Murray Alper (January 11, 1904 – November 16, 1984) was an American actor.
Murray Alper Biography / Wiki
Name | Murray Alper |
Also Know | Murray Apler |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Date of Birth | 1904-01-11 |
Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
Deathday | 1984-11-16 |
Murray Alper Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer | Bit Role | 1943-01-02 | The third film of Frank Capra’s ‘Why We Fight” propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940…. |
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs | Chief Flight Instructor | 1945-01-01 | In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pilot trainee the proper methods for taxiing an aircr… |
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly | Chief Flight Instructor | 1945-12-12 | This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to … |
Spies and Guys | Sergeant | 1953-04-04 | Joe Besser is sent on a spying mission with a beautiful female officer. Things, as usual when Joe is involved, don’t go well and they are captured and… |
Torture Money | Little Davie Barkell (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…. |
Panic on the Air | Marvin Danker | 1936-04-10 | A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, th… |
Here Come the Marines | Corporal Stacey | 1952-06-29 | After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and h… |
Big Town Girl | Marty | 1937-12-03 | When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the “Masked Countess”, because he estranged husband is a cro… |
Escape by Night | Horace ‘Red’ Graham | 1937-09-01 | Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man’s pastoral farm and decide to go straight…. |
Gallant Bess | Johnny | 1946-12-05 | Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier’s devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with “Adventures of … |
Two in Revolt | Andy | 1936-04-03 | A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race…. |
Honeymoon Ahead | Spike | 1945-05-11 | When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in…. |
Blonde Dynamite | John Zero “Dynamite” Bacchuss | 1950-02-12 | While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients…. |
The Steel Fist | Nicholas | 1952-01-06 | In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities…. |
Border City Rustlers | Kirby | 1953-11-15 | Two episodes of “Wild Bill Hickok” edited together and released as a feature…. |
Slippy McGee | Red | 1948-01-15 | A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest…. |
Murder Without Tears | Jim, the Bartender | 1953-06-14 | A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it…. |
Tanganyika | Paul Duffy | 1954-07-03 | A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal…. |
Next Time I Marry | Joe | 1938-12-09 | Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a “plain American.” Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would s… |
Married Bachelor | Sleeper | 1941-10-16 | A man’s marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting “his” best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentri… |
Hands Across the Table | Cabbie (uncredited) | 1935-10-18 | A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love…. |
Tricky Dicks | The Thrill Killer | 1953-05-07 | The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch t… |
Calypso Joe | 1957-06-08 | Juile, an airline hostess, has her mind made up to marry South American millionaire Rico Vargas, in spite of the efforts made by her former boyfriend,… | |
The Power of the Whistler | Joe Blainey, Elite Bakery Truck Driver | 1945-04-19 | A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on item… |
Lost Continent | Air Police Sergeant | 1951-08-17 | When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down … |
Down Mexico Way | Flood | 1941-10-15 | Like 1940’s Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a “special”, to be promoted separately from Autry’s regular B-we… |
Sea Devils | Seaman Brown | 1937-02-19 | Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash,… |
23 1/2 Hours Leave | Sgt. Schultz | 1937-03-21 | Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unh… |
You Can’t Buy Luck | Spike Connors | 1937-04-30 | When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime…. |
Up Goes Maisie | Mitch O’Hara | 1946-02-01 | A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas…. |
My Life with Caroline | Jenkins | 1941-08-01 | A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him…. |
Jalopy | Red Baker | 1953-02-15 | Those wacky Bowery Boys invent a superfast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn’t this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad … |
The Phantom Thief | Eddie Alexander, Chauffeur | 1946-05-02 | Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and t… |
Lullaby of Broadway | Joe, Bartender at Three O’Clock Club (uncredited) | 1951-03-26 | Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful… |
Black Friday | Bellhop | 1940-02-29 | University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon,… |
Moonlight and Cactus | Slugger | 1944-09-08 | The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good… |
Highway Dragnet | Ice Cream Truck Driver | 1954-01-20 | An ex-Marine on the lam from a murder charge. He hitches a ride from glamor-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal … |
The Big Shot | Quinto, a Convict | 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… |
Gasoline Alley | Giffin | 1951-01-02 | A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip…. |
High Tension | Chuck | 1936-07-10 | Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn’t want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn’t want her to date other men…. |
The Jazz Singer | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1953-02-14 | As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who’d hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowf… |
The Royal Family of Broadway | McDermott | 1930-12-22 | Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a br… |
Let’s Live a Little | Cabbie | 1948-12-09 | A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate … and his former fianc… |
Angel on My Shoulder | Jim – Taxicab Driver (uncredited) | 1946-09-20 | The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life…. |
The Big Guy | Williams | 1939-12-22 | A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty…. |
The Outlaws Is Coming | Chief Crazy Horse | 1965-01-01 | Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over… |
Seven Keys to Baldpate | Max | 1935-12-13 | A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things … |
King of the Underworld | Eddie | 1939-01-14 | Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her lice… |
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze | Gus | 1963-08-21 | Phileas Fogg III, great grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great grandfather’s famous trip around the world in resp… |
Mug Town | Shorty | 1942-12-18 | Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys m… |
Lady Be Careful | Mattie | 1936-09-03 | Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson’s old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The… |
Twelve Crowded Hours | Louie Allen | 1939-02-23 | An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders…. |
Hers to Hold | Smiley, the Foreman | 1943-07-16 | Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her “Three Smart Girls” films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the s… |
