John Rummel Hamilton was an American actor, who played in many movies and television programs. He is probably best remembered for his role as the blustery newspaper editor Perry White for the 1950s television program “Adventures of Superman.â€

John Hamilton Biography / Wiki
Name | John Hamilton |
Also Know | John Rummel Hamilton, John R. Hamilton |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
Date of Birth | 1887-01-16 |
Age(as in 2022) | 71 |
Deathday | 1958-10-15 |
John Hamilton Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Studio Murder Mystery | Insp. Carr | 1932-02-17 | When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate…. |
The Wall Street Mystery | Inspector Carr | 1931-11-01 | When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree t… |
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery | Inspector Carr | 1932-08-31 | A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they’re double-crossed and killed before reaching New York…. |
The Skull Murder Mystery | Inspector Carr | 1932-03-01 | When the skeleton of a young man is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The tea… |
The Week End Mystery | 1931-12-01 | During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o’clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card tabl… | |
The Cole Case | Inspector Carr | 1932-04-01 | Dr. Crabtree (Donald Meek) and Insp. Carr (John Hamilton) are visited by a man who has been receiving notes threatening to kill him. The latest note s… |
Murder In The Pullman | Detective | 1932-01-01 | Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling…. |
The Symphony Murder Mystery | Insp. Carr | 1932-01-01 | A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?… |
Phantom Killer | John G. Harrison | 1942-10-02 | Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there… |
Borrowed Hero | William Brooks | 1941-12-05 | A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case…. |
The Flag of Humanity | Gen. James Garfield | 1940-10-19 | The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross…. |
The Gigolo Racket | George Burke | 1931-06-15 | As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love…. |
The Silver Lining | John Hurst | 1928-02-01 | The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the … |
Stamp Day for Superman | Perry White | 1954-01-01 | Superman’s commitment to promote US Savings Stamps is temporarily delayed when Lois is kidnapped…. |
Success | Mr. Kelly – Molly’s Father | 1931-06-30 | Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into … |
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde | Odilion van Belle | 1929-05-20 | In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law…. |
The Three Kings | Charlie King | 1928-11-16 | Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer…. |
The Girl Who Dared | Beau Richmond | 1944-08-05 | A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year…. |
Target | Bailey | 1952-04-20 | A female marshal and a newspaper editor help heroic Tim Holt fight an evil land agent. Western…. |
Murder Is News | David Corning | 1937-12-17 | A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a c… |
Outcasts of the City | 1958-01-10 | In this drama, set just after the end of WWII, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair is disrupted when her Germ… | |
Forged Passport | Jack Rogers aka ‘Lefty’ | 1939-04-23 | Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly… |
The Bill of Rights | Colonel George Mason | 1939-08-19 | This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figur… |
City Story | 1954-05-05 | When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the… | |
Meet Miss Bobby Socks | R.N. Swanson | 1944-12-22 | A teenage fan sets out to boost her favorite radio singer’s career. Comedy with songs…. |
Too Many Winners | Albert Payson | 1947-05-24 | Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track…. |
Legion of Terror | Cummings | 1936-11-01 | Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and ‘Slim” Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, durin… |
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Professor Gordon | 1940-04-09 | A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmos… |
Dangerous Nan McGrew | Grant | 1930-06-22 | Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lod… |
Raiders of the South | George Boone | 1947-01-18 | Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the reconstruction years to obtain evidence against a gang o… |
Torture Money | Capt. Michael Karnahan (uncredited) | 1937-01-02 | In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money…. |
The Studebaker Story | Father Studebaker | 1953-01-01 | The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company’s venture into automobiles…. |
The Judge | Lt. Edwards | 1949-01-31 | A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to “go straight” when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as… |
Sitting Bull | Ulysses S. Grant | 1954-10-06 | Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Litt… |
Zorro’s Black Whip | Mr. Walsh | 1944-11-16 | Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother’s crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling’s identity as “The Black Whip,” … |
Bandits of Dark Canyon | Ben Shaw | 1947-12-15 | As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him…. |
Criminals of the Air | Captain Wallace | 1937-04-29 | Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers…. |
Moby Dick | ‘Jeroboam’ Captain | 1954-05-14 | The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before…. |
Over the Wall | Warden Vance | 1938-04-02 | When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence…. |
Doctor Rhythm | Insp. Bryce | 1938-05-06 | Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her…. |
Bad Guy | Warden | 1937-08-27 | A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell…. |
Old Hickory | Governor Clairborne of Louisiana | 1939-12-23 | Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States…. |
Keep ‘Em Rolling | Major in France Battlefield | 1934-03-02 | World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends…. |
Pioneer Marshal | Man with Bracelet | 1949-11-24 | Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who’s on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote fronti… |
