
Birthday:
03-22-1883
Deathday:
07-24-1938 (55 years)
Birthplace:
Akron, Ohio, USA
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Today We Live
Act like Major
event1933 star_border 6.2
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Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Act like Jailer (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.2
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Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Act like Landlord (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.1
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A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Arsène Lupin Returns
Act like Duval
event1938 star_border 5.8
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A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
The Accusing Finger
Act like Dr. Simms
event1936 star_border 4.7
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A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Destination Unknown
Act like Dr. Fram
event1933
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A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Professional Soldier
Act like Cabinet Member
event1935 star_border 4.5
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Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
White Legion
Act like The Colonel
event1936 star_border 4.5
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In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
Carnival Lady
Act like Harry
event1933 star_border 5
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When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
The Lady in the Morgue
Act like Coroner
event1938 star_border 6
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A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Prestige
Act like Capt. Emil de Fontenac
event1931 star_border 5.5
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A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Whom the Gods Destroy
Act like Henry Braverman
event1934 star_border 5.5
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Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
The Women Men Marry
Act like Peter Martin
event1937 star_border 5.5
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A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Love Letters of a Star
Act like Sigurd Repellen
event1936
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A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
Barbary Coast
Act like Wigham
event1935 star_border 6.6
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Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
Desire
Act like Clerk to Perform Wedding (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.7
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Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
History Is Made at Night
event1937 star_border 6.6
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An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Night Spot
Act like Vail
event1938 star_border 4.7
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A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Out All Night
Act like David Arnold
event1933 star_border 6
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A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
Smashing the Rackets
Act like Sam Schwartz - Butcher
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Strictly Personal
Act like Jerry O'Connor
event1933 star_border 5
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Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
The Mystery Man
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
Girl Loves Boy
Act like Dr. Williams
event1937 star_border 4.5
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Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
Bride of Frankenstein
Act like Neighbor (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Four Days Wonder
Act like The Tramp
event1936
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Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
Hot Tip
Act like Henry Crumm
event1935 star_border 5
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An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Flaming Gold
Act like Harry Banning
event1932 star_border 5.5
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Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
The Westland Case
Act like Amos Sprague
event1937 star_border 6
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A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Anthony Adverse
Act like Napoleon Bonaparte
event1936 star_border 5.7
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Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Seventh Heaven
Act like Matoot
event1937 star_border 6.6
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A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Laughter in Hell
Act like Zeb
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.
The Saint in New York
Act like Bartender (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.2
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A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Armored Car
Act like Organist
event1937 star_border 4.2
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Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
Okay, America!
Act like Joe Morton
event1932 star_border 5
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A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Mad Love
Act like Varsac, Fingerprint Expert (Uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.9
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An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Straight from the Shoulder
Act like Mr. Blake
event1936 star_border 4.5
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A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
The Devil-Doll
Act like Detective
event1936 star_border 6.8
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Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
Yellowstone
Act like Franklin Ross
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
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