The Maltese Falcon | Frank Richman | 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 Gunfighter | Townsman at Funeral (uncredited) | 1950-06-23 | The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation…. |
The Nutty Professor | Gym Attendant (uncredited) | 1963-06-04 | A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game wor… |
Saboteur | Truck Driver | 1942-04-24 | Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend…. |
Corvette K-225 | Jones | 1943-09-29 | The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain…. |
The Eve of St. Mark | Sgt. Kriven | 1944-05-22 | Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and… |
Young Dr. Kildare | Blue Swan Waiter | 1938-10-14 | A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k… |
Blondie Has Servant Trouble | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1940-07-25 | Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. … |
My Favorite Wife | Yosemite Bartender (uncredited) | 1940-05-17 | Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed… |
Trouble Along the Way | Bus Driver | 1953-04-04 | Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at t… |
Appointment with Danger | Driver | 1950-04-07 | Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who’ve allegedly murdered a U.S… |
The Great Man Votes | Tri-County Distribution Truck Driver | 1939-01-13 | In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, … |
The Lone Wolf Strikes | Pete | 1940-01-26 | Delia Jordan’s father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf…. |
Free For All | McGuinness | 1949-11-01 | An inventor comes up with a pill that turns water into gasoline. Complications ensue…. |
Gambling on the High Seas | Louie | 1940-06-22 | A reporter enlists the help of a gangster’s secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice…. |
Double Alibi | Joe – Counterman | 1940-03-01 | A man’s ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect…. |
They Were Expendable | ‘Slug’ Mahan T.M. 1c | 1945-12-07 | Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title … |
Affectionately Yours | Blair | 1941-05-10 | A married reporter’s assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females…. |
Larceny with Music | Cab Driver | 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… |
The Lady Is Willing | Joe Quig | 1942-02-12 | Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t… |
The Girl Habit | Hood | 1931-06-27 | … |
The Public Menace | Stiglitz (uncredited) | 1935-09-30 | 1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths…. |
Out of the Fog | 1941-06-14 | A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather… | |
Las Vegas Shakedown | 1955-05-15 | A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster…. | |
The Horn Blows at Midnight | Hotel Bell Captain (uncredited) | 1945-04-28 | A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he’s Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl… |
Cocoanut Grove | Concessionaire | 1938-05-20 | Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub…. |
Lucky Partners | Orchestra Leader | 1940-08-02 | Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results…. |
Vice Squad | Cop (uncredited) | 1953-07-31 | A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day…. |
Bombardier | Little Boy | 1943-05-14 | A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precisio… |
The Hard Way | Joe Duglatz (Uncredited) | 1943-01-13 | Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty…. |
Bachelor Mother | Dance Floor Gatekeeper at ‘The Pink Slipper’ (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 | Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, D… |
Powder Town | Joe the Cab Driver (uncredited) | 1942-06-07 | Director Rowland V. Lee’s wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O’Brien… |
Escape from Crime | Fingerprint Assistant | 1942-07-25 | An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist…. |
The Gangster | Eddie | 1947-11-25 | Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakd… |
Little Big Shot | Doré’s Henchman | 1935-09-07 | A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster’s precocious daughter…. |
Turnabout | Masseur | 1940-05-17 | Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life…. |
East of the River | Dink Rogers, Blackjack Player (uncredited) | 1940-11-09 | 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…. |
It’s a Wonderful World | Newspaper Man at Ferry Landing (uncredited) | 1939-05-19 | 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 … |
Women’s Prison | 1955-02-01 | A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women’s prison…. | |
Sleep, My Love | Bar Patron at The Maples | 1948-02-18 | A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can’t remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue…. |
The Gay Sisters | Elevator Operator (uncredited) | 1942-08-01 | The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married…. |
Dangerously They Live | Miller, Psychopathic Ward Guard (uncredited) | 1941-12-24 | A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents…. |
Something for the Boys | Army Desk Sergeant (uncredited) | 1944-11-01 | The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern pla… |
Let’s Go Navy! | Sailor with Nuramo tattoo | 1951-07-29 | The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors…. |
Air Force | Butch – Demolition Squad Corporal (uncredited) | 1943-03-20 | The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of t… |
The Jazz Singer | Taxi Driver | 1953-02-14 | As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who’d hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowf… |
Another Thin Man | Larry (uncredited) | 1939-11-17 | Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate…. |
The Roaring Twenties | Fletcher’s Mechanic (uncredited) | 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… |
Sergeant York | But! Boy (uncredited) | 1941-09-27 | Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel… |
City for Conquest | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1940-09-21 | The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York C… |
The Big Broadcast of 1937 | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1936-10-05 | A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930’s radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge rat… |
My Favorite Spy | Kay’s 1st Taxi Driver | 1942-06-12 | The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman)…. |
Rose of Washington Square | Eddie (uncredited) | 1939-05-05 | Rose Sargent, a Roaring ’20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble…. |
Obliging Young Lady | Pickup Driver with Red (uncredited) | 1942-04-01 | A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents’ divorce…. |
Ocean’s Eleven | Deputy (uncredited) | 1960-08-10 | Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night…. |
Manpower | Lineman | 1941-08-09 | Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tens… |
Gold Diggers in Paris | Taxi Driver | 1938-06-11 | When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetar… |
Submarine Patrol | Orderly in Maitland’s Office | 1938-11-25 | A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew…. |
Swing Fever | Burly Attentant (uncredited) | 1943-11-01 | Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers…. |
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Projectionist (uncredited) | 1962-10-12 | A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion…. |
Tail Spin | Albuquerque Mechanic (Uncredited) | 1939-02-19 | Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to r… |
Sailor’s Lady | Sailor | 1940-07-05 | Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci… |
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