The Secret of the Whistler | McLaren aka Mac (uncredited) | 1946-11-07 | A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler…. |
The Pace That Thrills | Sour Puss | 1952-03-01 | Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing…. |
Sheriff of Las Vegas | Judge Homer T. Blackwell | 1944-12-31 | In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge’s son from going to jail by proving that someone else killed his father…. |
The Missourians | Mayor Grant McDowall | 1950-11-25 | This Monte Hale western casts the tall-in-the-saddle hero as a wandering cavalier who strikes a blow for tolerance. Hale is sheriff of a jerkwater fro… |
Bandit King of Texas | John Turner | 1949-08-29 | The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed b… |
The James Brothers of Missouri | Lon Royer [Ch.1] | 1949-08-31 | This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a prominent member) to become normal everyday citizens. Of… |
Run for the Hills | Mr. Harvester | 1953-06-01 | Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family…. |
Jack McCall Desperado | Col. Cornish | 1953-03-31 | During the Civil War, a Southerner joins the Union Army and is accused of leaking information to the Confederates…. |
At the Villa Rose | Starling | 1930-04-28 | A film Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott…. |
Sucker List | James Sawyer (uncredited) | 1941-07-26 | 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 wh… |
Man of Conflict | Mr. Cornwall | 1953-11-04 | Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for… |
Violence | Dr. Chalmers | 1947-05-09 | Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amne… |
I Stole a Million | Wilson | 1939-08-01 | A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways…. |
Mr. Moto’s Gamble | Philip Benton | 1938-04-07 | Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Le… |
The Man Who Cried Wolf | Judge | 1937-08-29 | An actor plots “the perfect crime” by confessing to murders he didn’t commit…. |
The Spirit of Culver | Maj. White | 1939-03-10 | Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Military Academy. Talked into attending so that he c… |
Over My Dead Body | District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater | 1942-01-15 | Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) a… |
Marshal of Cedar Rock | Stover – Prison Warden | 1953-02-01 | Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his s… |
Desperadoes of Dodge City | Land Agent | 1948-09-15 | Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is stolen but Rocky knows one of the four men on the st… |
Law of the Golden West | Isaac Cody, Bill’s father | 1949-05-23 | Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy…. |
Iron Mountain Trail | Circuit Judge | 1953-05-08 | Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructi… |
Alias the Champ | Police Commissioner Bronson | 1949-01-01 | Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is hi… |
Mr. Wong, Detective | Dayton | 1938-10-05 | A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two sub… |
The Port of 40 Thieves | Mr. Fellows | 1944-08-13 | A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong…. |
Escape from Crime | Rafferty | 1942-07-25 | An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist…. |
Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Capt. Broad | 1940-10-26 | Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business…. |
The Flying Missile | Senator | 1950-12-24 | A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines…. |
Northwest Trail | John Owens | 1945-11-30 | Mountie Matt O’Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold … |
Two in a Crowd | Purdy | 1936-10-03 | When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress… |
Smashing the Money Ring | Night Captain | 1939-10-21 | T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop…. |
Heads Up | Capt. Whitney | 1930-10-10 | Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl’s mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting… |
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout | Col. Pollard | 1950-01-06 | It’s 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It’s scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous names… |
Daredevils of the West | Senator Garfield | 1943-05-01 | A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory…. |
The Invisible Monster | “Henry Miller” | 1950-05-10 | Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army o… |
Two-Fisted Gentleman | Frank Boyd | 1936-08-15 | Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger, a female fight promoter, when he becomes invo… |
I Stand Accused | Defense Attorney Brower | 1938-10-29 | Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally qu… |
Across the Pacific | Court-Martial President | 1942-09-04 | Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship f… |
Lady from Nowhere | Commissioner | 1936-12-23 | A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her…. |
Canadian Pacific | Pere Lacomb | 1949-05-19 | A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion…. |
The Devil On Wheels | Mr. Davis | 1947-02-15 | American-International did not invent the juvenile delinquents-jalopies-reckless driving-hot rodders-build it at home-chicken playing genre of movies…. |
The Wyoming Bandit | Marshal | 1949-07-15 | Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn’t commit, only to find his son on his deathbed. Seeking … |
Home on the Range | State Official | 1946-04-18 | Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. T… |
Annie Get Your Gun | Ship Captain (uncredited) | 1950-05-01 | Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show…. |
Tear Gas Squad | Chief Ferris | 1940-05-04 | A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman…. |
I’m from Arkansas | Harry Cashin | 1944-10-31 | A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets…. |
The Great Plane Robbery | Dr. Jamison | 1940-12-09 | Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former hen… |
Bobby Ware Is Missing | Stearns – Goodwin’s Associate (uncredited) | 1955-10-23 | This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The polic… |
Secret Service of the Air | Warden Jackson | 1939-03-04 | Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal a… |
