
Birthday:
12-23-1904
Deathday:
01-25-1979 (74 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
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A Town Has Turned to Dust
Act like Townsman
event1958
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The weakling sheriff of a small southwestern town allows a Mexican teenager to be lynched by a local mob for a crime he may not have committed.
Mrs. Mike
Act like Louis Beauclaire
event1949 star_border 2
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This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with one of the few young, white males in the region. They marry and depart for the northern wilderness to set up house and home. The rest of the movie is about her struggles and joys of living and travelling in this rugged country.
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Act like Killer (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.5
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In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Act like Ship Officer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.2
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A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Act like German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.2
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A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Without Reservations
Act like Train Passenger (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.2
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Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
The Yellow Mountain
Act like (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.1
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A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.
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Act like Sam (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.3
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Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
Storm Warning
Act like Townsman on Courthouse Steps (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
It Happened in Flatbush
Act like Burly Baseball Fan
event1942 star_border 4.8
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A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Man in the Dark
Act like Cop (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 5.9
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Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 5.6
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Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.
The First Texan
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.1
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After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.
Calamity Jane
Act like Chicagoan (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.9
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Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
I'll Be Seeing You
Act like Sidewalk Cowboy (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
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Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
The Dolly Sisters
Act like Soldier
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
Here Comes Trouble
Act like Hood at Burlesque House (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 4.6
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A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
An American Romance
Act like Assembly Line Worker (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.9
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A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
River of No Return
Act like Prospector (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.7
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An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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.
Riders of the Dawn
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1945
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Jimmy Wakely and Dusty, traveling with the medicine show owned by "Lasses" White, stop at the Ferguson ranch and find the rancher and his wife killed. They take the Ferguson baby to their camp, where outlaws Joe, Slick and Pete attempt to kidnap the baby, while Dusty is reporting the murders to Sheriff Beasley and town mayor Melinda Pringle. Wakely and his singers hide the baby from its legal guardian, Doc Judd Thomas, as they suspect him of being connected with the Ferguson murders.
The Unknown Man
event1951 star_border 4.8
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A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
It Happened Tomorrow
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.
Larceny in Her Heart
Act like Asylum Orderly
event1946 star_border 6
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In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
The Tattered Dress
Act like Man on Courthouse Steps (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 5.6
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After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
Lover Come Back
Act like Harrison - Peter Ramsey's Chauffeur (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 7
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Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Cry Tough
event1959 star_border 5.8
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After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
Gambling House
Act like Court Bailiff (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.1
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A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Short Grass
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6
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Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
Who's Minding the Mint?
Act like Guard
event1967 star_border 7
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A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wants a slice of the action - and the money.
Our Man Flint
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6.4
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When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
What a Way to Go!
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 7
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A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
A Life at Stake
Act like Suspicious Stranger (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.2
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An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
The Phantom of 42nd Street
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 4.5
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A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
Mystery Broadcast
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.4
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Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Act like Nazi at Bund Meeting (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Big Town
Act like Cop (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 4.8
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A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
The Best Man
Act like Delegate (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 7.3
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The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Big Town After Dark
Act like Police Car Driver (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.5
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A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Big Town Scandal
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5
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A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Raintree County
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.4
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In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Lady in the Death House
Act like Guard (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.
Pinky
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.1
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Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
The Last Hurrah
Act like Man at Campaign HQ (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 7.1
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In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Deadline at Dawn
Act like Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.2
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A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
A Likely Story
Act like Man in Tiny's Place (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 4.2
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A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Act like Peasant (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.3
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A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
The Great Dictator
Act like Soldier (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 8.3
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Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Woman in Hiding
Act like Bus Passenger (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.2
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As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Slightly Scarlet
event1956 star_border 6.1
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Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Pat and Mike
Act like Golf Spectator (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.3
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Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Act like Detective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.2
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A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 7.1
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A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Sunset Boulevard
Act like Cop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 8.3
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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Act like Ringside Photographer (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 7.2
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The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Kitty Foyle
Act like Man at Premiere / Policeman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Scared Stiff
Act like Dockworker (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.4
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A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Mr. Skeffington
Act like Speakeasy Bouncer (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Love Thy Neighbor
Act like Dock Worker
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Act like Extra (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.6
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Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Wake of the Red Witch
Act like Seaman
event1948 star_border 5.5
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Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
The Fleet's In
Act like Bouncer at Brawl
event1942 star_border 7
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Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Act like Henchman
event1942 star_border 5
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season. The plot concerns a group of insurrectionists who intend to keep Texas separate from the rest of the USA.
The Omaha Trail
Act like Oxen Train Bullwhacker
event1942 star_border 7
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The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Texas
Act like Ringsider
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Invisible Ghost
Act like Guard at Ralph's Execution (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.2
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The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
One Foot in Hell
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 5.3
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Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.
711 Ocean Drive
Act like Peterson - Carl's Chauffeur (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.3
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A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
A Date with the Falcon
Act like Spectator at Airport (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.5
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In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Over My Dead Body
Act like Joe, 1st Arresting Policeman
event1942
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Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Bell, Book and Candle
Act like Mover (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.5
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A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Act like Passerby (uncredited)
event1968 star_border 6.2
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Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
Calhoun
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6
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Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
Captive Wild Woman
Act like Roustabout (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
A Woman's Secret
Act like Policeman (Uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.7
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A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
The Strange Woman
Act like Sailor in Saloon (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.3
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In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
Crash Dive
Act like German Seaman
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Mission to Moscow
Act like Man at Bar in Montage (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Oklahoma Outlaws
Act like Saloon Waiter (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5
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In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Johnny O'Clock
Act like Hotel Doorman
event1947 star_border 6.1
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When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
Bunco Squad
Act like Bunco Unit Detective at Desk (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Act like Policeman at Fight Arena
event1948 star_border 6
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Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Act like O'Brien Hood (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 6
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Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Badman's Territory
Act like Townsman at Dance (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.8
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After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Pretty Baby
Act like Train Passenger (uncredited)
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.
Address Unknown
Act like Rock-Tossing-Rioter (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.3
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When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Act like Trial Spectator (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.2
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Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Act like Assistant to Robert Z. Leonard (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.7
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When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Al Capone
Act like Funeral Spectator
event1959 star_border 6.6
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In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
The Great Sinner
Act like Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.7
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A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
When Strangers Marry
Act like Police Detective (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.1
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A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
House of Strangers
Act like Construction Worker (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.9
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Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
Undercover Maisie
Act like Bouncer (Uncredited)
event1947 star_border 8
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Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Journey Into Light
Act like Foreman
event1951 star_border 6
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John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
The Quiet Gun
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.4
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A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
Detective Kitty O'Day
Act like Policeman Joe Kasinski (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 4.8
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Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
The Strangler
Act like Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6.3
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An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
I Love Lucy
Act like Holdup Man (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.9
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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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