A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.
Kind Lady
Act like Soapbox Orator (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.6
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Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Gypsy Wildcat
Act like Guard
event1944 star_border 5.7
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In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on a white horse has hidden the murder arrow and won the heart of gypsy belle Carla, to the discomfiture of her erstwhile fiancée Tonio. Baron Tovar is also fascinated by Carla...especially when he notices her heraldic pendant.
The White Angel
Act like Sentry (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 8
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In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Act like Steward
event1938 star_border 6.6
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The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.8
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A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
The Drifter
Act like Sheriff Perkins
event1944
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A Robin Hood-type outlaw rides the range and helps others. Another outlaw who looks just like him tries to cash in on the other outlaw's reputation.
Let Freedom Ring
Act like Rancher (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Code of the Cactus
Act like Henchman
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Act like Passage Workman
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.
Charlie Chan in Reno
Act like Me #3 Son Wiseguy
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Law of the Wolf
Act like Uncle Jim
event1939 star_border 5.7
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When a man is wrongly accused of murder, a dog helps clear his name.
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Act like Bum (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.
Fangs of the Wild
Act like Pete Ellis
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Foxes are disappearing from fox farms.
The Light That Failed
Act like Soldier
event1939 star_border 6
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A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
Squeaks and Squawks
event1920 star_border 4.8
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A repairman falls in love with a blacksmith's daughter, who's having trouble with their greedy landlord, and helps them get one over on him.
His Jonah Day
Act like The Tourist
event1920 star_border 4
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Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.
The Decorator
Act like Jimmy
event1920 star_border 5
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Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph features the screen debut of Kathleen Myers.
The Chicken Parade
event1922
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Jimmy Aubrey comedy THE CHICKEN PARADE produced by Vitagraph.
Port of Hate
Act like Stone
event1939 star_border 5.7
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A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
Lady in the Death House
Act like Grotto Bartender (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.4
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As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
The Cheyenne Kid
Act like Camp Cook
event1940 star_border 3.3
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A ranch owner gives the Cheyenne Kid $1000 and sends him off to buy cattle. At the same time he fires a ranch hand and that hand rides ahead and alerts Jeff Baker about the $1000. Bakers' henchman are too late to get the Kid but they kill the rancher paid by the Kid. The Sheriff then arrests the Kid claiming he murdered the rancher to get the money back and that Baker said he then lost it at his gambling table.
Trapped
Act like Ferguson
event1931 star_border 6
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A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
Riding the Sunset Trail
Act like Jim Dawson (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 3
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Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding the Sunset Trail. When ingenue Betty Dawson (Betty Miles) and her kid sister Sugar (Sugar Dawn) are cheated out of their cattle ranch, Tom Sterling (Keene) and his sidekick Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) vow to get the ranch back for the girls. This requires Sterling to cross six-guns with Pecos Dean (Gene Alcase), a former friend who'd turned bad.
Six Gun Man
Act like Barber Customer (uncredited)
event1946
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Cattle thieves attack every cattle drive that comes near Hagerstown. If they do not sell their cattle for 50 cents on the dollar, they are all stolen. U.S. Marshal Stormy has been sent to end this reign of terror and to find the stolen cattle. He starts with a patrol of cattleman that blast every attempt of the outlaws to steal the herd.
Make a Million
Act like Soapy
event1935 star_border 5.7
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A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.
Rawhide Mail
Act like Henchman Mike
event1934
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Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he knows who to look for.
A Royal Flush
event1930
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A maid masquerades as a countess in order to help her lion-hunting mistress.
Hangover Square
event1945 star_border 6.8
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When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
Bungs and Bunglers
Act like Jimmy
event1919 star_border 6
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Vitagraph comedy with Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy.
Charlie Chan in Panama
Act like Drunk Fisherman with Cigar at Club
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
East Side Kids
Act like Pedestrian
event1940 star_border 7
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After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
The Earl of Chicago
Act like Cockney (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.6
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A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
The Lodger
event1944 star_border 6.3
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In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Covered Wagon Trails
Act like Denton
event1940 star_border 5
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A wagon train of settlers is approaching Prairieville and rancher Allen is out to stop them by having some of his men join the train and poison the horses. When Jack Cameron arrives in Prairieville with replacement horses, he learns his brother who was with the train has been murdered. A piece of his brother's clothing identifies a member of the gang and Jack sets out to find the rest of them and also deliver the horses.
Mesquite Buckaroo
Act like Mort (Ranch Hand) (as James Whitehead)
event1939
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It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
Inside Information
Act like Henry - Durand's Houseboy
event1934 star_border 5.5
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Lloyd Wilson, trusted employee of an investment firm, is suspected of theft when $20,000 in security bonds is stolen from his office. Tarzan, the Famous Police Dog, has an intuitive dislike of an apparently respectable citizen, and this leads Wilson and the police to the gang headquarters. Tarzan wins a public citation for his leading part in breaking the case against a desperate gang of criminals.