Voice of the Whistler | Doctor (uncredited) | 1945-10-30 | A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure…. |
Badman’s Gold | The Marshal | 1951-04-02 | A marshal searches for stagecoach robbers…. |
Sheriff of Wichita | Prison Warden | 1949-01-22 | It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D’Arcy. While claiming that he gave the money to Major B… |
The Reformer and the Redhead | Police Captain | 1950-05-05 | A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper…. |
Murder in the Air | Hargrave | 1940-06-01 | Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,… |
Wife Wanted | Judge | 1946-11-02 | Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs… |
Mom and Dad | Dr. Burnell | 1945-01-03 | A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl … |
The Brute Man | Professor Cushman (uncredited) | 1946-10-01 | A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition…. |
Rusty Leads the Way | Board Member (uncredited) | 1948-10-21 | Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson) and his canine pal Rusty (played by “Flash”) befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt (Penny Waters). Feeling cheated by life,… |
The Maltese Falcon | District Attorney Bryan | 1941-10-18 | A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette…. |
The Madonna’s Secret | Lambert | 1946-02-16 | This drama is an updated version of Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who h… |
The Roaring Twenties | Judge | 1939-10-28 | After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl… |
Always in My Heart | Prison Warden | 1942-03-14 | A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he’s dead and his wife is… |
The Great Man’s Lady | Sen. Grant | 1942-04-15 | In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is… |
Standing Room Only | General | 1944-01-07 | 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…. |
Donovan’s Brain | Mr. McNish | 1953-09-30 | A scientist takes a the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess eno… |
Two Wise Maids | Grover Wentworth | 1937-02-15 | The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy th… |
News Hounds | Timothy X. ‘Big Tim’ Donlin | 1947-08-13 | Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring tha… |
It Could Happen to You | Judge | 1937-06-28 | A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigra… |
Sensation Hunters | Night Court Judge | 1945-10-12 | A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to … |
The Men | Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | 1950-07-20 | When Ken is shot in battle, he loses the use of both his legs. In the hospital, he spends his time mired in self-pity, making little effort to respond… |
The Forgotten Woman | Dr. May | 1939-07-07 | A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory…. |
The Big Shot | Judge | 1942-06-13 | Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunt… |
The Miami Story | Clifton Staley | 1954-05-03 | Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to h… |
In This Our Life | Police Inspector Millett | 1942-05-08 | An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister’s husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her…. |
Million Dollar Pursuit | Police Inspector Morgan | 1951-05-30 | A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery…. |
Circumstantial Evidence | Gov. Hanlon | 1945-04-20 | A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax…. |
A Man Betrayed | Mr. Carlton | 1936-12-27 | A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but… |
You, the People | Frank Y. Carter | 1940-11-30 | This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss’s attempt to use his crime “machine” to fraudulently win reelection for the cu… |
Johnny Apollo | Night Court Judge | 1940-04-19 | Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father’s releas… |
Never Wave at a WAC | Senator Holbrook | 1953-01-28 | A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many d… |
Fifty Roads to Town | Captain Carroll | 1937-06-03 | A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run…. |
Song of My Heart | Czar | 1948-01-31 | The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair…. |
Strange Bargain | Employee at Meeting (uncredited) | 1949-11-05 | Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange… |
So This Is Love | Charlie | 1953-07-15 | Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953…. |
Strange Alibi | Judge | 1941-04-19 | An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity…. |
Seventh Heaven | Gendarme | 1937-03-25 | 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 sev… |
It Happened on Fifth Avenue | Harper (uncredited) | 1947-04-17 | A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the a… |
The Phantom Rider | Senator Williams | 1946-01-26 | A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters…. |
Three Smart Girls | Desk Lieutenant at Police Station | 1936-12-20 | The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with… |
Government Girl | Irate Man (uncredited) | 1943-11-05 | An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort…. |
Larceny with Music | Important banker | 1943-09-10 | A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortun… |
Criminal Lawyer | Police Captain Loomis | 1951-08-23 | A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case…. |
Boom Town | Defense Attorney | 1940-08-30 | McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it a… |
Blind Alley | Warden | 1939-05-11 | A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage…. |
I Was Framed | Judge | 1942-04-04 | A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later…. |
Nine Lives Are Not Enough | Police Chief (uncredited) | 1941-09-20 | A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions…. |
Craig’s Wife | Detective (Uncredited) | 1936-09-25 | Harriet, Walter Craig’s wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her… |
Night Club Scandal | Governor | 1937-11-11 | When Dr. Ernest Tindal’s wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn’t do it…….. |
This Is My Affair | Warden | 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… |
The Great Flamarion | Coroner (uncredited) | 1945-01-13 | A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims…. |
