James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.
James Donlan Biography / Wiki
Name | James Donlan |
Also Know | Jim Donlan |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
Date of Birth | 1888-07-23 |
Age(as in 2022) | 49 |
Deathday | 1938-06-07 |
James Donlan Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Big Dame Hunting | 1932-01-15 | A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him… and that means trouble!… | |
Just a Pain in the Parlor | Mr. Smith | 1932-04-25 | Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress…. |
Copy | Adams | 1929-10-11 | On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line…. |
The Whole Town’s Talking | Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe | 1935-02-22 | Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h… |
Men of Chance | Clark | 1931-12-27 | A gambler falls for a fake countess…. |
Belle of the Nineties | Kirby (Tiger Kid’s manager) | 1934-09-21 | Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men…. |
The Good Bad Girl | Police Sgt. Donovan | 1931-05-20 | A woman’s former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man…. |
Beau Bandit | Buck | 1930-03-02 | Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and hi… |
Crash Donovan | Smokey | 1936-08-01 | A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring…. |
Penguin Pool Murder | Security Guard Fink | 1932-12-09 | New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank … |
Remote Control | Blodgett | 1930-11-15 | A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves…. |
Wise Girls | Ben Wade | 1929-09-21 | Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste…. |
The Fall Guy | The Bill Collector | 1930-06-15 | Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a “bag man” for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre,… |
Under Pressure | Corky | 1935-02-02 | Two members of a crew of “sandhogs”, men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs … |
The Plot Thickens | Jim | 1936-12-11 | A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case…. |
The Final Edition | Freddie | 1932-02-12 | A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate…. |
Danger Lights | Picnic Barker (uncredited) | 1930-08-21 | Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who’d hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; … |
It Happened in Hollywood | Shorty | 1937-09-07 | A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound…. |
The Bishop Murder Case | Ernest Heath | 1930-01-03 | The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where h… |
A Very Honorable Guy | Mr. O’Toole | 1934-04-18 | Well respected local good guy, “Feet” Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se… |
20,000 Years in Sing Sing | First Reporter (uncredited) | 1932-12-24 | Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him…. |
A Free Soul | Reporter (uncredited) | 1931-06-02 | An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically invo… |
College Humor | Marcus Lafflin | 1933-07-05 | A college professor and the school’s star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed…. |
The Avenger | Durant | 1933-08-10 | A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison…. |
The Sins of the Children | Bide Taylor | 1930-06-27 | A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west…. |
What! No Beer? | Al (uncredited) | 1933-02-10 | When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters…. |
Mothers Cry | City Editor | 1930-12-07 | Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life o… |
Traveling Saleslady | Andy McNeill | 1935-03-28 | A toothpaste magnate’s mischievous daughter, tired of her father’s traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father’s rival and a… |
Sporting Blood | Jim, a Trainer (uncredited) | 1931-08-08 | A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well…. |
Paris Interlude | Jones – Times Reporter | 1934-07-27 | Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro…… |
Huddle | Heckler at Game (uncredited) | 1932-05-14 | Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale … |
The Case of the Curious Bride | Detective Fritz | 1935-04-13 | After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meet… |
Dark Hazard | Man Advising Jim at Dog Track | 1934-01-31 | Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valeri… |
Boulder Dam | Nightclub Manager (uncredited) | 1936-03-07 | Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run…. |
Design for Living | Fat Man with Ring (uncredited) | 1933-12-29 | An independent woman can’t choose between the two men she loves…. |
The Nuisance | Photographer (uncredited) | 1933-06-03 | Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, un… |
We’re Only Human | Casey | 1935-12-27 | A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster…. |
Hot Tip | Bill – Racetrack Bettor | 1935-08-20 | An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies…. |
Mystery of the Wax Museum | Morgue Attendant (Uncredited) | 1933-02-18 | The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor…. |
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1936-04-24 | A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife…. |
Five Star Final | 1931-09-26 | An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost…. | |
I Loved a Woman | Voting Returns Announcer (uncredited) | 1933-09-23 | The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l… |
Daybreak | Drunk Inviting Laura to Dance | 1931-05-02 | An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy…. |
The Working Man | Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited) | 1933-04-20 | A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor;… |
Big News | Deke | 1929-09-06 | A reporter’s marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn’t commit…. |
The Painted Desert | Steve – Ore Wagon #2 Shotgun Rider | 1931-03-07 | Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants’ camp, and clash over which is to be “father.” They are still bitter… |
Music for Madame | Suspect with Cold (Uncredited) | 1937-10-08 | An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w… |
Doctor Bull | Harry Weems | 1933-09-22 | In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen’s novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regar… |
Hi, Nellie! | Evans (uncredited) | 1934-01-20 | Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a s… |
Borrowing Trouble | Casey | 1937-12-10 | The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to…. |
Dr. Socrates | Salesman in Car | 1935-10-19 | Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor… |
The Daring Young Man | Captain of the Prison Guard | 1935-07-17 | The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by … |
Life Begins at Forty | Farmer | 1935-03-22 | A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr… |
The Mayor of Hell | Sam (uncredited) | 1933-06-24 | Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Dep… |
Professor Beware | Man Reported at Museum | 1938-07-29 | 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 po… |
The Death Kiss | Max Hill | 1932-12-05 | When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative … |
Babes in Arms | Fred (uncredited) | 1939-10-10 | Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa… |
This Is My Affair | Reporter | 1937-05-28 | President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Pa… |
Here Comes the Band | Joe (uncredited) | 1935-08-30 | In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfrie… |
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