The Roaming Cowboy
Act like First Sheriff / Henchman
event1937
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Two cowboys come upon a boy whose father has just been murdered. They promise to help find his killers.
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Act like Mac
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Waterloo Bridge
Act like Cockney in Air-Raid Shelter (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.5
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Souls in Pawn
Act like Motel Manager
event1940
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Although she is secretly married to a student, a young girl is forced to give up her baby rather than be thought of as an "unwed mother".
Loser's End
Act like Henchman Dick (as Jim Aubrey)
event1935
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Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits.
The Last Crooked Mile
Act like Nightclub Drunk
event1946 star_border 4.7
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A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
The Vampire's Ghost
Act like The Bum
event1945 star_border 5.2
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In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
Dangerous When Wet
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6
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The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Wild Horse Rustlers
Act like Jail Guard
event1943 star_border 6
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Tom Cameron learns that his twin brother is with a group of German spies. They intend to thwart the government's efforts to round up horses for military service.
Boot Hill Bandits
Act like The Drunk
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Bolton's men blow up the wagon carrying the mine payroll and Marshal Crash Corrigan is supposedly killed in the explosion. A man finds his badge and gives it to Bolton. Thinking Crash dead, Bolton gives the badge away and it ends up with the Sheriff. Crash is OK and the Range Busters know Bolton is the head of the gang but that he gets his orders from someone else and that is the man they want.
Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Act like Frank Rand
event1943
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Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
Border Roundup
Act like Sourdough
event1942
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In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.
Pioneer Days
Act like Stagecoach Guard
event1940
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Jack Randall plays Dunham, a wandering cavalier who comes to the aid of frontier heiress Mary. The girl's legacy is half-ownership of a prosperous saloon, the other half controlled by hissable villain Slater. With the help of no less than two comic sidekicks, Dunham cuts the villain down to size.
Pinto Canyon
Act like Deputy George (as James Aubrey)
event1940 star_border 3
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In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The leader of the rustlers, rancher Farley (Ted Adams), hires killer Pete Childers (George Cheseboro) to impersonate a deputy sheriff and gain Sheriff Hall's confidence.
Give Us This Night
Act like Prisoner
event1936 star_border 7
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After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
The Mechanic
event1924
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"The Mechanic" finds Jimmy Aubrey working at an auto service station. He obviously has no idea what he's doing and again and again, he messes up. Sometimes he's an idiot--sometimes the problems just happen.
Thunder Town
Act like Gunsmith Collins
event1946 star_border 3
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An ex-convict (Bob Steele) returns to his ranch; he and his sidekick (Sid Saylor) prove he was framed.
Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Act like Tweedle
event1946
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Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the reputation of a ghost ranch to keep people away. When Henty Tenton arrives from England to take over the ranch, Dawson tries to get rid of him. But Billy and Fuzzy are on hand to help Henry and it's not long before they have to go into action.
The Rangers Take Over
Act like New Recruit
event1942 star_border 6
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Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
Thunder River Feud
Act like Photographer
event1942 star_border 5
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Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.
Arizona Stage Coach
Act like Barfly
event1942 star_border 4.5
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In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard, Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas, a supposed friend of the Willards.
Riders of the West
Act like Townsman
event1942 star_border 4
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Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
Billy the Kid Trapped
Act like Henchman
event1942 star_border 5
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Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Act like Casino Bartender
event1942 star_border 5.6
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Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures Billy and changing clothes with him, now plans to run the town as Sheriff.
The Mysterious Rider
Act like Deputy
event1942 star_border 5
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Billy the Kid and his pal Fuzzy escape from the Marshal and find themselves in the ghost town of Laramy. The city was abandoned because of Sykes and his gang, who are in search of a gold mine.
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Act like Short Deputy
event1942 star_border 4
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Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Cameron steps in to rob the tollgate keepers and return the money to the ranchers, he gets caught.
The Verdict
Act like Newsboy
event1946 star_border 6.6
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After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Western Cyclone
Act like Townsman
event1943 star_border 4.8
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Billy the Kid is framed for murder.
Fugitive of the Plains
Act like Deputy
event1943 star_border 4.8
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Billy joins an outlaw band led by woman to clear his name of their crimes, which are being blamed on him.
Wolves of the Range
Act like Man Fuzzy Bumps Into in Street
event1943 star_border 5.3
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Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank. When Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money, he is ambushed by Dorn's men, loses his memory, and is jailed for supposedly stealing the money.
The Kid Rides Again
Act like Townsman
event1943 star_border 5.5
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Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
Devil Riders
Act like Townsman
event1943 star_border 4.3
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A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.
Blazing Frontier
Act like Drunk
event1943 star_border 5
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A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.