Step by Step | Police Capt. Edmonds | 1946-08-23 | Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn’s new job as secretary to a U…. |
Rose of Washington Square | Judge | 1939-05-05 | Rose Sargent, a Roaring ’20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble…. |
On Dress Parade | A Co. Maneuvers Colonel (uncredited) | 1939-11-18 | The final feature in the “Dead End Kids” film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school…. |
It Started with Eve | Thomas – Headwaiter (uncredited) | 1941-09-26 | A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father’s last moments happy. However, the old man’s health takes … |
Dangerously Yours | Roberts | 1937-09-21 | A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one… |
Flight Command | Pensacola Commander | 1940-12-27 | A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn’t make a great first impression … |
So’s Your Uncle | Mr. Craig | 1943-09-01 | Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the “uncle”, he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend’s aunt, who does not appr… |
Up in Arms | Man In Theatre Lobby | 1944-02-17 | Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship…. |
Boys Town | Prison Warden (uncredited) | 1938-09-08 | The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being… |
Blondie in the Dough | Premier Biscuit Board Member (uncredited) | 1947-10-16 | Blondie #21: Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series based on t… |
Lady with Red Hair | Defense Attorney Graham (uncredited) | 1940-11-30 | An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top…. |
The Judge Steps Out | Diner on Train | 1947-12-15 | A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook…. |
Walk a Crooked Mile | G.W. Hunter | 1948-09-02 | A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation… |
Magnificent Doll | Mr. Witherspoon | 1946-12-08 | While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Ma… |
Bunco Squad | John Deming (uncredited) | 1950-09-01 | Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest m… |
She Had to Eat | Police Captain (uncredited) | 1937-07-02 | An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con… |
Stronger Than Desire | Second Trial Judge (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 | An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing…. |
Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Harry – Conference Room Businessman | 1939-03-24 | Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another’s fiancé, a… |
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet | Hirsch | 1940-02-23 | True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis…. |
Flight from Destiny | Judge | 1941-02-08 | After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothi… |
Maisie Goes to Reno | Judge Carter (Uncredited) | 1944-08-15 | A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife…. |
The Flying Missile | Second Senator | 1950-12-24 | A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines…. |
Girls on Probation | Police Chief | 1938-10-22 | A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer’s heart…. |
Brother Rat and a Baby | Judge | 1940-01-13 | Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach…. |
They Drive by Night | Defense Attorney (uncredited) | 1940-07-26 | Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri… |
The Golden Fleecing | Judge (uncredited) | 1940-08-16 | A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters…. |
Angels Wash Their Faces | Officer H.A. Merton (uncredited) | 1939-08-26 | A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit… |
You Can’t Take It with You | Kirby’s Dining Guest (uncredited) | 1938-09-01 | Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish m… |
The Gallant Legion | Speaker of the House | 1948-05-24 | When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Co… |
The Naughty Nineties | Sheriff of Ironville (uncredited) | 1945-06-20 | In the gay ’90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gamblin… |
Dust Be My Destiny | First Warden (uncredited) | 1939-09-16 | Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter l… |
Good Luck, Mr. Yates | J.C. Allison | 1943-06-29 | A 4F military school teacher’s lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front…. |
Devil’s Island | Captain of Second Convict Ship | 1939-01-07 | A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant’s daughter…. |
On Stage Everybody | Mr. Smoothasilk (uncredited) | 1945-07-13 | Radio’s miracle show is on the screen…. |
Never Wave at a WAC | Sen. Holbrook (uncredited) | 1953-01-28 | A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many d… |
Hold Back the Dawn | Mac – Studio Receptionist (uncredited) | 1941-09-26 | Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert … |
Badman’s Territory | Commissioner Taylor (uncredited) | 1946-05-04 | After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law s… |
Espionage Agent | Code Room Instructor | 1939-09-30 | When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an esp… |
Swanee River | Doctor | 1939-12-29 | Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t… |
Invisible Stripes | Captain Johnson (uncredited) | 1939-12-30 | A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison…. |
Pacific Blackout | Police Captain | 1941-12-31 | Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper ho… |
They Shall Have Music | Detective (uncredited) | 1939-08-18 | The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the… |
Confessions of a Nazi Spy | FBI Chief (uncredited) | 1939-05-06 | FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund…. |
Boom Town | McMasters’ Defense Attorney (uncredited) | 1940-08-30 | McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it a… |
They Died with Their Boots On | Colonel (uncredited) | 1941-11-20 | The story follows General George Armstrong Custer’s adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th… |
Crazy House | Outraged Director | 1943-10-08 | Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson’s names eva… |
Mission to Moscow | Charlie – American Newsman (uncredited) | 1943-04-29 | Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism…. |
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