Eddie Dew
Birthday: Born in 1909-01-29 in Sumner, Washington, USA
Deathday: 1972-04-06
TV Credits
Hawaii Five-O
Character: Detective
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett...
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
Character:
Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956....
The Living Christ
Character: James
The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection....
The Living Bible
Character: Narrator
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection. Filmed mostly on location in the Holy Land....
Movie Credits
Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
Character: Barnett
Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers....
Across the Pacific
Character: Unidentified Man (uncredited)
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious....
Mutiny in the Arctic
Character: Radioman (uncredited)
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves....
Play Girl
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks....
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work....
Ladies' Day
Character: Spike McClousen
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team....
Raiders of Sunset Pass
Character: Johnny Revere
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Dad Mathews, a rancher with a huge government contract order for beef, has trouble with the cattle rustlers, led by Henry Judson and Lefty Lewis, who are taking advantage of the situation to steal his herds. John Paul Revere, Special State Investigator, arrives, and upon meeting Mathews' daughter, Betty, gets the idea of recruiting the hard-riding daugh...
Everybody's Hobby
Character: Ranger (uncredited)
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off....
Fighting Frontier
Character: Frank Walton
An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched....
Beyond the Last Frontier
Character: Johnny Revere
Beyond the Last Frontier was the first entry in Republic's "John Paul Revere" western series. Journeyman actor Eddie Dew stars as Revere, a Texas Ranger who goes undercover to smash an outlaw gang. Meanwhile, the villains install an informer amongst the Rangers, meaning that Revere will have to take care of this guy before he can complete his assignment. While Eddie Dew was OK in the lead, his thunder was stolen by the young actor cast as "Trigger Dolan"-future superstar Robert Mitchum. The plot...
All That Money Can Buy
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul....
A Star Is Born
Character: Assistant Director at Train Station (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral....
Red River Robin Hood
Character: Scott Yager
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade....
The Living Bible
Character: Narrator (voice)
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection....
Professor Beware
Character: Railroad Worker
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way....
Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Gas Station Attendant
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death ...
Riding the Wind
Character: Henry Dodge
It's the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water. When windmills are built and they start pumping water, Dodge has them blown up. When a court order forces him to release the water, he decides to blow up the dam and flood the valley....
Beyond the Pecos
Character: Bob Randall
Rancher Lew Remington is at odds with longtime rival Bob Randall. The two men battle over rights of oil land that borders both their properties....
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Henchman-Delivery Man
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato....
The Fighting 69th
Character: Regan (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end....
Syncopation
Character:
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love....
Wagon Train
Character: Peter O'Conner
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to ...
King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Dam Guard Thomas
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies....
Sunset Boulevard
Character: Assistant Coroner (uncredited)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity....
The Man with Nine Lives
Character: Doctor Spectator Listening to Explanation (uncredited)
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project....
A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency....
Cross-Country Romance
Character: Reporter
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....
Dude Cowboy
Character: French
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden....
Citizen Kane
Character: Man in Projection Room (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event....
Hello, Annapolis
Character: Officer of the Watch
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl....
Cyclone on Horseback
Character: Pete
Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Corbin when intercepted by smooth-talking Cobb Wayne, who is in a deadly competition with Corbin....
Six Gun Gospel
Character: Dan Baxter
U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville, a small ranching community being terrorized by greedy saloon keeper Ace Benton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his gang of cutthroats. Unbeknownst to the citizenry, the railroad is planning to build tracks thr...
Army Girl
Character: Soldier
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed....
The Old Texas Trail
Character: Dave Stone
In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless outlaws who are trying to take over the reins of a stage coach line....
Renegades of the Rio Grande
Character: Ranger Cal Benedict
A cowboy who was trying to return the loot from a robbery finds hmself suspected of the crime....
Trigger Trail
Character: Sheriff Bob Reynolds
The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his town from being taken over by a villainous railroad financier....
Trail to Gunsight
Character: Dan Creede
In this western, an innocent saddletramp is blamed for killing a man. Fortunately he finds the real culprit before it is too late....
Badlands of Dakota
Character: Henchman
In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane....
King of the Cowboys
Character: Bridge Henchman
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses....
A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Cowboy
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors....
Riders of the Santa Fe
Character: Larry Anderson
Tom Benner controls the town and the water supply. When his stooge Mayor rebels, he has him killed and replaced with Bullseye Johnson who immediately brings in Matt Canway as the town Marshal. Conway doesn't carry a gun but he is soon on to Benner and out to prove that Benner has altered the survey lines to obtain the water rights....
Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Lieutenant-Commander at Meeting (uncredited)
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships....
Bombardier
Character: Chick's B-17 Co-Pilot
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence....
Corvette K-225
Character: Crewman
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
Cat People
Character: Street Policeman (uncredited)
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator....
Destroyer
Character: Survivor
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save ...
So Proudly We Hail
Character: Captain Lawrence (Uncredited)
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers....
The Falcon Takes Over
Character: Reporter (Uncredited)
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps....
Ride Clear of Diablo
Character: Matt Grove
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother....