Frank Faylen
Birthday: Born in 1905-12-08 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Deathday: 1985-08-02
Frank Faylen (born Francis Charles Ruf) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered for his movie performances as the cynical male nurse in The Lost Weekend (1945) and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), as well as for his portrayal of long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers....
The Great Adventure
Character: O'Brien
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History....
That Girl
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That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her...
The Beverly Hillbillies
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Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California....
Petticoat Junction
Character: Ralph
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel....
General Electric Theater
Character: Farber
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations....
Man with a Camera
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Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton. Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent...
My Mother the Car
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The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile....
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Sheriff Earl Tipton
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big ...
Racket Squad
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Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the ...
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Doc Alvarez
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961....
Telephone Time
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Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller....
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Character: Herbert T. Gillis
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces...
Maverick
Character: Red Harrison
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm....
The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same ti...
Quincy, M.E.
Character: Janus
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations....
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The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Tim
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully....
It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Ernie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin....
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Character: Phin Gray
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees....
Detective Story
Character: Det. Gallagher
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter....
The Reluctant Dragon
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process....
You Came Along
Character: Bellboy (uncredited)
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more....
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Character: Sheriff Cotton Wilson
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral....
Road to Rio
Character: Trigger
Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the c...
The Palm Beach Story
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III....
The Sniper
Character: Anderson
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him....
Come Live with Me
Character: Waiter
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer....
Riot in Cell Block 11
Character: Commissioner Haskell
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly....
The Lost Weekend
Character: 'Bim' Nolan
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another....
Terror at Midnight
Character: Fred Hill
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves....
Convicted
Character: Convict Ponti
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted....
Blood on the Moon
Character: Jake Pindalest
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right....
99 River Street
Character: Stan Hogan
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves....
7th Cavalry
Character: Sgt. Kruger
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn....
The Lusty Men
Character: Al Dawson
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport....
Funny Girl
Character: Keeney
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein....
The Blue Dahlia
Character: Man Recommending Motel
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer....
The Nevadan
Character: Jeff
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher....
It's a Wonderful World
Character: Peters - Stagehand (uncredited)
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police....
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Pete Foley - 1st pilot
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture....
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Adjutant (uncredited)
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins....
They Won't Forget
Character: Reporter
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless rep...
The Canterville Ghost
Character: Lieutenant John Kane
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress....
Away All Boats
Character: Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops on enemy beachheads....
Kid Galahad
Character: Barney
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister....
Fourteen Hours
Character: Walter, room service waiter
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it....
Blue Skies
Character: Mack
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long....
Hangman's Knot
Character: Cass Browne
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong info...
To Each His Own
Character: Babe
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar....
Race Street
Character: Phil Dickson
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend....
Whispering Ghosts
Character: Curly
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain....
Thunder Afloat
Character: Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I....
Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Stage Manager (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?...
The McConnell Story
Character: Sfc. Sykes
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step....
My Favorite Spy
Character: Newton
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy....
Copper Canyon
Character: Mullins
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles....
North to Alaska
Character: Arnie (uncredited)
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France....
Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players....
Address Unknown
Character: Jimmie Blake
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda....
California
Character: Whitey
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire....
San Quentin
Character: Convict Envying Hoffman (uncredited)
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister....
Variety Girl
Character: Frank Faylen
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio....
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Character: Speed Dugan
A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows....
The Perils of Pauline
Character: Mr. Joe Gurt
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take...
Curtain Call
Character: Spike Malone
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find....
Taxi, Mister
Character: Henchman Silk
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer....
The Affairs of Susan
Character: Brooklyn Boy (Uncredited)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual....
The Looters
Character: Stan Leppich
A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors--and also find $250,000 in cash among the debris....
Dino
Character: Frank Mandel
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum....
The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Yankee Third Base Coach (uncredited)
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig....
Fluffy
Character: Catfish
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion....
The Lone Gun
Character: Fairweather
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing another man. But when the jailer is murdered, Cruze gets evidence the Morans did it. He tries to raise a posse to chase them down but the townsmen refuse to go. So he rides off by himself to face the three of them....
Passage West
Character: Curly
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country....
Road Gang
Character: Radio Dispatcher
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm....
Standing Room Only
Character: Cabbie
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy....
No Place to Go
Character: Pete Shaffer
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life....
King of Hockey
Character: Swede
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game....
Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Boss
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman....
Three Brave Men
Character: Enos Warren
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs....
Everything But the Truth
Character: 'Mac' McMillan
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison....
And the Angels Sing
Character: Holman
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing....
Welcome Stranger
Character: Bill Walters
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?...
Across the Pacific
Character: Sidewalk Toy Vendor (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....
Reno
Character: J. Hezmer Briggs
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon....
The Monkey's Uncle
Character: Mr. Dearborne
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus....
Two Years Before the Mast
Character: Hansen
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy)....
Married and in Love
Character: Jim Carter, Man in Bar
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates's dinner party, Leslie's wife Helen brings home a magazine article written by Doris, which sparks Leslie's memory of his separation from her....
Let's Go Collegiate
Character: Speed Dorman
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue....
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Character: Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell....
Somewhere I'll Find You
Character: Soldier Driving Jeep
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east....
Blame It on Love
Character: Studio Electrician
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges....
Alice in Movieland
Character: Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. ...
Waterfront
Character: Skids Riley
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered....
Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Character: Herbert T. Gillis
Thirty-minute reunion of the classic series that includes Bob Denver and title star Dwayne Hickman....
Silver Skates
Character: Eddie
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts....
Women in the Wind
Character: Chuck - the Mechanic (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....
The Fighting 69th
Character: Engineer Sergeant (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....
Wine, Women and Horses
Character: Horse Buyer
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife....
Whispering Smith
Character: Whitey Du Sang
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa)....
The Invisible Menace
Character: Private of the Guard
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects....
Hazard
Character: Oscar
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail....
Ever Since Eve
Character: Bandit Leader at Monteray Tavern (uncredited)
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie....
Cross My Heart
Character: Fingerprint Expert
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself....
Masquerade in Mexico
Character: Brooklyn (uncredited)
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess....
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: Charlie Downs
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drop...
Dance Charlie Dance
Character: Ted Parks
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism....
Idiot's Delight
Character: Ed
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII....
The Flying Irishman
Character: New York Mechanic
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indi...
Prairie Chickens
Character: Clem
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle....
Lucky Night
Character: Play Palace Announcer (uncredited)
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married....
Five Came Back
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means tha...
Gone with the Wind
Character: Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era....
Steel Against the Sky
Character: Egg Man in Diner (uncredited)
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman....
Francis
Character: Sergeant Chillingbacker
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually......
Thieves Fall Out
Character: Pick
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course....
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Character: Federal Agent
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back....
The Cherokee Strip
Character: Joe Brady
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee....
Midnight Court
Character: Reporter
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves....
Wake Island
Character:
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base....
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
Night Waitress
Character: Policeman at Torre's
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks....
Smart Blonde
Character: Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing....
Dixie Dugan
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie t...
The Unknown Guest
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear....
The Gang's All Here
Character: Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific....
The Sky Parade
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft....
Suddenly It's Spring
Character: Harold Michaels
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce....
Brother Orchid
Character: Parkway Biltmore Desk Clerk (uncredited)
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk....
Edison, the Man
Character: Galbreath
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker....
All American Chump
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters....
No Time to Marry
Character: Waxler
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop"....
Just a Cute Kid
Character: Benny
When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but things get worse than expected....
Father Steps Out
Character: Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover....
Good Morning, Judge
Character: Ben Pollard
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney....
Tanks a Million
Character: Pvt. Skivic
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence....
Get Going
Character: Hank
Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton, an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring....
Fall In
Character: Capt. Gillis
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy....
Yanks Ahoy
Character: Quartermaster Jenkins
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub....
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Character: Pat Dolan
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan...
A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Train Detective (uncredited)
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results....
Red Garters
Character: Billy Buckett
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Eb...
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Character: Taxi Driver #2 (uncredited)
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he ...
Sergeant York
Character: But! Boy (uncredited)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI....
City for Conquest
Character: Band Conductor and Emcee (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?...
Saturday's Children
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet....
No Time for Comedy
Character: Cab Driver
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....
Back in Circulation
Character: James Maxwell - a Reporter (uncredited)
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angl...
East of the River
Character: Tour Guide (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl....
Castle on the Hudson
Character: Guard Who is Slugged (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
They Drive by Night
Character: Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company....
Pop Always Pays
Character: Minerva Auto Loan Cashier
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett....
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: Boat Tour Guide (uncredited)
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house....
Young Ideas
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor....
Double Exposure
Character: Press Photographer (uncredited)
An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want her photographed....
La Conga Nights
Character: Jeepers Peepers
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent....
The Eagle and the Hawk
Character: Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico......
Tough as They Come
Character: Collector
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them....
The Trouble with Women
Character: Geeger
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is....
Corvette K-225
Character: Shipyard Painter
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
Border Flight
Character: Jimmie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance....
Model Wife
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage....
About Face
Character: Bartender Jerry
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance....
Mokey
Character: Police Desk Sergeant
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild....
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Character: Sergeant on Parade (uncredited)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan....
Slightly Dangerous
Character: Gateman (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity....
The Go-Getter
Character: Country Club Man #2 (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success....
The Well Groomed Bride
Character: Cabbie
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship....
Marked Woman
Character: Cabbie #2 (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters....
Bombalera
Character: Houlihan
1945 film nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel...
Bring on the Girls
Character: Sailor
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him....
A Guy Named Joe
Character: Major (uncredited)
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment....
Mission to Moscow
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
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....
Slapsie Maxie's
Character: Tiger Dorsey
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ....
Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Man with Man Carrying Dead Child
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the ...
Nazty Nuisance
Character: Seaman Benson
Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies....
The Falcon Strikes Back
Character: Cecil, a Hobo (uncredited)
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation....
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
Bullets or Ballots
Character: Gatley - Pinball Racketeer (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent....
China Clipper
Character: Weatherman (uncredited)
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China....
Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders....
Incendiary Blonde
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"...
Invisible Stripes
Character: Steve - Henchman on Bank Job (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....
See Here, Private Hargrove
Character: M.P. (uncredited)
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income....
Joe Smith, American
Character: Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)
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......
Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Gus a Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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....
Headin' East
Character: Joe
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments....