
Birthday:
04-29-1897
Deathday:
01-06-1975 (77 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Noel Madison (born Noel Nathaniel Moscovitch; April 30, 1897 – January 6, 1975) was an American character actor in the 1930s and 1940s and appeared in 75 films, often as a gangster.
Born in New York City, Madison was the son of actor Maurice Moscovitch and his wife Rose.
Besides his theatrical work in the United States, he acted on stage in England and Australia.
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Born in New York City, Madison was the son of actor Maurice Moscovitch and his wife Rose.
Besides his theatrical work in the United States, he acted on stage in England and Australia.
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City in Darkness
Act like Belescu
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
The Doorway to Hell
Act like Rocco
event1930 star_border 6.3
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A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
The Pace That Kills
Act like Nick - The Pusher
event1935 star_border 2.6
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A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.
Manhattan Melodrama
Act like Manny Arnold
event1934 star_border 7
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Footsteps in the Dark
Act like Leopold Fissue
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Our Relations
Act like Second Gangster at Pirate's Club
event1936 star_border 6.9
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Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Highway West
Act like Salvo, Henchman
event1941 star_border 5.8
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A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
The Gentleman from Nowhere
Act like Vincent Sawyer
event1948 star_border 6
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Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Act like Gordon Cobb
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
The Last Mile
Act like D'Amoro, Cell 6
event1932 star_border 5.9
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Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Bombs Over Burma
Act like Me-Hoi
event1942 star_border 5
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The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
The Black Raven
Act like Mike Bardoni
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.
Symphony of Six Million
Act like Magnus
event1932 star_border 5.4
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A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
The House of Secrets
Act like Dan Wharton
event1936 star_border 5.6
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Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Four Hours to Kill!
Act like Anderson
event1935 star_border 5
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A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
A Tragedy at Midnight
Act like Ricci (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4
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The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Laughter in Hell
Act like Brownfield
event1933 star_border 1
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In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Missing Girls
Act like Ben Davis
event1936 star_border 5
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A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Missing Evidence
Act like Paul Duncan
event1939
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G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Destination Unknown
Act like Maxie
event1933
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A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
What Price Crime
Act like Douglas Worthington
event1935 star_border 2
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Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.
The Star Witness
Act like Henchman Horan (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.7
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A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Murder at Glen Athol
Act like Gus Colleti
event1936 star_border 6.5
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A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
Sailing Along
Act like Windy
event1938 star_border 7
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A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
Easy Money
Act like 'Duke' Trotti
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
Woman Wanted
Act like Joe Metz
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Play Girl
Act like Martie Happ
event1932 star_border 5.2
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A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Jitterbugs
Act like Tony Queen
event1943 star_border 5.8
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The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
Crackerjack
Act like Sculpie
event1938 star_border 6.1
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London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
The Important Witness
Act like Gus Miranda
event1933 star_border 5
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A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
West of Singapore
Act like Degama
event1933
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Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
My Marriage
Act like Marty Harris
event1936 star_border 5
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When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
Climbing High
Act like Gibson
event1938 star_border 6.2
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Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Act like George Belden
event1942 star_border 5.7
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A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
The Girl Who Came Back
Act like Hal Brewster
event1935 star_border 5.7
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A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Act like Angelo Paroni
event1932
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Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Miss V from Moscow
Act like Fritz Kleiss
event1942 star_border 5
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Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
Man Of The People
Act like Benny Silvers
event1937 star_border 7
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An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Secret Agent of Japan
Act like Saito
event1942 star_border 4.5
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World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
Sinners' Holiday
Act like Buck
event1930 star_border 5.8
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Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
Kate Plus Ten
Act like Gregori
event1938
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Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Gangway
Act like Mike Otterman
event1937 star_border 7
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Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
'G' Men
Act like Durfee
event1935 star_border 6.6
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James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Champagne Charlie
Act like Pedro Gorini
event1936 star_border 4.8
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The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Journal of a Crime
Act like Costelli
event1934 star_border 5.7
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A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Me and My Gal
Act like Baby Face
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Nation Aflame
Act like Frank Sandino
event1937 star_border 4
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Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.
Joe Smith, American
Act like Schricker
event1942 star_border 5.7
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Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
A Shot in the Dark
Act like Al Martin
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Shantytown
Act like Ace Lambert
event1943 star_border 6
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Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
The Man Who Made Diamonds
Act like Joseph
event1937
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“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Know Your Money
Act like Dominic
event1940 star_border 9
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This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
Sucker List
Act like Mr. Brown
event1941 star_border 6
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In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.
Muss 'em Up
Act like Tony Spivali, Gambler
event1936 star_border 5.5
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Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
Little Caesar
Act like Killer Peppi (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.9
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A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
The Morals of Marcus
Act like Tony Pasquale
event1935
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A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
3 Kids and a Queen
Act like Stanley
event1935 star_border 6
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An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Anything to Declare?
Act like Dr. Klee
event1938 star_border 4
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John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
The Great Plane Robbery
Act like Joe Colson
event1940
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Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
Straight from the Shoulder
Act like Trim
event1936 star_border 4.5
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A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Humanity
Act like Sam Bernstein
event1933
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A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
I Like it That Way
Act like Jimmy Stuart
event1934 star_border 7
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A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
Radio Patrol
Act like Tony
event1932
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A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
The House of Rothschild
Act like Carl Rothschild
event1934 star_border 6.2
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The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
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