Raiders of Red Gap
Act like Ranch Hand
event1943 star_border 6
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One man wants to control all the land in the state to graze all his cattle. His band of outlaws are raiding ranchers and homesteaders, trying to drive them out. Rocky and Fuzzy are brought in to help stop the raiders and keep the land for the small ranchers and homesteaders.
Haunted Ranch
Act like Bartender Jim
event1943 star_border 6
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Both the Range Buster and Rance and his outlaw gang are looking for stolen gold bullion. To scare people away from the ranch where the gold is hidden, Rance has his man imitating ghosts. The gold is in a steel cased organ but a certain combination of organ stops need to be pulled to obtain the gold.
Boss of Rawhide
Act like Pawn Shop Owner
event1943 star_border 5.5
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Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.
Night Cargo
Act like Huggins
event1936
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While in Singapore, a man and a pretty young girl find themselves mixed up in blackmail and murder.
The Lobbygow
event1923
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Jimmy Aubrey causes chaos in China.
Too Much Beef
Act like Shorty Rawlins
event1936 star_border 4
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Someone is adding beef to Rocky Brown's herds and changing the brands to make it look like he is rustling. Then he is framed for murder and jailed. Johnny Argyle who has been sent to investigate believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it and starts with hides that have been rebranded.
Dead Men Tell
Act like Dart Game Sailor
event1941 star_border 6.3
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When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Wild Horse Valley
Act like Shag Williams
event1940
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Bob Evans' Arabian stallion is stolen and Bob, with his friend Shag Williams starts on the trail that takes them to the horse ranch owned by Kimball and his daughter Ann, where the stallion is running wild. Baker, the ranch's crooked foreman, is utilizing the stallion as a decoy and, with his henchmen, Raymer and Winton, corrals the mares that follow the stallion in a hidden corral, intending to sell them across the state line.
Worries and Wobbles
Act like Wandering Boy
event1917 star_border 4.8
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A man comes home drunk in this slapstick comedy.
The Backyard
Act like Bum
event1920 star_border 6
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Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A policeman shows up and he is terrified; later, disguised as a policeman, he encounters Oliver Hardy, who is in brutal mode here.
Alibi Alley
Act like Elmer McGargle
event1927 star_border 1
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Aubrey plays a man with a mother-in-law problem at home and a boss problem at work.
The Devil's Holiday
Act like Drunk
event1930 star_border 6.4
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Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
The Spider Woman
Act like News Vendor (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.9
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Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Lariats and Six-Shooters
event1931 star_border 3
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A gang of jewel smugglers swears to take revenge on a deputy sheriff after his dogged pursuit of them forces them to flee without their goods.
The Lady and the Bandit
Act like First Drunk on Steps
event1951 star_border 6
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Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Act like McGurk
event1947
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Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
A Feather in Her Hat
Act like Cab Driver (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.8
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After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
If I Were King
Act like Drunk
event1938 star_border 6.7
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King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Act like Railroad Porter
event1937 star_border 5.8
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Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Act like Mechanic
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Lured
Act like Nelson (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Moonlight on the Range
Act like Tex - Foreman
event1937
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Tom "Killer" Dane kills Jeff's friend, who then pursues him. Jeff and Dane are look-alike half brothers, which allows Dane to make a raid dressed like Jeff. Jeff is arrested, but before Dane's henchman can organize a lynch mob, Fuzzy breaks him out and Jeff heads after Dane again.
Ridin' On
Act like Jimmy (uncredited)
event1936
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Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O'Neil. Tom Rork has found a bullet with markings on it that he hopes will clear Danny and bring in the real killer.
The Gay Divorcee
Act like (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.9
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Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
The Live Wire
Act like Prof. Harris (as James Aubrey)
event1935 star_border 8
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A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also stars Alberta Vaughn, Charles K. French and Martin Turner.
At Twelve Midnight
Act like Blinkey
event1933 star_border 4.5
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A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves
Kitty
Act like Cockney Cart Driver (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Dangerous Lady
Act like Tiverton Apartment Manager
event1941 star_border 4.5
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Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.
Dead Men Walk
Act like Crowd and Mob Man in Black Vest
event1943 star_border 4.6
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When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
The Black Raven
Act like Road Watchman
event1943 star_border 5.4
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One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
On Your Guard
Act like Jim - Lynch Mob Leader
event1933 star_border 6
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An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Act like McGurk
event1948
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Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
The Gallant Fool
Act like Beaney Mulligan
event1926
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A young American arrives in Valdonia to collect a debt which the kingdom owes to his millionaire father. He impersonates a Valdonian prince for a day and wins the love of Princess Iris, the queen of the kingdom.
The Messenger
Act like The Chemist
event1921
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A chemist who lives with his daughter has invented an explosive which he calls "IT." A masked band seeks to steal the explosive from him, and has already sent the chemist warning letters. The chemist hides the explosive in his safe, but his daughter transfers it to a lamp on the table for safer keeping. The band attack the house, and Jimmy finally gets what he believes to be the explosive from the safe.
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